Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce

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The Cleanup Taskforce is aimed at dealing with issues relating to cleanup, fact checking, and the growth of the Wikipedia project in an efficient manner.

This effort, implemented via a network of Wikipedians, is compatible with (and complementary to) other approaches to article cleanup, namely cleanup pages and categories. This approach also ensures that tasks assigned to the team are never neglected; each issue is always on the "desk" of one or more taskforce members at any given time.

For more information on how you can participate, please see Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Members.

1 Goals
2 Submit a request
3 Open tasks
4 Alternate streamlined procedure
- 4.1 Originally from September, 2004
5 Stale requests
6 How to close a completed request
7 See also

[edit] Goals

The aim of the Cleanup Taskforce is to deal with editorial issues, fact-checking, and Wikipedia formatting in the most efficient way possible. Policies and guidelines should work to support this aim.

[edit] Submit a request

Note: A new streamlined procedure has been suggested as an alternative to the traditional procedure described in this section. See below and the talk page for more details.

Anyone is welcome to submit a request to the Cleanup Taskforce! Please be bold in assigning work to Taskforce members. To bring a problem article to the attention of the Taskforce, please take the following steps:

Go to the talk page of the article you wish to list, and add the following line (substituting the article's name for ARTICLENAME) to tag it with the cleanup taskforce notice:

{{cleanup taskforce notice|ARTICLENAME}}

Edit the Open Tasks section and create a link to a subpage using the following text: [[/ARTICLENAME]], again substituting the title of the article for ARTICLENAME.

If you're not sure to whom you want to assign the article, leave it at bottom of the list of Unassigned tasks. If you intend to assign it directly to a Taskforce participant, put it at the bottom of the Assigned tasks, with the date you are first listing it.

Save your changes to the Open Tasks section.
Follow the new redlink to the task's subpage and add a link to the article there, detailing some or all of the particular problems that need cleaning up. Sign your comments with '~~~~'.

Example:

==[[ARTICLENAME]]==

The [[ARTICLENAME]] article is too short.

We should have more information about this. ~~~~

If you are not sure who would be best to take on this task and wish to leave it unassigned, simply save your changes. Other editors or Taskforce members are strongly encouraged to add any unassigned tasks to Taskforce members' desks, or to grab some for themselves!

If you are going to assign this task to a particular user based on their interests or open desk queue, add the following line to the [[/ARTICLENAME]] subpage before saving your changes:

''Added to [[User:USERNAME/Desk]]'' ~~~~

Go to the Taskforce participant's desk, insert the following line, and save changes. This will transclude the text of your subpage onto their desk, allowing them a chance to Accept the task and start work on bringing it up to standards, or Reassign it to another user or the Unassigned tasks section.

{{Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/ARTICLENAME}}

Wikipedia:Cleanup process details some additional or alternative steps you can take when dealing with a problem article. Wikipedia:Cleanup lists a number of articles identified as needing attention that may or may not have been brought to the Taskforce's attention yet.

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Unassigned

Assign the following tasks to Taskforce members:

