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January
- Stefano Fantoni - Italian theoretical physicist. Multiple issues highlighted with tags. Needs to be shortened at least by 50%. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 17:39, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- Foley Downtown Historic District - Historic district on the NRHP. Bizarre phrasing, paragraph breaks, lists in paragraph/sentence form, line breaks for citations, and lack of punctuation. twink central (talk)
Partly done - Fixed up punctuation issues and removed some archaic phrases and a red link. Don't know what to do with the lists, though. Phantasm99 (talk) 14:54, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- Lee Labrada - Cuban bodybuilder. Too commercial, and has no references. Will also need to be split into multiple sections since it is too hard to read. May also include original research. -- Phantasm99 (talk)
- Kevin McMahon (filmmaker) - Canadian film director. Possibly WP:ORIGINAL. The style of the article is somewhat promotional with phrases like "Over the next 25 years, the contrasting of sacred and profane, serious and comic, beautiful imagery and raw documentary became the hallmark of McMahon's non-fiction style." --Bbarmadillo (talk) 18:24, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
- Nuclear power in the United States - nothing terrible, just a LOT of duplicate links. SnazzyInfinity (chat? • what I've done) 19:01, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
- Ceyhun Yılmaz - a Turkish comedian, actor, radioman and TV presenter - needs general clean up and links removed to non-existent pages --Miriumjenkins (talk) 14:22, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Partly done general clean up -- [[MarialeegRVT (talk) 06:06, 25 January 2021 (UTC)]]
- Ratnipora - Village in Jammu and Kashmir, India, In the need of some general clean up and structuring.-kamilalibhat (talk · contribs) 5:11 , 15 January 2021(UTC)
- Zoya Agarwal - Air India female pilot. WP:REFBOMB and WP:PROMO. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 17:29, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Partly done removed some most obvious cases of WP:REFBOMB. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 17:28, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
- Teresa N. Washington - an African American academic. Original research, over-detailed. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 13:49, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- Michel Platnic - Israeli contemporary artist. Probably notable. The article looks like WP:ORIGINAL and needs shortening. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 20:17, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
- Universum College - Albanian university in Prishtina, Kosovo. Filled with Facebook references and probably not-notable. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 09:15, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
2020 posts
December
- Robin Banks (rapper) - Formatted incorrectly and a huge mess. Article has been recreated considering its notability has been changed. . TwinTurbo (talk) 01:11, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
- Fighter Interception Unit - Blocky unsourced mess SnazzyInfinity (chat? • what I've done) 05:21, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
- Victor Mbarika - an American professor. Flagged for COI. --Opeinioluwa101 (talk)
- Engrish - tons of unsourced and irrelevant stuff. DemonDays64 (talk) 09:11, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
- Joanne Wilson - US venture investor. It is a properly stated WP:COI contribution. Here is an opinion from DGG: "I can't help thinking that the article is considerably excessive in view of the accomplishments. Perhaps it could be fixed by not including mere listings as awards, (and converting the table into a list--because of accessability problems tables as deprecated unless necessary), i moving those items in the bibliography that discuss her into references in the usual format, and possible decreasing the rather extreme number of references, too many of which are barely disguised PR, and from sources which are mainly devoted to publishing press releases" (expressed here). -- --Bbarmadillo (talk) 18:51, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
- List of the first LGBT holders of political offices in the United States — tons and tons of unreferenced claims open to lawsuits. Needs fixing ASAP. DemonDays64 (talk) 09:58, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
- Belen High School – In need of general cleanup and structuring. KidAd talk 19:10, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
Partly done - Added infobox and restructured athletics, but ran out of reliable citations for the remaining sections TimSmit (talk) 00:25, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
- LGBT movements in the United States - issues with tone, organization of sections, multiple sections need to be condensed WhirlWithoutEnd (talk) 06:52, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
- Animal Rights National Conference - I removed some of the more promotional areas, but could use another editor's review. Animal Rights Hall of Fame section I wasn't sure if that should be removed. Once cleaned up, I think the Advert. tag could be removed. Rievebug (talk) 19:38, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
November
- (for user:science vol, who asked for help on project talk) Otorhinolaryngology - style and readability problems. PJvanMill)talk( 22:37, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
- Shaun Pizzonia - US music producer. The style of the article is somewhat promotional. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 11:46, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
Partly done SnazzyInfinity (talk • contribs) 20:26, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
- Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt - University of applied sciences in Germany.
