![]() | Below are the pages for article cleanup tasks. | ![]() |
- Find short articles
- Article tracking
- De-orphan list
- Helpful guidance
- Tracking many categories
- Examples: association football biographies
More
edit- (A) WikiProject Wikipedia/Assessment, Requesting an assessment
User:JoeNMLC/Article assessment - (B) Wikipedia:Database reports/Shortest biographies of living people
- (D) Deletion discussions: User:JPxG/Oracle/2023 and Current month
- (O) Wikipedia:Database reports/Orphans with incoming links
- (S) Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub improvement
- (U) Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles
Orphan articles
editFor any Category, another useful searching option is to click on "Show SDs" button, then do a browser search for values such as:
- "biol" for "biology" or "molecular bio..."
- "energ" or "power"
- "footballer"
- "scien" (for Science topic)
These are just a few phrases to locate articles of interest.
Work list
edit- Category:Attempted de-orphan from December 2023 1 articles 🟡
- ω Awaiting - (prod. Sept. 3)
- Category:Attempted de-orphan from September 2024—There are 0 Attempted orphans so far this month. 🔵
- 🟢 During month
Monthly - Orphan articles
edit- Category:Orphaned articles from November 2014 4 articles 🔴
- ω Awaiting 🔴
- Category:Orphaned articles from December 2014 4 articles 🔴
- Review Pass 2; then ω Awaiting 🔴
- Category:Orphaned articles from January 2015 76 articles 🟢
- Pass 1 = "I" 🟢
- Category:Orphaned articles from February 2015 194 articles 🟢
- Next 🟡
- Category:Orphaned articles from August 2024 2,729 articles 🟡
- Category:Orphaned articles from September 2024 22 articles 🔵
- Query:
Orphaned_articles_from_September_2024
(during month)
Case law - Orphan articles
edit- Category:Orphaned articles from September 2015
- Search = " v "; (next page)
- List of cases of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand
Molecular Biology - Orphan articles
edit- Category:Orphaned articles from December 2021
- Search = "motif" (multiple pages)
- Index of molecular biology articles
Orphan, new Category
editThere are three parts: Random page button; Orphan notice; Topic filter.
{{align|center|{{resbox|'''{{large|{{Random page in category}}}}'''}}}} {{Notice| • '''Please help an [[WP:Orphan|orphan article]] by adding links to it in related articles and lists. Once it has an incoming link from at least one article or list, the orphan tag can be removed (disambiguation pages, redirects and draft articles do not count). Three or more incoming links are ideal.'''<br/>• To filter orphan articles, see the ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage/Petscan|Petscan tool]]''.<br/>• To find an orphan article's title, the ''[http://edwardbetts.com/find_link/2EARfm Find link tool]''. {{For|articles editors have attempted to de-orphan|:Category:Attempted de-orphan}}}} {{Filter category by topic}}
Orphan, Progress
edit- Update prior month progress Bar graph at Category:Orphaned articles. 🔵 🟡 🔴
If previous month is a larger (over 1,000) number of articles, add Progress section, after Topic Filter.
Here is a recent wikitable example:
==Progress== {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" |- !colspan=2 | As of 31 July 2023, there are 1,112 articles in this category. Select "show" for previous progress. |- ! As of date ! Articles in category |- | 30 September 2023 | - |- | 31 July 20223 | 1,112 |}
Long stub articles
editLong pages in categories that end in "stubs":
- Edit Summary:
rm stub; Wikipedia:Database reports/Long stubs; Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub improvement; [[WP:STIM|you can help!]]
Popular pages, after Bot Processing
edit- Check for WikiProject skipped or not processed. Now difficult as Inactive wikiproject may be mixed in with process ones.
- Check bot processing (Starts at 2nd of each month) Note – The wikitable includes Inactive WikiProjects, and those are not processed.
- Bot list of WikiProjects (config)
- Related:
- {{WikiProject banner shell}} (talk)
Reliable sources
edit- Newspapers.com ?
- Geography
- List of administrative divisions by country
- Wikipedia:Geographic referencetoponavis
- GeographicNamesSearch, geonames.nga.mil, an official website of the United States government
- Example: Cerro Amaculla
<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://geonames.nga.mil/geonames/GeographicNamesSearch/ |title=Cerro Amaculla (CHL) Feature -872055 |website= geonames.nga.mil |access-date=25 September 2023}}</ref>
- Example: Cerro Amaculla
- Australia place names
- Example: Troy Creek
<ref name="Gazetteer 2005">{{cite web|year=2004|title=Place names of Australia|url=http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/|publisher=[[Geoscience Australia]]|accessdate=2006-07-30}}</ref>
- Example: Troy Creek
- India locations
- Localbodydata
- Soki.in
- Example template: "Villages Bareilly District"
- Irish townlands ?
- Toponavi ?
- Sports
- Pro-Football-Reference.com (American football)
- englandfootballonline.com
- mightyleeds.co.uk (Dave Tomlinson)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Links
- Barryhugmansfootballers.com, publisher Barry Hugman's Footballers
- FBRef, publisher Sports Reference LLC
- Soccerblade.com article lists reliable sources
- Soccerbase.com ?
