Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment/Archive 1

Archive 1

Archive 2

Stub listing

I was wondering what (if any) policies or opinions there were on what stubs to list on this page. For instance, looking at the musician stubs, there are many missing. This would be okay if we're just looking for the main categories. The only thing is I don't think the Finland musician stub is a main category, while conductor and music producer stubs seem more basic. Any thoughts? --Amazzing5 19:48, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually waht it came down to, was me running out of steam copying over categories, so I figured those interested in certain areas could help finish it up and paste the rest. Personally I like having all listed as it's easier to find and copy what you need than clicking through them, but, yep, I didn't finish :-) Anyone want to help out? See the politics and government or royalty area for more fleshed out versions.... plange 01:55, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for expanding!! plange 19:51, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Arts and Entertainment Work Group - Musicians

I would just like the Arts and Entertainment Work Group - Musicians to know that the WikiProject on Musicians is undergoing a revival of sorts and would like to work with this project to ensure the improvement of musician and band-related articles. I added the project to the list. Thanks. -- Heaven's Wrath   ^Talk  04:55, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Cool! Might you be interested in organizing it as a Musicians work group instead? It really wouldn't be all that different than what you have now; you'd just move your current page to a sub-page of the Biography project, and we would add a line to our project tag that has a graphic for your group and says something like "this article is supported by the Musicians work group."? That way, you could make use of all the infrastructure (assessment, review processes, etc.) that we've already set up. What do you think? plange 14:47, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

That sounds like a good idea - at the moment biographies of musical groups aren't covered. --kingboyk 09:10, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

1.0 assessments and this work group

Thanks to kingboyk, we now have the assessments split into work groups to make things easier to digest! What does this mean? Well, now we have a nice work list that shows not only the quality scale, but also any comments left in the project banner template. Also, you'll notice we now have stats for this workgroup displayed on the workgroup page, and you also now have your own log of changes to quality and importance... plange 05:16, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Use of WP B/A & E

I've been adding your tag using the {{WPBiography}} to any articles that relate to your subject matter. However, I now wonder if you want them all added to your grouping. It only says on the tag page that the article should be within the scope of your group - which they are... but I wasn't sure if the articles were something that you selectively choose to include. Morphh 12:53, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Nope, we don't selectively choose, so tag away-- as long as they are in one of the disciplines covered by A&E they can get the a&e-work-group=yes flag (as long as they're not fictional characters). Thanks! plange 17:39, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Friendly reminder

Don't forget to use infobox templates for their specific field. There are more and better specific infoboxes than Template:Infobox Celebrity. 24.126.199.129 06:44, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I'd added infoboxes specific to disciplines (musician, architect, etc) so that would be a great place to start finding the appropriate one. If you see any missing be bold and add :-) plange 15:49, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Changes to {{WPBiography}}

Dear workgroup, After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography the importance= field has been changed on the Project template. The changes and how they affect this workgroup are as follows:

• importance= has been deprecated in favour of priority=.
• priority= is the same as importance, it's just a friendlier word. The meanings of the grades haven't changed.
• Importance params should be removed (not an urgent task, just don't use importance= from now and on change any you see to priority= if you feel like it)
• importance/priority is no longer assessed on a Project scale, except for the ~200 top core articles which use a new parameter core=yes
• this means that the priority= ratings are now for the exclusive use of the workgroups
• The workgroups are free to work out their own "importance" (priority) ratings. priority=Top is no longer off limits. So, for example, I've upgraded John Lennon to priority=Top. He's not on the core bios list but that doesn't matter, as the priority is only for the workgroups and Lennon is no doubt top priority/importance in the arts & entertainment field.

Hope that helps. Any questions to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography please. --kingboyk 09:17, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Filmography formats

I wonder if we should create a standard format for filmography lists? Something that's been bugging me is how many filmographies follow the same format as the IMDb, including wording (suggesting a straight cut-and-paste making it borderline copyvio). Or, even if the wording isn't the same, the IMDb is the only film list that lists most recent films first. Logically, filmographies should have the earliest films at the top and then you work your way forward. Audrey Hepburn is an example of a filmography that was changed to the IMDb format (though I flagged it so it might have changed - in fact I intend to fix it myself). Thoughts? 23skidoo 23:38, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I think this sounds like a good idea. Also, do you know how filmographies are greeted during FAC? --plange 01:03, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

If by FAC you mean featured category nominations, to be honest I have seen zero consistency in that. One article is given a hard time at FAC for not having lists, while another might be given a hard time because it has lists. I've seen one too many articles lose their FA status for what I consider to be silly reasons, or denied for same. I don't bother with FA anymore on any articles I work on. It ain't worth the trouble. 23skidoo 03:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

From Catholic Encyclopedia

I am currently working on categorising missing articles from the Catholic Encyclopedia 1912. You may be interested in a couple of categories that I've created:

• Artists
• Authors

Thanks! I've added these to the project page! --plange 21:46, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Project Directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:

• User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
• User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
• User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
• User:Badbilltucker/Science directory

and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:33, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now moved the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 14:26, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

New artist infobox

Here Template:Infobox Artist. Arniep 17:41, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

This template should conform much closer to Template:Infobox Writer, particularly how birth/death information is handled. It's too bulky as it is. *Sparkhead 01:17, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works)

I've overhauled Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works) based on a 2nd round of feedback. Possibly it's complete and ready? Feedback (at it's talkpage) or improvements welcome :) --Quiddity 02:25, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Filmography RFC

I've created an RFC to work out the details involved in making useful filmography sections. Check it out at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Filmography. - Peregrinefisher 21:35, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

adding junk to Frank Caliendo

An anonymous editor (special:contributions/130.127.230.167) keeps adding junk about football predictions to the Frank Caliendo article and getting rude to people who revert it. I would appreciate it if a couple of other editor would watch this article and revert him so that we can show him some consensus. --rogerd 01:52, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Peter Quennell

