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200+ Biography article assessments

Per a request a few hours ago, I banged out 200+ Biography assessments. -- Jreferee 01:57, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Criteria and articles with comments

Hi. I bumped into this page in my watchlist and wanted to suggest three things. One, the comments reviewers give editors are among the best things I have received from WikiProject Biography. Would it be possible to give people some idea of how to improve their articles? For Stub, and perhaps Start, a copy/paste of the steps to B class might work (I saw someone do this today and it worked well). For B and above more personalized comments might help. Second, could the criteria on which grading is done be part of "Instructions on how to assess a Biography article"? For example I am not sure that length is the sole difference between Stub and a Start (the quality scale says Stub is "either a very short article or a rough collection of information..."). Third, I would encourage use of the quality scale shared by all the projects (it does not forbid A class before GA, a rule that seems to have been introduced in this drive). Hope this helps. -Susanlesch 00:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

• Hello, perhaps criteria need to be developed for not only this drive, but I added a few sentences to the instructions and will copy them to the project talk page for wider discussion. -Susanlesch 16:19, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
• You might want to suggest adding the steps to B class link to the {{WPBiography}} template at that templates talk page. -- Jreferee 17:19, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Awards

I will draw up and propose an WikiBarnstar Award(s) for the efforts listed herein. Should it be one for each accomplishment? I.e. a Barnstar for each level with the a total underneath for the new level they have reached? --Ozgod 01:46, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

There are three of us on the awards committee, so we can award at least three awards from each level. -- Jreferee 17:03, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Talk page without article

Talk:Taylor Siluwe - this talk page has no article. I wasn't really sure who to report that to. Does someone know? Awadewit 08:58, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

The article was deleted. I'm not sure why the talk page still shows up. To report improper deletion, or request undeletion, see WP:DRV. -- Jreferee 17:06, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

How Many Sections Done

The Science and Academia section is generally cleared of unassessed articles now, as is Sports and Games. We still need to check them for new ones every so often, but the hard part on those is done. We're doign great so far.--Wizardman 18:30, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

But then in addition, theres the thousands of articles with no WPBio talk page tag. Last year I tagged something like 2,500 pages with those tags, mostly in sub-cats of Category:Peers. Kingbotk would be a great help to update sometime soon, but as I understand it that can't be done. RHB 18:33, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Royalty is pretty much clear too. A lot of the talk page tagging is supposed to be happening through the Automation department using AWB. I've been trying to work on it a little over the last few days, but there are a huge number of categories there. I'm thinking we finish the assessment drive and then move the focus to those stubs. Why can't a bot do it - or is it just Kingbotk that can't? - Mocko13 19:21, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Military is now down to below 100 articles, so it should be done pretty soon - • The Giant Puffin • 13:32, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Military is now completed apart from a few lists, all of which are now in the "list" class - • The Giant Puffin • 16:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

List class

Why doesn't it remove these from the list? Most were rated and I finished the remainder just now, but I still see them in the Unassessed biog cat. RHB 17:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I have noted that one one occassion. Can you link to some of them? --Ozgod 12:45, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Try hitting the F5 key to refresh you computer. Also, they may still appear on the list because the Misplaced Pages computer has not yet caught up with your actions. Don't worry about it. Just move on and if they still are there tomorrow, please post here. -- Jreferee 17:09, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Still there, see Talk:List of female heavy metal singers or any of the other related lists in my contributions (see sig). RHB 18:31, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

For the class parameter, you entered class=list. I do not believe that "list" is an appropriate class parameter. Try class=start. -- Jreferee 18:53, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Lists generally aren't rated along the same scale as article - they can't be put in for GA and FL status is the only generally accepted rating. That's a bit weird though - why does entering list class give a properly formatted colour/name? RHB 22:23, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Journalists

Should be filed under which heading? Right now I file them by the thing they were covering (sports journalist, polical journalist). But it seems a bit ambiguous to me. Thoughts? Siebren 22:40, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

I, personally, would tag it for both and let members of those respective projects determine their relevance to their project. If you feel uncertain, leave it blank. --Ozgod 00:36, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Plagiarism

I found a page littered with plagiarism. I found the material on the web, removed it from the article and made a comment (with a reference to the website) on the talk page. Is there a tag for that? Someone should really check the article over carefully. I just removed the blatantly obvious stuff. Awadewit 11:23, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

What article was it? - Mocko13 13:09, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

To alert it to admins there is a copyvio tag, but I think that's only if 100% of the article is plaigarism. If you post it I can look it over though to make sure it's all good.--Wizardman 13:32, 1 March 2007 (UTC)