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Please read Wikipedia:Cleanup process for instructions on maintaining this page. There may be more suitable pages for requests, see the resources for collaboration box on the right.

For articles that just need wikification, you should use the {{wikify}} template. See Category:Articles that need to be wikified for articles that need wikifying.

If an article needs further cleaning up, add {{cleanup}} to the top of the article. To see articles with this tag added, see Category:Cleanup

Some editors prefer that helpers work on leftovers and older articles, just to deal with them and get them out of the way. See the cleanup calendar for requests from previous months. But either preference, new or old; all help is appreciated. If you have a cleanup routine, add your name and your routine preferences (how often, old/new articles, what subjects, etc ) to the cleanup routine list.

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November 6

List of 30,000 bits of wiki syntax for cleanup.

At the newly created Wiki Syntax Project I've just added around 20,000 items of malformed wiki syntax (made up of 140 items per page broken down into 140 sub-pages, additional to which there are another 10,000 top-up items I'll add next week). This includes malformed wiki square brackets (not closed or opened properly), malformed ordinary brackets (not actually a wiki syntax, just grammatically wrong), malformed headings, malformed bold or italics quotes (usually that haven't been closed at the end of the line), and malformed curly brace constructs. There are simply far too many items for just one person to do - so I am posting to Cleanup asking for help. For each item there is a link to the article that has the problem, a description of the problem (the type of unclosed or unopened syntax), and the beginning of the line that has the problem (so all the problems should hopefully be easy to locate). This second and more complete run follows on from a very successful first run (in which 68 people fixed 1500 brackets in under 4 days). This second run is significantly larger (around 20 times the size), as it includes reports of more problems, plus it's for the whole Wikipedia (the previous run covered less than half of all articles, and focussed mostly on one type of problem - i.e. square brackets). -- Nickj 03:52, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)


November 5

from the lead of this page:

For articles that just need wikification, you should use the {{wikify}} template. See Category:Articles that need to be wikified for articles that need wikifying. text dumps generally need some copyediting as well. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 13:35, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

Does anybody peruse the category to see which articles are listed there and actually do any cleaning of them? RickK 20:37, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)
Don't know. But even if no one was, we should be trying to get people there, right? [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 22:41, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)


November 4

  • Justin Yifu Lin Copyvio? VFD?
  • Tony Knowles (politician) I'm not sure if I should be putting this problem on this page, but someone put a copyvio notice on this article and moved the content to a temporary page almost three months ago. Since then, noone has either addressed the copyright problem or added to the temporary article, even though Knowles just ran for US Senate and lost the election this week. Academic Challenger 05:49, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Masturbation - a self-indulgent (no pun intended) mess of an article - Nunh-huh 04:18, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Arthur Symington - in need of wikification -- Graham ☺ | Talk 00:53, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Baiotomeus -- A prehistoric...uh...mammal...? This page is really messed up; there's no other way to put it. Author refers to himself. I'm not sure what to do with it. There are several like it I've found in the Category list of Prehistoric mammals and almost the entire category of Mesozoic mammals. --DanielCD 22:35, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Spanish alphabet - Pronunciation section should be on seperate lines, in columns, or in a table.--Apollo2011 21:42, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Jeremy Sumpter - needs expansion, only contains info on Peter Pan, doesn't give mationality, doesn't mention Frailty and is filled with trivia. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:05, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Carmelo Bron: Not entirely convinced that this is genuine, but if it is, it needs a lot of work to make it meaningful. Deb 18:54, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Bagratuni: New, needs help with phrasing. --Zigger 17:12, 2004 Nov 4 (UTC)
  • Hung parliament. "Current parliament of Canada" - a date would be useful.
  • Most Emperors of Vietname linked from Nguyen Dynasty, need copyedit, lead section, vietnamese name in article, succession footer boxes... Also some redlinks, may be able to translate the French version. Dunc|☺ 12:45, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Gothic rock - choppy, could be better organized, especially 3rd generation or even whole article. Grice 12:00, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Ethelfleda consists of two bits of duplicate text which need merging together. G-Man 13:48, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Stewart Swerdlow was listed for deletion, but it appears to be a valid subject. At the moment it contains little more than crackpottery presented as a fact and needs complete reworking. (The changes that were made so far were just cosmetic.) - Mike Rosoft 13:54, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

November 3

  • Zedo - article about an internet ad-serving company, largely concerned with the meaning of its name. Hmmm. --rbrwr±
  • Liberal arts - Needs dealing with.
  • Was vandalized, reverted. - RedWordSmith 01:12, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Exceedingly minor. Sending to VfD. - RedWordSmith 01:12, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • now fully cleaned up at Ice sculpture. Could still use expansion though. --Air 14:50, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Is now properly formatted substub. Needs serious expansion. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] )

