User:Beland

In case you hadn't noticed, I'm using this page as my personal todo list.

I am the owner of Pearle Wisebot. Feel free to leave messages about the behavior of Pearle on my personal talk page.

Tools:

• /workspace
• Dumps
• Wikipedia:Cleanup_resources
• Wikipedia:Template_messages/Stubs
• WP:CFD
• Category:Pearle edits needing manual cleanup

Watchlist checked through: end of 31 Jan 2005

• News: Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost

Contents

1 Active collaborations 2 Meta cleanup 2.1 Update once per DB dump 3 Science 4 Supreme Court History project 5 Meta 6 Religion 7 Politics 8 Sexuality 9 West Springfield/Pioneer Valley History 10 Random Topics 10.1 Boston subway 10.2 EM Categorization 10.3 United States Categorization 10.4 Random peer review 10.4.1 Science 10.4.2 Religion 10.4.3 Politics 10.4.4 Controversial 10.4.5 General interest 10.4.6 Readme 11 World legal systems 11.1 Problems 11.2 Readme 12 Pages to remember

Active collaborations

• Separation of church and state (external links, Article Improvement Drive)
• History of science
• History of sex
• Journalistic standards
• Advocacy journalism
• Objectivity (journalism) (needs help)
• Category:Orphaned categories
• (Pearle replacement)
• Template:Opentask (list various backlogs)
• Wikipedia:Typo/capitalization-1 etc. (clean up)
• Homophobia cleanup
• Merge Checks and balances with Separation of powers
• Demographics of sexual orientation and Kinsey Reports cleanup and fact-check.
• Corporate farming (fix NPOV)
• Rural sociology, Demographic history of the United States (fix NPOV)
• - merge templates, change to category listings only?

• WP:B
  • Speed limit discussion

• Wikipedia:Cleanup
  • Constructing new intro text
  • See Template_talk:Stub
  • Wikipedia:Cleanup_process
  • Wikipedia:Cleaning_department

• Wikipedia:Category cleanup
  • Needs publicity or attention from Beland

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cities
  • Need to start implementing proposal
  • Need to check if recommended categorization scheme has been implemented.
    • Intro texts do not conform to the recommendation. A bot should check all articles in a given category to see if the right phrase and/or links are present.
      • Wisconsin towns (townships) are confusing (e.g. Springfield, Wisconsin).
      • See Category_talk:Towns_in_Maryland?
  • Need to clean up talk page, esp "weird cases" or later
  • Need to update status section on main page.
  • Need to update status of mapping project
  • Template:CDPpreface, Template:UnincorpNotCDP
  • city-data.com

• Wikipedia:Auto-categorization/Wikipedia_namespace
  • Needs publicity. Add to current categorization projects, maybe make an announcement. See what currently links to the parent page.
  • User:Sietse_Snel/Fix_common_mistakes

• WP:CFD
  • Periodic cleanup, especially requests for automated moves
  • Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/likely is in cold storage.
  • AMERICA
  • Summarize decisions on Category talk:Ireland and see also Wikipedia:Irish wikipedian's notice board
  • Clean up policy on WP:CFD and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion_phrases and their talk pages.
  • Post gender-neutral nominations from .

• Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. special districts

Meta cleanup

• General template consolidation

Update once per DB dump

• Wikipedia:Category cleanup
  • new-funny-categories.txt
• Category:Orphaned categories
  • new-orphaned-categories.txt
• Wikipedia:Auto-categorization (USA state placenames)
  • Add suppression feature before uploading next dump

Science

• History of science has growing pains
• Timeline of scientific discoveries and Category:Science timelines
• Science_studies needs a lot of help. It may need a Wikibook project.
  • Sociology of scientific knowledge
  • Scientific enterprise
  • Sociology_of_knowledge
  • History_of_science_and_technology - may need inbound links fixed
• Peer-review Scientific_method and read Talk:Scientific_method. Possible merge with Scientific enterprise.
• Scientific_skepticism: Categorize, check for accuracy, NPOV. Add to official list of Controversial topics?
• Check Science
• Basic_theories_of_science
• History of parapsychology - needs NPOV, cleanup
• Talk:Obsolete_scientific_theory#Request_for_obsolete_theories_of_electricity
• Elminate "fluid" metaphor from Electromagnetic field
  • E, B -> EMF -> EW -> QED -> Standard Model
  • Electromagnetic field should say it's part of electroweak theory and is special relativity-compliant.
  • Electric_field should say that it's part of EM/electroweak theory/standard
• Global System for Mobile Communications, GSM core network, and related

Supreme Court History project

• Reading book on history of the Supreme Court
• May also need to check out the Supreme Court "encyclopedia" book
• Related articles to fix:
  • Corporate personhood
  • List_of_Justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
  • Reconstruction
  • Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
  • List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases
  • Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
  • United States Constitution
  • Dormant_Commerce_Clause
  • Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution, etc.
  • See Lawrence_v._Texas
  • Write an article on the Charles River Bridge case, find out more about the history of Charles River crossings.
  • Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali

Meta

• Internal mergers on Wikipedia:Offline reports; eliminate this page?
• Sync Wikipedia:Utilities with Category:Wikipedia, templates (see User:Beland) and Wikipedia:Community Portal
  • Check Category talk:Wikipedia style and how-to
  • Clean Category:Wikipedia_basic_information
• Coordinate bugs on Wikipedia:Categorization with Wikipedia:Merge some redundant lists to categories.
  • See also simiplified rulesets: WP:SR and WP:TPSG
• Clean Wikipedia:Category_schemes
• Clean Category:Wikipedia policy thinktank
• Post to Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories
• Tidy and Wikipedia:Categorization

Religion

• Atheism needs rounding out after it is un-protected.
• Arguments_against_the_existence_of_God and Arguments for the existence of God might be fun to edit.

