Wikipedia:Historical archive/Refreshing brilliant prose - Science

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This poll is now closed Bmills 10:03, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)

These articles concerning Science 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.

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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.

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Contents 1 Philosophy, Mathematics, and Natural Science 2 Applied Arts and Sciences 3 Medicine & health 4 Psychology

[edit] Philosophy, Mathematics, and Natural Science

• Alchemy
  • Keep
  • Remove - Bmills, Gentgeen, Kingturtle, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Tuf-Kat, whkoh

• Astronomy and astrophysics
  • Keep - zandperl (but change to astronomy)
  • Remove - Tlotoxl, Gentgeen, Kingturtle, Bmills, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Tuf-Kat

• Biology
  • Keep
  • Remove - Gentgeen, Kingturtle, Bmills, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Tuf-Kat, Alex.tan...ping, whkoh

• Carbon
  • Keep - Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Stewart Adcock, Tuf-Kat, Alex.tan, Acegikmo1 20:46, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Remove - Gentgeen

• Cladistics
  • Keep - Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Stewart Adcock, Marshman 23:13, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Remove - Kingturtle, Gentgeen, Tuf-Kat, ping, Ryan_Cable

• Comet
  • Keep - Gentgeen
  • Remove - Kingturtle, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Stewart Adcock, Tuf-Kat, Bryan

• Computational complexity theory (and related pages)
  • Keep - Stewart Adcock, Ryan_Cable
  • Remove - Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

• Diamond
  • Keep - Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
  • Remove - Gentgeen, Stewart Adcock, Tuf-Kat, Alex.tan

• DNA
  • Keep - (although I have a stake)168..., Gentgeen, Stewart Adcock, Tuf-Kat, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Bryan, Marshman 23:13, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Remove

• Earth
  • Keep - Muriel Victoria, Gentgeen, Tuf-Kat, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Marshman 23:13, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Remove 168... 05:23, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

• Electron hole
  • Keep
  • Remove - Gentgeen, Stewart Adcock, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

• Free will
  • Keep - Bryan, User:Sander123
  • Remove - Gentgeen, Tuf-Kat, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

• Game theory
  • Keep - Kingturtle, Stewart Adcock, Tuf-Kat, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Wile E. Heresiarch
  • Remove - Gentgeen

• Gene
  • Keep - Tuf-Kat, (although I have a stake)168..., Kingturtle, Gentgeen, Stewart Adcock, Alex.tan
  • Remove - Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

• Geologic ages (and related pages)
  • Keep
  • Remove - Muriel Victoria, Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Gentgeen (needs fleshing out), Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Bryan

• Glass
  • Keep - Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Gentgeen (opening section too long, needs a good edit), Ryan_Cable

• Global warming
  • Keep
  • Remove - Kingturtle, Tuf-Kat, Gentgeen (too long, should be two or three articles), Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

• Helium
  • Keep - Kingturtle, Gentgeen, Tuf-Kat, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
  • Remove

• LSD
  • Keep - Gentgeen, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Ryan_Cable
  • Remove - Kingturtle, Tuf-Kat

• Occam's Razor
  • Keep - Bryan
  • Remove - Bmills, Cimon Avaro on a pogostick, Tuf-Kat, Ryan_Cable

• Ordinal number
  • Keep
  • Remove - Stewart Adcock, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

• Paleontology
  • Keep
  • Remove - Muriel Victoria, Kingturtle, Tuf-Kat, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Wile E. Heresiarch

• Paradox (and related pages)
  • Keep - r3m0t
  • Remove - Kingturtle, Tuf-Kat, Bryan, Wile E. Heresiarch

• Periodic table
  • Keep - Kingturtle. ping, Gentgeen
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Bryan, Ryan_Cable

• Platypus
  • Keep - Gentgeen
  • Remove - Bmills, Tuf-Kat

• Protist (and related pages)
  • Keep - Gentgeen
  • Remove - Kingturtle, Tuf-Kat

• Pythagorean theorem
  • Keep - Bmills, Tuf-Kat, Metasquares, Bryan
  • Remove

• Quantum mechanics
  • Keep - Bmills, Ryan_Cable
  • Remove - Cimon Avaro on a pogostick

• Rainbow
  • Keep - Kingturtle, Bryan, Alex.tan
  • Remove -.Cimon Avaro on a pogostick, Tuf-Kat, Ryan_Cable

• Statistics (and related pages)
  • Keep
  • Remove - Kingturtle, Tuf-Kat, Wile E. Heresiarch

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

[edit] Applied Arts and Sciences

• Algorithm
  • Keep - Kingturtle, Stewart Adcock, Tuf-Kat
  • Remove

• Application Programming Interface
  • Keep
  • Remove - Kingturtle, Stewart Adcock

• ASCII
  • Keep - —Eloquence, Kingturtle, Tuf-Kat, Bryan
  • Remove

• Code
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Kingturtle, Stewart Adcock

• Computer numbering formats
  • Keep - r3m0t, Ryan_Cable
  • Remove - Kingturtle, Tuf-Kat

• ECHELON
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Ryan_Cable

• Electronic amplifier
  • Keep - Graham 01:30, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Remove

• Fountain pen
  • Keep - Kingturtle, Tuf-Kat
  • Remove

• Information theory
  • Keep
  • Remove - Cimon Avaro on a pogostick, Stewart Adcock, Tuf-Kat, Wile E. Heresiarch

• Knot
  • Keep
  • Remove - Alex.tan, Cimon Avaro on a pogostick, Stewart Adcock, Tuf-Kat

• Markup language
  • Keep - Tuf-Kat
  • Remove - Kingturtle, Ryan_Cable

• Nuclear weapon
  • Keep - Alex.tan, Stewart Adcock, Tuf-Kat, Bryan, Acegikmo1 21:34, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Remove

• Quantum computer
  • Keep - Stewart Adcock, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Ryan_Cable
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat

• Road transport
  • Keep - Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
  • Remove - Kingturtle, Tuf-Kat, Alex.tan

• Search engine
  • Keep - Kingturtle, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Ryan_Cable

• Secure computing
  • Keep - Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Ryan_Cable

• Spamming
  • Keep - Stewart Adcock, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Alex.tan
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat

• Typewriter
  • Keep - Kingturtle, Tuf-Kat, Ryan_Cable
  • Remove - Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

• Telephone exchange
  • Keep
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

• World Wide Web
  • Keep - Kingturtle
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Ryan_Cable

[edit] Medicine & health

• Anorexia nervosa
  • Keep - Muriel Victoria, Kingturtle
  • Remove - Tuf-Kat, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Ryan_Cable

• Tuberculosis
  • Keep - Muriel Victoria, Kingturtle, Alex.tan, Tuf-Kat, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
  • Remove

• Menstrual cycle
  • Keep - Muriel Victoria, Kingturtle, Tuf-Kat
  • Remove - Stewart Adcock, Alex.tan, Ryan_Cable

• Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
  • Keep - Muriel Victoria, Kingturtle, Alex.tan, Stewart Adcock, Tuf-Kat, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Acegikmo1 21:34, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Remove

[edit] Psychology

• Milgram experiment
  • Keep - —Eloquence, Kingturtle, Alex.tan, Gentgeen, Tuf-Kat, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Angela., Acegikmo1 21:34, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Remove - Wile E. Heresiarch

• Psychosis
  • Keep - Stewart Adcock, Tuf-Kat, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, Angela.
  • Remove