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On reassessing/ removing content, I suggest the following removals:

Artists -

  • Anton Alexander von Werner - mid-level importance artist
  • Hiroh Kikai - questionable importance photographer, few photos in article (none in offline version)
  • Roman Vishniac - long article of questionable importance photographer, all images of photographer not his work

Companies -

  • Fry & sons

Economy -

Animal & Human Rights -

  • Garden Gnome Liberation Front - joke article

Community organisations -

  • Baden-Powell House - already a baden-powell article

Culture and Diversity -

  • Dada - should be moved to arts section or removed


Dialectric (talk) 13:33, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] regarding business articles - Companies

I suggest having some criterea for notability of companies more stringent than wikipedia's, possibly appearance in the top 100 global companies (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2007/full_list/) or high global-historical importance.

Dialectric (talk) 13:02, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Problem is that some smaller companies appear in business studies syllabus also some big companies have crumby (anti-business POV) articles. But I need to go through them. Thanks for the help by the way, the above is very good. We have about a month to go before the final final cut for 2008/9--BozMo talk 16:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category: Film - Deletions and possible Additions

delete:

  • film - Scent of a Woman - not in top 250 global gross, not high historical importance
  • film - shawshank redemption - not in top 250 global gross, not high historical importance, content unsuitable for children
  • film - Lord Voldemort - suggest Harry Potter (film series) instead
  • film - Serenity (film) - not in top 250 global gross, not high historical importance
  • film - clone wars - suggest only 1 star wars article, but if multiple, they should be for the films, not characters, events, etc.


add?

  • film - Titanic (1997 film) - top global grossing film
  • film - Pirates of the Caribbean (film series) - top global grossing film series
  • film - Documentary film - important category

Dialectric (talk) 15:28, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category Music proposed deletions and possible additions

delete?

  • Music / Musical genres, styles, eras and events - Italo disco - dubious subgenre
  • Music / Performers and composers - McFly (band) - non-notable recent band
  • Music / Performers and composers - Kurt Cobain - already a nirvana article, this focuses on suicide controversy

add to Category: Music - Musical instruments?

  • Kalimba
  • Kora (instrument)
  • Xylophone
  • Talking drum
  • Djembe
  • lute


[edit] Other comments moved off page for bot

It’s a car!


add link to SOS Children http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/g/Georgia_%2528country%2529.htm http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/k/Kosovo.htm http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/p/Poland.htm http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/s/Serbia.htm http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/t/Turkey.htm http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/t/Turkish_Republic_of_Northern_Cyprus.htm should we have this as a separate entry?

should we refer to SOS? http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/a/Austria.htm http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/b/Belgium.htm http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/f/Finland.htm http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/f/France.htm http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/g/Germany.htm http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/i/Italy.htm http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/l/Luxembourg.htm http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/p/Portugal.htm http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/s/Spain.htm

delete http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/s/Serbia_and_Montenegro.htm http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/i/Ireland.htm this is a list of countries. We have Republic of Ireland AND Eire. Do we need both?


http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/r/Rock_of_Gibraltar.htm


Delete Oliver Cromwell http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/o/Oliver_Cromwell.htm delete from here. entry is in http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/index/subject.People.Historical_figures.htm

[edit] Category History Suggested Deletions

History / General history - History of Limerick - overly specific, suggest history of Ireland instead

History / Historians, chroniclers and history books - Yuri Knorosov - linguist rather than historian, interesting work, but maybe not as important as others listed in category

History / Military History and War - Hero of Ukraine - recently created award of non-global-historical importance.

History / Military History and War - Hero of the Russian Federation - recently created award of non-global-historical importance.

History / General history - History of the Portuguese Communist Party - overly specific

History / General history - History of Burnside - overly specific, suggest history of Australia instead

[edit] Category Science / Biology / Mammals suggested deletions

Suggest remove of dog breeds - dog is already included, and 4 arbitrarily selected breeds are not representative.

  • Science / Biology / Mammals - Basset Hound
  • Science / Biology / Mammals - Afghan Hound
  • Science / Biology / Mammals - Boston Terrier
  • Science / Biology / Mammals - Island Fox - rare USA fox

[edit] Question: People - Human Scientists category

Is Human Scientists a British term? It's a bit confusing to a US reader, since all scientists are human. Maybe "Health Sciences", "Medical Sciences", or "Human Health and Psychology" would work better for a category title.

Dialectric (talk) 14:21, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Well half the google references to "Human Sciences" are US but I agree the term "Human Scientist" may be confusing. I will look through what's actually there and see if the alternatives are better. --BozMo talk 14:27, 28 March 2008 (UTC)