Wikipedia:Historical archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - People and culture

This poll is now closed

These articles concerning People and Culture were added to Wikipedia:Brilliant prose before the institution of the Nomination system that is presently in use. Moreover, some of them are more than a year old and the standards of wikipedia have (fortunately) improved since then.

Now we call upon all wikipedians to have a say on these articles. You can vote only with your signature for:

• Keep or
• Remove

Please add short comments within parentheses after your vote, and long comments on the talk page.

Within a month, on the new year, the Brilliant prose page will be refreshed according to the voting. Articles with no vote at all will be considered boring and will be removed.

Vote also on:

• Wikipedia:Refreshing brilliant prose - Science
• Wikipedia:Refreshing brilliant prose - History and religion
• Wikipedia:Refreshing brilliant prose - Others

Biography

• Achilles
  • Keep - Warofdreams, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, llywrch - could someone explain in the Talk section how to improve on this article? , Karl Schalike
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Bmills, Alex.tan

• Mortimer Adler
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Alex.tan, Warofdreams, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

• Alexander the Great
  • Keep - Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
  • Remove - Muriel Victoria, Tuf-Kat, Adam Bishop, Bmills, Warofdreams, Karl Schalike

• Ibn Battuta
  • Keep - Ilya
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Warofdreams

• Humphrey Bogart
  • Keep - Wikikiwi
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Warofdreams

• Leonardo da Vinci
  • Keep - Warofdreams, Gentgeen, llywrch - could someone explain in the Talk section how to improve on this article?, Karl Schalike
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Bmills

• Paul Erdös
  • Keep - Tuf-Kat, Ilya, The Anome
  • Remove - Warofdreams

• Jim Henson
  • Keep - Tuf-Kat, Wiwaxia, Warofdreams, Gentgeen
  • Remove

• Alfred Hitchcock
  • Keep - Wikikiwi, Warofdreams
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat

• Homer
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Bmills, Warofdreams, Karl Schalike

• Stephen King
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Warofdreams

• Rudyard Kipling
  • Keep - Tlotoxl, Warofdreams, Karl Schalike
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Bmills

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Warofdreams

• Nella Larsen
  • Keep - Wikikiwi
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Warofdreams

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Keep - Warofdreams
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Bmills

• Joshua A. Norton
  • Keep - Cimon Avaro on a pogostick Arwel, Bmills, Wiwaxia, Minesweeper, Warofdreams Earl Andrew, Gentgeen, Scooter, Karl Schalike
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Chadloder

• Perseus
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Warofdreams

• Rhazes
  • Keep - Cimon Avaro on a pogostick, Warofdreams
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, llywrch

• Rembrandt van Rijn
  • Keep - Tuf-Kat, Karl Schalike
  • Remove - Warofdreams

• Martha Stewart
  • Keep - Warofdreams
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat

• Eugene Wigner
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Warofdreams

Culture

• Analogue disc record
  • Keep - Tuf-Kat, Wikikiwi, KF
  • Remove

• Crime fiction
  • Keep - Wikikiwi (well, no longer after a complete butchering of the text)
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, ChrisG

• Montparnasse
  • Keep - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Karl Schalike
  • Remove - Gentgeen

• Prostitution
  • Keep - Tuf-Kat, Antonio I love Prostitutes and Great Articles Martin, Alex.tan
  • Remove - Kingturtle, Bmills, : ChrisG

Economics

• Economics
  • Keep - Kingturtle, Karl Schalike
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat

• History of the English penny (and related pages)
  • Keep - Arwel, Hephaestos, Karl Schalike
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Bmills

• Euro
  • Keep - Kingturtle Arwel, Wikikiwi, Sam
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat

• London congestion charge
  • Keep - Tuf-Kat, snoyes, Arwel, Kingturtle, ChrisG,Minesweeper, KF
  • Remove - Wikikiwi

• Market form (and related pages)
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle

Film, TV and radio

• Film theory
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle

• Have I Got News For You
  • Keep - Tuf-Kat Arwel
  • Remove - Kingturtle

• Paramount Pictures
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Lee M, Karl Schalike

• The Simpsons episodes, for example There's No Disgrace Like Home
  • Keep Earl Andrew Acegikmo1
  • Remove - Muriel Victoria, Tuf-Kat Arwel, Bmills, Wikikiwi, HappyDog

• Star Trek
  • Keep - Acegikmo1
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle

• The Today programme
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle

• Three Colors: Blue
  • Keep - Karl Schalike
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Bmills

Games

• Blackjack
  • Keep - Gentgeen
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle

• Bridge
  • Keep - Gareth Owen, Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Alex.tan, Chadloder
  • Remove

• Chess
  • Keep - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Alex.tan, Karl Schalike, Natalinasmpf
  • Remove

• Chess strategy and tactics
  • Keep - Kingturtle, Alex.tan
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat

• Go (board game)
  • Keep - snoyes, Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Alex.tan, Natalinasmpf
  • Remove

• Poker
  • Keep - Gentgeen
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat

• Prisoner's dilemma
  • Keep - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Natalinasmpf
  • Remove - Gentgeen

• Pub quiz
  • Keep - Wikikiwi
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle

• Sample chess game
  • Keep - snoyes, Kingturtle
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Alex.tan

• Rock, Paper, Scissors
  • Keep - Cimon Avaro on a pogostick, Tuf-Kat, Minesweeper
  • Remove - Tlotoxl, Wikikiwi, Chadloder

Language

• British English
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Bmills

• Hebrew language
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle

• Chinese language
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Jiang, Kingturtle

• Chinese written language
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Jiang, Kingturtle

• Japanese language
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle

• Neologism
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Hephaestos, Kingturtle

• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
  • Keep - snoyes, Tuf-Kat
  • Remove - Bmills

Music

• Disco
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle

• Freestyle music
  • Keep
  • Remove - Gareth Owen, Tuf-Kat, Tlotoxl, Kingturtle

• Hip hop music
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle

• Jazz
  • Keep - Gareth Owen, Karl Schalike
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle

• Madonna
  • Keep - Kingturtle
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat

• Musical instrument
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle

• Roy Orbison
  • Keep - Kingturtle
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat

• Pickup
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle

• Punk rock
  • Keep - Gareth Owen
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle

• Saxophone
  • Keep - Tuf-Kat
  • Remove - Gentgeen (there are some akward sentinces)

• Sex Pistols
  • Keep - Gareth Owen, Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle
  • Remove

• Simon and Garfunkel
  • Keep - Gareth Owen
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Bmills, Kingturtle

• Talking Heads
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat Tlotoxl, Kingturtle