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The Biography WikiProject Newsletter Volume II, no. 2 - April 2007
Project News An A-class review department has been set up. A-class grades are now reserved for articles that pass an A-class review. The department is in need of dedicated reviewers. The proposal to start a WikiProject Biography Coordination Council has been reopened. Please discuss the proposal, or nominate yourself to be a coordinator, at the talk page. The Spring 2007 assessment drive was a huge success. A grand total of 44,324 biographies have been assessed in just over a month. Many previously untagged biographies have been automatically tagged by kingboyk's bot (kingbotk) and assistants (MartinBotIII and Reedy Bot), initially pushing the number of unassessed articles up to an all-time high of 168,000. Subsequent bot runs auto-assessing stub articles have reduced the unassessed count to 135,000. Since the end of February, the total number of articles in scope and tagged has increased by 67% to over 350,000. Of this number, 216,000 are assessed, of which 133,000 are automatically assessed stub articles. A new WPBIO workgroup, WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers, has been created. Member News Congratulations to the editors who worked on the newest featured biographies: George Washington; Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; Andrew Van De Kamp; Tom Pryce; William Monahan; Simeon I of Bulgaria; George B. McClellan; Michael Jordan; George VI of the United Kingdom; Adam Gilchrist; Johannes Kepler; The Notorious B.I.G.; Nigel Kneale; Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia; The Smashing Pumpkins; Ernest Emerson; Hovhannes Bagramyan; George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore; Edward VIII of the United Kingdom; Calvin Coolidge; Paul Collingwood; Wesley Clark; Abbas Kiarostami; Edwin Taylor Pollock; Leo Ornstein; Domenico Selvo; Gwoyeu Romatzyh; Thomas Crisp; Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell; Josquin des Prez; George V of the United Kingdom New Members Shunpiker, I'm nonpartisan, S.dedalus, Diamantina, Osioni, P.B. Pilhet, RedHotRageSlave, Mjjohansen, Pvosta, Cla68, CanbekEsen, Kiwiboy1221, Greeves, Themcman1, Strobilus, Kittybrewster, Boris426	Current proposals and discussions From the Editors Since the last newsletter, through the efforts of multiple bots and all who participated in the Spring Assessment Drive, the project has expanded greatly and at the time of writing encompasses over 350,000 articles, just over 1/5 of the whole of Wikipedia - something to be proud of? However, almost half of these are marked as stubs, and only with the continued effort of us, the 300 and those not part of the project can all of these articles be improved - though as statistics show, this is already happening... If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy! Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (May 2007). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Note to Admins Would all members who are also admins, and who have a reasonable understanding of advanced template syntax, please ensure that they have {{WPBiography}} on their watchlist? The template is fully protected now. Contributors to this Issue Errabee (Co-editor) RHB (Co-editor) Kingboyk (Co-editor)
Complete To Do List Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. Write an article Expand an article about: a person an actor an animator an artist a bishop a businessperson a diplomat an educator an engineer a lawyer a military person a musician a photographer a saint a politician a scientist a sportsperson a writer Improve an article by: adding references adding categories Review an article Romano Volta • Suzanne Carrell • Mullá Husayn • John Gilchrist (linguist) • Thomas Brattle • Answer requests for comments Work on the Portal Portal:Biography Assess an article Assessment requests Unassessed articles
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