Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Biographies

Accepted for Version 0.5
The following biographies have been approved for Version 0.5 as of 6 July 2005.

Also see a list of eligible biographies.

Actors and directors (4)

 * 1) Henry Fonda
 * 2) Vivien Leigh
 * 3) Laurence Olivier
 * 4) Sharon Tate

Artists (2)

 * 1) Canaletto
 * 2) Diego Velázquez

Athletes (3)

 * 1) Wayne Gretzky
 * 2) David Beckham
 * 3) Terry Bradshaw

Musicians and composers (11)

 * 1) Bach, Johann Sebastian
 * 2) Armstrong, Louis
 * 3) Clarke, Rebecca Helferich
 * 4) The Beatles
 * 5) Carey, Mariah
 * 6) Davis, Miles
 * 7) Minogue, Kylie
 * 8) Pink Floyd
 * 9) Selena
 * 10) Stravinsky, Igor
 * 11) The Supremes

Writers and critics (8)

 * 1) Anne Frank
 * 2) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * 3) Victor Hugo
 * 4) James Joyce
 * 5) William Shakespeare
 * 6) Rabindranath Tagore
 * 7) J. R. R. Tolkien
 * 8) William Butler Yeats

Miscellaneous (3)

 * 1) Religious figures and leaders: List of popes
 * 2) Psychologists: Sigmund Freud
 * 3) Social scientists: Max Weber

Historical figures (8)

 * 1) Che Guevara
 * 2) Mahatma Gandhi
 * 3) Rosa Parks
 * 4) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
 * 5) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
 * 6) Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu

Military people (3)

 * 1) Attila the Hun
 * 2) Joan of Arc
 * 3) Pericles

Philosophers (2)

 * 1) Søren Kierkegaard
 * 2) Aristotle

Politicians (3)

 * 1) Gerald Ford
 * 2) Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * 3) Theodore Roosevelt

Royalty and nobility (5)

 * 1) Akhenaten
 * 2) Charlemagne
 * 3) Claudius
 * 4) Hatshepsut
 * 5) Mark Antony
 * 6) Victoria of the United Kingdom
 * 7) William the Silent

Miscellaneous (2)

 * 1) Biologists and medical scientists: Charles Darwin
 * 2) Engineers and inventors: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Astronomers and physicists (5)

 * 1) Galilei, Galileo
 * 2) Newton, Issac
 * 3) Oppenheimer, Robert
 * 4) Sagan, Carl
 * 5) Teller, Edward

Chemists (2)

 * 1) Antoine Lavoisier
 * 2) Eugene Wigner

Mathematicians (7)

 * 1) Cantor, Georg
 * 2) Carl Friedrich Gauss
 * 3) Hilbert, David
 * 4) Leibniz, Gottfried
 * 5) Pascal, Blaise
 * 6) Turing, Alan
 * 7) von Neumann, John

Biographies missing from 0.5
Here are some high-priority biographies not now included in Version 0.5. General nominations are planned to close at the end of August. Maurreen 21:13, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

This section was originally posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography. Maurreen 23:02, 20 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Artists
 * 1) Michaelangelo nominated
 * 2) Leonardo da Vinci nominated


 * Musicians
 * 1) Beethoven
 * 2) Mozart
 * 3) Elvis Presley


 * Politicians and leaders
 * 1)  Winston Churchill
 * 2) Mohandas Gandhi already selected
 * 3)  Adolf Hitler nominated
 * 4)  Napoleon I of France
 * 5)  George Washington nominated


 * Philosophers
 * 1) Aristotle
 * 2)  Confucius
 * 3) John Locke
 * 4) Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Religious figures
 * 1)  Gautama Buddha nominated
 * 2)  Jesus nominated
 * 3)  Muhammad nominated


 * Scientists
 * 1) Charles Darwin already selected
 * 2) Albert Einstein already selected
 * 3) Sigmund Freud nominated
 * 4) Galileo Galilei already selected
 * 5) Isaac Newton already selected


 * Sports
 * 1) Jesse Owens
 * 2) Jackie Robinson


 * Writers
 * 1) Charles Dickens
 * 2) Homer nominated
 * 3) Mark Twain


 * Miscellaneous
 * 1) Adam Smith

Core GAs
These are WP:GAs and Core biographies that are not now included in Version 0.5.


 * Philosophers
 * 1) Aristotle already selected
 * 2) David Hume


 * Politicians and leaders
 * 1) Charlemagne
 * 2) Julius Caesar
 * 3) Churchill, Winston
 * 4) Cyrus the Great
 * 5) Jefferson, Thomas nominated
 * 6) George Washington nominated


 * Religion
 * 1) Jesus nominated
 * 2) Martin Luther


 * Writers
 * 1) Borges, Jorge Luis
 * 2) Hemingway, Ernest
 * Misc.
 * 1) Thomas Edison
 * 2) Hawking, Stephen
 * 3) Thucydides
 * Maurreen 21:51, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Clarifying 0.5 lists above
The first and larger list encompasses biographies that had been approved for 0.5 at the time I made the list. The "missing" list encompasses biographies that we might have extra reason to nominate. Maurreen 23:30, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Automated list
I've set up the categories, but it looks like I missed mathbot by just a few minutes so we will have to wait until this time tomorrow night to see the automated worklist...plange 03:57, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Due to this, we now have a category of unassessed core biographies. If these are assessed before the mathbot runs tomorrow nite, we'll be off to a good start.... plange 04:06, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, but I guess first we need to go through and make sure that some marked as Top that are NOT on the list are reassessed, etc. Just make the WPBiography tag have importance=top to put it on our list (and a lower one, or none at all, to take it off). plange 04:08, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Hanging head in shame... The bot hit the new category and generated a new worklist, but I didn't even follow my own instructions I wrote on how to add comments to the worklist! So, tomorrow night my mates, we'll have a more complete list! Sorry! plange 05:21, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Ok, this now has comments! And we talked Oleg into writing the code to include versions so that should appear in tomorrow nite's run! plange 05:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)