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● Category:Articles needing cleanup has lists of articles tagged for cleanup. ● If you've arrived at this page from a link on a {{ cleanup}} template in an article, the article may not meet one or more of Wikipedia's content standards. Information on the cleanup process may be found at Wikipedia:Cleanup process. Other resources are located at Wikipedia:Cleanup resources and Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup. If the article requires expert attention see template:Expert. ● See Wikipedia:BACKLOG for more articles tagged as needing various improvements.
See the project's archives for work editors have accomplished. Entries dated over one year are also archived. Index 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 21
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May 2024

• Tu'i Pulotu- Fixes needed in tone, almost written like an explanatory essay. Fails to be an Wikipedia article at all, and needs to have more sources, as it only relies on one. User:Blackmamba31248 ( talk)
• Voorhees Town Center - Some bare URLs in references. Tinton5 ( talk) 05:55, 6 May 2024 (UTC) reply
• Gupta–Hunnic Wars - needs general cleanup and formatting. Can anyone please fix an error in the bibliography section? And please fix the possible hyperlinkings. Jonharojjashi ( talk) 13:36, 2 May 2024 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonharojjashi ( talk • contribs) 13:15, 1 May 2024 (UTC) reply

   Partly done I fixed the error in bibliography to list assistant editors as authors. -1ctinus📝 🗨 23:14, 4 May 2024 (UTC) reply

April 2024

• List of age-related terms with negative connotations - page written by a block editor that has missing citations and bias -1ctinus📝 🗨 23:48, 20 April 2024 (UTC) reply
• Katsuyoshi Yatabe - filmography to be cleaned up and more organized. Lacon432 ( talk) 21:45, 20 April 2024 (UTC) reply

   Partly done – Reorganised article layout. May still need some work. ZyphorianNexus ( talk) 23:51, 29 April 2024 (UTC) reply

• Deccani architecture - Parts need rewriting for quality, some subjective wording used. Flemmish Nietzsche ( talk) 03:51, 12 April 2024 (UTC) reply
• Spike Spencer - filmography needs to be put in tables, more organized, etc. Lacon432 ( talk) 04:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC) reply

   Done 00101984hjw ( talk) 05:03, 1 May 2024 (UTC) reply

• Chris Edgerly - rogue credits that need to be fit within tables, etc. Lacon432 ( talk) 04:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC) reply
• Ren Hanami - titles in filmography to be italicized, names to be put in tables, episode names, etc. Lacon432 ( talk) 04:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC) reply

   Partly done Titles all italicized but more names should be put in tables wherever possible 00101984hjw ( talk) 03:18, 1 May 2024 (UTC) reply

• Transactionalism – formal / formatting cleanup (at least) required in lead.-- Hildeoc ( talk) 20:38, 2 April 2024 (UTC) reply

March 2024

• R. Lee Ermey - it should be best to organize the filmography by film, television, video game, etc. Lacon432 ( talk) 00:33, 31 March 2024 (UTC) reply
• Mark Holden (actor) - filmography/television/video games dates should be reversed in tables. Lacon432 ( talk) 21:58, 23 March 2024 (UTC) reply
• David Graham (actor) - filmography should be separated by film, television, video games, etc. General filmography cleanup. Lacon432 ( talk) 18:55, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply
• Ken Foree - filmography should be separated by film, television, video games, etc. General filmography cleanup. Lacon432 ( talk) 18:55, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply
• Abakhel (Pashtun tribe) - Problems with punctuation and spacing, capitalization, clarity and paragraph structure. Alon Alush ( talk) 00:54, 11 March 2024 (UTC) reply
• Rabbit in the Moon - missing citations and selected discography needs to be organized; general cleanup. Lacon432 ( talk) 23:29, 6 March 2024 (UTC) reply
• Brisbane Goannas - needs updating; bare URL and missing citations. .pxrtypoisxn. ( talk) 00:54, 11 March 2024 (UTC) reply

 Partly done – Removed duplicate external links from the See also section, formatted external link placement and fixed the bare url. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:52, 19 April 2024 (UTC) reply

February 2024

• Geoff Ramsey - nearly every source fails WP:RS and WP:QUESTIONED. Anything citing Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, podcasts, the Rooster Teeth website, or primary sources should be removed.
• Karl Polanyi#Notes – invalid reference syntax.-- Hildeoc ( talk) 05:45, 28 February 2024 (UTC) reply

   Partly done I believe I have fixed the syntax. This is regarding the speeches, correct? Could you confirm I had done what was asked? Thank you! Referencer12 ( talk) 02:28, 12 March 2024 (UTC) reply

