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Martin McGuinness dispute

I would like to invite anyone reading this to participate in a discussion over whether to use "deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland" or "Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland" in the infobox on Martin McGuinness. The discussion can be found here: Talk:Martin McGuinness#"deputy" vs "Deputy". HonouraryMix (talk) 15:34, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Phil Hare

There's a dispute over this bio; can editors please assess the ongoing edit war and contribute to the discussion over the content and sources? Fences&Windows 17:10, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. — Carl (CBM · talk) 03:00, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of P. V. Narasimha Rao

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. As it fails many aspects of the GA criteria I have de-listed it. When the issues have been fixed, it can be renominated at WP:GAN. If you disagree with the reassessment you may ask for a community reassessment at WP:GAR. You can see the concerns at Talk:P. V. Narasimha Rao/GA1. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:40, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Boyle Roche

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the article which you can see at Talk:Boyle Roche/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 15:24, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Timothy Blackstone GA Sweeps: On Hold

I have reviewed Timothy Blackstone for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since the article falls under the scope of this project, I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 04:01, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Leo Ryan GA Sweeps: On Hold

I have reviewed Leo Ryan for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found several issues, which I have detailed here. Since the article falls under the scope of this project, I figured you would be interested in contributing to further improve the article. Please comment there to help the article maintain its GA status. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib)

GA Reassessment of Leonard Orban

Leonard Orban has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. --Malleus Fatuorum 15:52, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of Sylvia Mendez

I have done a GA Reassessment of the Sylvia Mendez article as part of the GA Sweeps project. I have found the article does not meet current GA Criteria. My review can be found here. I have held the article for one week and I am notifying all interested projects and editors. If you have any questions or concerns please contact me on my talk page. H1nkles (talk) 22:24, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Condoleezza Rice

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. You are being notified as your project's banner is on the article talk page. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Condoleezza Rice/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 23:19, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

FAR

I have nominated Adriaen van der Donck for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 03:57, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Tony Benn

A request has been made for the article Tony Benn to be peer reviwed at WP:Peer review/Tony Benn/archive1. Any comments welcome. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 02:07, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons

The WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (UBLPs) aims to reduce the number of unreferenced biographical articles to under 30,000 by June 1, primarily by enabling WikiProjects to easily identify UBLP articles in their project's scope. There were over 52,000 unreferenced BLPs in January 2010 and this has been reduced to 35,715 as of May 1. A bot is now running daily to compile a list of all articles that are in both Category:All unreferenced BLPs and have been tagged by a WikiProject. Note that the bot does NOT place unreferenced tags or assign articles to projects - this has been done by others previously - it just compiles a list.

Your Project's list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Politics and government/Unreferenced BLPs. Currently you have approximately 3183 articles to be referenced. Other project lists can be found at User:DASHBot/Wikiprojects/Templates and User:DASHBot/Wikiprojects. If you know of any of your sub-projects or task forces that aren't already listed on those sign-up pages, but are likely to have UBLPs, then please add them or send me a message to add them to the lists.

Your assistance in reviewing and referencing these articles is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions, please don't hestitate to ask either at WT:URBLP or at my talk page. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 17:35, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

FAR

I have nominated Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 01:44, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Proposal to add order of office to Goodluck Jonathan

I have a proposal to add what number president Goodluck Jonathan is to the infobox on the relating article. There is a dispute over that, so I'm highlighting the discussion for wider community involvement. If you can get involved, thank you very much: Talk:Goodluck Jonathan#Order of office proposal. HonouraryMix (talk) 12:26, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Max Weber - Featured article review

I have nominated Max Weber for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Tom B (talk) 18:38, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Pamela Geller

Additional eyes and voices are needed at this contentious BLP. Active Banana ( ^bananaphone 01:20, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Relevant AFD - Rob Miller (South Carolina politician)

• Article page = Rob Miller (South Carolina politician)

AFD discussion, is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rob Miller (South Carolina politician) (2nd nomination). Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 22:20, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Relevant AFD discussion page - The Most Hated Family in America

There is an AFD for The Most Hated Family in America, which is a television documentary film that was written and presented by the BBC's Louis Theroux about the family at the core of the Westboro Baptist Church (info from lede of article).

• AFD is located at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Most Hated Family in America.

Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 18:18, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Atheist RfC at Ed Miliband

An RfC is underway at Talk:Ed Miliband#RFC BLP regarding whether the article (notably the infobox and categories) can call Ed Miliband an atheist based on one source reporting he said, "I don't believe in God," and another reporting from a separate interview that "he confirmed that he is an atheist." -Rrius (talk) 23:02, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Rankings by advocacy groups/Congressional scorecards

I'd thought there was a consensus formed in the past to discourage the addition of rankings from advocacy groups. Yet they seem pretty common. Dana Rohrabacher#Congressional scorecards. Do we have any guidelines on their use?   Will Beback  talk  23:11, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Kindly help to save the article about Burmese student opposition leader in jail

I got the following warning message in my talk page_ Speedy deletion nomination of Mya Aye

A tag has been placed on Mya Aye requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Tofutwitch11 ^(TALK) 22:00, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Because of the following tag, I come here to ask help_

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Darz kkg (talk • contribs) 09:05, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

While you received that message, the article doesn't seem to have actually been nominated for speedy deletion, so I've asked the editor who placed the message about this here. Cordless Larry (talk) 08:44, 10 October 2010 (UTC)