Lists with years should be turned to prose,the content should be shortened to remove trivia, references can be improved. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 19:14, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
I do not think this article can be saved, and consequently I've (re-)nominated it for deletion. PJvanMill)talk( 15:26, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
- Martha Clarke - puffery, long lead section. Corachow (talk) 18:22, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
Partly done by RandomWookiee and Bbarmadillo. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 18:29, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
- Picture This (film) – stylistic cleanup overall needed, excessively long plot, inadequate amounts of sources, and the "critical reception" section is incomplete. Rosalina2427 (talk) 17:35, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
Partly done - Condensed plot Jennablurrs7575 (talk) 20:49, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
October
- Secretlab - gaming furniture manufacturer. The style of the article is promotional. It also contains a lot of trivial details. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 18:47, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
Partly done Trimmed some promotional. Partnerships section still too long. ThinkHat (talk) 17:16, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
- Box 13 scandal — very poor writing, unencyclopedic tone. DemonDays64 (talk) 09:47, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
Partly done HeyItsFedor (talk) 13:32, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
- Lost Tribe – the introduction and discography need major fixing Lacon432 (talk) 21:07, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
- Alexandra Ansanelli - American ballet dancer. Excessively detailed, poorly sourced and unclear citation style. I'll work on the contents at some point. Corachow (talk) 15:28, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
Partly done Trimmed some of the excessive detail. Removed blank refs. Needs a rewrite in the career section. ThinkHat (talk) 22:06, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
September
- Eurocon seems to be WP:INDISCRIMINATE—it lists all awardees at all award events in tables. The content about the awards themselves is relatively small. —I'llbeyourbeach (talk) 06:20, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
- Trans-Karakoram Tract - A region administered by China. It has a lot of mistakes and factual errors
and is in need of more citations and generally more reliable citations. Taimoorahmed11 (talk) 12:37, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
Comment: Struck part of the above, because this project no longer accepts requests for the addition of citations. North America1000 23:46, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
- Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux - 1960 ballet. Some sources are dead, and some content seems to be irrelevant. I'll work on the "notable performers" section at some point, maybe other parts of the article too. And if you're wondering the spelling of the title is intentional. Corachow (talk) 15:15, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
August
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union - requires
citations, condensing, and stylistic cleanup, failure to maintain NPOV - see talk page for full complaints and a couple of examples. Strawberryfire (talk) 23:09, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
- Strawberryfire and AussieWikiDan: this project generally does not add more sources to articles. I've struck that part of both of your requests. Kind regards from PJvanMill)talk( 21:49, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
- Prophethood (Ahmadiyya) - MOS capitalising, requires
more citationsand possible removal of content, original research issue. AussieWikiDan (talk) 13:09, 25 August 2020 (UTC) - History of Dubai - Opening paragraph about UAE instead. Poor use of citations.AussieWikiDan (talk) 13:07, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
- BT Sport#Programming - there are needlessly long lists of presenters on here. It's just lines and lines of names, like a register! Please either remove most names, create a new article listing the presenters or put them into a table. Thanks! Mrmariomaster (talk) 20:37, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
- Zhou Shen - Please fix grammar and prose in this article if necessary. Some sentences do not have citations, so maybe add "citations needed" if necessary. Article may be praising the living person at times, instead of maintaining neutral point of view. I've done some edits and will continue to do so but would like some help. Thanks! GhostHuang'sFan (talk) 07:28, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
- Cherkizovo – Thourough clean-up required – for details see there.--Hildeoc (talk) 08:25, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
- Shooting and crying - poorly written, needs a grammatical and syntactical cleanup. Sk96sk (talk) 13:34, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- Amrou Al-Kadhi, this bio needs some copy-editing clean-up. Convert bare references. And maybe move Filmography and tv listings into a Filmography section. Gleeanon409 (talk) 01:02, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- Cleavage (breasts) has many citations but very little use of appropriate cite syntax. Can someone help? Aditya(talk • contribs) 02:51, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- Jill Garner - a list of sources needs to be turned into inline citations and external links. Less Unless (talk) 20:02, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Note: At this time, the article has no lists of sources or external links, having only inline citations at this time (diff). North America1000 01:47, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Not done Northamerica1000, note that the "list of sources" mentioned was in fact a heap of inline citations dumped right before the References section (see here). I've unstruck, as there is still something left of this heap, and there is still a lot of uncited material in the article. PJvanMill)talk( 16:44, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
- Mir Osman Ali Khan – Would benefit from a general cleanup. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:59, 8 August 2020 (UTC) (please
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on reply; thanks!)
