Talk:2012

2012 was a History good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
May 9, 2007	Articles for deletion	Kept
January 13, 2012	Good article nominee	Not listed

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Hebe Camargo

Hebe Camargo: all non-English are stubs were robot added and therefore notation in the world article should be to exclude or you have not checked?--68.231.15.56 (talk) 21:20, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(Edit conflict, didn't see the above before saving)I've removed her this from the Deaths section as there is something fishy about her non-English articles. Her English article was started in January 2010 and within a few months it appears that articles in EVERY other wiki language were created. This seems to be the work of a single Chilean editor using various IP addresses. The majority of the foreign language articles I looked at have only 1 or 2 lines of text and the same image. This makes it very difficult to assess any actual notability although I doubt there is sufficient for inclusion in this article. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 21:26, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

i looked at the 16 references listed in the article - none is from anywhere other than Brazil and many are dead links - the ones that exist appear to be from less significant quality sources--68.231.15.56 (talk) 00:13, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nice catch, the number of IW links misled me too, at first. I agree that her international notability is dubious at best. — Yerpo ^Eh? 09:53, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Turkish army launched an artillery strike on Syria in retaliation for a Syrian mortar attack

Turkish army launched an artillery strike on Syria in retaliation for a Syrian mortar attack

- too minor to include I think - if included this would then probably require "every" shelling across border of Isreal from Gaza to be also included--68.231.15.56 (talk) 23:53, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, just one in a row of recent incidents between the countries. Would be good to monitor the situation, though. If this escalates, it will surely be eligible for inclusion. — Yerpo ^Eh? 09:52, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Skydiver

24miles dose not convert to 23km...24 miles is 38.64 kilometers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.33.10.155 (talk) 16:12, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There needs to be a space where it says "24 miles(23 kilometers)" in the October section about the skydiver dude. Between 24 miles and (23 kilometers). - Kuzey457 (talk) 19:54, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

done--68.231.15.56 (talk) 02:28, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

United Sates?

In the October 14 part about Felix Baumgartner, they misspelled "United States" as "United Sates". Shouldn't that be fixed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.111.86.106 (talk) 13:37, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done Thanks. It's corrected.--McSly (talk) 13:40, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

George McGovern

George McGovern's image should be repersenting the october death section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edge4life42 (talk • contribs) 23:52, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why? There are plenty of political figures represented by images in the Deaths section. For balance there should be a sportsperson. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 02:17, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

i looked at the soccer player's bio - he barely is notable enough to be included on the page (FIFA cup = "zero" wins) - and yet, unless there is a better death from here to the end of the month as it stands i either vote for him (as derby says out of balance) or there should be no one--68.231.15.56 (talk) 04:21, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yash Chopra

I would like to ask other editors if he is notable enough and should be included in "Deaths" because

majority of non-English articles are written in languages used in India, and
articles in Italian and Korean seem to be copy-edit.

---What can I do for someone?- (talk) 07:12, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

INCLUDE - has has an extensive article on IMDB - so i dont think he is overrated--68.231.15.56 (talk) 07:26, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

He is an almost marginal case going by WP:RY. He only had 7 non-English/non-Indian articles at death and those were almost entirely stubs/clones. He does however have a number of international awards which would seem to indicate sufficient international notability. Include. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 09:31, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

J. Bernlef

Removed as although he now has more than 9 non-English articles they all appear to be stub/clones of the English article which itself is barely more than a stub and a list of works and prizes (which appear to all be Dutch). DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 21:20, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

EXCLUDE - does not meet WP:RY--68.231.15.56 (talk) 11:53, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request on 2 November 2012

Request deletion of the solar maximum scheduled for December 2012, already flagged as citation required - Nasa puts it at July 2013 ^[1]

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110.139.185.200 (talk) 07:47, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

^ http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/20jul_tasteofsolarmax/

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