Politics

• Peer review UN Reform and later sections of United Nations, possibly organize its talk page
• Check up on Capitalism
• Should the following be merged? United States territorial acquisitions History of United States imperialism Historic regions of the United States
  • Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson
  • Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
  • Note that many modern Americans reject the label "empire/imperialism".
• De-Americanize Separation_of_powers, incorporate comments on the UK. (See section "Other countries").
• Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government
• Address todo list on Progressivism

Sexuality

• Merge Causes of sexual orientation with Sexual orientation
• History of sexuality and Demographics of sexual orientation need attention. May need to merge from Anthropological classification of homosexuality.
• Improve homosexuality, heterosexuality, bisexuality, Homosexuality and transgender and sexual orientation with regard to terminology and orientation/behavior/identity considerations.
• Improve Genetics and sexual orientation, esp. terminology in twin studies
• Refactor Causes_of_sexual_orientation w.r.t. genetic and environmental/choice subarticles. Talk:Causes_of_sexual_orientation suggests science/society not gene/environment split.
• Also sync homosexuality and morality
• Add something like the following to Nature_versus_nurture_debate and/or Causes_of_sexual_orientation. Or maybe make a "multi-determined" article.

Multi-determination: A car owner notices the check engine light on their dashboard is on, but continues driving for 3 days. On the highway, the engine suddenly fails. A second car that has been tailgating crashes into the first one. A nearby philosopher asks whether the cause of the accident was the way the car was built, or the way it was operated by the owner. In fact, if the car had been built differently, operated differently, or followed differently, the accident would not have happened. The accident is "multi-determined". Cite that STS book.

• Reconcile Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sexology_and_Sexuality/Terminology with Avoiding Heterosexual Bias in Language.
• Homosexuality, Heterosexuality, and Sexual_orientation, and Anthropological classification of homosexuality need to be re-synchronized.
• All sexology articles need their See Also sections cleaned, especially converion to categories where needed.

West Springfield/Pioneer Valley History

• Obtained source materials
• Extract and summarize
• Post full text of non-copyrighted content?

Random Topics

• African-American culture needs expert attention from someone (else) familiar with the subject

Boston subway

• MBTA history
• Boston transportation

EM Categorization

• Electromagnetic field, Electroweak force, Fundamental force, SU(3)XSU(2)XU(1), Standard_Model
  • E, B -> EMF -> EW -> QED -> Standard Model

United States Categorization

• Make sure that articles in Category:United_States don't belong in an obvious subcategory.
• Clean up Category:United_States_history. Most articles belong in a subcategory; some new subcategories need to be created, including . Many articles need to be assigned to multiple categories. Cross-referencing by year would be useful.
  • Category:CIA operations shouldn't be listed individually in Category:United States history.
  • Recreate Category:United States history (terrorism)
  • Recreate
• Category:Companies_of_the_United_States (top level needs sorting out)

Random peer review

• Wikipedia:Cleanup
• Wikipedia:Peer review

Science

• Civilization
• Temperature (intro is not public-friendly)
• Decimal_time
• National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration
• Gravitational_radiation
• Thermopower
• Peltier-Seebeck_effect

Religion

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Bible

Politics

• Clinton v. City of New York
• Bill Clinton
• Civil_disobedience / Direct_action
  • http://www.nonviolence.org/issues/

Controversial

• Project_Censored
• Talk:Computers_in_postmodernity

General interest

• Tooth_braces

Readme

• Indian Wars
• Population transfer
• Origins_of_the_American_Civil_War
• Metrication

World legal systems

• Goal: Write an article on Legal systems of the world
  • Historical derivation of current systems
  • Main ideas of each historical/ideological system
  • Add to Category:Legal_history, Category:Law

Problems

• Legal_system is probably missing a number of fundamental references, including many kinds of law listed in religious law. It should either reference or summarize or be Legal systems of the world
• Legal_history is also somewhat fluffy, and might actually be the best place to put Legal systems of the world .
• Legal_code is very fluffy and could probably use a merge or a re-write. It also has broken links and grammatical issues.

Readme

• Roman_law
• Category:Civil law
• Napoleonic_Code

• Common law
• Category:Common law
  • English_law
  • Category:English_law
  • Category:United Kingdom law

• Soviet law
• Category:Soviet law
• Chinese law
• Category:Chinese law

• Category:European Union law

• • Category:Japanese law

• Canon law
• Shariah
• Category:Islamic law
• Category:Religious_law

• Category:Legal_history

• Supreme_court
• Category:Constitutional law

• Category:Law

Pages to remember

• Spotted dick
• Crêpe Day is February 2nd.
• List_of_discredited_substances
• List of alternative, speculative and disputed theories
• List_of_unsolved_problems