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Topic starting 13 March 2006

I'm thinking that a literature topic might be good this week, particularly if we can get the novels wikiproject involved. violet/riga (t) 20:45, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reading through the suggestions, 9/11 hijackers stands out. Perhaps we could do something else this week and get the novels wikiproject involved so that they could give us an idea of what literature topic would be the right size? Personally I don't know enough about literature articles to say what would be a good list... I think if we choose 20th century fictional novels we're bound to get a whole lot of nominations though and very few of actual merit. Just my two cents. -DMurphy 22:20, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- How about Science Fiction? By the way, who and how do we decide on a suggestion? Can someone leave that in my talk page? Thanks. Mkaycomputer 19:13, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - I wouldn't mind sci-fi novels.--HereToHelp (talk • contribs) 01:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think I'll get to create this tonight as I will be offline. I'll try and sort it out in the morning if nobody else has done it already, but I'd like to see some more discussion of the topic choice first. violet/riga (t) 19:58, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So the main choice seems to be one of the following two:

Science fiction novels (possibly limited to a specific decade)
Participants in the September 11, 2001 attacks

Which do we think? violet/riga (t) 22:26, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I did some searching on the subject, and science-fiction novels is far too broad. There are over 700 Science Fiction Novels alone. If we really want to do a sci-fi novel topic, we'll have to do something like:

Time Travel in Fiction = ~40 articles
Dystopian novels = ~65 articles
Hugo Award-winning works (the premier award for sci-fi and fantasy works) = ~50 articles

Or if you want to get a little more obscure:

Enderverse articles = ~45 articles (counting character articles) - articles about the Ender's Game series, one of the most popular Sci-fi series.
Military sci-fi = ~30 articles
Cyberpunk works = ~50 articles

Personally I think the Hugo Award-winning works would be a good category and would give us just the right amount of variety (a little sci-fi and a little fantasy), plus all the articles are bound to be books of importance unlike the other categories, which will likely be obscure. Otherwise, I think we should go with a biography category, but I also agree that right now none of the suggestions are entirely exciting. -DMurphy 22:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hugo Award-winning works has my full support - I'll do that when I have time (hopefully this evening). violet/riga (t) 11:31, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

General discussion

Geography, Economics and Government

Culture of a country

Any "Culture of [country]" article. See Category:Culture by nationality. violet/riga (t) 16:05, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This might be too wide as well. violet/riga (t) 23:47, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps narrow it to a specific continent? In that case I'd say either Europe or Asia would be the best option. --DMurphy 01:36, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Modern cities with fewer than 50,000 people

Modern cities with fewer than 50,000 people. -Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How many articles on modern cities with < 50,000 are there of note anyway? seems too restrictive/uninteresting. -DMurphy 23:10, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- True - there may be some other way we can choose cities without it being too open. violet/riga (t) 23:31, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Deserts

Deserts. -Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Elections

Articles about an election result. violet/riga (t) 18:52, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Political party

Articles about a current political party. violet/riga (t) 18:52, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

People (Biographies)

Any category that would include articles on individuals or small groups.

biography for author and motivational speaker Ali R. Jaber

9/11 hijackers

Of the 19, one is a featured article and none are stubs. So there would be 18 candidates. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 14:51, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. This is a closed list, in that there are only 19. Is that poor form? Is this open to both "open" and "closed" topics? Would "planets" be acceptable, even though there are only 9 or so? – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 14:56, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I can't see any problem with having closed topics, and this looks like a good suggestion to me. violet/riga (t) 17:00, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Biography of a novelist

The biography of any novelist that has had at least 5 books published. violet/riga (t) 16:05, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This might be too wide. violet/riga (t) 23:47, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fans of Liverpool F.C.

Fans of Liverpool F.C. (list here) -DMurphy 01:27, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

People born on January 1

People born on January 1. -Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Millionaires

Millionaires. -Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There's a lot of those... I think it needs to be narrowed. -DMurphy 01:27, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Um, billionaires? The first was Rockefeller, iirc. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 13:22, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - We could do Australian Millionaires, or Millionaires under the age of 20... violet/riga (t) 15:35, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

People named Laura

People named Laura. -Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd shy away from obscure ways to connect articles like this. Sure, it makes the nomination process a bit more fun, but when we get to the evaluation, there would be no real method for comparison like we had with Natural Disasters. --DMurphy 04:13, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

People who died in unusual ways

People who died in unusual ways. -Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Or the unusual ways in which they died.--HereToHelp (talk • contribs) 01:12, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pop Culture (Movies, Music, Sports, etc.)

