Portal talk:Biography/Archive 1

The Granjilla of The Royal Place of El Escorial - La Granjilla de La Fresneda

La Granjilla de La Fresneda, is known as both, La Granjilla and La Fresneda.[1]. It is an essential Cultural Treasure of the Royal Site of El Escorial. It was planned by Philip II of Spain as a Real Cottage closed by a fence of dry stone. Juan Bautista de Toledo, Royal Architect, and Gaspar de Vega, Royal Stonework Master, designed it as a Royal Private Park into a Royal Private Estate, The Royal Place of El Escorial, isolated and protected from the rest of the world by a Royal Wall of Dry Stone known nowadays as La Cerca Real (The Royal Fence) and La Cerca de Felipe II(The Fence of Philip II). [3]. Conceptually, La Granjilla (La Fresneda) was the counterpoint of the Monastery: for Fray José de Sigüenza, The Fresneda’s Park was an earthly image of the Paradise.

The monumental area of the Historical Place of Granjilla’s Park (Fresneda’s Park) was built between 1563 and 1569. San Lorenzo's Monastery was built between 1562 and 1584; previously, in 1561, Felipe II moved The Court from Toledo to Madrid.

La Granjilla and the Monasterio de San Lorenzo are two homologous Royal Sites, essential and indivisible parts of the Cultural Landscape of the Royal Site of El Escorial, cultural, natural and symbolic legacy of the Spanish Crown to the Spanish People.[4].

Annotations

[1]. Also as, La Fresneda del Real Sitio del Escorial and La Granjilla del Real Sitio del Escorial.

[2]. In 2006, “La Cerca Real” was declared Cultural Good by Madrid’s Regional Government. Vide, CAM, Decreto 52/2006 – BOCM 21/96/2009.

[3]. La Granjilla (Real Sitio del Escorial)

[4]. La Granjilla is a Welfare of Cultural Interest. By its historicity, until the 19th century, it could be considered Cultural Heritage of the Hispanic Monarchy in The Royal Place of The Escorial. Nowadays should be declared, urgently, Spanish Heritage to be administrated by the Spanish National Trust (Organismo Autónomo de Patrimonio Nacional, Ministerio de la Presidencia, Gobierno de España).

Petition to the Spanish Government: national, regional and municipal authorities

We ask the Spanish authorities:

To declare "The Granjilla de La Fresneda", National Treasure Spanish Heritage.

To include the Cultural Landscape of the Royal Site of El Escorial in the “Parque Nacional Sierra de Guadarrama”. Philip II protected the Royal Site of El Escorial with a Royal Dry Stone Wall.

To declare the Royal Site of El Escorial, European Heritage and World Heritage Site.

The Royal Site of El Escorial is the Inalienable Cultural Legacy of the Parliamentary Hispanic Monarchy to the Spanish People. Direcciones de Internet (URL)

http://apuntesdelasierra.com/descargatelarevista.html

http://camelotescorial.wordpress.com

http://camelot-escorial-unesco.spaces.live.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Architecture

http://lafresnedadefelipeii.blogspot.com

http://lamascarachina.blogspot.com

http://picasaweb.google.es/andres.magana

http://portal.unesco.org/es/ev.php-URL_ID=33840&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

http://sanlorenzo.ciudadanos-cs.org

http://whc.unesco.org

http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1026

http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1038

http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849597522849484451

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/spain/madrid/escorial/escorial.html

http://www.cuescorial.es

http://www.descubresanlorenzo.com/tag/escorial

http://www.elescorial.es

http://www.escorialhabitable.com

http://www.galeon.com/patrimoniohistorico/principal.htm

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main

http://www.patrimonio-mundial.com

http://www.patrimonionacional.es

http://www.sanlorenzodeelescorial.org

http://www.sanlorenzoescorial.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Escorial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Granjilla_de_La_Fresneda_de_El_Escorial

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Granjilla

http://www.world-heritage-tour.org

http://www.worldwidewarning.net

Créditos

elroto.gmail@elpais.es

http://picasaweb.google.es/andres.magana

http://www.blogger.com/profile/15849597522849484451

El Proyecto Camelot-Escorial pide a los Poderes Públicos y a las Instituciones Internacionales: 1.- Que declaren el Real Sitio del Escorial Legado Cultural Inalienable, Irrenunciable e Imprescriptible de la Monarquía Hispánica Parlamentaria al Pueblo Español. 2.- Que incluyan el Patrimonio Natural, Cultual y Simbólico del Real Sitio del Escorial en el Parque Nacional Sierra de Guadarrama. 3.- Que el Paisaje Cultural del Real Sitio del Escorial, que Felipe II protegió para la posteridad con una Cerca de Piedra en Seco, sea declarado Patrimonio Europeo y Patrimonio de la Humanidad. El Proyecto Camelot-Escorial (Escorial Sostenible y Amigos del Escorial) es un grupo de trabajo altruista abierto e interdisciplinar, sin personalidad jurídica común ni beneficio económico. El Lema del Proyecto Camelot-Escorial es: "Lo que escribió Cervantes, lo que pintó Velázquez, lo que edificó Herrera influye sobre lo que hicimos, pensamos y sentimos los españoles de hoy". G. Morente.

Misc

Things you can do to help the Biography portal:

• Play with it untill you cant fix it anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Winkepledia (talk • contribs) 20:00, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
• Change it any way you'd like to make it better.

I just resized the boxes, cause they were overlapping a lot (on my screen). Weren't they on your screen or are the instruction unclear or is there another reason?--MarSch 17:30, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

They weren't on my scren, but it still looks fine to me, so your changes are good. I had done very little modification from the portal skeleton, so I don't know why it looked bad on your screen. perhaps you should check to see if the other portals look ok and if not, then maybe mentioning it to someone. Matt 22:41, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

• Create or edit On this day... pages found at Template:Biography portal/OnThisDay/Month_Day (e.g. May_19)
• I would definitely like to see a toolbox of templates and Wiki conventions for writing biographies GSchjetne 16:07, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Is it just me or is this page missing a links to Biography by alpha list? I cannot find any reasonable way to get to that from here Jakking 22:54, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

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Title of Featured Article

Why isn't the title of the featured article a link to the article itself, just like on the mainpage? I changed it for the Benjamin Franklin article. Mystman666 13:46, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Actually make that intended to change that. (seems the changes aren't immediatly applied to the page?). Still, I think that making this portal more consistent with the main page isn't a bad idea. Mystman666 13:49, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

You usually have to purge the cache to see changes to the portal boxes.--cj | talk 14:02, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

academic genealogies

I may have just not found it or it may have already died... but... has anyone started looking into a sort of academic genealogy tree project within the Wikipedia environment? I know there are independent projects/databases run by some Universities but that is usually very limited and not searchable/updateable through the web. Collaborations welcome!

