Category:Wikipedia cleanup

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This category is used for administration of the Wikipedia project, and is not part of the encyclopedia. It contains pages that are not articles, or groups articles by status rather than content.

This category is not shown on its member pages.

This is a tracking category, a category intended to build and maintain a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. Rather than being part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme, these categories are used to track, for example, pages using deprecated syntaxes, to maintain a list of pages that may need to be edited en masse later, or to aggregate the members of several sub-categories by other classifications into one larger list.

Shortcut: CAT:CLN

These articles (mostly under Category:Articles needing cleanup) are in need of general cleanup. Please see Wikipedia:Cleanup or the articles' talk pages for reasons why. If you're not sure why the tag is there, you can ask on the talk page, ask the person who added the tag, ask for a third opinion, or ask for an expert opinion on WP:RFC or a WikiProject. If you're sure the article has been cleaned up, addressing any obvious flaws as well as any specific problems mentioned on the talk page, feel free to remove the tag. There's not much harm in leaving it on if you aren't certain what to do; the tag will alert someone else to come by later and check up on the article.

"Cleanup" is a generic label and is a subset of "maintenance". It encompasses all remedial work that needs to be done, whereas other maintenance lists may contain suggestions for improvement to intact articles.

Please ignore the Wikipedia: listings. These appear here for technical reasons. They do not need to be cleaned up, and the tags should not be removed.

Use the {{cleanup}} tag to put articles in Category:Articles needing cleanup. Please do not subst the cleanup tag. The bot that sorts cleanup into by-month categories is currently unable to handle subst'ed cleanup tags. Additionally other processes are likely to break the subst'ed tags. This category is a self-reference.

Purge the cache.

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup