Wikipedia:Version 0.5 Biography Review

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This page is designed to facilitate the nomination and review process of core biographies for Version 0.5 (V0.5), the test CD release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. Reviewers from the review team are encouraged to sign up for subject sections that interest them. It is also possible to share responsibility for a section in order to split up the workload. Reviewers first check which articles have already been passed. Then they will aim to review all core biographies within their area of interest by September 30, 2006. This will allow core biographies to bypass the general V0.5 nomination page going straight from this page to the main Version 0.5 page once approved.

Criteria
All articles of B-Class quality or better (according to the assessment grades) are acceptable.

As these have already been identified as core biographies, most should pass on importance. Everyone listed here must have had a large impact outside of their main discipline, across several generations, and in the majority of the world. However, if you feel strongly that an article does not pass on importance, it can be excluded with the agreement of two other editors under.

Reviewer sign-up
Please sign your name up if you are going to work on one or more sections. These must be reviewed by the end of September.

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Leaders and public figures, 70

Politicians and leaders, 53
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Asia and Africa, 17
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Europe, 29
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Thinkers and explorers, 73
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Inventors and scientists, 32
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Philosophers, 18
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Review process

 * Reviews should only be done by members of the review team (if you want to help sign up here).
 * Reviewers then pick an area of interest to them and sign up there.
 * The reviewer should not have been a significant contributor to the article under review.

As time allows, each reviewer will check articles on their list based on the criteria above. Articles should not be removed from this list. After an article has been reviewed, the following process is carried out:

Pass

 * 1) "Strikeout" the article name on this page, using and.
 * 2) Place the  template on its talk page. See V0.5 for details of classes and categories.
 * 3) List the article on Version 0.5 under the appropriate section.

Fail on importance only
Most, if not all articles of acceptable quality should also pass on importance. However, if the article covers a topic outside the scope of the V0.5 release:
 * 1) Leave a comment next to the article name on this page
 * 2) Leave a comment below in the importance review section.
 * 3) After a total of three reviewers (including yourself) agree and sign that the article should not be included, strikeout the article name, using and and leave a comment such as "scope" or "importance".
 * 4) If consensus is not reached in the importance review section, and one reviewer believes strongly that this article should be included, then the article should be passed for Version 0.5 (see above).
 * 5) Articles that fail on importance are listed here Version 0.5 Biography Review/Archived nominations.

Fail on quality
If the article fails to meet B-Class criteria because of quality issues:
 * 1) Consider requesting a cleanup of the article using cleanup tags or requests on the talk page.
 * 2) Consider a clear reason on the article's talk page.
 * 3) "Strikeout" the article name on this page, using and, and place a comment next to the article name indicating briefly why the article failed, and any action taken.
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Importance review
If you think an article from your section is too obscure to be included, please list it here and sign. If two others agree and sign, and no one disagrees, strikeout the article name (using and ) and leave a comment such as "scope" or "importance". If one reviewer disagrees, the article should be included in V0.5.

Athletes and related, 7

 * 1) Muhammad Ali
 * 2) Michael Jordan
 * 3) Bruce Lee
 * 4) Pelé
 * 5) Jackie Robinson
 * 6) Babe Ruth
 * 7) Jesse Owens

Artists and architects, 11

 * 1) Giotto di Bondone (failed on quality)
 * 2) Vincent van Gogh
 * 3) Michelangelo
 * 4) Claude Monet (failed on quality)
 * 5) Pablo Picasso
 * 6) Raphael
 * 7) Rembrandt
 * 8) Auguste Rodin (failed on quality)
 * 9) Leonardo da Vinci
 * 10) Andy Warhol
 * 11) Frank Lloyd Wright

Music, 6

 * 1) Johann Sebastian Bach
 * 2) The Beatles
 * 3) Ludwig van Beethoven
 * 4) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * 5) Elvis Presley
 * 6) Giuseppe Verdi

Performing arts misc., 5

 * 1) Charlie Chaplin
 * 2) Walt Disney
 * 3) Alfred Hitchcock
 * 4) Akira Kurosawa
 * 5) Mikhail Baryshnikov (failed on Q)

Writers, 29

 * Non-Western, 0

Ancient world, 3

 * 1) Aeschylus (failed on quality)
 * 2) Homer
 * 3) Virgil

English language, 14

 * 1) Jane Austen
 * 2) Lord Byron
 * 3) Charles Dickens
 * 4) T. S. Eliot
 * 5) Ernest Hemingway
 * 6) James Joyce
 * 7) John Milton
 * 8) Edgar Allan Poe
 * 9) Ezra Pound
 * 10) William Shakespeare
 * 11) Walter Scott
 * 12) Mark Twain
 * 13) Walt Whitman
 * 14) William Butler Yeats

Continental European languages, 12

 * 1) Dante Alighieri
 * 2) Jorge Luis Borges
 * 3) Miguel de Cervantes
 * 4) Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * 5) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * 6) Brothers Grimm
 * 7) Victor Hugo
 * 8) Henrik Ibsen
 * 9) Franz Kafka
 * 10) Marcel Proust
 * 11) Leo Tolstoy
 * 12) Voltaire

Americas, 7

 * 1) Simón Bolívar
 * 2) Hernando Cortes
 * 3) Benjamin Franklin
 * 4) Thomas Jefferson
 * 5) Abraham Lincoln
 * 6) Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * 7) George Washington

