Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Nominations/Archives/2017/3

Development of religion
Absolutely vital article on a deeply fascinating concept. Currently a stub.--Coin945 (talk) 06:40, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Support - per nom. --BabbaQ (talk) 22:33, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose - There is already a well-developed article History of religions. At the top of that article there is a link to another well-developed article, Religious studies. Throughout this article there are links to other articles, including, for example, Sociology of religion, which is well developed but has a tag at the top saying that more citations are needed. Perhaps this stub should be deleted. – Corinne (talk) 20:10, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
 * This article has a different scope. It's about how a religion gets developed and evolves over time, rather than an overview of the history of all religions. At least that's my understanding.--Coin945 (talk) 05:07, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
 * You may be right. I don't know. But I found several other articles that might cover this topic: Evolutionary origin of religions, Evolutionary psychology of religion, Cognitive science of religion, in which the first line reads: "Cognitive science of religion is the study of religious thought and behavior from the perspective of the cognitive and evolutionary sciences", Theories about religions, Sociology of religion, and Anthropology of religion. – Corinne (talk) 15:05, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

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The ClueFinders
Here's a trip through memory lane of those who grew up in the 1990's. A highly popular and successful edutainment franchise with an article that is sorely lacking.--Coin945 (talk) 02:57, 18 January 2017 (UTC) (automated closure) No further input after 21 days &mdash;  MusikBot talk 04:39, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Support - per nom. --BabbaQ (talk) 22:34, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Leaning oppose – It's unclear what this developed article is "sorely lacking", other than needing more sources. North America1000 09:11, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Asmaa Mahfouz
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 * 16 African Women Biographies will be proposed in a translate-a-thon to be held from the 20th of Feb till the 07th of March. Some of them are already of fairly good quality, others are less so. Help to improve those before translation will be welcome. This article is one of the 16. Anthere (talk) 22:14, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Yaa Asantewaa
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 * 16 African Women Biographies will be proposed in a translate-a-thon to be held from the 20th of Feb till the 07th of March. Some of them are already of fairly good quality, others are less so. Help to improve those before translation will be welcome. This article is one of the 16. Anthere (talk) 22:14, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Fatou Bensouda
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 * 16 African Women Biographies will be proposed in a translate-a-thon to be held from the 20th of Feb till the 07th of March. Some of them are already of fairly good quality, others are less so. Help to improve those before translation will be welcome. This article is one of the 16. Anthere (talk) 22:14, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Martha Karua
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Chinwendu Ihezuo
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 * 16 African Women Biographies will be proposed in a translate-a-thon to be held from the 20th of Feb till the 07th of March. Some of them are already of fairly good quality, others are less so. Help to improve those before translation will be welcome. This article is one of the 16. Anthere (talk) 22:14, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Nassima Saifi
Support I think this would be an excellent short-term project for us, kind of like the editing blitzes at WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes. It would also show that we are committed to making Wikipedia a little less Euro- and US-centric and more globally balanced. – Corinne (talk) 16:05, 14 February 2017 (UTC) (automated closure) No further input after 21 days &mdash;  MusikBot talk 04:37, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 16 African Women Biographies will be proposed in a translate-a-thon to be held from the 20th of Feb till the 07th of March. Some of them are already of fairly good quality, others are less so. Help to improve those before translation will be welcome. This article is one of the 16. Anthere (talk) 22:14, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
 * This format cannot be parsed by the bot. Please remove the above and follow the directions, nominating each article separately. Thanks! &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  20:31, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok. That's weird because when I tried to put an entry, it lead me to the visual editor and this did not give the directions that I now see in the regular editor. Well. I go try fix that. Thanks Anthere (talk)

Anna Tibaijuka
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 * 16 African Women Biographies will be proposed in a translate-a-thon to be held from the 20th of Feb till the 07th of March. Some of them are already of fairly good quality, others are less so. Help to improve those before translation will be welcome. This article is one of the 16. It is listed as a stub but does not look like a stub to me at the moment... Anthere (talk) 22:14, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
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 * 16 African Women Biographies will be proposed in a translate-a-thon to be held from the 20th of Feb till the 07th of March. Some of them are already of fairly good quality, others are less so. Help to improve those before translation will be welcome. This article is one of the 16. Anthere (talk) 22:14, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Flora Nwapa
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 * 16 African Women Biographies will be proposed in a translate-a-thon to be held from the 20th of Feb till the 07th of March. Some of them are already of fairly good quality, others are less so. Help to improve those before translation will be welcome. This article is one of the 16. Anthere (talk) 22:14, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Gadget
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 * Expandable start-class article. North America1000 06:24, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Support - per nom. Definitely. – Corinne (talk) 16:07, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Rice and beans


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 * A common staple food in many areas of the world; can be expanded and improved. North America1000 09:14, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Support - per nom. Red olta 📱 Cont ribs 07:21, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Support - per nom. – Corinne (talk) 15:58, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Floor