- Soccerway.com, publisher Perform Media Services Limited
- WikiProject Tennis/Article guidelines
- worldfootball.net (see Leonel Navarrete article)
- Example
<ref>{{cite web |title=Andri Abubakar |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/andri-abubakar/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG |access-date=21 September 2023}}</ref>
- Example
- At talk WP Football, asked for create article (September 19, 2023)
This article is on Watchlist, and has Talk discussion section.
- Melpakkam - September 15, 2023
Not reliable sources
edit- Geographic.org
- Geolysis.com
- Geonames.org - user-generated and not reliable
- Example: Senek <ref>{{cite web|title=Senek, Kazakhstan - P PPL 608391|url=http://www.geonames.org/maps/google_44.545_50.246.html|publisher=[[GeoNames]]|accessdate=September 11, 2016}}</ref>
- Geoview.info
- Google Maps
<ref name="GM">{{cite map|title=[[Google Maps]]|publisher=Google}}</ref>
- Places-in-the-world.com
- And many more...
Stub articles
editWP Stub improvement userbox
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{{User WikiProject Stub improvement}} |
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- Requested - template
{{userbox | id = [[Image:Wiki_letter_s.svg|50px]] | id-c = #ffa4a4 | info = This user is a [[:Category:WikiProject Stub improvement participants|participant]] <br> [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub improvement|<span style="font-size:{{{wp-s|125%}}};font-weight:{{{wp-w|bold}}};">in WikiProject Stub Improvement</span>]]. | info-a = center | info-c = #ffc0c0 | info-lh = {{{info-lh|1.3em}}} | border-c = gray | border-s = 3 }}{{ucat|WikiProject Stub improvement participants}}<noinclude> [[Category:WikiProject Stub improvement]] [[Category:WikiProject user templates|Stub improvement]] {{-}} ==Use== To join this WikiProject, add your username to: *[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub improvement#Participants]] If you place <b><code>{{User WikiProject Stub improvement}}</code></b> on your user page, this template will display the userbox shown above and will add your user page to: *[[:Category:WikiProject Stub improvement participants]]. This template is a member of the categories shown below. </noinclude>
Unreferenced articles
edit- Posted at - Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Unreferenced articles
- Discussion - criteria Ambox for unref. articles
Greetings, Last week at Category:Articles lacking sources from June 2008, for the first dozen or so articles, I added a "Notice" tag (being Bold). Today, I fine-tuned it a bit into a transcluded "Ambox", just the first 3 articles. With the four criteria more visible, hoping it helps both beginners and a call-to-action for more advanced editors. Asking for feedback and discussion here. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 14:40, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- Here is the wikilink Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Criteria
- Please improve this Wikipedia article by using multiple sources that meet four criteria. The sources should be: (1) reliable, (2) secondary, (3) independent of the subject, (4) talk about the subject in some depth. Encyclopedic content must be verifiable through citations to reliable sources.
- JoeNMLC (talk) 14:57, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- The four criteria seem to be better suited for articles tagged for notability issues. Citations just have to be reliable. Primary, nonindependent and passing mentions are all usable (within wp:primary).
- Obviously, sources that satisfy all criteria are preferred, but we don’t want people avoiding adding an otherwise fine reference just because it doesn’t have sigcov or something. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 14:57, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- You're conflating notability and verifiability here. Citations in an article are there to verify the content of the article: they have to be to reliable sources, but need not meet your three other criteria. "Significant coverage in independent, secondary reliable sources" is how we judge notability, but that's not something readers need to worry about. If sources showing notability need to be presented somewhere, the talk page is probably best. But in the vast majority of cases that doesn't come up until notability is challenged at WP:AFD.
- This seems to be a common enough mistake that we ought to have an essay explaining it... – Joe (talk) 15:11, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- I don't think this addition to the existing maintenance tag is necessary or helpful. The second sentence of the unreferenced tag is 'Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.' with the link to the 'Referencing for Beginners' essay so I think this is a total non-issue that is just creating more work. Why do you feel this is necessary? Also having multiple maintenance tags removes the automatic search links to Google, Books, Scholar, JSTOR, etc. which I find very convenient so as an experienced editor, it is making my work 1% more difficult. Also+also agree with the above notes about notability and verification from Joe and ARN123. Kazamzam (talk) 20:18, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- I agree with Kazamzam. We already have tags that cover these various issues. I understand the desire to have more refined tags that cover more subjects but I think this ultimately is overly confusing for readers and editors. Also consider that we track various types of issues by categories and a tag like this muddies that approach. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 16:16, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, everyone! - For clarity & explaining why "not" to do what I attempted. Today, I did "undo self" for those June 2008 unref. articles. Going forward, I'm adding parts of this discussion to my "Article cleanup" notes. So as not to forget. Cheers, JoeNMLC (talk) 12:20, 10 April 2024 (UTC)