User:Ben Babcock/Cleanup Taskforce

When an article is placed on my desk for cleanup, I look it over first to try and judge how to clean it up. I ask the following questions:

1. Is the subject meant for Wikipedia? If not, votes for deletion or transwikiing may be the best thing to do with the article.
2. Is the article NPOV?
3. Does the article require a major rewrite, or a minor cleanup?
4. Do I have access to enough information to work on this article?

Once I have figured out the answers to those questions, it is easier to begin working on the article. Often I consult with the person who referred it to the taskforce and ask them what they think about the article. If the article only requires a minor cleanup, I tweak it and send it on its way. More often than not, however, an article requires a major rewrite. Such articles sometimes have lengthy discussions or a number of users working on it, and in that case I sometimes find it most useful to create a duplicate of the article in my userspace and work on it there until other users agree it is worthy enough to be put into the main namespace.

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