Greetings! I come under the auspices of WikiProject Abandoned Articles, a project aimed at bringing abandoned articles to life. One such one is Peter Quennell, who appears to be a prolific author and literary critic. If anybody could spare their time, knowledge and expertise, we would appreciate if you could improve on the article and bring it back to life again! Thanks. Lord Pheasant 05:52, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Joaquin Phoenix

Please check the Joaquin Phoenix article. I have the following questions: Is the "Trivia" section really necessary? Is it considered encyclopedic? Where are the cited references to these trivia alegations? If the alegations in the trivia section are verifiable facts, shouldn't they be worked into the article itself? I believe that the section should be eliminated since it doesn't present any sources to back up its claims. Input, anyone? Tony the Marine 14:24, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Arts and Entertainment parameters to WPBiography

WikiProject Arts and Entertainment is very wide in scope and includes Actors • Architects • Artists • Illustrators • Painters • Photographers • Sculptors • Comic artists • Comedians • Dancers • Directors • Musicians • Poets • Writers and critics. Musicians have their own WPBiography parameter, but none of the others do. I have proposed here that the WPBiography template be expanded to include parameters for each of the items. Please provide your thoughts on this proposal at this location. -- Jreferee 16:42, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Please also see User:Ernst Stavro Blofeld/Film biography page model for the early model of the project Film biography which is about to start. THanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"I've been expecting you"} 19:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't look like anybody's home to be honest... :( --kingboyk 15:14, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers

Wikipedia:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers has been established out of council consensus. Please help setting up the film section to the biography template and project components, - reorded Arts and Entertainment etc. Thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 16:50, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Dropping a line.

I have created an article on an author at this link Jason Frost (author). however, the name Jason Frost appears to be a publishing house pseudonym and neither me nor any one else can find out who the actual person is in order to create a decent biography. I have listed some of his books (mainly from early '80's. Pulp fiction mainly) which I own.

It would be greatly appreciated if someone could help find out more about this man. Nateland 00:04, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello from the fashion project!

Greetings from the new WikiProject Fashion, which I hope some of you will be interested in taking notice of and accomodating under your wing, as we have found so far that, even given the absymal nature of most of Wikipedia's fashion coverage, the biographies are the pits save for Anna Wintour, which I'd been working on before the project was created, and a lot of the major models (surprise surprise!). Many aren't even tagged for this project, and {{blp}} has been missing from too many pages as well. So, in the course of assessing all the articles we know we have so far, I've been trying to fix that.

I have suggested over on our talk page that we should, when we have enough editors, we should form a biographies task force or something and coordinate it with you. So I'm making the outreach ... there doesn't seem to be a lot we can do toward that now, but at least maybe you should include fashion in the parameters suggested above. Daniel Case 22:24, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Uma Thurman FAR

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Lindsay Lohan FAR

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W. B. Yeats FAR

W. B. Yeats has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. LuciferMorgan 13:04, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Proposal: Merge Charles Crumb and Sophie Crumb into Crumb family

There have been some concerns about the notability of Charles Crumb. I suggest that this material be merged into a new article called Crumb family, which would discuss the artist family Crumb, including some material about the best-known members Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb (who would retain their own articles), as well as lesser-known members such as Charles Crumb and Maxon Crumb. I think the Sophie Crumb article should be merged into the Crumb family article for the time being as well – she's definitely an emerging artist, however, she has yet to produce a body of work that justifies an article longer than stub-length.

There is precedent in Wikipedia for doing family biographies, BTW – there are articles on the Dupont family and the Krupp family, for example.

Please discuss at Talk:Charles Crumb.

Peter G Werner 01:25, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Evie Greene

Needs lots of help to bring her up to scratch - including an infobox. - Kittybrewster (talk) 09:17, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Featured article review Austin Nichols

Austin Nichols has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. – Ilse@ 16:03, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Malcolm Sargent

Conductor Malcolm Sargent's article has been nominated for promotion to Good Article. Please review the article and leave comments on the talk page about how to improve the article (or feel free to improve it on your own). I think it's a fine article and could become FA soon. -- Ssilvers 05:22, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Deirdre Rubenstein - can someone check this for me please?

I am new to wikipedia editing and have started practicing filling in details on some biographies. Is it possible for someone to check what I have done and give me feedback? Stellar 12:21, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Expert review: J. Redwood Anderson

As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether J. Redwood Anderson is notable enough for an own article. I would appreciate an expert opinion. For details, see the article's talk page. If you can spare some time, please add your comments there. Thanks! --B. Wolterding 15:17, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Peter Stafford

Anonymous editor contributed to the article today with information that Stafford died on July 19, something that must be checked somehow. However, this subject appears an unlikely part of this work group. I would think it belonged to Science and academia. __meco 21:20, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Rainhard Fendrich

Need help on thisone, and on my English. Further:

• (Where) is there a step-by-step instruction on infoboxes?. If not: would "Associated_acts = Austria3" be correct? The group dissolved in 2006, and meanwhile, one of the three died.
• "references": I frequently misuse the "ref" tag for footnotes - is there an appropriate tag for those?
• I do not find a template corresponding DE "Template:Chartplatzierungen". In case there is, please adapt hidden text near the bottom of the article.

Thanks, Wolfgang any IP. 08:36, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Expert review: Christine Monson

As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether Christine Monson is notable enough for an own article. I would appreciate an expert opinion. For details, see the article's talk page. If you can spare some time, please add your comments there. Thanks! --B. Wolterding 16:49, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Infobox mergers

FYI, {{Infobox Celebrity}} & {{Infobox Biography}} have been merged into {{Infobox Person}}. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 12:25, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Edit wars?