/Pi_Beta_Phi contains several factual errors and some rough writing. Could use fact checking, revision.
/Anuragam A set of very messy pages relating to a NGO providing relief in India
/BMW E90 Updated Oct 06: Still in need of some attention. Conflicting technical data, generalisations about new models without specifying countries
/Adat Needs attention from someone familiar with the topic. Needs help on the language as well as clarification and wikification.
/Joe Sakic: the article gives his name as Joseph Steven Šakić, but it doesn't contain any IPA translation or a pronounciation guide, as articles with Slavic-language (Croatian, in this case) subjects usually do. In North America, his surname is pronounced as Sak - ick, which isn't even particularly close to correct. Compare: Miroslav Satan.
/Clique Issues with style and sentence structure, sounds a little bit unprofessional and lacking in citations in some areas.
/Bosnian War
/Kosovo War (20 June 2006) if cleaned up FA status is possible.
/Philadelphia Project article is nothing but uncited conjecture. either needs references or should be purged.
/Regional organizers and events of Model United Nations (July 1, 2006) - Poor formatting, needs a more logical method of categorizing conference listings.
/Paula Yates
/Nationella insatsstyrkan Very amateurish. Poor word choice/vocabulary, little to no flow, not a very attractive layout, etc. A total or at least a partial rewrite is necessary in my opinion.
/Mercora -Is organized as an internet advertisment instead of a correct source of information about the program, and contains possible bias. I recommend in the very least, reorganization. Skandinski 07:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
/Mikheil Saakashvili could use some help, especially with weeding out POV from anti-Saakashvili partisans. Could be benefited with more NPOV info, especially concerning his actions since taking office. -Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 07:36, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
/Stereotypes of Asians - Neutrality, constant Inflammatory messages, vandalization, unchecked or biased facts, quotefarm, etc.
/United States presidential election debates
/American Psycho Introduction needs expansion; Themes and Symbolism needs to be cleaned up. Clean up tag has remained on the article for a while, so I am approaching the task force for assistance.
/Creatures_of_Magic:_The_Gathering I cried when I saw this article - listcruft, inuniverse etc etc. --Charlesknight 18:15, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
/Swami Ramdev Definitely needs a serious job, maybe even a rewrite. bibliomaniac 1 5 06:05, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
/Terms of Service This article is seriously inept, considering how often ToS agreements are seen in daily life.
/Digital Revolution This article needs a bit of clean-up, restructuring, and fact checking. Sonic3KMaster^(talk) 00:17, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
/Illegal immigration to the United States This article is in need of a general cleanup. There are a few sections that could use clarification and a look at POV.
/Neuro-linguistic programming There are a number of editors eager to implement suggestions to clean this article. It is well-sourced and fact checked. Some sections need more attention than others.
/Christoph Schneider Very unorganized and informal in tone. It also has information that seems very trivial. Seems to me that the page may need a rewrite. Ancatdubh43 17:18, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
/Fleet Command first wiki and apreciate a review/comments. Mike D 22:26, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
/Second moment of area
/The Anti-Nowhere League (05:00, 11 July 2006 (UTC)) (reassign)
/Sinitta Appallingly bad article Paul75 23:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
/Manga Entertainment needs to be chaecked in terms of formatting and whether it conforms to wikipedia style guide. Tenchi Muyo 17:46, 4 February 2007 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo
/Commercial planning This is a description of a particular commercial planning methodology, not a definition of what commercial planning actually is. I have no idea what needs to be done with this - complete rewrite, replacement article or deletion? Steve James 22:53, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
/Maximum_parsimony This article is way to long and off topic. It needs to be divided up and simplified.
/Adult Theater This needs general cleanup including references
/Spore (video game) Someone really needs to run through this and correct all the references to the proper style. Also could do with a bit of structural attention. --163.1.165.116 18:14, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
/Macfarlane's Law This article is need or references and to be rewritten in wiki-style mcwiggin 19:15, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
/Prague (novel) (August 7, 2005)
/Greek etymologies (first assigned July 9 2005; reassigning as of March 13 2007)

[edit] Assigned

The following tasks are currently active (with date of first assignment):

