Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce
The Cleanup Taskforce is a cleanup method for Wikipedia compatible with and complementary to other cleanup pages and categories. It aims to deal with cleanup issues, fact checking, and the growth of Wikipedia in an efficient manner through a network of Wikipedians, and to ensure that any given issue is always on at least one individual's "desk" at any time. If you'd like to join, please see Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Members.
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.
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 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.
Open tasks
Unassigned
Assign the following tasks to Taskforce members:
- /List of Marilyns in England geography listing is very confused - details on the talk page.
- /Kashmir Conflict, needs some cleanup, the dates and such aren't exactly correct. Some fact checking and revising is needed.
- /List of misleading food names, this page needs serious attention.
- /Shamrock (comics)
- /Ulster Project, needs sorting, more information and some general wikification.
- /Certified Management Consultant
- /Pi_Beta_Phi contains several factual errors and some rough writing. Could use fact checking, revision.
- /Entrepreneur:Change Agent no sources plus it's about economics not entrepreneurship
- /Topanga, California Very messy article that resembles a link-collection
- /Pygmalion effect it's just bad, does that warrant inclusion?
- /Break_of_Reality wording grammer ect.. needs some wikification.
- /Anuragam A set of very messy pages relating to a NGO providing relief in India
- /Digital rights management Too large, has large sections on seperate related topics and is in violation of NPOV at some spots (mostly due to inaccurate wording
- /Tutelary mythology
- /Bill James baseball writer
- /Web-brigade Apparently a Russian phenomenon; Google in English found only wikipedia entry. I can't look it up in Russian.
- /Dragon Rider The article has a two sentence intro, and a huge plot section.
- /Götaland theory This is in very serious need of all kinds of cleanup, fact-checking, etc.
- /Battle of Königsberg needs some copy editing, MoS checking and so on :)
- /Rise of Sweden as a Great Power confusing history.
- /Chiefs of the Name Author is using historical subject to promote his book, totally biased
- /North Queensland Cowboys Does not follow WP:MoS.
- /Richard III (1955 film)
- /Christopher McCandless Grammar and spelling errors abound. This page is truly a mess.
- /BlogShares
- /8 Foot Sativa absolutely horrid layout, which changes half way. Information is just thrown all over the place, it just totally looks a mess.
- /X86 instruction listings – inconsistent table for 8086/8088 instructions, no tables for even the original 8087 instructions, other inconsistencies
Assigned
The following tasks are currently active (with date of first assignment):
- /Spiritual marriage (May 19)
- /Kambojas (June 2)
- /Greek etymologies (July 9)
- /Training corset (July 27, 2005)
- /India geography stubs (July 27, 2005)
- /Georgia Author of the Year Award (August 7, 2005)
- /Office of Congressional and Public Services of the Surface Transportation Board (August 7, 2005)
- /Prague (novel) (August 7, 2005)
- /The Robot Ate Me (August 7, 2005)
- /4Kids_Entertainment (August 10)
- /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)
- /Great Observatories program (September 14)
- /Cyberspace (September 15, 2005)
- /Martin de Hoyarçabal (September 19, 2005)
- /ACT for Disarmament (September 19, 2005)
- /METEOSAT (September 19, 2005)
- /Algebraic syntax (September 19, 2005)
- /Christophe Moreau (September 19, 2005)
- /Clubs_and_organizations_of_Columbia_University (September 19, 2005)
- /Cole_Turner (September 19, 2005)
- /Hungarian prehistory (September 24, 2005)
- /Technomad (September 24, 2005)
- /Cornelius Harnett (September 27, 2005)
- /List of pseudorandom number generators (September 27, 2005)
- /Biofeedback (September 27, 2005)
- /Functionality assurance (September 27, 2005)
- /Rescuing Prometheus (October 5, 2005)
- /Nonblocking Minimal Spanning Switch (October 11, 2005)
- /Fei Yu Ching (October 13, 2005)
- /Dave Walker (October 16, 2005)
- /Jardin de Tivoli, Paris (October 20, 2005)
- /Loving Female Authority (28 October 2005)
- /Politics of Israel (November 4, 2005)
- /Witch-Hunt (November 9,2005)
- /Judicial activism (December 1, 2005)
- /Photorefractive keratectomy (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)
- /Bosnian War (29 January 2006)
- /Johann Gutenberg (priority cleanup) (29 January 2006)
- /M. Night Shyamalan (30 January 2006)
- /Ibex (31 January 2006)
- /Pāli (1 February 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)
- /Sanguinarian (12 February 2006) (determine what's left to do)
- /Foundry (electronics) (15 February 2006) this has one of the oldest cleanup tags in wikipedia.
- /Howard Bloom (22 February 2006)
- /Young & Rubicam (23 February 2006) Finally assigned
- /Algebraic syntax Need to find an expert
- /TheCollegeWeb (24 February 2006) Whole range of cleanup issues
- /Quantum error correction (24 February 2006) Minor cleanup and clarification from expert
- /River Tees (26 February 2006) written in entirely wrong style. No sources.
- /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))
- /King_Edward_VI_Grammar_School_(Chelmsford) 12 March 2006
- /History of Music Publishing (18 March 2006, an excerpt from a speech, but has good information, (send to wikisource then) rewrite
- /Atul Chitnis (19 March 2006)
- /Sirhan Sirhan (19 March 2006)
- /The_butterfly_that_stamped (22 March 2006)
- /Project Rockstar (1 April 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)
- /Ken McElroy (9 May 2006)
- /Christopher McCandlessGrammar and spelling errors abound. This page is truly a mess.
- /List of misleading food names (9 May 2006)
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)
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.
Originally from September, 2004
All opened 7 August, 2005.
- converted to subpage format and moved to unassigned/assigned
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}} -- ~~~~
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