Missing Articles — Low-hanging Fruit?

[Poetlister]

Ah, but he has a common name, so there is less likelihood of a red link appearing to alert people to the absence of the article.

That is indeed a widespread problem. Another eminent academic who should have an article is William Brass. He is not the same person as William Brass (T-H-L). Unusually, when I Google "William Brass", the first two results are for the academic. The Wikipedia article is only third.

[thekohser]

That is indeed a widespread problem. Another eminent academic who should have an article is William Brass. He is not the same person as William Brass (T-H-L). Unusually, when I Google "William Brass", the first two results are for the academic. The Wikipedia article is only third.

Just as long as he doesn't get confused for Bill Brasky (T-H-L).

[lonza leggiera]

James Ball Naylor.

[Captain Occam]

2017 Chicago torture case (I'm not sure if that's the best title for this article to have, but when an individual crime is notable enough for the President of the United States to talk about it, I think it's notable enough to have its own Wikipedia article.)

I might request this article on-wiki too, but at the moment I'm having trouble figuring out the correct place to do that. The setup for requesting articles at Wikipedia seems to have become a lot more complicated than what it was like when I was last active there.

[Poetlister]

2017 Chicago torture case (I'm not sure if that's the best title for this article to have, but when an individual crime is notable enough for the President of the United States to talk about it, I think it's notable enough to have its own Wikipedia article.)

I agree. It received enough news coverage just in Britain and Germany to pass GNG and I assume had a lot more than that in the USA.

[Captain Occam]

My mistake, it looks like the article already exists. I wasn't finding it because I wasn't searching for the right terms.

2017 Chicago torture incident (T-H-L)

[Cla68]

Crystal Wright

[Johnny Au]

Mianguan (T-H-L) or Mian guan (T-H-L)



It is a crown Chinese Emperors wore.

Nowhere in the English Wikipedia mentions about why Chinese emperors wore a crown to hide their faces partially.

Yet, the article exists in German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mian_guan

[Captain Occam]

The Forgotten Man (painting) (T-H-L)

I'm not 100% sure this painting is notable, which is why I haven't created the article myself yet, but I think it probably is. I listed some of the sources discussing it in my comment here.

[Poetlister]

The Forgotten Man (painting) (T-H-L)

I'm not 100% sure this painting is notable, which is why I haven't created the article myself yet, but I think it probably is. I listed some of the sources discussing it in my comment here.

I'd have said you have enough sources to satisfy WP:GNG. Check whether there's a special notability guideline for 21st century art.

[thekohser]

Astounding to me, that Wikipedia has no article about Ishmael LaBeet (T-H-L).

[Poetlister]

Joe Gani was President of the Australian Mathematical Society and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, so he easily passes WP:PROF. You'd think WMAU would be organising editathons to ensure that notable Australians all had articles.

[thekohser]

Photorealism artist Doug Bloodworth (T-H-L) has no Wikipedia article. A suitable source to begin might be this article in the Daily Mail, except that Wikipediots have pretty much banned it as a reliable source.

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Awash rail disaster (T-H-L)

Worst rail crash in African history, killed over 400 people, in the top ten most deadly rail crashes in the world.

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-01-14/ ... n-official

Another missing African train crash.

Tolunda rail disaster (T-H-L)

300 people killed in Africa's third worst train crash in history (second after the Awash crash at the time.)

[Ming]

Awash rail disaster (T-H-L)

Worst rail crash in African history, killed over 400 people, in the top ten most deadly rail crashes in the world.

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-01-14/ ... n-official

Another missing African train crash.

Tolunda rail disaster (T-H-L)

300 people killed in Africa's third worst train crash in history (second after the Awash crash at the time.)

The reason it's missing, it appears, is that nobody can find any further info than the one sentence that already appears in the tailway's article.

[Bezdomni]

The whole Haiti–United States relations (T-H-L) "kerfluffle" is still low-hanging fruit, it seems to me. talk topic. A whole zombie army of textile workers should rise up, like Clara in 1909 (§), and write articles about Wikipedian Neutrality.