I don't know where I should post this, but Valrith seems to be at it again. Of all things, he's waging edit wars on pornstar pages... Can something be done about this guy? He seems... kooky. 85.77.226.156 14:52, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

• LOL... "Edit wars"? The bone of contention here is the article on Marketa Brymova. Valrith has made only two edits on that article period since the article was made in January. The first was prod'ing, then when you removed the prod, he put the article up for formal AFD. Hardly what I call warring... Tabercil 16:18, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Grim-Gym 02:30, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

George Moore (novelist) FAR

I just nominated George Moore (novelist) at FAR because it lacks inline citations. To comment or help improve the article, please see Wikipedia:Featured article review/George Moore (novelist). Calliopejen1 17:23, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Cillian Murphy FAC

I recently nominated Cillian Murphy for FAC. There have been only three reviewers thus far, so it would be great to get some experienced biography editors to give the article a careful reading against the featured article criteria. Thanks! --Melty girl 04:41, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

George Devine

I've just added many more citations to this article. Could one of you lads re-assess it please? --El Ingles 19:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Naresh Sonee

Could someone please have a look at this article and see whether they think the Naresh Sonee is notable? I have found zero google hits for books and scholar, and his English poems and articles are excrutiatingly bad. Anarchia (talk) 03:38, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Are folks here aware

that there is a move afoot to (or so it seems) remove all images of sculpture in America created after 1923 as being copyright infringements? it's at James Earle Fraser now but it could be at your door next. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 01:44, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Missing Ref's

Hey all. I was looking through some bio articles related to this task force and I found these 3 articles with no references. I figured that maybe one of you guys will be able to find the appropriate ref's. Anyway here are the articles:

• Patricia Beer
• Edwin Brock
• George Mackay Brown - This has one external link (I guess it's the official homepage or whatever) but I dunno if that qualifies as having refs for the article.

Cheers!Calaka (talk) 14:38, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Well they have references now at least.Jarhed (talk) 04:17, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

add WikiProject Literature to the Writers and Critics box?

(wow -- that project page is very hard to navigate! Can these sections be split into separate pages?) In addition to adding the Literature portal for articles on authors and critics, should we also add the Literature WikiProject tag to the talk pages? I notice the Visual Arts Project tag is listed in the Artists section -- the same with Dancers. Thoughts? Aristophanes68 (talk) 17:06, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

also--can we include the author infobox template on the page? Aristophanes68 (talk) 17:12, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Requesting assistance on Lope de Vega article

Greetings, members of the WikiProject Biography (Arts and Entertainment WorkGroup)! I'm putting out a request for any interested members of the Spain, Theatre, and/or Biography (Arts and Entertainment) Projects to provide some assistance with the article on Lope de Vega. The tone of the much of the text still seems to be from the 1911 Britannica; I believe the article could benefit from the incorporation of material from some additional references, along with the documentation of those references on the article page. "Lope" is definitely a notable figure, with articles listed at 29 "Other Language" interwikis, as of 6 April 2008, and listed as a Featured-Article on Spanish Wikipedia. There should be no shortage of references available :)

I'm requesting assistance at this time, because another editor recently (in my opinion mistakenly and/or inappropriately) deleted much of the article text as being in violation of Wikipedia:Verifiability; I believe this should not have happened, and as of 6 April have restored the deleted text; but the occurrence does underscore the fact that the article could use some updating and improved referencing; hopefully by a collaboration of editors.

Thanks, Lini (talk) 02:34, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Brian Sherwin

I've been working on this bio. Feedback would be great. I'm new so I'm still learning as I go. Once I finish the Sherwin bio I plan to create bios for other art critics and writers as well as articles about art fairs like Art Chicago and Scope. (Roodhouse1 (talk) 07:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC))

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot (Disable) 22:15, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Anatole Krasnyansky

In tracking down edits and articles associated with the Park West Gallery conflict of interest problem, I did a search of Google News' archives. I turned up 20+ news mentions however they seem to be either passing mentions or Park West Gallery press releases.

Before I nominate this for deletion, can someone here take a look at it and see if Mr. Krasnyansky meets our notability requirements? We need something other than gallery spam to base this article on.

Thanks, --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:33, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Here are two more:

• Emile Bellet
• Jean-Claude Picot

I was hoping the French Wikipedia would have something useful, but they don't have articles on either artist. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:43, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Biography (arts and entertainment)

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:48, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

FAR David Helvarg

David Helvarg has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Cirt (talk) 10:51, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Elaine Stritch

Surely the section about her Emmy Award acceptance speech at [1], unreferenced and including POV ("Her televised acceptance speech alone seemed worthy of another Emmy, encapsulating the unbridled honesty and electricity that made her a legend"), doesn't belong in an encyclopedia article. LiteraryMaven (talk • contrib) 16:16, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

I see that the offending excellent writing has already been removed, which is a shame. Had it been supported by the sources, I would have voted to keep it. Artists self-select this project to edit, and you sometimes have to whack them to make sure they follow guidelines. However, attempts to edit them into pap are usually not a good idea, either.Jarhed (talk) 04:28, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Romaine Brooks GA Sweeps: On Hold

I have reviewed Romaine Brooks for GA Sweeps to determine if it still qualifies as a Good Article. In reviewing the article I have found an image issue, 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. The issue should not be too difficult to address. 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) 17:32, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Russell T Davies

Hi. I'm trying to get Russell T Davies (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) to featuredness, but, having never written a BLP FA before, I need some pointers. Currently, there is only one comparable FA, Aaron Sorkin (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), and the author of that is banned, so WikiProject assistance would be nice. My sandbox version of the article is at User:Sceptre/workspace/Russell T Davies. Several questions first:

• Is the early-life section too large, or is it impossible to tell until the article is finished?
• What should be my target article size, given that his amateur career constitutes approximately one-twelfth of the biography?
• What is the best way to write the "reception and recognition" section? Just find awards and general reception, and try to link them together?