Music Single

See No Man's Land It currently has a stub class and I've seen Start Up/C Class articles that are worse than this

CVG Genres

Any computer and/or video game genre. Partial list here, full list here. Nifboy 23:09, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good idea. We could look at, for example, all fighting games. violet/riga (t) 23:48, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How about Browser-based games? The category has 40 articles (if counting Neopets and not counting flash games) and a pretty good cross-section of quality. --DMurphy 05:24, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Beatles articles

Articles pertaining to The Beatles. -DMurphy 01:27, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Magic

How about articles about magicians and illusionists? - Mgm|^(talk) 11:13, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Television

American Sit-com characters

--Melaen 20:58, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fictional families

Category:Fictional families --Melaen 20:58, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

National personifications

Category:National personifications. --Melaen 21:25, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Team sports

See Category:Team sports. violet/riga (t) 22:26, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Football / soccer Could we possibly include other categories such as assists or cleans sheets when looking at players stats. Especially to see defender and midfield contributions

Stock characters

Category:Stock characters. Melaen 21:25, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pokémon

Nice wide topic, characters to creatures to videogames and back again. 20 or so articles could easily be found that are of good quality or good but need tips. Cheers, H ig hway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 16:34, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Shakespeare films

Category:Shakespeare on film .... 02:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sports Biographys

Like American Football, Baseball, Hockey, Soccer, Basketball Biographys Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 04:27, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Science and History (excluding Biographies)

Includes articles on plants and animals (other than humans).

Vegetables

Vegetables. -Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

19th century wars

19th century wars (i.e. War of 1812). -Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Board games

Let's check our coverage of board games. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:15, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ancient civilisations

As suggested by Mgm. A great idea. Looking at Category:Ancient peoples there are quite a few, so we'd need to have some form of criteria. violet/riga (t) 22:06, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Butterflies

Butterfly Search on wikipedia. Lots of near-good butterfly articles that are overlooked. Submissions wont be too long nor too short. Spawn Man 22:56, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Technology

Manmade things, excluding Pop Culture stuff.

Poisons

Poisons. -Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How do you define a 'poison'? Something poisonous to humans? If that's the case there are hundreds of chemical articles that would fit the bill. -DMurphy 01:27, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- But few of any good quality. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 13:18, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Musical instruments

Musical instruments. -Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Operating Systems

operating systems - This covers a great many articles, some are truly pitiful stubs, but others, such as Windows 2000 and OpenBSD are featured. 65.94.60.61 19:15, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Literature

20th century novels

didnt see any literature category - would be interesting to do a sampling of 20th century fictional novels, as there are so few featured (i counted 2, with 1 about to be de-featured). could also be a combined effort with the novels wikiproject. Zzzzz 18:21, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great idea - that's inspired a few other suggestions... violet/riga (t) 18:45, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Children's books

Famous novels aimed at children. violet/riga (t) 18:45, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Series of novels

Articles about series of books, such as Discworld (though I'm not sure how many other ones there are). violet/riga (t) 18:45, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trilogies

Anything that comes in threes: these articles could be books or movies, and they'd have to be on the trilogy itself, not just one installment.--HereToHelp (talk • contribs) 01:15, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Simple Groupings, Multiple categories

Grouping by a simple trait (ie Things that are red) that groups articles falling into multiple categories

Things usually bright red

Things usually bright red (e.g. cherries). -Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Articles starting with "str"

Articles starting with "str". -Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Things you might do in your sleep

Things you might do in your sleep (e.g. sweat). -Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Things mentioned in Beatles song titles

Things mentioned in Beatles song titles (e.g. submarine or diamonds)

- On that note, how about Beatles articles? There's plenty of them. (suggestion here) --DMurphy 04:13, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I prefer not to have suggestions with a tangental connection. Beatles articles seems like a better bet. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:11, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Articles with the number 7 in the title

Articles with the number 7 in the title. -Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Other

News items

We could look at all the major news stories of one particular month. Perhaps the best idea would be to do one from last month or from this month last year. violet/riga (t) 23:47, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Personally I think current news articles tend to be disproportionately large, and we could probably better serve the wiki if we evaluated articles of more historical or encyclopaedic significance. Plus, since the articles draw so many participants, they tend to be pretty accurate. Just my opinion though. --DMurphy 04:26, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Roller coasters

Category:Roller coasters. violet/riga (t) 22:43, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ivy League Universities

Or more broadly some sort of Universities category --Xtreambar 02:51, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Education

Could someone write an article about European Academy of Education?

Cocktails

Cocktails. Melaen 20:35, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sports terms

Quarterback, Armlock... --CasualFighter 17:52, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Secret societies

Illuminati, Ku Klux Klan, Skull and Bones, Freemasons - Some interesting questions of citations vs. secrecy. Tom Harrison ^Talk 01:56, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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