I am a scientist/science historian but can't do the software (maybe like Wikitree?). Given a development of a code of conduct and some sets of rules (sources to be rigorously trackable, what constitutes a student-mentor tie (PhD?)) I could see this to be a very useful encyclopedic tool. While sifting through orbituaries and books for an article about a German chemist of the 1800's I found that the information on who did his PhD where was usually retained in the sources about the students, not in the sources about the mentor. An on-line tool would even out that gap (e.g., I want to know who studied with (name)).

--Carboxen 22:17, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Dabbing "French"

User talk:Deville has been using a robot to disambiguate "French" to "French people" instead of the standard "France". Has there been a change of policy? All other countries bio references disambig to the country article, not to the (in many cases rather crappy) "people" articles. This is especially concerning re the French people article because it is so controversial.--Mais oui! 05:31, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

My feel toward that is that for some cultural or language-group adjectives such as French, English, and German, a clear disambiguation exists: The Québécois surely speak French and are French, but not citizens of France. the same could be said for the Austrians (they don't speak Austrian, they speak German), or the Americans, who speak English but are not from Britain. French People takes the Québécois into account and is thus more accurate. It makes much more sense! And if the convention does not allow for that then it is not a good convention and needs adjusting - or do you want to be called a citizen of the UK even though you are American? So far my humble opinion. Carboxen 00:57, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Birthplaces and Deathplaces at beginning?

I've noticed that at least the French and German Wikipedias, on any biography article, give the birthplace and deathplace at the beginning of the article, rather than merely the year of birth and death. That is, they give it of the form "Billy Bob Williams (born December 12, 1969 in Hicksville, Alabama; died November 6, 2003 in Gator's Creek Georgia)". English Wikipedia articles of course, give those places somewhere in the article, but not at the very beginning like that. Why isn't that a standard for the English Wikipedia? Or even better, why is it a standard for those other Wikpidias? (I tried asking on the German one, but they just directed me to tutorials that tell you that it must be done, but not why.) MrVoluntarist 05:16, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I always liked that style too. Its the Encyclopedia Britannica style. I have to search to find where someone is born or died, and sometimes its not in the biography. Sometimes the death place isn't in the last paragraph, its in the last sentence of the first paragraph. I guess its too late to change. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 04:14, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

While convenient for its specific purpose, I find the birth and death places distracting from the primary goal of showing the lifespan of the person. It leads to blurs such as (January 17, 1901 in Kyiv, Ukraine (then Kiev, Russian Empire)-December 27, 1986 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then Yugoslavia)) ...and I think I've seen worse.

Maybe it works better in French and German, but I have to agree with the guidelines under WP:DATE. I often dive in and rework openings to the WP:DATE standard.

That being said, I am careful to keep the information in the article. Infoboxes handle it best, but I often find the information is repeated in the text, anyway. Where it is not, I add it clearly in chronological order, usually under "Early life" and "Death"—then it's findable in the TOC. -- Yamara 14:47, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Missing middle names, only initial

I have a wikiproject: Wikipedia:Wikiproject Middle Name to store names where I can't find the person's middle name. Perhaps someone with better skills can find them. Add your name when you find the missing name, and add new names as you write biographys, or edit old ones. A lot of disambiguation is solved with the addition of the missing name Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 04:17, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Good biographies

I have set up a category for biographies designated WP:GA. Maurreen 22:27, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Release version work

I am interested in working on high-importance biographies toward a release version of WP. Is anyone interested in helping with this? Maurreen 20:08, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Bernhard Heitz (Freiburg, Germany, October 1, 1962)

Bernhard Heitz, born October 1, 1962 in freiburg germany, suffered extensive burns of second, third and fourth degrees after a plane crash in nothern British Columbia, Canada on June 2, 1997. After a two year rehabilitation period he was co-founder in 1999 of the German based burn support organization Phoenix Deutschland (http://www.phoenix-deutschland.de). In 2002 he was sinstrumental in realizing the World Burn Foundation (http://www.burnsurvivorsonline.com). The World Burn Foundation has offices in Los Angeles (USA), Leipzig (GER), Johannesburg (RSA), Edmonton (CND), London (ENG), Sydney (AUS).

Project

Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography is re-energized and discussing core bios and task forces. Maurreen 04:56, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Indeed. The arts/entertainment task force has been created. Voting is still happening on the others. Michael 05:48, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Now accepting nominations

for selected article! Go here to nominate and/or vote! plange 05:49, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Meaning of Nationality in Categories

Not sure about the use of Category:Nationalities by occupation. For instance I found Shai Agassi been categorized as American entrepreneur though he is Israeli and Chief Executive of a German company, been only for some years CEO of an American Company. But as far as I know hasn't attended American nationality.

So my question. What is more important: Nationality or location of business?--Peter Eisenburger 14:45, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

My opinion is, that in today's day and age of globalization, such distinctions are often fading among people of public exposure/interest - especially for artists, scientists, managers. For instance, for cases or people who live for >10-15 years in a country different from their citizenship, like the Canadian artist in the US, the American engineer in Germany, the said CEO of a company in the US, this definitely needs to be addressed.

I have no problem calling somebody living and working in the US in occupation XY an American XY-ist or so, irrespective of nationality/citizenship. However, for some people that only works one way: Americans are more accepting to calling people in their country Americans irrespective of citizenship, but are probably more reluctant to do so for their own kin abroad (is the American businessman in Dubai an Arab businessman?). All should be treated by the same standard here. Carboxen 00:42, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Guidelines for biographies

I've just signed up for Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography and will be keeping a close eye on this portal and its associated pages. Are there any specific guidelines regarding biographies that are not obvious? – I haven't seen anything mentioned anywhere.

I also notice that lists of biographies linked from here have no mention of many that I have created or contributed to, so obviously this is not an automatic process. Can someone clarify the procedure for listing, please?

