Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Editing Fridays/06-05-2011

Student articles needing cleanup:

Alwasat (Bahraini newspaper)

:[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=427842669]

:[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=427845410] <-- very nice.

California Smog Check Program

:Removed about 50% as unref'd, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=427846836&oldid=427846631]

:Copied unref'd to talk page; can be added back w/ refs if possible

:Cleaned [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=427827021] -> [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=427851138]

Conservation Effects Assessment Project

:needs lists turned into prose

Excessive bail

:I have done some. It needs references badly. {{oldid|Excessive bail|427846906|Doff}}

Native American Fish and Wildlife Society

Done all I could stomach: {{diff|Native American Fish and Wildlife Society|427847256|425823262|Diff}}

:Totally unreferenced, so it's hard to justify investing any more time in it for now.

: Changed to 'unreferenced'

: Per above - unref'd...can't do anything. Needs rewriting from sources, obv

Telecommunications policy of the United States

this article seems as if it was intentionally padded for length.

*** COPYVIO *** ?

e.g. google

"Telecommunications policy is concerned with the"

"deemed essential that we have in place a dedicated network"

+close paraphrase e.g. [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-QcQkLa8Cb0J:www.medical-answers.org/hd/index.php%3Ft%3DTelecommunication%2Bpolicy+%22FCC+derives+its+jurisdiction+to+facilitate+the+deployment%22&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.co.uk]

[http://www.nojitter.com/blog/228800057] (Dec 9, 2010, verbatim copy)

  • Needs thorough check of copyvio / close-paraphrasing; some may predate current edits
  • that explains why the writing seemed terribly inconsistent

United Nations Foundation

Utility-possibility frontier

:Someone more knowledgeable on economics should probably read this over in a bit

Added some refs; honestly I'm too tired to learn this :P

::Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Economics#Utility-possibility_frontier