Thanks, Sceptre ^(talk) 02:57, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Utility of outlines to wikiprojects

Here's a discussion about subject development you might find interesting.

The Transhumanist 21:57, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

FAR for Thomas Pynchon

I have nominated Thomas Pynchon 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. Regards, —Mattisse (Talk) 19:26, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessessment of Clare Winger Harris

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the referencing and the lead which you can see at Talk:Clare Winger Harris/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 10:06, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessessment of Pauline Johnson

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found a number of concerns which you can see at Talk:Pauline Johnson/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 10:57, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessessment of Joyce Kilmer

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found a large number of concerns and as a result have de-listed the article. When these issues have been addressed, it may be re-nominated at WP:GAN. If you disagree with the delisting and the assessment at Talk:Joyce Kilmer/GA1, you may ask for a community reassessment at WP:GAR. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 12:47, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessessment of Stanisław Lem

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:Stanisław Lem/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 15:40, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of William March

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the referencing which you can see at Talk:William March/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 10:08, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Jacob Riis

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the artcile which you can see at Talk:Jacob Riis/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 19:42, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Arthur Upfield

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 does not currently meet the GA criteria, which you can see at Talk:Arthur Upfield/GA1. There appear to be no active editors associated with this article so I am posting this here as the project template appears on the talk page. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 12:25, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Anna Wintour

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:Anna Wintour/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 13:37, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

a&e/filmbio tagging with Template:WPBiography

{{WPBiography}} is coded so that an article can be tagged for the arts and entertainment work group or WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers, but not both at the same time. The reason for this appears to be the overlapping scope of the two: WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers is regarded as a child project of the arts and entertainment work group. So for example, an actor biography tagged with {{WPBiography|a&e=yes|filmbio=yes}} will only actually be tagged for WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers, because inclusion in the more generic work group is redundant. (With me so far?)

This is less straightforward for some articles though. Mikhail Baryshnikov is known primarily as a ballet dancer, but has also done some acting, and there is an unusual (and absurd) situation on his talk page where there are two instances of {{WPBiography}}, one tagging the article for the arts and entertainment work group with a Top-priority rating, the other tagging it for WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers with a Mid-priority rating. There should only be one transclusion of the {{WPBiography}} banner on that page, so (and irrespective of the priority rating) should it be:

1. Tagged for the arts and entertainment work group on the basis that he is primarily a ballet dancer rather than an actor?
2. Tagged for WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers on the basis that this falls under the arts and entertainment work group anyway?
3. Tagged for both with changes made to {{WPBiography}} to make this possible?

Note: I've also posted this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography, so please reply there to keep discussion in one place. Thanks! PC78 (talk) 17:11, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Update to Template:WPBiography

Please note that priority assessments for this work group are now added by using the |a&e-priority= parameter in the {{WPBiography}} project banner. Please refer to Template:WikiProject Biography/doc for full instructions on how to use the banner, or feel free to ask any questions on the banner's talk page. PC78 (talk) 02:43, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith is marked top-priority, which is obviously wrong.Jarhed (talk) 02:21, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

FAC for Henry Edwards (entomologist)

Henry Edwards (entomologist) has been listed as a featured article candidate. The guy was not only a bug collector extraordinaire but was a stage actor in London, Australia, San Francisco, Boston and New York. All that and an influential Bohemian Club member. Binksternet (talk) 09:39, 2 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)

Tools to help your project with unreferenced Biographies of living people

List of cleanup articles for your project

If you don't already have this and are interested in creating a list of articles which need cleanup for your wikiproject see: Cleanup listings A list of examples is here

Moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation pages"

If you are interested in moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation page", contact me, User talk:Ikip

Watchlisting all unreferenced articles

If you are interested in watchlisting all of the unreferenced articles once you install Cleanup_listings, contact me, User talk:Ikip

Ikip 02:12, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Harisu

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:Harisu/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:49, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Discussion of bodies of work for authors

I was looking up one of my favorite authors, and I wonder if it is at all possible to edit entries of author's works to discuss underlying themes. I took some popular culture classes in college, and really enjoy analyzing the underlying themes of works I enjoy immensely. A few examples of what I'm would like to contribute to Wikipedia's entries: mentioning intertextuality of works such as Terry Pratchett, a brief description (with notations, of course) of philosophical themes in books, and in essence, a deeper analysis of works of popular culture that may otherwise be neglected. Meh Furry (talk) 03:45, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

FAR

I have nominated John Vanbrugh 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. —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 06:17, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Mildred Anne Butler (whats a fair use image?)

I was bold and expanded the article . It still needs copyediting to fix the Style but I would like to know about copyright and which images are fair use to help improve the article. Please comment on the talk page. Thanks Mrchris (talk) 00:09, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Discussion at Novels that needs input

If anyone here gets a chance, please weight in at the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Novels#Category:American_novels, the discussion is kindof stalling and we could use some new thoughts. Sadads (talk) 16:35, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

BBC interviews

The BBC have just published an archive of interviews with notable authors. Its worth linking to individual pages, from the relevant articles; they;re also good sources for article content. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 09:46, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Infobox discussion on several prominent articles without them

A discussion has been started on several articles lacking infoboxes on the merits of including them. You'll find the discussion here:

• Talk:William_Butler_Yeats#Straw_poll_re_inclusion_of_Infobox
• Talk:Ezra_Pound#Straw_poll_re_inclusion_of_Infobox
• Talk:James_Joyce#Straw_poll_re_inclusion_of_Infobox
• Talk:H.D.#Straw_poll_re_inclusion_of_Infobox