Many thanks – Agendum 07:44, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

The guidelines are on the Biography WikiProject page here. Which links on the portal were you not seeing your articles? If it's from the categories area, you need to make sure your articles are using the appropriate categories. --plange 14:35, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Biography Homepage birthdays

The date at the top of this section changes every day, but the names stay the same. - Triviaa 22:15, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Yep, the person who was compiling them has stopped. I'm hoping to find the time to make the rest of the days we're missing. Want to tackle this? --plange 22:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the amount of time I have for Wikipedia has declined and don't have time to do these everyday. What time I do have is best spent on other things - writing articles for neglected topics, monitoring the 9/11 articles, making maps, etc. If others would help or take over the task of updating the portal, that would be wonderful. To create the birthdays, you just need to look at the date pages (e.g. October 4) and pick out some of the more notable people. --Aude (talk) 23:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks AudeVivere! Unless someone else steps in, I'd be willing to take this on-- I know your hands have been full trying to keep all portals afloat! I did it for one day, but then forgot after that day ended :-P --plange 03:50, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

I can help; I don't know how much time I can dedicate to this, but I'll do what I can. - Triviaa 19:31, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Cool, I've populated up to the 7 or 8th I think-- you can tell if you go to edit the current one and then replace the number with the next day, etc., and see if it shows content or not. I then have a second window open for the date itself, i.e. October 8, and cut and paste it into the new page and trim-- I didn't do the exhaustive method AudeVivere used, but rather just kind of judged their importance and trimmed out ones I didn't think anyone would have heard of. --plange 20:27, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Triviaa! I see you've populated some! Leave a note here what day you leave off with so we can make sure we're covered... Thanks a bunch! --plange 19:45, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

For now, I've done through October 21. I can do more later if no one else volunteers. - Triviaa 19:47, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I will finish October, and if I don't hear anything else, I'll begin November in a couple weeks. - Triviaa 18:34, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I've begun on November; I'll continue populating indefinitely, until they are finished or someone else volunteers. - Triviaa 21:31, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for working on these. I have one minor suggestion. Where you put the picture, if you omit the "thumb" and "right" parameters, it should push the text up to the top of the box, alongside the picture. Aside from that minor suggestion, everything looks great. --Aude (talk) 21:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Conventions for biographies

As first suggested originally by GSchjetne at the very top of this page, a guide to Wikipedia conventions for the writing of biographies would be a very good idea – nay, an essential feature of the Portal, IMHO. At the moment, everyone appears to be doing it their own way, and there seems to be very little consistency. And some idea of what would be the right stage to submit an article for Peer Review would be good, too. – Agendum 22:01, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually portals are guides to articles already written-- however, WP:BIOGRAPHY already has a guideline on how to structure an article etc... Hope that helps! --plange 22:03, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Aaah - that's useful! Wish I'd seen that a year or more ago. With my slow dial-up connection it's not easy to wade my way through all the interminable lists of so-called informative articles (half of which I can't understand when they do load). By the way – have the Wikipedia servers slowed just recently, or is it just me? – Agendum 22:42, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry you didn't know (BTW, I answered you above with the same info last month but I guess you didn't see it). Speed definitely does vary sometimes. Right now seems ok --plange 22:50, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

"random biography" function

I am not sure if this exists yet... in the same way that the Wikipedia main menu on the very left has the "Random article" function, I think it would be cool to have some way to do that for biographies as well, maybe from the portal page. Issue: the "random biography" link/selector would probably dissapear with the first loaded request, together with the portal. Any ideas? Carboxen 00:32, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Biography as opening header

Is labeling the first paragraph in a biographical article as "biography" redundant? I don't see other encyclopedias using this convention. See Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen. A quick decision would be helpful since someone is going through and changing them. See Frederick Frelinghuysen (1788–1820) and Frederick Frelinghuysen (1753–1804). A ruling would be helpful, and it then the decision can be added to the MoS.

The place to ask these questions is at WP:BIOGRAPHY, but to answer, yes, it's redundant for short biographies where that is all the article is. It only makes sense when there's much more to discuss about the person, like their achievements/works etc., like Max Weber --plange 15:41, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Biography vs genealogy

What constitutes "genealogical fluff" versus a thorough biography? Please see John Frelinghuysen (1727-1754) history and leave a comment. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 15:26, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

To be honest, you also need to establish the notability of this guy, why is there an article about him? Does he meet WP:BIO? Likewise, if the children aren't notable, they shouldn't be included either. For instance, John W. Johnston, an article I wrote, I only included the children that were either notable in their own right, or married someone notable. I left out all of his other children. --plange 15:48, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I think that is 100% wrong! Notability determines whether you get an article in Wikipedia, not whether you get mentioned as a child of someone notable. If someone consults the article they may assume incorrectly that the person only had one child, the famous one. Once a person is notable the names of their children should be included in a biography. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 05:03, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Be that as it may, you'll have a hard time getting FA -- I was asked to remove all non-notable children on the Johnston FAC ---plange 23:57, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Hang on a minute. What's the aim here? Is it to get FA status or to create a worthy encyclopedia article? I'm beginning to wonder whether we're getting too obsessed with creating a 'Featured Article' – whereas the end result should be to produce a useable, professional, well-written and accurate work for the end-user to refer to. That's my goal. – Agendum 00:23, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Experts needed

A category for articles that need expert assistance from those with knowledge of Arts has been created and articles are being sorted into the category (Category:Pages needing expert attention from the Biography Portal). I would like to propose adding a reference to this on the portal page, perhaps in the Projects section so that those with expertise in Biogrphies would be made aware of it and would have a link to it.

Make that Category:Pages needing expert attention from Biography experts. --Brad Beattie ^(talk) 12:21, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

tempera

rock music band, originated in Torino Italy, now living in wilmington,north carolina USA style: alternative rock, pop rock, rock original songs written by Tempera, website [[1]] band member:Roberto Giambra lead vocals and drums Angelo Giambra: vocals ,bass guitar and piano Alessandro Giambra: acustic, electric guitar

James Clerk Maxwell

Hey Folks,

I'm trying to bring the Maxwell article up to featured article status. If anyone wants to help, especially those with a physics background (but not necessarily), visit the talk page and leave a message, or message me on my talkpage to talk about this further. All the best, and Merry Christmas! --JE.at.UWO^U|_T 03:01, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

books

“Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff,”

Stub that is going to need looking after...

Hello,

I'm a participant on the Comics Project and I've got a stub that is going to need someone from this project to flesh out.

The article is for Eric Strauss, PhD, Director of Environmental Studies at Boston College.

Someone set up Eric Strauss as a redirect page to the article for the comic book character Doctor Fate. While there is a fictional Eric Strauss associated with the character, the article shouldn't link there.

I think Dr. Strauss has tried, as an anonymous user, to un-hijack his name, to little positive result.

I'm going to try and convert the article as best I can, but I'm unfamiliar with the specific style guides and templates used for this project. If someone can take a look and nail down thing I'd appreciate it.