[Johnny Au]

Muchu Chhish (T-H-L)

It is one of the tallest virgin peaks (T-H-L) in the world and the tallest in a country that permits mountaineering.

Finally, the "Virgin peaks" article needs to be merged with Highest unclimbed mountain (T-H-L).

[Poetlister]

Harold Preiskel should pass WP:PROF and apparently he is the only person ever to receive gold medals from both the British and US Societies of Prosthodontics.

[thekohser]

Michael Tait could stand to have a Wikipedia article. Not this Michael Tait (T-H-L), but the world-renowned concert stage designer from Australia who settled in little Lititz, Pennsylvania. There is absolutely no shortage of mainstream media coverage of him.

There is yet another Michael Tait -- a playwright who authored a risque drama called Fellowship about an Anglican Church
breakaway sect that worships evil.

[Poetlister]

A good example of how notable people are invisible to the average Wikipedia editor and so don't get articles: Barry Leventhal was awarded the Gold Medal of the Market Research Society this year. He is the first recipient of this award since 2008, so clearly he passes WP:PROF, but who knew?

[thekohser]

It's somewhat amusing to me that Wikipedia has no article about the Russian dairy magnate, Sergei Plastinin; but it does have a (long-lasting) article about his daughter Kira Plastinina (T-H-L), who as a child in 2008 set up (with her father's money, no doubt) a namesake fashion line, opened 12 stores in America, closed them, then filed for bankruptcy, all in less than a year's time.

It's very amusing to me that as I am searching Catalant for a consultant to help me with a market-sizing project, I see none other than Kira Plastinina advertising her hire-worthy skills in marketing strategy. Ah, but, who am I to talk? She has a very important-sounding Wikipedia biography. Her father and I have none between the two of us. Also, as Wikipedia notes:

Plastinina is close friends with Debby Ryan.

[Botto]

There should be a page for David 8, from the Alien franchise.

[Poetlister]

Nothing on notable astronomer Ann Savage who died a few months ago. There is however quite a substantial one on obscure B movie actress Ann Savage (T-H-L). That may reflect the predilictions of WP editors.

[Rogol Domedonfors]

Perhaps someone will write a quick article on Craig Minassian, CCO to the Clinton Foundation, erstwhile assistant press secretary and director of television news in the White House, founder of Minassian Media.

[Bezdomni]

Someone should suggest it to the Sagecandor (T-C-L) team (who suggested they were taking requests a few days ago). Their communication goals seem remarkably convergent.

I've brought this to the attention of the five WMF employees who have mentioned the company:
Kbrown (WMF), JSutherland (WMF), Heather (WMF), Quiddity (WMF), & GVarnum (WMF)

We'll see who steps up to the plate. Maybe they'll pass the message on to the DYK crew? ^^

Feel like testing Wikipedia's neutrality? Try to add a REDLINK to the "key figures" section of the infobox on the Clinton Foundation (T-H-L) for their chief communications officer and see how that works out.

By the way, Mr. Minassian has a (rather unpopular) video on youtube (Clinton school speakers channel). In it he talks about Fake News (by which he means The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Bill Maher, etc.)

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Awash rail disaster (T-H-L)

Worst rail crash in African history, killed over 400 people, in the top ten most deadly rail crashes in the world.

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-01-14/ ... n-official

Another missing African train crash.

Tolunda rail disaster (T-H-L)

300 people killed in Africa's third worst train crash in history (second after the Awash crash at the time.)

The reason it's missing, it appears, is that nobody can find any further info than the one sentence that already appears in the tailway's article.

Because it would require actual real world research beyond a Google search.

[Johnny Au]

Underwater Waterfall (T-H-L)

I found it interesting that there isn't an article about the famous sandfall (T-H-L) off the coast of Mauritius.

Here's a reliable source about this phenomenon: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang ... waterfall/

[Poetlister]

Ah, but he has a common name, so there is less likelihood of a red link appearing to alert people to the absence of the article.