Yworo (talk) 23:49, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Mário de Andrade FAR

I have nominated Mário de Andrade 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 "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. JJ98 (Talk) 07:19, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Ted Howard

There is a move proposal for Ted Howard affecting this project and it hasn't as yet created much interest. I invite you to have a look at this. Schwede66 04:43, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Ryan Neil Falcone

This previously unbannered article about a living author is being discussed for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryan Neil Falcone. Members' input there would be appreciated. Voceditenore (talk) 06:21, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Harold Pinter

I have listed the above article for peer review at WP:Peer review/Harold Pinter/archive2 and would appreciate comments. Jezhotwells (talk) 01:03, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Category:Screen Actors Guild Award templates

Most of the new templates for 2010 have not been created yet. People just tacked on 2010 awards to the 1994-2009 templates for the most part. I have done Template:ScreenActorsGuildAwardsTVEnsembleDrama 2010-2029.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:42, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

FYI, when these templates were set up they were set up to be on the same 20 year cycle as many of the Golden Globe awards. The Emmys use a 25 year cycle and the BAFTA and Oscars use a 20 year cycle that is staggared by 10 years from the GGs and SAGs. See Category:Golden Globe Awards templates, Category:BAFTA Awards templates, and Category:Academy Award templates for further details.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:08, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Harold Pinter/archive1

Hi, Harold Pinter has been nominated for featured article status. I would be grateful for comments at the discussion. Thanks. --Jezhotwells (talk) 17:00, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Timeline of Jane Austen

There is a new weekly section on the main page called "Today's featured list" and I have nominated Timeline of Jane Austen to have a spot here. There has been some opposition to the nomination and it looks like the list could become a removal candidate very soon unless the quality of the list is improved. If you are interested in maintaining the list's featured status and seeing a summary of it up on the main page, your help in improving the article would be greatly appreciated. Neelix (talk) 21:02, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Brad Herzog, author for review

Hi. I would be grateful to anyone who would like to take over the bio that has been started on author Brad Herzog. A draft has been started and can be found here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amyherzog/BradHerzog. Perhaps he is more appropriate as a stub, but either way I would appreciate someone taking a look and finishing and publishing it. I have read the criteria and feel he meets the eligibility for a bio. Would be happy to have someone take it over so as to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest. Any feedback is welcome. Thanks! Amyherzog (talk) 17:07, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Proposal to merge Edith Schaeffer and Francis Schaeffer

An editor has proposed merging the Edith Schaeffer and Francis Schaeffer articles. See Talk:Francis_Schaeffer#Merger_proposal. -- 202.124.72.236 (talk) 13:44, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Victorian watercolourist

Is there a list? I am looking for a George Arbuthnot (born c.1803) who painted in London 1829-1854. Kittybrewster ☎ 10:57, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Harold Pinter

I have nominated this article for the WP:MAINPAGE for 24 December, the 3rd anniversary of his death. Comments at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests would be appreciated. Jezhotwells (talk) 02:40, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Proposed removal of Infobox writer

A proposal to merge {{Infobox writer}} to {{Infobox person}} is being discussed here. Johnuniq (talk) 02:17, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Your opinion is needed - Kendra Scott

Myself and another editor have been debating about the inclusion or non-inclusion of a lawsuit that is being reported by a reliable third party source. I've requested a third opinion. Please see it here: Talk:Kendra_Scott#Removal_of_lawsuit_-_please_share_your_opinions.. Thanks! SarahStierch (talk) 18:35, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Anita Sarkeesian move discussion

There is a move discussion at Talk:Anita Sarkeesian#Requested move. Input from project members would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 02:03, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Also, there is a topic ban proposal here. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 19:19, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

George Herriman FAC

I've nominated the George Herriman article for FAC, with the hope of having it appear as Today's Featured Article on 13 October 2013, which is the 100th anniversary of his signature work, Krazy Kat. Any attention, feedback, and support would be greatly appreciated. Curly Turkey (gobble) 16:32, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Depiction of a fictional character

There's a deletion discussion for the use of an image of Marvin Pontiac, a fictional character purportedly releasing the album The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits, actually by John Lurie. Diego (talk) 09:27, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

New article created: Neville Page

• Neville Page

I've created the new article, Neville Page. Feel free to improve or discuss at Talk:Neville Page. — Cirt (talk) 04:27, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

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Dan Leno

Dan Leno, the well-known Victorian actor and comedian and star of British music hall and musical comedy of the 1890s, has recently been expanded and is headed for WP:FA consideration. As a result, I am seeking comments in this Peer Review and I would be most greatful for any comments recieved. Thanks!. -- Cassianto (talk) 01:00, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Vital Articles/Expanded: An invitation

Greetings, arts and entertainment editors. On behalf of the Vital Articles project, I would like to extend a personal invitation to you to participate in the ongoing discussions regarding films, filmmakers and actors at the Vital Articles/Expanded main talk page. There are currently 16 pending discussions regarding specific films to be added, removed or swapped from the existing VA/E sublist of films, as well as 21 active discussions regarding actors and actresses, and seven discussions regarding film directors and producers. There are other pending discussions that touch on music, opera and literature, and future discussions will no doubt touch on other artists and art forms as we work to refine the various VA/E sublists. As regular editors in WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment, we would welcome your knowledgeable participation in these discussions as we make pare our list to those most "vital" of topics. Regards, Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 16:56, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to join a discussion

Through this way, I inform I inform there is a discussion at WT:Disambiguation about partially disambiguated titles, known as "PDABs". This subguide of WP:D affects articles in this WikiProject. There you can give ideas or thoughts about what to do with this guideline. Note this discussion is not to modify any aspect the naming conventions of this WikiProject. Thanks. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 01:11, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Tom Davies (author)