/India geography stubs (July 27, 2005)
/Nyquist plot (August 26)
/Supreme Court of Justice hostage crisis (September 2)
/Student loan (September 3)
/Philosophy of copyright (September 3)
/Special Anti-Terrorist Fighting Unit (September 5)
/Intellectual dishonesty (September 5)
/Cyberspace (September 15, 2005)
/Martin de Hoyarçabal (September 19, 2005)
/ACT for Disarmament (September 19, 2005)
/Christophe Moreau (September 19, 2005)
/Cornelius Harnett (September 27, 2005)
/Biofeedback (September 27, 2005)
/Functionality assurance (September 27, 2005)
/Fei Yu Ching (October 13, 2005)
/Dave Walker (October 16, 2005)
/Loving Female Authority (28 October 2005)
/Witch-Hunt (November 9,2005)
/Judicial activism (December 1, 2005)
/Cheating (2 December 2005)
/Kara-Khitan Khanate (27 December 2005)
/The resolution of the Dreyfus Affair (27 December 2005)
/Papillon (dog) (16 January 2006)
/Aegean civilization (25 January 2006)
/Whole grain (25 January 2006)
/Akbar (priority cleanup) (25 January 2006)
/M. Night Shyamalan (30 January 2006)
/We All Fall Down (assigned 3 February 2006 but had been open a long time and worked on some)
/Nazi mysticism (4 February 2006)
/rape culture (11 February 2006)
/Marathi language (12 February 2006)
/Young & Rubicam (23 February 2006) Finally assigned
/Quantum error correction (24 February 2006) Minor cleanup and clarification from expert
/New Formalism reassign (22 February 2006) - needs major fact checking
/County jail (2 March 2006)
/Olaf_I_of_Norway (20:04, 5 March 2006 (UTC))
/History of Music Publishing (18 March 2006, an excerpt from a speech, but has good information, (send to wikisource then) rewrite
/Sirhan Sirhan (19 March 2006)
/The Sims 2: Open for Business (2 April 2006)
/Rendlesham Forest Incident (April 5 2006)
/St. George's University (8 April 2006)
/New Testament Christian Churches of America, Inc (18 April 2006)
/Ottoman_Empire (2 May 2006)
/Agricultural Information Management Standards (9 June 2006)
/Pygmalion effect (June 15, 2006)
/METEOSAT (16:39, 20 June 2006 (UTC))
/John of Nepomuk (22:09, 2 July 2006 (UTC))
/WiMAX (22:09, 2 July 2006 (UTC))
/Kashmir Conflict (22:21, 2 July 2006 (UTC))
/Ken McElroy (9 May, 2006)
/Thievery UT (15:35, 7 July 2006 (UTC))
/River Garw (17:22, 7 July 2006 (UTC))
/X86 instruction listings (July 8 2006)
/Jazz-funk (03:16, 9 July 2006 (UTC))
/Ulster Project (03:22, 9 July 2006 (UTC))
/Certified Management Consultant (03:27, 9 July 2006 (UTC))
/BlogShares (03:32, 9 July 2006 (UTC))
/North Queensland Cowboys (04:31, 9 July 2006 (UTC))
/English Heritage (10 July 2006)
/Big Bang Comics (20:52, 10 July 2006 (UTC))
/Blondie (band) (05:00, 11 July 2006 (UTC))
/No Exit (Blondie album) (12 July 2006)
/Politics of Israel (reassigned 03:44, 13 July 2006 (UTC))
/Howard Bloom (02:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC))
/Paramount Canada's Wonderland (02:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC))
/Video scaler (02:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC))
/Reckless driving, (19:00, 25 July 2006 (GMT))
/Larry Page, (15:00, 31 July 2006 (GMT))
/Rivermont Collegiate, (02:30, 2 August 2006 (GMT))
/Star Trek Customizable Card Game,(11:18, 8 August 2006)
/Orson Scott Card (16:21, 11 September 2006 (UTC))
/Arabic language
/Tom Dowd and the Language of Music (18:26, 21 September 2006 (UTC))
/Bud Bagsak Massacre (15:38, 25 September 2006 (UTC))
/Old Sarum (15:50, 25 September 2006 (UTC))
/Crunk (15:57, 25 September 2006 (UTC))
/Alternation (linguistics) (13:56, 2 October 2006 (UTC))
/Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County (17:00, 3 October 2006 (UTC))
/Front side bus (16:40, 19 October 2006 (UTC))
/Dragon Rider (16:51, 28 October 2006 (UTC))
/Social anthropology (16:51, 28 October 2006 (UTC))
/List of Linux distributions (October 28, 2006)
/Battle of Königsberg (submitted in June, assigned 00:15, 29 October 2006 (UTC))
/Exotic animal veterinarian (08:07, 29 October 2006 (UTC))
/List of Playstation 1 games (October 29, 2006)
/Gob (band) (16:00, 3 November 2006 (UTC))
/Rise of Sweden as a Great Power (14:09, 11 November 2006 (UTC))
/History of Libya (14:31, 11 November 2006 (UTC))
/Timeline of Israeli leaders (04:16, 12 November 2006 (UTC))
/Dwarfism (18:10, 12 November 2006 (UTC))
/Allan Pineda Lindo (first assigned 04:16, 12 November 2006 (UTC), reassigned 22:06, 24 November 2006 (UTC))
/Frederick Douglass (17:47, 14 November 2006 (UTC))
/Vasai-Virar (17:15, 16 November 2006 (UTC))
/Pāli reassigned 20:54, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
/4G 02:33, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
/Collaboration (20:53, 2 December 2006 (UTC))
/Grime (21:03, 2 December 2006 (UTC))
/Nonblocking Minimal Spanning Switch (03:05, 5 December 2006 (UTC))
/Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story(10 December 2006)
/Prostitution (03:10, 29 December 2006 (UTC))
/Shilpa Shetty 04:16, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
/British hip hop (15:01, 2 November 2006 (UTC)) (reassigned)
/Juneau, Alaska (09:35, 21 February 2007 (UTC))
/Digital rights management (Reassigned Mar. 30, 2007)

[edit] Taskforce Tasks

These are tasks relating to the ongoing operations of the Cleanup Taskforce.

/Meta refresh (June 15, 2005)
/Are you active? (September 26, 2005)
/Evaluation, Comments and Closing (October 16, 2005)

[edit] Alternate streamlined procedure

Because the process for adding issues to the Taskforce agenda is rather cumbersome, I'm going to experiment with using talk pages as the Taskforce collaboration point instead of a special transclusion page. I'm going to add a bunch of cleanup tasks from 2004, with the goal of getting at least one task on each participant's desk. -- Beland 00:54, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Procedure:

Make sure the article is tagged for cleanup.
Add a link to the talk page to this page.
Add a link to the talk page from someone's desk.
Put a note on the talk page that you added it to that desk.

[edit] Originally from September, 2004

All opened 7 August, 2005.

converted to subpage format and moved to unassigned/assigned

[edit] Stale requests

If you notice a request that has been sitting on a participant's desk for more than 30 days, you can ask them to reassign it to someone else by putting this text on their user talk page:

{{subst:taskforce-ping}} -- ~~~~

[edit] How to close a completed request

On the article's talk page, change the {{cleanup taskforce notice|ARTICLE NAME}} tag (if there is one) to {{cleanup taskforce closed|ARTICLE NAME}}. Otherwise, just note that you are closing the cleanup request.
Make sure any cleanup tags have been removed from the article and its talk page.
Remove it from Taskforce members' desks. (Visit the collaboration page and check "What links here".)
Remove it from this page and, optionally, archive it at Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/closed

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Contents

[edit] Goals

[edit] Submit a request

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Unassigned

[edit] Assigned

[edit] Taskforce Tasks

[edit] Alternate streamlined procedure

[edit] Originally from September, 2004

[edit] Stale requests

[edit] How to close a completed request

[edit] See also

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