Thanks for listening... − J Greb 06:50, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about this... I think I posted to the wrong talk page... — J Greb 06:52, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

A surname pronunciation

A phonetic transcription (IPA for English) how to pronounce the surnames of the personalities located somewhere near to the surname would help me. Would it be useful? I understand that there is variety of pronunciations of the same word but it is just one minimaly for the surname in English, isn't it? --VaM 23:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps use Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language for this question? feydey 02:17, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Portal Quote of the Week

Is there a stash of quotes somewhere? There doesn't seem to be a set quote this week. - Triviaa 16:13, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I had picked some out from Wikiquote, from q:Quote of the Day archive. --Aude (talk) 22:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Raoul Wallenberg

I am trying to bring Raoul Wallenberg to featured article status, please have a good read, and bring criticism. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 03:54, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Article Rating

Someone from this portal may want to take another look at the article Archimedes Plutonium. The sources it has right now are primarily either Plutonium's own sites or threads in Google Group discussions. There is one article from Discover, where a few sentences speak about Plutonium. I find it hard to believe that this all adds up to a B rating ... Just my two cents. --Keesiewonder ^talk 19:27, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Richard Walter - Fraudulent Article

Richard Walter seems to have been created with a large amount of false information, perhaps gathered from a phony/ anonymous press release posted at "www.richarddwalter.com". Walters's false testimony was actually confirmed in NY v. Robie Drake. In 2003 and again in 2006 his testimony was determined to be false, misleading and could be presumed perjurious on at least one point (perjury being a very specific type of false testimony) by a fedeal judge.

This is all confirmed in the judge's ruling at: "NY v. Robie Drake" (2006). The acrobat file here was obtained from United States District Court, Western District of New York. Just select judge John Elfvin's rulings for March 2006 re: the Drake case. You'll need to select more than 100 documents per page to see it. Get the drake file.

I editted the many factual inaccurancies in the page with references to the court record online and articles regarding Mr. Walter's false testimony. However an anonymous editor immediately swooped in and removed those edits. I have reverted the page and posted a warning to the anonymous editor. Now Buzzle45 (talk · contribs), an original anonymous creator of this false information page designed to rescue Walters flailing credibility, has stepped in to replace anonymous editor 24.240.17.187 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). I am not certain these are two separate individuals.

At any rate, I expected that whoever created the page would change the edits and that this issue would become something that needed an official look - as there are quite a few dedicated and obsessed people determined to keep the actual substance of this court ruling from being public. It hurts Walter, and it hurts more than a few because of their association with him.

Anonymous editor 24.240.17.187 has removed the Richard Walter page at least six times aleady and has also removed this section from the Talk: Richard Walter page at least six times, since 3/18/07 to prevent me from even having a civil discussion about it with others. Buzzle45 (talk · contribs) has done the same. Not exactly actions that are conducive to resolution, let alone communication. They just don't want the ruling public because of their hero worship (that's assuming that one of the individuals is not actually Richard Walter -this a very distinct possibility).

This information is not libelous. It is corrective. It is the posting of a court's ruling using the court's own document. The Wikipedia entry currently states that Walters was exonnerated by the judge in the Drake case. This is not just false, it is beligerantly deceptive at this point.

Note please that I am the only person in this dispute who must testify in court on a regular basis, under oath - and that I am also the only one willing to be identified.

As it stands, the article is full of false and bloated information about Walters that is designed to prop him up despite the court ruling - so that those who use Wikipedia as their primary nfo source (and there are many too many) will be misled. It is a disgrace to the professional community, and it is the furtherance of a weakly crafted fraud.

Do not hesitate to contact me for further assistance.

Brent E. Turvey, MS - Forensic Scientist Bturvey 23:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Richard Walter article - Libel

Brent continues to write libel.

To accuse someone of perjury is a serious charge. Mr. Turvey makes that claim on his own websites, but that is a matter between Mr. Walter and Mr. Turvey to settle in civil court.

I hold Wikipedia to a higher standard.

In reading the court document, in the final ruling in the Drake case, the judge overturns the appeal.

In his opinion, the judge states that Mr. Walter "may" have committed perjury (which he did not), but he rules that such an issue is a moot point because Mr. Drake does not have the basis for appeal.

Thus, Drake's appeal, and all of its allegations are ruled false.

I welcome you to read the decision on Lexis-Nexis and not Mr. Turvey's version on his websites.

While on Lexis-Nexis, I would also encourage you to read about Mr. Turvey's false statements under oath in Mississippi last year and his previous false statements under oath regarding his employment by the Sitka, Alaska Police Department as a detective. (Mr. Turvey lost in court in his bid to claim that he was employed as a detective in Sitka).

Because Mr. Turvey was not allowed into the AAFS, he has spent his short career creating his own organizations and schools. His organizations are nothing more than him and a few of his former "students" posing as a substitute for the AAFS.

Still, the bitterness of rejection has never been exorcised from his soul. He maintains a website that lists several well-respected forensic pathologists as "frauds" (Mr. Walter is not his only victim).

With all due respect, his situation reminds me of a jealous child in the playground who wants to "take his toys and play on his own".

I suggest that the Richard Walter page remain permanently locked in its pre-March 17th state.

Please disregard Bturvey's threat to "show why wikipedia can't be trusted as a source in my class". He has many more enemies than friends; no one will stand in his defense. 02:37, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

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Jews

Why do many biographies here mention the fact that the man is Jew (e.g. Jean-Pierre Melville) ? I can't figure out why this is of any interest. Arronax · ^talk 23:52, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Updates

Updates are required for the Quotes section. If they are not provided soon, this portal will be eligible to have its featured status removed. Thanks,--cj | talk 02:05, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Question

Hi fellows.

Is there a standard form to begin a biography? is it "born in Buenos Aires, May 20, 1980" or "born May 20 1980 in Buenos Aires"? --Damifb 10:44, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography. And "Name (born May 20 1980 in Buenos Aires)" is used. feydey 10:54, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks.--Damifb 19:20, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Assistance with Portal Spaceflight biographies

On behalf of Portal:Spaceflight I would like to request assistance from the maintainers of Portal:Biography. Part of the Spaceflight portal is a Selected biography section, but it hasn't been updated very frequently. Could someone involved with Portal:Biography help us find a few good biographies to use, or even better, help put in place a mechanism allowing us to find them ourselves? Comments at Portal talk:Spaceflight#Assistance with Portal Spaceflight biographies would be greatly appreciated! (Sdsds - Talk) 01:03, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

US-centric anniversaries

Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 16

Is it just me or are the links to people who were born or who died on today's date a bit US-centric? The majority of today's list are Americans. --Studiosonic 13:07, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

• Yes, I thought the same. We should've edited it then. I've edited it now to reduce the number of Americans and added a color picture. DrKiernan 17:49, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Selected portraits

Whilst we're on the subject of centrism, 5 of the 7 selected portraits are of white men. I just used the 6 previous images from the archive and added the only picture of a named black man at Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People I could find. I think we should replace Thomas Young with a woman. I choose that image to replace because it doesn't have a source and the name of the artist is unknown. Any nominations for a good picture of a woman with source and creator information? I think we should exclude musicians and scientists because we already have two of each (Tyner and Chopin: Monday and Thursday - Aldrin and Einstein: Wednesday and Sunday). DrKiernan 17:49, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry it took so long to get back to you, after your request. I was going to suggest George Sand, she has a couple good ones, but you already have Chopin, and it might seem a bit... internecine. So, may I recommend a Dame I've come across today, Simone Veil, first President of the European Parliament. That should set the right tone. -- Yamara 01:47, 19 June 2007 (UTC) PS-- Congrats on the adminship!