Asia and Africa, 17

 * Africa, 4
 * 1) Cleopatra VII of Egypt
 * 2) Hannibal
 * 3) Nelson Mandela
 * 4) Shaka


 * Asia, to 1000 AD, 4
 * 1) Cyrus the Great
 * 2) Hammurabi
 * 3) * failed: incomplete, brief, haphazard structure
 * 4) Qin Shi Huang
 * 5) Emperor Taizong of Tang
 * 6) * failed: incomplete, no sources, and language-related problems


 * Asia, 1000 to 1899 AD, 5
 * 1) Akbar
 * 2) Genghis Khan
 * 3) Saladin
 * 4) Suleiman the Magnificent
 * 5) Timur


 * Asia, 20th century, 4
 * 1) Indira Gandhi
 * 2) Hirohito
 * 3) Ho Chi Minh
 * 4) Mao Zedong

Europe, 29

 * Ancient world to 500 AD, 5
 * 1) Alexander the Great
 * 2) Attila the Hun
 * 3) Augustus
 * 4) Constantine I
 * 5) Julius Caesar


 * 500 AD to 1600 AD, 6
 * 1) Charlemagne
 * 2) Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
 * 3) Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
 * 4) Heraclius
 * 5) Ivan IV of Russia
 * 6) Philip II of Spain


 * British Isles, 6
 * 1) Winston Churchill
 * 2) Edmund Burke
 * 3) Queen Elizabeth I
 * 4) Henry II of England
 * 5) Henry VIII of England
 * 6) William I of England (William the Conqueror)


 * France, 3
 * 1) Joan of Arc
 * 2) Louis XIV of France (the Sun King)
 * 3) Napoleon I of France


 * Germany, 3
 * 1) Otto von Bismarck
 * 2) Frederick II of Prussia
 * 3) Adolf Hitler


 * Russia, 5
 * 1) Catherine the Great
 * 2) Mikhail Gorbachev
 * 3) Vladimir Lenin
 * 4) Peter I of Russia
 * 5) Joseph Stalin


 * Elsewhere, 1
 * 1) Benito Mussolini

Religious figures, 10

 * 1) Augustine of Hippo
 * 2) Gautama Buddha
 * 3) John Calvin
 * 4) Columba
 * 5) Francis of Assisi
 * 6) Jesus
 * 7) Martin Luther
 * 8) Muhammad
 * 9) Paul of Tarsus
 * 10) Zoroaster

Revolutionaries and activists, 7

 * 1) Frederick Douglass
 * 2) Mahatma Gandhi
 * 3) Che Guevara
 * 4) Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * 5) Margaret Sanger
 * 6) Mother Teresa
 * 7) Mary Wollstonecraft (failed, stubby)

Explorers, 5

 * 1) Neil Armstrong
 * 2) Christopher Columbus
 * 3) Ferdinand Magellan
 * 4) Marco Polo
 * 5) Zheng He Fail, needs rewrite

Biologists and doctors, 6

 * 1) Hippocrates
 * 2) Charles Darwin
 * 3) Carolus Linnaeus
 * 4) Joseph Lister failed, needs work
 * 5) Gregor Mendel
 * 6) Louis Pasteur

Inventors, 9

 * 1) Charles Babbage
 * 2) Alexander Graham Bell
 * 3) Louis Daguerre (fail on quality)
 * 4) Thomas Edison
 * 5) Johannes Gutenberg
 * 6) Henry Ford
 * 7) Guglielmo Marconi
 * 8) Cai Lun
 * 9) Wright brothers

Physical scientists, 17

 * 1) Nicolaus Copernicus
 * 2) Albert Einstein
 * 3) Michael Faraday
 * 4) Galileo Galilei
 * 5) Stephen Hawking
 * 6) Johannes Kepler
 * 7) Antoine Lavoisier
 * 8) James Clerk Maxwell
 * 9) Isaac Newton
 * 10) Alfred Nobel
 * 11) Robert Oppenheimer
 * 12) Linus Pauling
 * 13) Max Planck
 * 14) Ptolemy
 * 15) Ernest Rutherford (failed on quality)
 * 16) Nikola Tesla
 * 17) James Watt

Mathematicians, 9

 * 1) Archimedes
 * 2) Euclid
 * 3) Leonhard Euler
 * 4) Pierre de Fermat (fail on quality)
 * 5) Carl Friedrich Gauss
 * 6) Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
 * 7) Gottfried Leibniz
 * 8) Blaise Pascal
 * 9) Pythagoras

Ancient China, 3

 * 1) Confucius
 * 2) Laozi
 * 3) Sun Tzu (fail on quality)

Ancient Greece, 3

 * 1) Aristotle
 * 2) Plato
 * 3) Socrates

Middle Ages and modern, 12

 * 1) Thomas Aquinas
 * 2) Francis Bacon
 * 3) René Descartes
 * 4) Thomas Hobbes
 * 5) David Hume
 * 6) Immanuel Kant
 * 7) Søren Kierkegaard
 * 8) John Locke
 * 9) Niccolò Machiavelli
 * 10) Friedrich Nietzsche
 * 11) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 * 12) Henry David Thoreau

Social scientists, 9

 * 1) Sigmund Freud
 * 2) Edward Gibbon
 * 3) Herodotus
 * 4) John Maynard Keynes
 * 5) Karl Marx
 * 6) Thomas Malthus
 * 7) Adam Smith
 * 8) Thucydides
 * 9) Max Weber

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