Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia CD Selection/additions and updates

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 -
 * various "economy of country x" articles - these articles about individual countries' economies could be replaced by the articles on continent-level economies: Economy of the world - Economy of Africa - Economy of Asia - Economy of Europe - Economy of North America - Economy of Oceania - Economy of South America

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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)

October 2008 Update
Its nice to see the project progressing - I took a look through the 2008/9 version now online, and have a few suggestions:


 * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - listed under category children's book. is not a children's book.
 * True but it is in the school reading curriculum. I will double list it


 * The Shawshank Redemption - again, inappropriate movie for children as mentioned above, not high historical importance.
 * Agreed. I'll do that


 * McFly - again, non-notable band. Many more important bands aren't included.
 * Agreed thanks.


 * archaeology section lacks a picture; the archaeology article has some good ones - I could reformat one of them if you would like.
 * I'll do an version update and see what images come through the check on licence filter
 * OIC you mean on the subject menu, ok got it. --BozMo talk 15:00, 7 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Homestar Runner - non-notable web comic.
 * ok, agreed to take out

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And on a more general note, how are the keywords generated? They are a useful addition, but sometimes are confusing, or under-represent a topic. An example of the former, 'made' has a number of linked pages of varying relevance, an example of the later: 'muslims' links only Islam and September 11, 2001 attacks, when other topics, koran, etc. should be included for balance.
 * The keywords include only words which are in the article title or in the title of a redirect page pointing to the article. The relationship between the keyword and the topic appears we roll-over script. There is however a problem with vandal redirects (peanut head to Jimmy Carter and the like) so we do some manual corrections. --BozMo talk 14:58, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Dialectric (talk) 13:55, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

October 2008 Update 2
Here are three more areas, pictures, portals, and countries, which could use some minor changes.

''Pictures. The following categories also lack pictures:''


 * 1) geography -> african geography
 * 2) countries -> americas
 * 3) everyday life -> food
 * 4) IT -> software
 * 5) Musical genres, styles, eras and events
 * 6) Historical figures
 * 7) Religion -> Philosophy
 * 8) science -> biology -> health and medicine
 * 9) science -> biology -> Insects, Reptiles and Fish

Here are some suggestions for pictures for the above

1. http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/s/Sahara.htm has oasis picture (and satellite map picture)

2. couldn't find anything suitable on schools wiki - wikipedia has 'americas' article

3. http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/p/Portal%253AFood.htm has fruits and vegetables picture foods.jpg

4. http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/l/Linux.htm has some good screenshots or, a disk from http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/f/Floppy_disk.htm

5. http://schools-wikipedia.org/images/538/53892.jpg.htm music score from bach article

6. http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/j/Julius_Caesar.htm marble bust of caesar

7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_thinker has an image of rodin's "the thinker"

8.? 9.?

Portals

The following portals need some minor cleanup in the form of non-active internal links:
 * 1) Portal:Africa - has unlinked 'read more' in bottom box
 * 2) Portal:biology - has unlinked 'archive...' in bottom box
 * 3) Portal:Early modern britain - has '{{/box-footer| Archive –' in bottom box
 * 4) Portal:Algebra - has unlinked 'read more' in bottom box
 * 5) Portal:England 'Archives •  Read more' in bottom box
 * 6) Portal:India 'India Quiz |  Archive' in bottom box
 * 7) Portal:Law 'more' in bottom box
 * 8) Portal:Mathematics - several unlinked interlinks
 * 9) Portal:Physics - 'more interesting facts' and 'suggest a fact'
 * 10) Portal:Ancient Egypt - 'news archives', 'more'
 * 11) Portal:Bangladesh - 'more'
 * 12) Portal:Chemistry - Portal navigation sublinks
 * 13) Portal:Weather - several

Countries

missing from Subject Index -> Countries / Asia : mongolia russia

missing from Subject Index -> Countries / Europe : Portugal Moldova Lichtenstein Lithuania Latvia Belarus Russia

Dialectric (talk) 10:25, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


 * That's really helpful thanks. --BozMo talk 11:52, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Just so you know I have put in all these pictures on the database so assuming I didn't inadvertently pick one with a strange licence page that should go through. All the countries I have done on the DB. The portals are more complicated because everyone is slightly different and it is hard to version select with transcluded content but I will try to hack them all. --BozMo talk 12:19, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good - the portal changes are pretty minor; if they take a lot of work, seems they could be skipped. Dialectric (talk) 13:02, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

And two more suggested changes:
 * bizarre image for removal: http://schools-wikipedia.org/images/531/53167.jpg.htm
 * Pitcairn Islands - sexual abuse discussed in last paragraph of history


 * Good catches. Pitcairn is straightforward to fix (and is on a list of occurences of the word "incest" which I am working through). The image seems to be an overwrite vandal, will sort out. Last time round it was images of spongebob square pants we had to contend with. --BozMo talk 15:49, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

spelling error on front page: "This Selection includes thirty "Portal Pages", which give a brief overview of a topic and list some key articles int it."

'int' might be either in, or, better, within ?

Dialectric (talk) 02:22, 9 October 2008 (UTC)