Thanks, however it's been tagged for deletion because of a discussion over copyright! The European Union permits reproduction, but not modification, of its images so they're incompatible with GFDL. DrKiernan 08:18, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Necessarily "book-length"? WP can have no biographies by that definition

Portal intro currently says, "[…] As opposed to summaries of people's lives, such as profiles or curriculum vitae, a biography is a book-length, […]"

If being book-length is a differentiating attribute, then WP can have no biographies by that name, only profiles or curriculum vitae.

I personally don't think it has to be book-length to be nominally a biography.

— Lumbercutter 14:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks for pointing that out! I've amended it. DrKiernan 15:34, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

New Rating Suggestion

I suggest adding a "Not Really a Biography" rating for biography websites. The reason is that some (I suspect many) of the web pages that have been labled as biographies are not actually biographies. My guess is that there are a lot of sites that provide profiles of notable people - i.e. just brief information that is directly related to the reason that they are notable. The difference between a biography and a profile (and other types of sets of information about people) is provided on the biography page, which is linked to the Biography project page to define the scope of the biography project. The biography page makes a specific point that profiles (and other things) are not biographies. I think this is more than just picking. What is the purpose of rating a site as a Start-Class biography when it already contains (as intended) a complete profile? --Rogerfgay 14:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

But isn't that just a "stub-class biography"? DrKiernan 15:17, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure if you're joking? The serious point here is that not every page about a person is meant to contain a full biography as it's defined for the purpose of rating the websites. --Rogerfgay 16:27, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

If a Wikipedia article under a person's name exists on Wikipedia, it's a biography. Not a website. Not a profile. This is an encyclopedia. We don't do websites or profiles. And you've mistaken biography for a Wikipedia policy. That's a Wikipedia article on what a biography might be. The actual Wikipedia guideline on biographies is Wikipedia:Biographies. I ask you once again, please learn how Wikipedia works before you try to change it. -N 23:31, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

N Really please don't stalk me. I'm quite serious about this discussion, and this is an appropriate place to talk about the issue that I've raised. DrKiernan is a highly qualified and well respected member of the Wikipedia community who has done a lot of work in this area. I'm sure that he can handle a conversation. --Rogerfgay 08:23, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

DrKiernan - It seems to me that profiles provide valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, that remain within the scope of interest that readers have. There are some people who are worthy of inclusion because of specific contributions and activities. A profile - focusing on information related to those contributions - is just the ticket, imo. I don't see this at present as being a huge practical problem. If someone can find more information about a person, and wants to expand an article toward a more complete biography, ok. Perhaps that's an indication in itself that readers might also be interested in more information. But these classifications have been defined to indicate that work should be done; which effects prioritization of work. Wouldn't it be better to use a different test for whether an article on a person should shift from profile to full-blown biography - for example, when an notable inventor's inventions have such a great impact on the world that we have another Alexander Graham Bell, for instance? In making this suggestion, I note that full-blown biographies on lesser known people that are fully accurate and well-written are not so easy to produce. In such a case as Bell, researchers and historians have actually received funding to study his life, write books, and sufficient scholarly debate takes place. If that's the way good biographies need to be created, then pressure within Wikipedia to push beyond the activities in the outside world is not the way to go. --Rogerfgay 08:46, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

I think I may have misunderstood you, then. My point was that an article rated as a "stub-class biography" isn't really a biography as such, i.e. it isn't a comprehensive explanation of a person's life and achievements in the context of the time, its usually "just brief information that is directly related to the reason that they are notable", which is how I thought you'd defined your suggested new category. But, now I see you're suggesting we have a new category of "Profiles" for articles with complete information of a person's career that are not written as prose text. I'm not convinced that the idea would be popular, I imagine people would use the category in the same way as "Start" and it would end up serving the same function. Maybe, you could propose the idea at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography/Assessment and see how other people respond. DrKiernan 09:14, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

I want to be sure that I'm clear first. This is my first effort to contribute to a project such as this; so I also want to have some discussion first, rather than just jumping in with both feet and perhaps merely creating extra work for others. I did not indicate that profiles should not be written as prose text. I have written a profile on Peter Nordin in prose text; but other editors seem to be struggling with the biography classification, and the whole concept of writing within the scope of the reason the person is notable (and within the scope of available information). Other (related) issues have now been dragged into this example, but it does not suffer from being in non-prose form, such as embedded list. --Rogerfgay 11:11, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, I doubt there's much of a problem with the prose part. I think the other editors of that page are just concerned about the lists, in their view there should be no need to list things if the same information can be imparted by saying "He has published extensively in the scientific literature, among his most seminal works are...", and that kind of thing. DrKiernan 11:37, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes. I'm not having difficulty understanding what other editors are concerned about. I have a different POV based on understanding the subject. For example, I've been through the list of articles. They're all gems, some of which have won awards; typically cited many times - having an impact on the field. But to me, they look like an integrated whole that could be nicely consolidated into one or two books, that unfortunetly today can only be described by listing all the chapters (so to speak). Replacing with a summary statement - he's written a bunch of papers - reduces the useful information significantly rather than merely summarizing. I guess the only way that might fit this discussion however, is that on matters of classification the POV of a content provider can be very different than that of a general editor who does not have knowledge of the subject. The list is gone now, and I expect it would be a futile effort to try to put it back. I wouldn't like to select a smaller set of articles over another set, and think the more general statement of his contributions is already made in the Profile section. --Rogerfgay 13:37, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

The Corporate Spin-offs section has now also been deleted, after it had been incorrectly classified as an embedded list. The guy has 21 companies that are spin-offs of his academic work. Listing is the correct format, not incorporation into prose.

Now that I better understand your comment on stub-class, I'm thinking that the current classification of the Peter Nordin article as Start-Class may be the problem. Do you think that stub-class would have the effect that I'm looking for? What secondary effects might these classifications have? --Rogerfgay 11:16, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't think stub-class is appropriate for that article as it is far more comprehensive than that. DrKiernan 11:37, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Friedrich Löffler - wrong lemma

Right now Friedrich Loeffler ist a redirect to Friedrich Löffler, but it should be the other way round if any, because the man has got no umlaut in his name. See also: de:Friedrich Loeffler and the homepage of the Friedrich Loeffler Institute. --M.Ottenbruch (talk) 09:37, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Moved. DrKiernan (talk) 10:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Thx for your fast reaction. --M.Ottenbruch (talk) 11:54, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

xul4wikipedia

FYI. I've created a simple web form at http://lindenb.integragen.org/xul4wikipedia/xul4wikipedia.cgi to create on the fly a [firefox] extension. This add-on will append some custom items in the contextual popup menu when editing an article in wikipedia. Each of those items is used to insert a custom text in the textarea of the edited article, for example, you won't have to find, copy and paste your favorite Template:Infobox Person, this template will now be always available in your menu.--Plindenbaum (talk) 05:55, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism.....