Dear editors: This article at Afc has been waiting a long time for a review. Can anyone help? —Anne Delong (talk) 20:18, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Paul Terry (actor)

The article Paul Terry (actor) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Not notable: One film, a few episodes of a TV show, and one episode of game show do not meet the notability guideline for actors at WP:NACTOR.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Aɴɢʀ (talk) 18:48, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

RfC at Claude Monet re: number of images

Please join in the discussion at Talk:Claude Monet#RfC: Are the galleries in the Monet article excessive? about the number and choice of images in the galleries. Curly Turkey (gobble) 08:50, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

The galleries are fine, we'd like the paintings to remain visible and seen by our readers...Modernist (talk) 14:03, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

The article about Claude Monet is actually quite beautiful and informative. Keep as is. Coldcreation (talk) 15:27, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Human height

Just seeking a wider range of input from informed persons at Template_talk:Height#rfc_97AACED.--Gibson Flying V (talk) 01:24, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Studio Pottery and Studio Potters

Hi all, PatHadley (talk) here. I'm the Wikipedian-in-Residence at York Museums Trust (Project pages). I've been uploading images of Studio pottery from the W.A. Ismay Collection. The whole set can be found here: Category:W.A. Ismay Studio Ceramic Collection (11 out of 53 so far), I hope that they're useful for various articles! Unfortunately Ismay himself is lacking an article. It would be great if one could be started? You can find out something about Ismay and the collection on the Google Cultural Institute (written by YMT's curator). Also, if there are any ways in which we could help you achieve your goals for coverage of artists on Wikipedia that would be great. You can contact me with any queries. Look forward to working with you! PatHadley (talk) 16:31, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Announcements page

Is Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment/Announcements still a going concern? Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/People instructs editors to list discussions there, but the last discussion added was in June 2012. I just tried to add an AfD discussion, but couldn't figure out the syntax. Cnilep (talk) 02:52, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

FAR

I have nominated Paul Kane 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 "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.--Jarodalien (talk) 07:16, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Discussion notice

There is a proposal about rewording the first notability criterium for actors, from "Has had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions" to "has had leading/starring roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions". Discussion here. --Cavarrone 19:15, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Madeleine Tabar

I've just patrolled a new article, Madeleine Tabar. I didn't slap it with a blp-prod, since it does include three external links. All of those pages are in Arabic, though, and unfortunately I don't read a word of Arabic. Two of the linked sites don't appear to be about the actress at all but about a public diplomacy project that she apparently (according to the Wikipedia article, anyway) worked for. The third site appears to be an IMDb-type site for Egyptian actors. If someone here reads Arabic, could you look at the page and its sources? Thanks, Cnilep (talk) 02:29, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Improving Felisa Vanoff for DYK

Hello. There is a 'close paraphrase' tag on Felisa Vanoff's page, which I have nominated for DYK. My impression is that it is not a valid tag in this case, especially as I have changed a few passages which were deemed problematic. Unfortunately things got a bit heated because I felt I was facing a brick wall. In any case, I have added two notes about Google Books and Google Scholar to improve the article--basically, it is hard to find much more info for now, but she is definitely notable. Is anyone here interested in improving the page with referenced info please? Also, if you see some paraphrasing which I am blind to, please fix it. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 10:18, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Benjamin Mountfort FAR

Benjamin Mountfort has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.

WikiProject Proposal - Australian literature

I have listed a proposal for an Australian literature WikiProject with the Project Council. If anyone is interested please go here and register your support or add your comments. Thanks. xx baby ifritah

Request for comment on Biographies of living people

Hello Wikiproject! Currently there is a discussion which will decide whether wikipedia will delete 49,000 articles about a living person without references, here:

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Since biographies of living people covers so many topics, nearly all wikiproject topics will be effected.

The two opposing positions which have the most support is:

1. supports the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, User:Jehochman
2. opposes the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, except in limited circumstances, User:Collect

Comments are welcome. Keep in mind that by default, editor's comments are hidden. Simply press edit next to the section to add your comment.

Please keep in mind that at this point, it seems that editors support deleting unreferenced article if they are not sourced, so your project may want to pursue the projects below.

Expert attention

This is a notice about Category:Biography/Arts and entertainment articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 03:41, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Ron Wear deletion discussion

1. Ron Wear
2. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ron Wear

Please see ongoing deletion discussion for Ron Wear, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ron Wear.

Thank you,

— Cirt (talk) 01:32, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Willem de Kooning

Unfortunately I have had to list Willem de Kooning at WP:Copyright problems because of a large copyright violation dating from 2004. The article essentially needs to be completely rewritten from scratch. Would any editor(s) here be prepared to take that on? It's an important article, I'd hate to see it reduced to a stub. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:26, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Yolanda Harris

The article Yolanda Harris has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Does not meet notability standards WP:BIO

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

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George Washington Dixon FAR

I have nominated George Washington Dixon 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 "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:13, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

James Joyce infobox RfC

Members of this wikiproject may be interested in this Request for Comment regarding James Joyce. --Albany NY (talk) 16:50, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

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• How can you help?

  1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here

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Notability/hoax at Alexandre Gurita?

I removed A7 and G3 tags from Alexandre Gurita, but am concerned that the article has notability issues or is possibly a non-obvious hoax of some sort. Since the relevant sources are in French, I don't feel qualified to assess these issues myself. I would appreciate someone taking a look and listing at AfD if necessary. A2soup (talk) 00:41, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Copyright Violation Detection - EranBot Project

A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These possible copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest (if such a copyvio is present).--Lucas559 (talk) 20:06, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. MusicAngels (talk) 18:27, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to add draft, file and redirect classes for WP Biography

I started a proposal to add draft, file and redirect classes for all WP Biography here. This would first help split out the ten or so drafts from the 210 or so articles at Category:NA-Class biography (arts and entertainment) articles so we can identify the draft articles more easily. Please comment there. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:39, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Archived old addressed threads

Archived some old addressed threads.

