Wikipedia talk:1,000 core topics/Archive 1

Sports

The "Sportspeople" list currently clearly has much, much, much lower standards for inclusion than any of the other biography sections ("Musicians and composers" is the only other one that comes close). This seems odd to me; why do we have twice as many sportspeople as writers, for example? And, for example, is Selena really more noteworthy than Igor Stravinsky? My main question is: considering how heavily unbalanced (towards musicians and sportspeople) the current list is, should we make it more fair and consistent by removing a bunch of the less-noteworthy musicians and sportspeople (e.g. Bobby Hull, Tito Puente...), or by adding a bunch of writers, artists, politicians, scientists, etc. to the other lists? (Or both?) -Silence 00:17, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

I prefer to combine expanded vital article list and keep on adding, Hull can be removed, Puente was one of the most well known salsa musicians and Selena is in the V0.5. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 01:07, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

There isn't a consistent approach within the sportspeople list. There are just four football (soccer) players compared to nine baseball players. I am not sure this reflects what a global encyclopedia should have, even an English-speakers' edition. Those on this list should have a notability that transcends their sport or their time and perhaps even their country, so Ted Williams but no Martina Navratilova seems odd. Martín (saying/doing) 09:57, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Please change it as you see fit. Maurreen 10:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Name

This is now titled "Wikipedia:Articles eligible for Version 0.5". But at best, it is not serving any purpose directly connected to 0.5. So I'm going to change the name and intro. Maurreen 10:34, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Requirements

What are the requirements for inclusion in this list please? --Mal 21:51, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

It's flexible, judgment calls ... Maurreen 10:08, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Question

This is intended to be a list of approximately the most important 1,000 topics in Wikipedia.

• Important to whom? Jun-Dai 05:23, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

To "whomever" edits the list? It can be worklist or it can guide people who want to give Reader's Digest version of WP. Maurreen 10:08, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Marie Curie

I'd like to nominate her for the list of physical scientists, partly due to her groundbreaking discoveries and partly due to her unique status as the only person ever to have won two Nobel prizes in different disciplines of science. Durova 02:35, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Go for it. Maurreen 02:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Featured

We should make a goal to have all 1,000 of these become featured articles. Just a thought. Steveo2 12:58, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Vital articles

This has probably been covered before, but is there a reason to have a separate Wikipedia:Core topics - 1,000 and Wikipedia:Vital articles? Both seem to be subjective lists by Wikipedians of the 1000-or-so most important topics for articles on Wikipedia. Is there a significant difference? Should they be merged? – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 16:41, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Ruppee

Shouldn't Rupee be changed to Indian Rupee?Remember 18:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

with problems

Greetings. I used a perl script to make a list of articles listed as "core topics" that are also tagged with cleanup messages. It's at Wikipedia:Core topics - 1,000/with problems. FYI. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 15:25, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, we'll look over this when we work through this list (soon?) for Version 0.7. Walkerma 03:37, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Key for icons

Can we get a key that lists the meanings of the icons that are alongside the links? -- Alan Liefting talk 23:06, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I added a quick explanation, at least. Walkerma 03:35, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Expanded your explanation and moved it to a separate section called Legend. akarkera (talk) 09:17, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Missing items

Why are Seed and Wood not on the list? Shouldn't they be here? --EncycloPetey 18:08, 14 October 2007 (UTC)