Check on this portal's page -
Tsi Wut was an Indian/Muslim politician and statesman who led the Muslim League and founded Pakistan,
Somebody did Vandalism....removed Jinnah's name and looks like replaced his. Please revert fast. gppande «talk» 14:45, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Article selection

Biographies for the 30 days of April have been selected . If anyone can figure out a way to fix the captions, though, please feel free to do so. John Carter (talk) 17:54, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Is there a way to easily create a link to the article page? I don't understand the template syntax to do it myself (without editing each individual page). Also can we reduce the image size to, say, 100 px? DrKiernan (talk) 09:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Blue plaque for Captain James Cook

Blue plaque for Captain James Cook

I'm not sure what you mean by "a link to the article page." Any page in article space can be linked by putting square brackets around it and the title [[Biography]], which gives you: Biography. If you want to link to a portal it would be [[Portal:Biography]], ggggggwhich gives you: Portal:Biography.

Going to 100 px in size is very small. Specifying "thumb" in the image specification will give the image a default size of 180px. Here's how to do that: [[Image:James Cook Blue Plaque.png|thumb|upright|right|[[Blue plaque]] for Captain James Cook]], gives you the first image, at right. Specifying "100px in place of "thumb" gives you the second. Note that the caption does not show below the image in the second version. Sunray (talk) 14:53, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I gave it a try. Feel free to revert this edit, if it wasn't what you had in mind. Hemmingsen 15:42, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Portal placement

Biography Portal placement

1) Per the biography instructions at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography#Templates

Biography Portal - Add this to the bottom of a page, right before the categories listing, to show a standardized link to the Biography portal.

General portal placement

2) Per the Wikipedia Layout instructions under the See also section at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ALSO#.22See_also.22_section

"See also" is the best place to link a Portal with the {portal} template.

3) Per the Template:Portal instructions at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Portal

Location - Within articles, this template is meant to be placed at the bottom of the article in the "See also" section.

Which portal instructions do we follow?

If we follow 1) then others not involved in Bio come along and move them. If we follow 2) & 3) several Bio people come along and state it is not so.

Would some administrator please make a decision?

Thank you. Jrcrin001 (talk) 22:45, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Personally, I wouldn't put it anywhere. I don't think a link to the portal from article space is useful. DrKiernan (talk) 07:04, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

See discussion at: WP:Portal or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Portal Jrcrin001 (talk) 15:37, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Featured Biography and Selected Portrait

These two sections do not look right to me. As far as the featured biography is concerned, I suspect there may be a problem with a template. The problem with the selected portrait seems to be recent, but I can't figure out what has happened. Rjm at sleepers (talk) 07:28, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

There was some vandalism at the sub-pages, Portal:Biography/Selected picture/Day 2 and Portal:Biography/Selected article/August, which I've reverted. Does this solve the problem? DrKiernan (talk) 07:42, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

looks fine now. Rjm at sleepers (talk) 07:45, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Number of biographies in English Wikipedia

Hello. I'm a curious frequent reader of Wikipedia, and I would like to know if there is any estimation of the number of biographies of deceased and living people on English Wikipedia. I know the number of living people biographies is around 517,000 (according to Category:Living people, but how about the number of total biographies? Thanks in advance, BlueWorld (talk) 03:44, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

PS: Sorry for my bad English, I'm not a native.

Well, according to the Project summary tables there are 914,048 pages tagged with the {{WikiProject Biography}} tag, including living and deceased. Of course not all biographies are tagged though. -- œ^™ 04:23, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you so much, I also had just found that same table on my own just a few minutes ago. Thanks again. BlueWorld (talk) 04:31, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

AfD

Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norbert M. Samuelson. Thanks. Jaque Hammer (talk) 21:19, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Two Dix

Hallo,

sorry if I'm posting in the wrong page. I was looking at this article and I follow the link for the actor Richard Dix. The funny is that this second article informs me that the actor died in 1949 and the linked film was shot in 1980. Sounds a bit strange. ;0) I guess is a case of namesake, so I was thinking to add a hatnote. But, since I guess there is no article for the 'younger' Mr Dix, is that still possible? Thanks. --Dia^ (talk) 20:28, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of infoboxes in biographies

There is a request for comment ongoing at Talk:Richard D'Oyly Carte to determine if a workgroup can demand that all infoboxes be removed from articles they control. For instance can Project New Jersey remove all infoboxes from biographies of people born in New Jersey, or can Project Catholicism demand that all infoboxes be removed from biographies of people that are Catholic. In this case Project Gilbert and Sullivan are removing all infoboxes from articles that are under their project scope. Please join the debate and keep an open mind. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 02:12, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

How to / What to do

Hi, I've created Richard Abel (french cinema specialist) hope the name of the article is OK. --Gozor136 (talk) 14:31, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Well it is now Richard Abel (cultural historian) regards!--Gozor136 (talk) 07:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Edit request on 1 January 2012

Please change incorrect death date of Barbara Lea from December 28, 2011 to December 26, 2011. See NY Times death notice.

24.168.229.104 (talk) 16:29, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Done. This is the wrong page to ask, but it looks like User:Willieph fixed it on the Barbara Lea article. — Bility (talk) 03:38, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Babrak Ahmadzai

Babrak Khan Ahmadzai ( Kochi) Dob 07/02/1357 Babrak Ahamdzai opened his eyes in Kabul Afghanstan origionally from Logar province Azra district Babar tribe Saleem Khil village,Babrak Ahamdzai is belongs to a very strong family his grand parents were the main part of thire nations indepindents, Babrak is will educated he has losts of information regarding his country regions, the best and improtant thing Babrak has is Afghan Culture information, Very well security experiance military experiance,training skills,Babrak have visited more then 34 countries around the world. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.24.203.248 (talk) 12:49, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

This is not a good place to submit a new biographical article. I suggest you look at "Your first article" and consider trying again using the Article wizard. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:08, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

hi

Hi li min ho I'm from Iran,I wan say that all over the Iran saw your film(boys beafor flower) That was magical film I ever seen in my life I love u Bye — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.39.203.6 (talk) 12:46, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Do you realise that this page is part of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia? It's not a place to leave messages for filmmakers. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:10, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Contribution

I would like to contribute to this part of Wikipedia. Please advice. - Maximenz (talk) 14:16, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Renato Lopez

<<Spanish-language biography removed>>

— Preceding unsigned comment added by VanesaSumano (talk • contribs) 19:51, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