That is indeed a widespread problem. Another eminent academic who should have an article is William Brass. He is not the same person as William Brass (T-H-L). Unusually, when I Google "William Brass", the first two results are for the academic. The Wikipedia article is only third.

I've only just noticed that barely minutes after I made the above post, an article was started about William Brass. Well done, Yngvadottir (T-C-L)!

[thekohser]

Herbert C. Bonner Bridge will be in the news quite a bit this weekend, yet there is no Wikipedia article for it.

[AndyTheGrump]

Herbert C. Bonner Bridge will be in the news quite a bit this weekend, yet there is no Wikipedia article for it.

Does it merit a separate article? Oregon_Inlet#Herbert_C._Bonner_Bridge (T-H-L)

[thekohser]

Herbert C. Bonner Bridge will be in the news quite a bit this weekend, yet there is no Wikipedia article for it.

Does it merit a separate article? Oregon_Inlet#Herbert_C._Bonner_Bridge (T-H-L)

What do you think, Andy? The section about the bridge is 825 words long. The rest of the article that's not about the bridge is only 460 words long. Yet the Wikipediots have jammed all that information about the bridge into the article about the inlet. I guess that's the way they do it there on their project. I've been formally asked by one staff member of the Wikimedia Foundation not to try to help with matters like this, so I'll just stay here on the sidelines.

[AndyTheGrump]

Herbert C. Bonner Bridge will be in the news quite a bit this weekend, yet there is no Wikipedia article for it.

Does it merit a separate article? Oregon_Inlet#Herbert_C._Bonner_Bridge (T-H-L)

What do you think, Andy? The section about the bridge is 825 words long. The rest of the article that's not about the bridge is only 460 words long. Yet the Wikipediots have jammed all that information about the bridge into the article about the inlet. I guess that's the way they do it there on their project. I've been formally asked by one staff member of the Wikimedia Foundation not to try to help with matters like this, so I'll just stay here on the sidelines.

To my mind, there may be a reasonable case for the argument that the inlet and bridge are best treated as a single topic. The Outer Banks are essentially dynamic features, and the interaction between the bridge (and any replacement) and the inlet - a complex process of scouring and deposition - is likely going to determine the history of both. Separate articles might make this less obvious. I suppose it is inevitable though that encyclopaedic works (or works that claim to be encyclopaedic) will tend to compartmentalise their subject matter in ways that can sometimes be less than optimal.

[Poetlister]

Herbert C. Bonner Bridge does redirect to the article. Also, that section looks like a separate article, with its own infobox.

[Poetlister]

The Animal Apocalypse is one of the weirdest of the Pseudepigrapha, writings that have at one time or another been regarded by some sects as part of the Bible but have been rejected by Jews, Catholics and Protestants. It is nowadays lumped in with the Book of Enoch (T-H-L). However, there is no mention of it in that article, although it is mentioned in passing in a few other articles.

[Poetlister]

A really surprising omission: Pam Alexander OBE is definitely highly notable, yet has no article. She has been

* Chief Executive of the South East England Development Agency
* Chief Executive of English Heritage
* Deputy Chief Executive of the Housing Corporation
* Chair of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment

All of these bodies are notable enough to have their own articles, but she is not even mentioned in any of those articles. She is currently Chair of the Covent Garden Market Authority, which also deserves but lacks an article.

[Johnny Au]

Despite Wikipedia being obsessed with Western popular culture, I find it hard that Forbes's pop culture journalist Erik Kain (T-H-L) doesn't have his own article and Forbes is a well respected business magazine.

[Johnny Au]

Awash rail disaster (T-H-L)

Worst rail crash in African history, killed over 400 people, in the top ten most deadly rail crashes in the world.

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-01-14/ ... n-official

Another missing African train crash.

Tolunda rail disaster (T-H-L)

300 people killed in Africa's third worst train crash in history (second after the Awash crash at the time.)

The reason it's missing, it appears, is that nobody can find any further info than the one sentence that already appears in the tailway's article.

Because it would require actual real world research beyond a Google search.