• Solar reforming - This is a article about a scientific topic and is written with appropriate clarity and references. However some clean up may be needed to improve the content according to Wiki standards Help is appreciated ASB95
• 8 Canada Square — I'm sure a few of the recent changes were done in good faith but overall the format just seems unacceptable now. One of the references is literally to a reddit post. I'm seeing if we can amend the page to meet wiki standards or just rollback the entire thing. - Imcdc Contact 15:28, 16 February 2024 (UTC) reply
• Traditional sub-Saharan African harmony — layout needs work, also too much jargon -- Zhen Zhen ( talk) 21:09, 11 February 2024 (UTC) reply
• Shannon Chan-Kent - filmography needs to be fixed and set in tables for organizational purposes. Lacon432 ( talk) 17:23, 4 February 2024 (UTC) reply
• Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation - Article has a lot of unsourced text. Sometimes not clearly related to the topic. Not encyclopaedic in tone. Nyraxis ( talk)

January 2024

• Gianni Capaldi - career and filmography organization need to be improved. Repetition, lack of capitalization, poor sentence structure, etc. Lacon432 ( talk) 02:11, 30 January 2024 (UTC) reply
• Neil Linpow - biography needs to be improved. Grammatical errors, syntax errors and lack of citations anywhere. Lacon432 ( talk) 02:11, 30 January 2024 (UTC) reply

   Partly done Added more refs. Jeraxmoira🐉 ( talk) 05:27, 31 January 2024 (UTC) reply

• I have been working on clearing out fostered content lint errors in the article namespace, and I've completed the majority of them. Looking for some help with completing the following, as I'm having trouble spotting the errors:

• Fooding – seems like a poor translation from French. -- Hildeoc ( talk) 09:03, 12 January 2024 (UTC) reply
• Li Hao (murderer), needs localization and copy editing, appears to be machine translated from Chinese. Stopchewingyourcuticles ( talk) 1 January 2023 (UTC)

   Partly done Did the best I can; might need a bit more work JohnLaurensAnthonyRamos333 ( correct me if I'm wrong) 07:13, 16 January 2024 (UTC) reply

December 2023

• History of rail transport in Algeria, I've completed the draft translation of this lengthy article, having also contributed to the creation of the French version. I would appreciate a cleanup, if possible, before I proceed with publishing it. Riad Salih ( talk) 23:20, 19 December 2023 (UTC) reply

   Courtesy link:  User:Riad Salih/sandbox/History of rail transport in Algeria. Jeraxmoira ( talk) 04:37, 20 December 2023 (UTC) reply

  I believe it needs more than a cleanup! There are many sections completely unreferenced. Jeraxmoira ( talk) 04:44, 20 December 2023 (UTC) reply

• Hu Shih - Introduction needs major rewrite, currently doesn't summarise notability nor influence of significant historical figure. Zinderboff ( talk) 16:59, 18 December 2023 (UTC) reply

November 2023

• Girl Scouts of the USA - needs promotional and unencyclopedic tone removed. Sangsangaplaz ( talk) 03:35, 21 November 2023 (UTC) reply
• Rifts (role-playing game) - tagged for cleanup since June 2022. BOZ ( talk) 06:58, 6 November 2023 (UTC) reply
• Serenity Role Playing Game - tagged for cleanup since July 2020. BOZ ( talk) 06:58, 6 November 2023 (UTC) reply
• Sword and sorcery - tagged for cleanup since June 2021. BOZ ( talk) 06:58, 6 November 2023 (UTC) reply
• Tabletop role-playing games in Japan - tagged for cleanup since May 2015. BOZ ( talk) 06:58, 6 November 2023 (UTC) reply
• The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav - tagged for cleanup since August 2022. BOZ ( talk) 06:58, 6 November 2023 (UTC) reply
• Balanced anesthesia - Feels(/felt) machine translated. I did as much c/e as I could but there are still parts I don't know what they're trying to say. Kimen8 ( talk) 15:56, 1 November 2023 (UTC) reply

October 2023

The next month at the head of the cleanup category queue is July 2010. Some of the articles from that month's subcategory (all of which are listed below) might just need the cleanup tag removed. -- Beland ( talk) 09:31, 2 October 2023 (UTC) reply

July 2023

• Uma Preman. I disclosed payment in return of writing this article, so there is a tag asking for POV cleanup. I do not see much room for that, but would appreciate your help revising the article. Sabih omar 07:54, 2 August 2023 (UTC) reply

  I have fixed the article. Moonlight2006 ( talk) 06:12, 19 December 2023 (UTC) reply

  Striking because  Already done (see above). – DaZyzzogetonsGotDaLastWord ( talk) 18:07, 5 May 2024 (UTC) reply

• Vladimir Begun – thorough cleanup required.-- Hildeoc ( talk) 00:22, 22 July 2023 (UTC) reply

   Partly done Darwin Naz ( talk) 23:23, 27 December 2023 (UTC) reply

• Carnival of Santiago de Cuba needs a rewrite for multiple issues, among which are remnants of past vandalism that slipped through multiple reversions. The lead section doesn't conform to standards, sources are given in publication-style instead of with references, there are too many quotations which are also overly long, and various other issues. 110521sgl ( talk) 07:52, 3 July 2023 (UTC) reply