November 2

November 1

October 31

Wikified 198.164.135.45 13:55, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

October 29

  • Cage Kennylz - check for notability. If not notable, list on VfD; if notable, needs npoving, cleanup, sources. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]]
  • Parenthood - needs npoving, wikification, context, formatting, and categories. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 22:32, Oct 30, 2004 UTC)
  • List of colonial governors in 1778 Messy... incomplete. Copyediting as well. Estel
  • Slaughterhouse - shamelessly NPOV, and it looks like some useful info has been removed. Ppe42
    • Now significantly reworked and a bit more balanced. -- Solipsist 09:48, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Oregon, My Oregon [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]]
  • Shuffle - needs some copyediting (especially in Randomization section) and some wikification. -- [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]]
  • Haute-Savoie: the Bonneville link leads to a disambiguation page (most of the entries for which have not been done).
  • Kdu college--Malaysian university needs de-adverting, wikifying. I'd do it myself, but I'm not sure if this is the right title. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]]
  • Plutus (play) needs a complete rewrite from the top. As is it should be at VfD, but the subject is worthwhile, so it'd be better to see it improved right away. -R. fiend
  • David Vetter - quite nicely said, this looks like a Mad Lib. This needs much more research and proper Wiki write-up. I added the birth and death dates, which is a big change from the previous bit, saying he lived in "the sixties". Mike H
  • Category:Manitoba politicians: Minor point: many biographies (110/260?) in this category don't mention the person's date or year of birth. -- User:Docu
    • As the person who created most of these biographies, I can tell you that the dobs were not always available. I included this information wherever possible, and left it pending otherwise.
    • I'd appreciate it if someone (or some people) would fill in the birthdates for the individual biographies, but this information isn't always easy to obtain -- besides which, it doesn't really have anything to do with the category page itself. I've removed the cleanup notice for these reasons, though I wouldn't object to a request for information notice being raised on this subject. CJCurrie 00:41, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
      • I agree that the "cleanup" notice on the category was not ideal, but might have been the easiest solution. Maybe a list of the biographies that could use the additional information is better. I added the category as it's one of the five categories with the most articles where I couldn't find the information for People by year. This is really minor, but, as most of them are contemporaries and candidates in elections, I would have thought the year of birth may be easily available. Naturally the information needing to be published about a candidate varies from one country to another and, as you already researched the individuals, we might directly remove the category from Cleanup. -- User:Docu
  • [[List_of_stations_of_the_Paris_M%E9tro]] The stations, except a few, shouldn't have their own page. Isn't there a map of the Paris Metro? [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]]
    • The talk page has a big discussion about this problem from an old VfD. Someone went in and fired off pages for all of them, now they sit stagnant. Half a year ago there was much talk, but nothing was done - the VfD essentially didn't go through. If the deletion call succeeded, you'd probably end up with something like the TTC subway, which I prefer, personally - stations are listed on a page for their line, rather than a page for every station. The other extreme is the London Underground approach. The difference between the Paris and London pages, of course, is that there were enough Londoners (and there was possibly enough history) to flesh out a good number of the London station pages... Any volunteers for Paris? Krupo
    • Made redirects, but upon inspection they turned out to be ill-formed. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 03:41, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
  • Systems Commonwealth. Also listed on Copyvio but, assuming it doesn't get toasted, it could do with splitting up. The article isn't just about the Systems Commonwealth (from the TV series Andromeda), but about the whole storyline and backplot. — OwenBlacker 05:06, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

October 28

List of 1500 malformed wiki brackets for cleanup

I've got a list of wiki pages with malformed syntax - in particular malformed wiki brackets (not closed or opened properly). At first I tried fixing these pages myself, but quickly realised that there were far too many for just one person to do - so I am posting to Cleanup asking for help. For each item there is a link to the article that has the problem, a description of the problem (the type of mismatched brackets), and the beginning of the line that has the problem (so all the problems should hopefully be easy to locate). -- Nickj 00:56, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Today's other items

*Jean-Baptiste Drouet (Napoleonic soldier) - more of a timeline than an article. -R. fiend 16:46, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