This isn't a good place to submit content for the encyclopedia. Spanish-language text belongs at the Spanish Wikipedia, here. You may find the pages Wikipedia:Translation and its Spanish equivalent helpful. -- John of Reading (talk) 05:44, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Radio

Ralph James was also a noted DJ in San Diego during the 1955-57 time period on Radio Station KCBQ. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bogart32 (talk • contribs) 04:44, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Hitesh Katara

<<draft infobox removed>> — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loveshayaris (talk • contribs) 14:49, 21 December 2012‎

This isn't a good place to submit content for the encyclopedia. I suggest you read "Your first article" and consider trying again with the Article wizard. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:53, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Petar Lazic

<<<draft article removed>>> 91.185.106.105 (talk) 21:42, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

This isn't a good place to submit content for the encyclopedia. I suggest you read "Your first article" and consider trying again with the Article wizard. As an unregistered editor, when you get to the final tab you will need to select the option to submit via Articles for Creation. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:55, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Gino Charles

<<<draft article removed>>> — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leviatha (talk • contribs) 00:20, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

This isn't a good place to submit content for the encyclopedia. I suggest you read "Your first article" and "Up and coming next big thing". -- John of Reading (talk) 07:28, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 16 February 2013

Is it possible to put my biography 14.96.131.188 (talk) 18:21, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Only if you are notable. See WP:BIO. If you meet the criteria, you can post a request at WP:RA. RudolfRed (talk) 21:09, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

colonel Behzad Payandeh

Iranian army officer ,Parachute .. he is serving in regiment number 65 , of iranian army ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.82.57.43 (talk) 18:07, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

This is not a good place to begin a new biographical article. I suggest you look at "Your first article" and consider trying again using the Article wizard. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:32, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Request for standardization

I've seen dozens of different ways to list an actor (or writer, director, etc.) credits/filmography and I was hoping that there was some standard so I knew which entries need reformatting and which to leave alone. Some of the variety of issues are: Are TV and Film appearances put together chronologically or separated? Are guest appearances separated out from TV shows where someone is a lead actor? Are foreign films put in a separate list from American-made films? Is a table used or just one list? And--this one is really annoying--if a table is used, is it filled in with a color or left with just the plain text?

Personally, I'm not invested in any particular style although I'm most familiar with the IMDb style where Film and TV appearances are listed together but different roles (i.e. Actor, Writer, Director, Self) are in separate lists. But I'm willing to adopt any standardized format (er, except the colored tables) and start a clean up of pages if agreement could be reached.

There might be some better place to post this comment but this seemed like a logical place to ask. 69.125.134.86 (talk) 15:30, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

In which pages do we populate the portal?

Is {{portal|Biography}} supposed to be added in all biographies? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:42, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

I would also add that the Portal is already linked to the articles in the WikiProject banner on the articles talk page. We all know most readers don't look at the talk page when they read the article but it is there. Kumioko (talk) 19:20, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Carl Schmidt (Coptologist)

The two sentences article was unassessed before by Portal Biography, but was asessed stub class by WikiProject Egypt. Meanwhile it has been enhanced a lot, has sources, works and literature added, so it matches imho class C. I´ve removed template Germany-academic-bio-stub, but i do not know, what to put in instead. --Giftzwerg 88 (talk) 09:56, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Not sure it needs anything to replace it - it looks quite good as is. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:44, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Looking for help on edit and more refs/links: appropriate independent/reliable sources for Damon Matthew Wise

Damon Matthew Wise, Autism and Disability profile is threatened with Deletion - if you know any good content on same, please join in talk screen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AspieNo1 (talk • contribs) 18:44, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Pic of the day

This code will only work on Portal:Biography/Selected picture because of how the subpages are layered.

Old selection method
The Selected picture on the main Portal:Biography page is rotated daily, starting with Sunday, as "Day 0". Archive 1 Day 0 Archive 1 Day 1 Archive 1 Day 2 Archive 1 Day 3 Archive 1 Day 4 Archive 1 Day 5 Archive 1 Day 6

Cheers, Sven Manguard Wha? 22:34, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Suggested inclusions

Collapsing own notes. Format has changed, this is no longer feasible. Sven Manguard Wha? 03:32, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Because the main issue here is that the portal is short on content, I'm going to throw down some names for inclusion - partly in the hope that other people will join in and partly so that I remember them when I work on rebuilding the portal. Please join in with ideas, and mind the format that I'm using (as it allows me to make sure that there's some semblance of balance in country of origin, time period, field, etc.). Images All FPs of individuals that have significant personal notability, and do not have FA class articles (to avoid double dipping) Image FP section Country Era Horatio Nelson Military United Kingdom 1700s Walt Whitman Artists and writers United States 1800s Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Royalty and nobility Bhutan 2000s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Political Nigeria 2000s Dilma Rousseff Political Brazil 2000s John Henry Newman Religious figures United Kingdom 1800s Raden Saleh Artists and writers Indonesia 1800s Ida B. Wells Artists and writers United States 1800s Francisco Goya Artists and writers Spain 1700s Ada Lovelace Science and engineering United Kingdom 1800s Antanas Smetona Royalty and nobility Lithuania 1900s Golda Meir Political Israel 1900s Louis Pasteur Science and engineering France 1800s Christy Mathewson Sport United States 1900s Fredrik Pettersson Sport Sweden 2000s Frank Sinatra Entertainment United States 1900s Lillian Gish Entertainment United States 1900s Oceana Entertainment Germany 2000s Beppe Grillo Political Italy 2000s Mark Rutte Political Netherlands 2000s Articles (65) All FA class articles that have at least one decent freely licensed image (because with this large a pool to draw from, not having an image is suboptimal) Europe (23) Article Notability Country Era John Calvin Religion France 1500s Charles Darwin STEM United Kingdom 1800s Elizabeth I of England Politics/Rule United Kingdom 1500s Leonhard Euler STEM Switzerland 1700s Joan of Arc Military France 1400s James Joyce Literature Ireland 1900s Stephen Hawking STEM United Kingdom 1900s/2000s Franz Kafka Literature Austria-Hungary 1900s Johannes Kepler STEM Germany 1600s William Shakespeare Literature United Kingdom 1500s W. B. Yeats Literature Ireland 1900s Enrico Fermi STEM Italy 1900s Fridtjof Nansen Society & STEM Norway 1900s Mary Wollstonecraft Society United Kingdom 1700s Catherine de' Medici Politics/Rule France & Italy 1500s Archimedes STEM Ancient Greece BCs Augustus Politics/Rule Roman Empire BCs Hippocrates STEM Ancient Greece BCs Felice Beato Fine Arts Italy & United Kingdom 1800s J. R. R. Tolkien Literature United Kingdom 1900s Pedro Álvares Cabral Exploration Portugal 1500s Ion Heliade Rădulescu Society Romania 1800s Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Music Russia 1800s North America (12) Article Notability Country Era J. Robert Oppenheimer STEM United States 1900s Edgar Allan Poe Literature United States 1800s Elvis Presley Music United States 1900s Jackie Robinson Sport United States 1900s Barbara McClintock STEM United States 1900s Michael Jordan Sport United States 1900s/2000s Anna May Wong Fine Arts United States 1900s Douglas MacArthur Military United States 1900s I. M. Pei Fine Arts United States & China 1900s/2000s Jacques Plante Sport Canada 1900s Harold Innis Society Canada 1900s John Diefenbaker Politics/Rule Canada 1900s Asia and Oceania (15) Article Notability Country Era Suleiman the Magnificent Politics/Rule Ottoman Empire 1500s Shunzhi Emperor Politics/Rule China 1600s Zhang Heng STEM China 100s Zhou Tong (archer) Military China 1100s Ban Ki-moon Society Korea 2000s Ayumi Hamasaki Music Japan 2000s Murasaki Shikibu Literature Japan 1000s Lady Saigō Politics/Rule Japan 1500s Lie Kim Hok Literature Indonesia 1800s Muhammad Ali Jinnah Politics/Rule Pakistan 1900s Rabindranath Tagore Literature India 1900s Satyajit Ray Fine Arts India 1900s Robert Garran Society Australia 1900s Stanley Bruce Politics/Rule Australia 1900s Amir Hamzah Indonesia Literature 1900s South and Central America (8) Article Notability Country Era Mário de Andrade Literature Brazil 1900s Pedro II of Brazil Politics/Rule Brazil 1800s Mario Vargas Llosa Literature Peru 1900s/2000s Mariano Rivera Sport Panama 1900s/2000s Learie Constantine Sport & Politics/Rule Trinidad and Tobago 1900s Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná Politics/Rule Brazil 1800s Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies Politics/Rule Brazil 1800s Joaquim José Inácio, Viscount of Inhaúma Military Brazil 1800s Africa (7) Article Notability Country Era Chinua Achebe Literature Nigeria 1900s Barthélemy Boganda Politics/Rule Central African Republic 1900s Roy Welensky Politics/Rule Rhodesia 1900s Ranavalona I Politics/Rule Madagascar 1800s Ranavalona III Politics/Rule Madagascar 1800s Paul Kagame Politics/Rule Rwanda 2000s Rainilaiarivony Politics/Rule Madagascar 1800s

