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Accepted for Version 0.5 edit

The following biographies have been approved for Wikipedia:Version 0.5 as of 6 July 2005.

Also see a list of eligible biographies.

Arts and entertainment (27) edit

Actors and directors (4) edit
  1. Henry Fonda
  2. Vivien Leigh
  3. Laurence Olivier
  4. Sharon Tate
Artists (2) edit
  1. Canaletto
  2. Diego Velázquez
Athletes (3) edit
  1. Wayne Gretzky
  2. David Beckham
  3. Terry Bradshaw
Musicians and composers (11) edit
  1. Bach, Johann Sebastian
  2. Armstrong, Louis
  3. Clarke, Rebecca Helferich
  4. The Beatles
  5. Carey, Mariah
  6. Davis, Miles
  7. Minogue, Kylie
  8. Pink Floyd
  9. Selena
  10. Stravinsky, Igor
  11. The Supremes
Writers and critics (8) edit
  1. Anne Frank
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Victor Hugo
  4. James Joyce
  5. William Shakespeare
  6. Rabindranath Tagore
  7. J. R. R. Tolkien
  8. William Butler Yeats

History and society (24) edit

Miscellaneous (3) edit
  1. Religious figures and leaders: List of popes
  2. Psychologists: Sigmund Freud
  3. Social scientists: Max Weber
Historical figures (8) edit
  1. Che Guevara
  2. Mahatma Gandhi
  3. Rosa Parks
  4. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  5. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
  6. Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu
Military people (3) edit
  1. Attila the Hun
  2. Joan of Arc
  3. Pericles
Philosophers (2) edit
  1. Søren Kierkegaard
  2. Aristotle
Politicians (3) edit
  1. Gerald Ford
  2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  3. Theodore Roosevelt
Royalty and nobility (5) edit
  1. Akhenaten
  2. Charlemagne
  3. Claudius
  4. Hatshepsut
  5. Mark Antony
  6. Victoria of the United Kingdom
  7. William the Silent

Math, science and technology (16) edit

Miscellaneous (2) edit
  1. Biologists and medical scientists: Charles Darwin
  2. Engineers and inventors: Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Astronomers and physicists (5) edit
  1. Galilei, Galileo
  2. Newton, Issac
  3. Oppenheimer, Robert
  4. Sagan, Carl
  5. Teller, Edward
Chemists (2) edit
  1. Antoine Lavoisier
  2. Eugene Wigner
Mathematicians (7) edit
  1. Cantor, Georg
  2. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  3. Hilbert, David
  4. Leibniz, Gottfried
  5. Pascal, Blaise
  6. Turing, Alan
  7. von Neumann, John

Biographies missing from 0.5 edit

Here are some high-priority biographies not now included in Wikipedia:Version 0.5. General nominations are planned to close at the end of August. Maurreen 21:13, 20 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

This section was originally posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography. Maurreen 23:02, 20 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Artists
  1. Michaelangelo nominated
  2. Leonardo da Vinci nominated
Musicians
  1. Beethoven
  2. Mozart
  3. Elvis Presley
Politicians and leaders
  1.   Winston Churchill
  2. Mohandas Gandhi already selected
  3.   Adolf Hitler nominated
  4.   Napoleon I of France
  5.   George Washington nominated
Philosophers
  1. Aristotle
  2.   Confucius
  3. John Locke
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Religious figures

  1.   Gautama Buddha nominated
  2.   Jesus nominated
  3.   Muhammad nominated
Scientists
  1. Charles Darwin already selected
  2. Albert Einstein already selected
  3. Sigmund Freud nominated
  4. Galileo Galilei already selected
  5. Isaac Newton already selected
Sports
  1. Jesse Owens
  2. Jackie Robinson
Writers
  1. Charles Dickens
  2. Homer nominated
  3. Mark Twain
Miscellaneous
  1. Adam Smith

Core GAs edit

These are WP:GAs and Wikipedia:Core biographies that are not now included in Wikipedia:Version 0.5.

Philosophers
  1. Aristotle already selected
  2. David Hume
Politicians and leaders
  1. Charlemagne
  2. Julius Caesar
  3. Churchill, Winston
  4. Cyrus the Great
  5. Jefferson, Thomas nominated
  6. George Washington nominated
Religion
  1. Jesus nominated
  2. Martin Luther
Writers
  1. Borges, Jorge Luis
  2. Hemingway, Ernest
Misc.
  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Hawking, Stephen
  3. Thucydides
Maurreen 21:51, 20 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Clarifying 0.5 lists above edit

The first and larger list encompasses biographies that had been approved for 0.5 at the time I made the list. The "missing" list encompasses biographies that we might have extra reason to nominate. Maurreen 23:30, 20 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Automated list edit

I've set up the categories, but it looks like I missed mathbot by just a few minutes so we will have to wait until this time tomorrow night to see the automated worklist...plange 03:57, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Due to this, we now have a category of unassessed core biographies. If these are assessed before the mathbot runs tomorrow nite, we'll be off to a good start.... plange 04:06, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Oh, but I guess first we need to go through and make sure that some marked as Top that are NOT on the list are reassessed, etc. Just make the {{WPBiography}} tag have importance=top to put it on our list (and a lower one, or none at all, to take it off). plange 04:08, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hanging head in shame... The bot hit the new category and generated a new worklist, but I didn't even follow my own instructions I wrote on how to add comments to the worklist! So, tomorrow night my mates, we'll have a more complete list! Sorry! plange 05:21, 22 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Ok, this now has comments! And we talked Oleg into writing the code to include versions so that should appear in tomorrow nite's run! plange 05:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)Reply