Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography/Core biographies/Archive 9

message: ; This is the second half of the voting booth archive.
Alright, it looks like people just can't agree. So, here's my suggestion: we need to have a vote. I'm going to list all of the above people who have been nominated for either deletion or addition. THE ONLY WAY ANYONE WILL BE ADDED IS IF SOMEONE IS REMOVED. So even if, let's say Marie Curie has the most supporting votes, if no consensus can be reached on any of the deletion nominees, Curie won't be added.
#Voting will end one week from September 12, meaning you have until September 19 0:00 UTC (midnight) to get your votes in.
#We will only delete one person per addition, plus one extra to get to 200 from 201 if anyone wants to.
You don't have to give a reason for your vote, but if you do, keep it short. Sound good? Then let's get going. (Note: I have copied a few votes from the above discussions to jump start the process. Before you vote for something, make sure I didn't already vote for you — if you were placed incorrectly, please change your vote.) ♠ SG →Talk 21:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voting booth 

message: ====Le Corbusier====
# Support Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additions 

message: # Support Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Le Corbusier]]

message: ; Succeeded
# Support Durova 04:42, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Marie Curie]]

message: # Support White Guard 23:28, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Ramesses II]]

message: # Support Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu]]

message: # Support Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[William Wilberforce]]

message: ; Succeeded
# Support Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[William Wordsworth]]

message: # Support White Guard 23:28, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Émile Zola]]

message: ====Edmund Burke====
# Delete Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletions 

message: # Delete Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Edmund Burke]]

message: # Keep ♠ SG →Talk 21:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Cleopatra VII of Egypt]]

message: # Delete Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Frederick Douglass]]

message: ; Deleted
# Neutral. I don't know much about her, so I'll refrain from voting. ♠ SG →Talk 21:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Indira Gandhi]]

message: # Keep ♠ SG →Talk 21:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Che Guevara]]

message: ; Deleted
# Delete Neutral. Well-known, but I'm not too sure about his influence. The hell with it, time to be bold. ♠ SG →Talk 21:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Hirohito]]

message: # Delete Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Michael Jordan]]

message: # Keep ♠ SG →Talk 21:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Søren Kierkegaard]]

message: # Delete Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Bruce Lee]]

message: # Keep ♠ SG →Talk 21:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Thomas Malthus]]

message: # Delete Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Benito Mussolini]]

message: ; Deleted
# Delete Durova 02:50, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Alfred Nobel]]

message: # Delete Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Jackie Robinson]]

message: # Delete Durova 02:50, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Walter Scott]]

message: # Keep ♠ SG →Talk 21:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Mother Teresa]]

message: # Delete Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Sun Tzu]]

message: # Keep Maurreen 13:59, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Andy Warhol]]

message: # Delete Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Walt Whitman]]

message: # Delete Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[William I of England]]

message: # Delete Stonemad GB 18:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Frank Lloyd Wright]]

message: # Delete Kaldari 15:52, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Columba]]

message: # Delete plange 19:36, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Babe Ruth]]

message: Rather than bolding articles that are most refernced can they instead be followed by (R)? Then we could also add (FA) after articles that are featured.-Ravedave (help name my baby) 00:25, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK on first, but on second we decided not to do that because hopefully these ratings will be changing, etc.. and so instead we're using this as our worklist --plange 22:17, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  referenced/FA 

message: Of what concern is the voting booth? Adraeus 11:50, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: People kept coming in and adding people at random, without even discussing it. Others nominated many additions and deletions. After this voting booth, I hope we can make the list 100% OFFICIAL, meaning no matter who else is nominated, the list will remain as-is (at least until after version 1.0). ♠ SG →Talk 19:17, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I mean... what's the voting booth for? Add to what? Delete from what? I almost understood what was going on until I saw that there were a number of votes to delete Alfred Nobel and Andy Warhol which just strikes me as odd. Adraeus 20:27, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, just read the top of the project page and you'll understand what it's all about. ♠ SG →Talk 20:59, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it really Wikipedia's place to determine the top 200 biographies? After all, Wikimedia isn't Forbes. (WP:NOR) Adraeus 01:44, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is WikiProject Biography that is doing this to help come up with a target of articles to improve, hopefully for inclusion in WP:1.0 --plange 01:49, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voting booth? What's that? 

message: Inclusion:
*Aleksandr Pushkin  (Russian national writer/poet; What Shakespeare is to England, Pushkin is to Russia)
**Oppose ♠ SG →Talk 06:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Great balls of fire! I think this will be the final round of nominations. If any of the additions here succeed, we'll either find a deletion from your deletion list or from the voting booth, depending on which one has more delete votes. ♠ SG →Talk 06:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Let's keep the list as it is.  We already went through a large vote to assess additions and deletions. Durova 18:30, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Here's a proposal.  Various of the projects are actively engaged in assessment to determine which articles are most important to them.  This includes biographical articles.  Maybe we could make a list of which biographical articles are of "top" importance to the various projects doing assessments and propose them for inclusion in the top list.  It would probably be the only way for the most important or prominent people in some of the less-well-known or less-highly-regarded disciplines to get considered for inclusion. Badbilltucker 15:47, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some new proposals