• These articles were tagged in June 2010, which is the second-oldest month in the cleanup queue. Some may simply need tags removed. -- Beland ( talk) 23:23, 1 July 2023 (UTC) reply

June 2023

• Turkish calligraphy ( User talk: Civic Responsibility project) 14:18, 6 June 2023 (UTC) reply

 Comment: The article is tagged as having an unclear citation style. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:29, 3 September 2023 (UTC) reply

May 2023

• Calvin Levels, Paul Benjamin, Len Lesser, Christopher Cazenove, David Ackroyd, Jo Anderson, Jade Yorker, Ingrid Torrance, Art Evans, J. Don Ferguson, Clint Walker, Tonea Stewart, Ramon Bieri, Lloyd Gough, Bill Nunn - filmography should be split between film credits and television credits. Lacon432 ( talk) 01:47, 26 May 2023 (UTC) reply

 Comment: I have struck entries above that have since been addressed after this was posted. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:34, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

• British Overseas Territories citizen - A lot of content has been introduced into the article which is not WP:POV. A lot of sections may not be relevant to BOTCs, or even off-topic. I propose the moderators remove non-POV passages, then check the passages in boxes, until the community have had a chance to discuss them. They look like they’ve been copied across from other British and Irish nationality articles. ( Kreb ( talk) 07:06, 8 May 2023 (UTC)) reply

Just to add to my earlier comment, it’s worth remembering that most British Overseas Territories are located in the Caribbean islands, and are much smaller than other former British colonies, which is why they haven’t become independent yet. There’s not much commonality between them and other colonies e.g. in Africa. So any passages relating to Ireland/Kenya/Uganda/India are simply not relevant. The Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 is only loosely relevant: whilst it did lay down conditions on people from the territories entering the UK, it was not specifically aimed at them. ( Kreb ( talk) 07:12, 8 May 2023 (UTC)) reply

• All the articles tagged for cleanup in April 2010 have been resolved, yay! Based on how quickly folks took care of those (many just needed the tag removed), I think we could probably accelerate resolution of end-of-queue articles from the current speed (about one month per year) to one month per month, which would mean the backlog wait time would stop growing. In that spirit, here are all the remaining articles that were tagged in May 2010:

April 2023

• Davie504 - I tried transcribing his name on IPA based on this YouTube video of his as source. I only used IPA characters present in Help:IPA/Italian. I would like the accuracy of my transcription to be verified or improved. Thank you. Kyleroo ( talk) 00:39, 30 April 2023 (UTC) reply
• Identity and language learning - written like an essay, with no lead section and an oversized "further reading" section, among several other major issues in this article. DM5 ^(talk) 21:31, 29 April 2023 (UTC) reply
• Tatar confederation - same statements (e.g. "From the 10th to 13th centuries, Shatuo Turks joined Tatar confederation and became known as White Tatars branch of the Tatars.") repeated in multiple sections (e.g. in both "Name and origin" and "History") even though the article is relatively short. Erminwin ( talk) 16:50, 28 April 2023 (UTC) reply
• Jay Hickman - slight formatting issues in credit tables. Lacon432 ( talk) 05:03, 18 April 2023 (UTC) reply
• List of supermarket chains in Oceania - Incorrect grammar and formatting. Doctorkaufman ( talk) 14:41, 4 April 2023 (UTC) reply

   Done DaZyzzogetonsGotDaLastWord ( talk) 20:25, 4 May 2024 (UTC) reply

• Indian Premier League - The article have lots of triva and outdated material, it should be removed or moved in history section. Rock Stone Gold Castle ( talk) 18:48, 3 April 2023 (UTC) reply
  • According to mass stats, this page got over a million page views per day in April, the highest among all articles currently tagged for cleanup. -- Beland ( talk) 17:50, 16 May 2023 (UTC) reply
• Solar Electric Light Fund Too much reliance on the subject's self-published webpage as a source. Sounds like an advertisment. The talk page has a detailed list of To-Do items and a list of better sources. BruceThomson ( talk) 09:00, 22 April 2023 (UTC) reply

•  Partly done: Most problems fixed, but needs to have more sources added. A good source list is on the talk page. BruceThomson ( talk) 22:08, 5 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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See also

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup – templates for adding to articles needing a cleanup

The following are barnstars used to award users who clean up articles. To award a user, just copy and paste one of the following barnstars to a user's talk page, customizing your message where it says "message" within the code:

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Below are some WikiProjects that do related work.

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• Forgotten articles (database report)
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See also: list of tools hosted (or not) on Toolforge, WP:user scripts/List#Editing

Below are some tools that can be useful in cleanup work. Feel free to edit this list.

• AutoEd – automatically make clean-up changes in articles
• reFill – edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.
• IA Bot – marks dead external links (including references) and adds archived copies to live references
• WPcleaner – helps fix various errors, including links to disambig pages (installable program)

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