The Tolunda rail disaster is mentioned under Benguela railway#Accidents (T-H-L)

[Poetlister]

Israel Abrahams (1903-1973) was Chief Rabbi of South Africa, 1945-1968.

http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/chie ... l-abrahams

http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica/family ... /index.htm

There is an article on Israel Abrahams (T-H-L), but this is about a different and unrelated person.

[Rogol Domedonfors]

It's some time since I saw something in this thread the lack of which was so egregious that it held Wikipedia up to scorn and contempt. I fear that rather than pointing and laughing at the so-called encyclopaedia, recent postings are in grave danger of suggesting improvements.

[Poetlister]

It's some time since I saw something in this thread the lack of which was so egregious that it held Wikipedia up to scorn and contempt.

There are probably not many such topics. Whole encyclopaedias, encyclopedias and other rference works have been combed through to ensure that all topics in them are covered. Of course, quite a few are covered very badly, but that's a different thread. Actually, I said in the third post in the thread "I take the point that many people here don't want to see Wikipedia improved".

[Poetlister]

It's some time since I saw something in this thread the lack of which was so egregious that it held Wikipedia up to scorn and contempt.

There are probably not many such topics. Whole encyclopaedias, encyclopedias and other rference works have been combed through to ensure that all topics in them are covered. Of course, quite a few are covered very badly, but that's a different thread. Actually, I said in the third post in the thread "I take the point that many people here don't want to see Wikipedia improved".

I've found one. The Federation of Synagogues, based in London, is one of the largest synagogue bodies in the world, with 23 members and affiliates.

[Bezdomni]

Not so much missing as under-stuffed is the page for SAE-A trading. ^^

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sae-A_Trading
https://libcom.org/news/vietnam-6000-wo ... y-10092017

[Kingsindian]

Enterprise unionism, a form of labor organization in Japan. See Britannica article.

Labor unions in Japan (T-H-L) mentions enterprise unions without defining the concept.

[Poetlister]

Enterprise unionism, a form of labor organization in Japan. See Britannica article.

Labor unions in Japan (T-H-L) mentions enterprise unions without defining the concept.

You'd think that people would comb through Britannica to ensure that Wikipedia covers everything that Britannica does.

[mynameisnotdave]

I'm currently on a mission to write about all 120 current deputies of the Jogorku Kenesh, Kyrgyzstan's legislature. 116 to go -- yes, they are all notable under NPOLITICIAN as members of a national legislature, but nobody has ever bothered. Poor Kyrgyzstan, hidden and forgotten.

[Poetlister]

, Notdave. Yes, it's very important to ensure that everyone who passes the notability rules gets an article. Make sure you get all the former deputies, too.

[thekohser]

I'm currently on a mission to write about all 120 current deputies of the Jogorku Kenesh, Kyrgyzstan's legislature. 116 to go -- yes, they are all notable under NPOLITICIAN as members of a national legislature, but nobody has ever bothered. Poor Kyrgyzstan, hidden and forgotten.

Good luck! Maybe that will push the percentage of all your Wikipedia edits that are in Article space over the coveted 50% threshold.

[Poetlister]

Since Bangladesh is now regsrded as a country where domestic cricket matches can be regarded as First Class, there must be loads of Bangladeshi cricketers who qualify as notable. Pretty hard to research beyond what you'd find on sites like ESPNcricinfo.

[greyed.out.fields]

Since Bangladesh is now regsrded as a country where domestic cricket matches can be regarded as First Class, there must be loads of Bangladeshi cricketers who qualify as notable. Pretty hard to research beyond what you'd find on sites like ESPNcricinfo.

And CricketArchive (T-H-L) is now subscription-only.

[Johnny Au]

Since Bangladesh is now regsrded as a country where domestic cricket matches can be regarded as First Class, there must be loads of Bangladeshi cricketers who qualify as notable. Pretty hard to research beyond what you'd find on sites like ESPNcricinfo.

And CricketArchive (T-H-L) is now subscription-only.

There really needs to be a cricket counterpart to baseball's Fangraphs (T-H-L). Otherwise, it just isn't cricket.