User:Shell Kinney/Desk

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Areas of Expertise Expert in Technology, Ancient History, Animal topics and medicine. Capable in all Biology, all Religion except Islam, European History, most Music including history and composition. General wikification, research, organization and copyediting. Will generally not do Politics, Current Events.

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Hungarian prehistory

Looks like a bit of a nightmare. This has been listed for cleanup since October '04 and has a NPOV dispute. It is very long and needs some attention, assigned to three of our European historians (User:Sasquatch, User:Koblentz and User:Jareth) to look at, but this may need some other mechanism to sort it out. Andreww 05:36, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the main problem surrounding this article is that it appears to be little more than a justification of a particular theory and not much about the theory itself. It is severely lacking in information relevent to its title. I think the best course of action would be to add information about this theory to Hungary before the Magyars which already has a good start on a balanced look at prehistory in the area and culture. The remaining details about the creation and defense of the Turkish theory would be more appropriately renamed as page discussing just that theory -- at that point, some further cleanup of the large text blocks would be required. .:.Jareth.:. ^babelfish 14:30, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm probably going to head down to the library sometime this week and look up some books.. Sasquatcht|c 23:06, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

This continues to be a major content dispute of several opposing theories. Little that cleanup can do; this is a job for dispute resolution. Shell ^babelfish 17:20, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

NetBIOS

This article could stand to be shortened and have better organization.

• Adding to User:Think Fast/Desk. -- Beland 21:21, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

This article has non-encyclopedic tone in places. It might benefit from having more section headings inserted so it looks less like a large lump of text. I think it should be reviewed by someone with an understanding of these weird Microsoft protocols.

Looks like a job for User:Jareth/Desk Please accept or reassign to me. Stewart Adcock 09:00, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Wading in. Looks like more detail and sectioning would solve most of the articles problems. Time to pull out the old reference manuals. .:.Jareth.:. ^babelfish 15:02, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Closing request. Article ended up being a major re-write to remove Microsoft POV, which is funny, since this isn't actually something developed by them. Also removed stupid sys-admin comments and other general tone problems. Added more details to history and services. Added references and see also sections. .:.Jareth.:. ^babelfish 19:45, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Closed. Thanks Jareth, this article is one of the better ones now - a big improvement. Stewart Adcock 15:14, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

The resolution of the Dreyfus Affair

The The resolution of the Dreyfus Affair article needs copyediting, clarification and some wikification. There also seems to be a dispute about sources on the talk page. Kerowyn 03:12, 28 December 2005 (UTC) Added to User:Jareth/DeskKerowyn 03:21, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Title has been corrected; tag removed. More cleanup to text and wikification still needed. Shell ^babelfish 17:23, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Things that still could be done:

1. The majority of the text stems from a single public domain source; while this source is very in-depth, additional sources and viewpoints should be included.
2. This article may be more detailed than necessary for an encyclopedia article. Someone familiar with the subject should condense the text where possible.
3. The red-links should be checked and removed if they are unlikely to warrant an article in the future.
4. The text should include more clues for readers unfamiliar with the subject.