Metric used was threads older than one year, zero new activity in thread, referring to old closed discussions like closed deletion discussion from years ago, etc.

Cheers,

— Cirt (talk) 08:16, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Don Vaughan

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Vaughan (landscape architect) (2nd nomination) Joeykai (talk) 08:07, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Bob Ross / Joy of painting RfC

There's a RfC at Bob Ross regarding indefinite semi protection for Bob Ross and The Joy of Painting. Just a poke for editors wishing to comment. Thanx, Mlpearc (open channel) 14:47, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Help with Bob Wright

Hi there, I'm working on behalf of former NBCUniversal CEO Bob Wright as part of my work at Beutler Ink. I am working to correct and update his article, and prefer not to edit the article myself because of my conflict of interest. I am looking for someone to assist me with reviewing a potential new section discussing his work with the organization he founded with his wife, Autism Speaks. I've submitted a request on the talk page here that explains in more detail. If you are willing and able to help, I'd appreciate a few minutes of your time. Thanks in advance! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 21:29, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

 Done This request has been completed! Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 13:44, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to an online editathon

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Notice to participants at this page about adminship

Many participants here create a lot of content, have to evaluate whether or not a subject is notable, decide if content complies with BLP policy, and much more. Well, these are just some of the skills considered at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.

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You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and even finding out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.

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About Ralph Goings

Question I read on FB today that he passed away. Wikipedia shows him as still living. How do I verify his death so that his article can be updated?Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 17:52, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

@Mitzi.humphrey: Find a reliable source that states that. I am looking for one right now and will get back to you when I find one. Woodstop45 • Talk ^(Contribs) 17:56, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

{{ping|User:Woodstop45]] Thank you. Maybe the New York Times has it. The person who seemed to know lives in New York. Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 18:07, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

At the moment everything I find says he's still living. It might be best to wait a few days to let it spread. Woodstop45 • Talk ^(Contribs) 18:08, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

The only things I'm finding is a death of a Ralph Goings in 2012. I don't think that would be him, though. Woodstop45 • Talk ^(Contribs) 18:14, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

@Mitzi.humphrey:Did he pass away today? Woodstop45 • Talk ^(Contribs) 18:18, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

If indeed he has passed away, it must have been today or at least no death certificate or obit.Mitzi.humphrey (talk) 18:40, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

In that case I would say it would be best to wait about 3 days, as that is the time it normally would show up in the news and an obituary would be written. Then the funeral would probably be about a week or so after that. Woodstop45 • Talk ^(Contribs) 18:43, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Move discussion at the Murder of JonBenét Ramsey article

Opinions are needed on the following: Talk:Murder of JonBenét Ramsey#Requested move 20 September 2016. Among the concerns noted in the move discussion is whether or not WP:Undue weight is being given to a recent documentary. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 15:40, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Mike Cernovich (author)

Hey all, Mike Cernovich (author) might benefit from some eyes. Looks like he's an alt-right author who might have a bit of controversy surrounding him. Some IPs and an SPA were blanking the article yesterday. I semi-protected for 24 hours, but that's about to expire. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 04:03, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Raven-Symoné#WP:SURNAME

Hey all, I opened a discussion at Talk:Raven-Symoné#WP:SURNAME - It's a simple question: How do we refer to the subject Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman in the body of the article? I'd appreciate any feedback. Shouldn't take more than a few seconds. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:20, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Definition of WP:NPOV at the Death of JonBenét Ramsey article and its relation to article titles and article content

Will editors here weigh in on a dispute about the definition of WP:NPOV and its relation to article titles and article content? It's now an RfC; see Talk:Death of JonBenét Ramsey#RfC: Is use of murder in the text, or use of murder categories, within the article against the WP:NPOV policy?. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 02:12, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Araceli de León

The article Araceli de León has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Article may not be eligible for Template:Prod blp, but it is not supported by any sources despite being tagged as such since 2009. Article is basically one unsourced sentence followed by a long filmography with no sources provided to show that this individual satisfies WP:BIO let alone WP:NACTOR.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:36, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

The Bob Newhart Show

Editors from this project may wish to comment on Talk:The Bob Newhart Show#Opening sequence. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:04, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Paul Myners

Hi there, I am hoping someone can help input on my request on Paul Myners' article. It is currently listed as start class and I'd like to bring it up to date.

Jackedelman (talk) 12:14, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Luc Bendza

A new editor is trying to create an article for Luc Bendza, but is struggling to do so. They created something that myself and other editors more or less completely re-built to a well-referenced stub at Luc Bendza. The original creator has now created a new article at Luc bendza that has lots of good material, but also has large chunks cut and pasted from other articles and not relevant: there's a couple of paragraphs from Sylvester Stallone's article, for example! I presume they were using that as a template.

Basically, the whole thing is a mess, but there's a good article in there somewhere. Can some others come help clean up? Bondegezou (talk) 12:26, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

RfC comments please on an obscure guy who wrote a famous book

There is an RfC on Napoleon Hill here. The article does not have a lot of traffic, and would really appreciate comments. Thanks. SW3 5DL (talk) 16:04, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Category for exhibitors at the Salon

I think it would be useful to have a parent category for "exhibitors at the Salon" or some such title for those artists who exhibited at the Salon (Paris). I will leave it to someone who has more expertise in this field to create the category and start to populate it. Four artists who's Wikipedia biographies I have come across recently are:

• Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835)
• Joseph Beaume (1796–1885)
• Charles Fortin(1815–1865)
• Camille Roqueplan (1803-1855)

All four exhibited in the Salon. -- PBS (talk) 21:54, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers

There was a template called template:Bryan which allowed linking to "Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers" and displayed attribution to meet the requirements of the guide line WP:PLAGIARISM.