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 * Fairly developed, but only has one primary source reference, and can be expanded and improved. North America1000 07:17, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Support - per nom. I can think of two areas that could be expanded: modern flooring materials and history of flooring. – Corinne (talk) 15:57, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Sri Lankan Civil War

 * This article has numerous tags at the top of the article, some of which have been there since 2013. I think we can do better than a C-class for an article that gets 978 hits per day. The article also seems a little long to me.  – Corinne (talk) 19:03, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Support - per nom.--BabbaQ (talk) 02:12, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Support - per nom. Red olta 📱 Cont ribs 07:09, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment I just looked at the page statistics to be sure I had selected the right figure, and I see that today the average daily page views total 1,026! – Corinne (talk) 16:01, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

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Reader Rabbit
One of the most popular an successful edutainment video game series of all time. It sold over 6 million copies and won almost 200 awards. The article is really terrible at the moment. See Madeline (video game series) for an example of what this article could look like (baring in mind that Madleine is comparitively less popular/successful than Reader Rabbit).--Coin945 (talk) 02:57, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Support - per nom. --BabbaQ (talk) 22:33, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment - BabbaQ, I know nothing about this area, but I looked at the Madeline (video game series) article and thought, aren't some sections in that article rather long? Then I looked at the Reader Rabbit article and thought, the layout is similar, but it is much shorter. To me, it doesn't look terrible, but if you think more could be added to the article, I believe you. I just think the Madeline article may illustrate the idea that the longer the article, the better it is. What do you think is "terrible" about the Reader Rabbit article? – Corinne (talk) 15:19, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
 * In my personal opinion the article could need some prose improvements. And there are definitely some potential for expansion, and adding of better sources. I think you should make your own mind up, but now you know my stance. Regards.--BabbaQ (talk) 22:51, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Comment, I recently did a massive overhaul of the Reader Rabbit article so now it is in a much much better place. It used to look like this at the time of my nomination. After my expansion there is less of a need for this article to be chosen for TAFI.--Coin945 (talk) 05:57, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment  I see the work you did, mostly on 6February. If you still think the article could, and should, be expanded significantly, and better sources could be added, then it makes sense to leave it here as a nominee. If you think it is mainly the prose that needs work, you could withdraw it as a nominee here and put in a request for a copy-edit at GOCE. What do you think is best, or what would you like to see happen? – Corinne (talk) 15:51, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I think there's still more work to be done which justifies its inclusion in this list.--Coin945 (talk) 04:47, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

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Deadpan
✅. North America1000 22:14, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I just stumbled across this article. I saw several tags requesting improvement that have been there since 2015. I think the article is rather short and that there must be material and sources that could be added. – Corinne (talk) 02:50, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Support--CSJJ104 (talk) 16:15, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Support – gwendy (talk) 00:44, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) Support - for inclusion--BabbaQ (talk) 09:58, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Trench
✅. North America1000 16:45, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Easily expandable, considering a lot of World War I stuff is related here. And also those who do Wikimedia Commons can do help there too. Qwertyxp2000 (talk &#124; contribs) 23:56, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Support - Has what I would consider a high number of page views --CSJJ104 (talk) 16:19, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Support - per nom--BabbaQ (talk) 09:59, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) Support - per nom. – Davey 2010 Talk 23:03, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Serengeti


✅. North America1000 16:45, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Notable topic; expandable article. North America1000 16:03, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Support - per nom--BabbaQ (talk) 09:59, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Support – gwendy (talk) 13:26, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) Support per nom. – Davey 2010 Talk 23:04, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Comic timing
‎ ✅. North America1000 00:14, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
 * This seems like a core topic to Comedy. I found actually very few sources to expand upon this article on the internet (just searching for "Comic timing" it seems to get invoked quite a bit, with a hard definition and history is hard to find). Examples are abound across the Internet of notable comedians that make use of this, but the article right now could use a lot of work to have it be more than just a list of examples. Shaded0 (talk) 16:27, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Support – I'd actually say that this article should also be renamed to "Comedic timing". A Google search returns ~500k results for "Comic timing" and ~1.7m for "Comedic timing" – gwendy (talk) 15:14, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Support – I agree that this is important and could be improved. I also agree with  that renaming the page is a good idea and would support the initiative in a discussion on the article's talk page.  Ry's the Guy  (talk&#124;contribs) 10:38, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) Support --CSJJ104 (talk) 16:34, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Cult of personality
✅. North America1000 17:33, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Expandable start-class article. North America1000 17:44, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Support – per nom – gwendy (talk) 15:17, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Support – Has a high number of page views --CSJJ104 (talk) 16:36, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) Support - per nom.--BabbaQ (talk) 10:46, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Wood art


✅. North America1000 17:33, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Expandable and improvable article. Rated at C-class, but arguably at an actual Start-class level. North America1000 18:23, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Support per nom – gwendy (talk) 15:10, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Support per nom –  Ry's the Guy  (talk&#124;contribs) 10:40, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) Support - per nom.--BabbaQ (talk) 10:46, 26 March 2017 (UTC)