Semi-protected edit request on 21 February 2014

SANTOSH MISHRA is an Indian author of self-help books and activist. While working in the United States, he was inspired by a lecture delivered by Norman Vincent Peale and followed his motivational teachings. he was inspired by a lecture delivered by Norman Vincent Peale and followed his motivational teachings. Khera has written several books including You Can Win. He launched a movement against caste-based reservation in India, and has founded an organization called Country First Foundation whose mission is "to ensure freedom through education and justice

Santoshanfu (talk) 16:41, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

 Not done This is not the place to post suggested articles; please try articles for creation - however, you will need to show there has been significant coverage, in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. - Arjayay (talk) 17:11, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 March 2014

Ashish

123.63.33.53 (talk) 07:22, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:46, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Susan Lindauer

Please join the discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2014 September 18 as to whether a biography should be restored. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 04:08, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 March 2015

I would like to edit my autobiography

D'Angel music (talk) 13:49, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

 Not done This is not the right page to request additional user rights.
If you want to suggest a change, please request this on the talk page of the relevant article, not here, in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".
Please also cite reliable sources to back up your request. - Arjayay (talk) 14:37, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 March 2015

I would like to edit/update my autobiography

D'Angel music (talk) 03:03, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

What are the changes that need to be made? Stickee (talk) 03:41, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 April 2015

Nullo Pirazzoli (born in Brisighella, May 7, 1948) is an italian architect and professor of conservation and restoration theories, at University IUAV of Venice. Is the author of Introduzione al restauro, Venezia 1986; Teorie e storia del restauro, Ravenna 1994; Passato e postmoderno. Il restauro come metalinguaggio, Firenze 2007.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.138.214.78 (talk) 15:24, April 7, 2015‎

 Not done as you have not requested a change. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 20:50, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 June 2015

Being friends is about sharing our lives with others. There are some aspects of our lives that require that we spend a lot of time together or a lot of writing to help convey our feelings. Other times sharing only a few words are more than adequate. It is not always the long conversation that conveys the deepest feelings. Sometimes, longer modes of expression may seem redundant and lacking in profundity. Putting just the right combination of words on paper in a succinct style may just hit the spot.

Adusumilli venkata durga siva teja (talk) 12:58, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

 Not done It is entirely unclear how the requested edit relates in any way to the Portal:Biography page. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 13:33, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Ahsan Chill Dmax Entertainment

Ahsan Chill A Biggest Entertainment Brand Of Pakistan

Operating more that 22 social and more that 53 entertainment brands

1991 - Born at Karachi 2004 - Working partner with Shahid Afridi 2006 - Launched Dmax Entertainment 2007 - Launched Lectum Pakistan 2007 - CEO Pakistan Human International Rights & Resources (PHIRR) 2008 - Launched a Pakistani Lollywood film "Fatima The Movie" 2008 - Launched Ash FIlms & Universal Display Pictures 2009 - Launched mother textile in Lahore Branch and make Director Of Surriya Textile Mills 2010 - Created a top generated record lable and music generating company Dmax Records 2011 - "Dmax Wedding" has been launched 2011 - "Dmax Advertising" has been Launched 2013 - World Tour

Ahsanchill111 (talk) 00:54, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

 Not done This is not the place to request the creation of a new article. See WP:Your first article. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 02:29, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Reminder: Biographies under General Sanctions

Per "Current areas of conflict" section which links to all the various active Arbitrations, we are reminded that a past Arbitration imposed Discretionary Sanctions - enforceable by an Administrator - on Articles with biographical content relating to living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles.

When having problems with BLPs that you have to bring to Biographies noticeboard or Administrators Noticeboard it is important to link to that section of the Discretionary sanctions page so that Administrators will not be so reluctant to enforce sanctions against editors who egregiously or chronically violate WP:BLP policy. Is there somewhere on the main page where we can mention both dispute resolution and the Discretionary Sanctions link? Thanks. Carolmooredc (Talkie-Talkie) 14:32, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Citizenship, infobox discussion

In case you are interested there is a discussion at: Template_talk:Infobox_person#Citizenship

Gregkaye ✍♪ 14:50, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Pyrates?

Any particular reason the Portal:Biography has to have a picture of slavery ("Pyrates" image). How about an example picture that doesn't needlessly depict human bondage? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.46.60.49 (talk) 20:52, 15 February 2015 (UTC)