    • It is in CV style which is perfect for minor Napoleonic players. It is the way that articles are written in the EBII just they wrap them up into paragraphs this way the expansion is easier. Philip Baird Shearer 19:19, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • The Thin Red Line (1962 novel) Reads more like a school essay than an encyclopedic article. Joyous
  • Bouches-du-Rhône - Istres prefecture leads to the air base of that name, rather than the place with which it is associated.
  • Guild of One-Name Studies - notable organisations, it's also one that I belong to (!), just needs wikifying. I'd do it myself but I don't have time just now. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 13:01, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Oradour-sur-Glane - now consists primarily of what seems to be a highly improvisational Nazi justification of an atrocity Nunh-huh 04:29, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Now severely edited down and hopefully NPOV'd-- please review the changes. -- The Anome 01:49, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
      • Much improved now. There's still the problem that we explicitly give one POV (killing a village of men, women, and children is a good tactical move that saves valuable German lives, which are the ones that really count) without explicitly giving the other (the lives of French children are at least as valuable as those of Nazi soldiers, and soldiers killing unarmed civilian children is a bad thing.) - Nunh-huh 18:37, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Saint Dominguito del Val - Would like an NPOV rendering of the event. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 02:51, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • Born in Flames: Needs editing into Wikipedia NPOV style: at the moment it's advocacy. -- The Anome 02:11, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Cleaned quite a bit. Took out as much POV as I could without compromising too much of the film's theme (from what I could tell; I haven't seen it. someone who has should probably check it too). -R. fiend 18:05, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Vitor Belfort Needs much copyediting and wikification. --LeeHunter 18:26, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Commercialism: well wikified, but naive. Mikkalai 18:50, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Radar History: Badly needs cleanup or to be deleted. Possible copyvio? Sarge Baldy 22:27, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

October 27

October 26

  • Metagonimiasis - more medical info from Vogon - [[User:Cohesion|cohesion ☎]] 08:34, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)
  • Sullivan's Cove - needs context, wikification - [[User:Cohesion|cohesion ☎]] 08:31, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)
  • Orange (word) - basically says there's no word that rhymes with orange. Needs fact-checking given the VfD listing of quorange. - RedWordSmith
  • Interesting number paradox a mathematician has to rewrite this article away from its sensationalist, rather than encyclopedic style. Some statements are plain false if under scrutiny (I've already removed the most evident one). Mikkalai 00:03, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • IDrive - Confusing substub. Norman Rogers 23:26, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Direct Worship - unwikified text dump. RickK 23:13, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
    • Wikified and cleaned up, some searching doesn't show a direct copyvio from other webpages indexed by Google. --ABQCat 01:47, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Gothia - written by non-native English speaker, unwikified. RickK 23:11, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
    • cleanup done WpZurp 03:22, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Liberation Day - unwikified. There are probably more Liberation Days that can be discussed here. RickK 23:08, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Whittier, Minneapolis - unwikified text dump. RickK 22:57, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Gäufelden - was originally written in German, has been badly translated into English, has red links which shouldn't be red, bad image formatting. RickK 22:55, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Tuluá - unwikfied text dump. Reads like a copyvio, highly POV, unencyclopedic style. RickK 22:54, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • The Oxford Student - unwikified. RickK 21:56, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Duban - unwikified text dump. RickK 21:22, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Jeans - needs a lot of work including wikification and rewriting. Lots of material reads like it was copied from other places. Were jeans really invented in Genoa, or do they just derive their name from there? RickK 21:11, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Vella-Clary--nobility ultra stub. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 20:56, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Integrative Psychotherapy is written in first person and with a conversational tone.Lumos3 19:43, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • "stephen d. lee" needs factcheck, wikification, and (obviously) a move to a real title. -R. fiend 18:11, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Lorraine needs some tidying up/NPOVing: and can Condom-the-place, Gers, be separated from the object (slightly inappropriate in a library). Likewise Saint Gaudens from Haute Garonne leads to a person. Jackiespeel 17:31, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Edgar Cayce on Karma - Inclusion dispute; merge proposal. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 06:42, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Oberon-V - Someone who can make sense of this should clean it. Otherwise it should be sent to VfD. -R. fiend 05:33, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Reggio Emilia approach - This article is yelling at me :'( Sarge Baldy 04:28, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
    • Might be a copyvio; the sentences I checked turned up alot of verbatim google hits. Is it public domain? Are they all wikiclones? Well, I got it to stop yelling at least, Sarge (there there...) -R. fiend 05:40, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Eric Schmidt - Most likely press release from Google; probably copyvio; needs dePOVing. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 01:24, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Norfolk Southern, while wikified, reads like a corporate brochure. Doesn't seem to be a copyvio though. I don't know anything about this company, so I can't even try to fix it. Kiand 01:17, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • I did a bit of cleanup on it today slambo 23:40, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Avraam benaroya looks like someone's rather long speech. There is useful information here, but it is certainly not in the format of an encyclopedia article. Needs some serious pruning, formatting, TLC. SWAdair | Talk 07:40, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

October 25

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