There were problems with it though. The major one being that it only worked for volume 1. I have fixed that and added other parameters to the template. While doing this I noticed that there was a more modern edition at the Internet Archive and that user:Jane023 had (some time ago) started to import the 1903 edition onto Wikisource.

The "New, revised and enlarged edition 1903–1905" edition states near the start of volume 3:

Editions:

First published, 2 vols. 4to, 1816

Second edition, revised by J. Stanley, 1 vol 8vo, 1849

Supplement by H. Ottley, 1876

Third Edition, revised by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, 2 volumes, 8vo. 1884-1889

Reprinted 1894,1899, 1901–1902

The edition that has been used so far populates Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. The category contains just under 1,000 entries. It is according to the 1903 edition the 3rd edition, so I have moved the template to  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092716962#page/n6/mode/1up. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help). It is a two volume edition covering the artists with surnames starting:

• 1: A–K (1886)
• 2: L–Z (1889)

At some point it would be a good idea to run a bot job to add a volume parameter to template so that the url points to the correct volume.

I wanted to add some information to the article Joseph Beaume, but there is no entry in the 1886 3rd edition for that artist. I checked the 1903 edition and there is an entry. So I have created a new template for the 1903 edition it is called (unimaginatively):

• {{Bryan (1903 edition)}} it displays thus:
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Williamson, George C., ed. (1903). "^{article name needed}". Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–C). Vol. I (New, revised and enlarged ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

This template includes a parameter called "wstitle" which, if there are Bryan (1903) articles on Wikisource, will allow linkage to those articles. In the mean time it can be used to link to articles on the Internet Archive. It is a five volume editions with artist biographies listed by surname. The template defaults to volume volume if none is provided. The five volumes are:

• A–C (1903)
• D–G (1903)
• H–M (1904)
• N–R (1904)
• S–Z (1905)

To make it clear which version is in use, I have move the original {{Bryan}} to {{Bryan (3rd edition)}}

-- PBS (talk) 12:24, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for doing this! If the 1000 entries are all in the 1903 version then maybe we could drop the older version altogether? I wasn't the one doing the import by the way (though I may have tried to do some stuff on wikisource - frankly I can't remember. As I recall, Bryan's was the pet project of User:Fram for a while, who created quite a few useful stubs on engravers. Jane (talk) 14:54, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

I don't know which version was used for the import to Wikipedia, but as there was no article for Joseph Beaume and he does not appear in the 1886 version, but does appear in the 1903, it is quite possible that it was the 1886 edition (3rd) that was copied into Wikipedia. We will just have to hope that someone comes along and tells us which version they used. -- PBS (talk) 21:45, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Daniel Sunjata

The tags for German descent and Irish descent should be removed. His adoptive parents are those. Not him. LordAtlas (talk) 04:13, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

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IOBDB recently changed their URLs

The Lortel Archives have decided to change their URL scheme, and in order to make sure everything actually ends up at the right location pages using the old URL/Template scheme have been placed into Category:Pages using a generic version of Template:iobdb. Your assistance is requested in converting these pages from using a generic {{iobdb}} to one of the more subject-specific sub-templates. Thank you. Primefac (talk) 20:24, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

To clarify, Wikipedia needs help to clean up 1,300 IOBDB dead links that need clean-up. Please help us. Here is the procedure: If you're looking for a specific person (say, Franklin Underwood, you'd end up here). To fix it, go to the Lortel search page here, put in his name and search. On the next screen, click on the red link to his name, and that will bring you to his listing. Get his ID number from the address bar at the top (25087), and copy it. Then go to his Wikipedia article and change the {{iobdb}} template to {{iobdb name|25087}}. For a venue, you'd use {{iobdb venue}}, and for a specific production you'd use {{iobdb title}}, all with the same procedure. Full instructions are at each template's documentation, as well as the category page. -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:57, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

For the umpteenth time, I did not break the links. Lortel changed their URL scheme, and so every link on every page was broken. None of the extant usage is broken at the moment because I fixed the templates, but they are not pointing to the best URLs. I would appreciate it if you stopped trying to paint me as an evil villain. Primefac (talk) 22:10, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

@Ssilvers: you need to apologise to Primefac for the unacceptable comment above, and confirm you actually understand what has happened. Then you need to run along and help fix the issue instead of wibbling on here. Nick (talk) 22:16, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

I do not mean to paint anyone as having done anything wrong, and I don't see anything wrong with my comment above, as corrected. I'm just trying to explain to people how to help fix all the links. Can we please remove this and the above two comments so that the procedure is just left above and people will be able to understand how to help? -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:23, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Nancy Crow

Would someone from this WikiProject mind taking a look at Nancy Crow? Almost all of the sources cited are WP:BLPSELFPUB so it's not clear whether Crow meets WP:BIO or WP:ARTIST; moreover, the article is a bit promotional sounding, particularly the box quote at the beginning, and makes mention of a number of non-Wikipedia notable collections and exhibitions. Quilting might not get the type of coverage of some other fine arts, so I'd figured it would be best to get feedback from others before adding tags, etc. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:44, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Interview insertion spam

Hi everyone,

Special:Contributions/Meghandaly is – probably in good faith – inserting a lot of links to interviews in Rain Taxi to the text (not external links or as a source) in biographic articles where the fact that they once appeared in an interview in a specific magazine probably isn't so central to their public persona. I think they should all reverted, but I don't want to go after specific users. Are there recommendations for what to do here? If wrote a sentence about every time an author did an interview, the articles would mainly be about interviews they did. /78.69.69.197 (talk) 20:58, 10 July 2017 (UTC)