Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles

Citizendium porting

See User_talk:Rich_Farmbrough#Mark_project_defunct.3F. Also the lists at Wikipedia:WikiProject Citizendium Porting and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Citizendium. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 05:37, 30 July 2014 (UTC).

Africana

User:Duckduckstop/list_of_encyclopedia_africana_articles

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:13, 5 October 2014 (UTC).

Adding "Modern Firearms" to "Others" of the sub-section "Secondary focus" on the list section

As title, since the list contains Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Missing articles but not Maxim Popenker's online encyclopaedia of firearms and ammunition of the 20th and 21st centuries, Modern Firearms, which is absurd because in some countries civilian gun ownership is popular, and there are still some firearms and ammunition which are included in Modern Firearms but not in the English Wikipedia (e.g. SR-1 Vector).--RekishiEJ (talk) 10:31, 15 June 2018 (UTC) Added "in " 10:32, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Articles on Simple English Wikipedia that are not on English

I just copied Lee Sang-Bong. There are likely more, I was trying to run a query on Wikidata ([1]) and with some help got it to work (668 results for people alone): this list should probably be exported here, presumably some of them at least are notable (of course there are false positives - articles spammed across many projects and deleted from en wiki but not nominated elsewhere, like this one or this one). Any list we create should have a place for checkbox to indicate whether something wasn't deleted. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:01, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Redlists at WikiProject Women in Red

At Women in Red, we have completely revamped our index to redlists; though we have redirects in place for many of the old pages, there are lots of new ones that are getting added all the time. One big change is that links to the crowd-sourced lists and to the Wikidata lists are now found side by side on the index, not in separate sections. This is just FYI, but you might want to update the links here to the WiR lists. Cheers! NotARabbit (talk) 02:25, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Another

We should perhaps include Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing if we haven't. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:27, 6 December 2018 (UTC).

RedLink tool is down

From that talk page I copy this. I don't really understand why but

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Please add these two to list

Hi, under "Specialized encyc. (Religion)," could you add the Christian Cyclopedia (2000)? It is an update of the 1975 Erwin Louis Lueker Lutheran Cyclopedia, which was an update of the 1954 Lutheran Cyclopedia, which may have drawn off of the multi-denominational Jacobs-Haas 1899 Lutheran Cyclopedia. As for the last one, it is on full view on Google Books, and it is still used sometimes. Could someone add the Jacobs-Haas 1899 Lutheran Cyclopedia under "Specialized encyc. (Religion)" as well? Thanks.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 05:58, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Christian Cyclopedia has existed for years. Jim.henderson (talk) 00:49, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Not all topics meet Wikipedia's standards for Notability

I apologize in advance if this question has been asked before - I searched the archives and could not find it. Some items on these lists may not meet WP's Notability criteria. For example, David Tweedie (1865-1934, Scottish mathematician) is on the Wikipedia:MacTutor Archive. But thorough investigation can only find that he was a mathematics teacher. That is a fine profession, but well short of GNG or NPROF. So should the article be published anyway, knowing that it will probably just be deleted? Or is there some way to feed back that it should be removed from the list?--Gronk Oz (talk) 08:32, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

I should mention a confusing factor: there are several other people of this name, including David Tweedie and Dave Tweedie. Care is needed to be sure that a references relates to the right one.--Gronk Oz (talk) 00:08, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

To be clear, you mean this guy, yes? DS (talk) 13:51, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

@DragonflySixtyseven: Yes, that's him. He is just one example of the general question, but probably as good as any... --Gronk Oz (talk) 14:19, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Contact the MacTutor people, ask what their sources were? DS (talk) 17:45, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

A proposal for WikiJournals to become a new sister project

Over the last few years, the WikiJournal User Group has been building and testing a set of peer reviewed academic journals on a mediawiki platform. The main types of articles are:

• Existing Wikipedia articles submitted for external review and feedback (example)
• From-scratch articles that, after review, are imported to Wikipedia (example)
• Original research articles that are not imported to Wikipedia (example)

Proposal: WikiJournals as a new sister project

From a WP:MEA point of view, it would be an additional new article route for content contribution from external experts.

It also acts as a quality-control mechanism for existing Wikipedia articles, complementary to Featured articles, using established scholarly practices, and generating citable, doi-linked publications.

Please take a look and support/oppose/comment! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 11:09, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Who's Who

Can we reasonably assume that people in Marquis Who's Who - the earlier editions, anyway - probably meet notability criteria? Here's the 1901-02 edition, for instance. DS (talk) 16:58, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Looks notable to me, the names will need to be extracted from the book (via a bot? as by hand would take a while), put in a list, and linked so we can see what exists and what doesn't. Kind regards.Calaka (talk) 10:07, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

At my request, KSFT extracted the OCR'd names and produced a (somewhat noisy) linked list; I am gradually cleaning it up, and will add it to the main project page when it's ready. DS (talk) 13:48, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Fantastic, there may be a few tools online to remove noisy or strange syntax (if there were any weird symbols that came out from the extraction etc, or even a control f - replace function on microsoft word or excel. Good luck.Calaka (talk) 05:35, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Missing missings

• Special:Whatlinkshere/Francis Joseph Bigger

This person is in five biographical dictionaries, the Dictionary of Irish Writers, the The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, the Dictionary of Irish Architects, the New Dictionary of Ulster Biography, and the Dictionary of Irish Biography. Yet when I submitted this to my personal AFC it had zero entries on any missing article lists, user or project. We're obviously missing some redlink lists. Uncle G (talk) 01:38, 10 June 2019 (UTC)