- @Abbasquadir: FYI. --Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:59, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
- Oklahoma City Boulevard -
A couple of statements have missing sources anda section needs to be up-to-date. AlphaBeta135 (talk) 14:06, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Note: Struck part of the nomination above, because this project does not accept requests for additional sources. North America1000 02:08, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- Remote control - bare URL in references and some general clean up needed, per banner at top. Tinton5 (talk) 06:59, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Partly done converted the urls Less Unless (talk) 14:42, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
July
- Cec Purves - A named reference is invoked but not defined. It may be available in the Revision history of earlier article versions. North America1000 15:46, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
- Judith Forrai External links section needs formatting (bare urls).Less Unless (talk) 14:45, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Partly done by Bbarmadillo. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 18:14, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
- Adventure therapy Theory and Effectiveness sections are overlong, filled with repetitive references to studies, and there are too many citations, making for a difficult article to read. Probably needs a more concise rewrite. werewolf (talk) 05:18, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
Draft Muslim Disability AwarenessDraft:Muslim Disability Awareness (second draft) Can some clean up the page — Preceding unsigned comment added by IrishDonovan (talk • contribs) 13:52, 22 July 2020 (UTC)- Autonomous building - lack of inline refs and doesn’t seem to flow right (to me, at least). It just feels off. Firestarforever (talk) 02:24, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
- Aleksander Vinter discography - the way this page looks like is all messed up and disorganized. Incomplete tables and a lack of quotations for song names and organization are very prevalent here. Lacon432 (talk) 14:34, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
- Women in Turkmenistan - Tone and style need overhauling. Article is occasionally opinionated, lacking in structure and prose is rather informal. KaterFindus (talk) 22:33, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
Partly done I mostly rewrote the article due to major bias issues and a lot of unsourced material. I'll probably continue working on it for a bit longer. Would appreciate feedback! Thanks, Ovinus (talk) 20:25, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
Partly done references with bare URLs, minor spelling error, additional contributions by PJvanMill, Northamerica1000, and others. — WILDSTARtalk 04:09, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- C. H. Gonda - general clean up needed, spacing, grammar, citation style fixes. Tinton5 (talk) 04:21, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
- Lumix Da Don - reads like a fan-written piece, lots of puffery.Less Unless (talk) 11:07, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
- Asiacentrism - Article appears to be self-promotion of a small group of academics, although the topic has much broader meaning and use. Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 10:37, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
June
- Wallace Craig - list of sources needs to be reorganized into refs and external links.Less Unless (talk) 10:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
- Ovation Brands – some promotional content, a section in list format,
missing a few citations. Rosalina2427 (talk page here) 02:16, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Comment: Struck part of the above, because this project no longer accepts requests for the addition of citations. North America1000 23:48, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
- Murdered for Being Different - some help cleaning up this page would be most appreciated. It is mostly in regards to improving the wording of the article, grammatical corrections and improvements, and minor issues such as the same page being linked more than once etc. Helper201 (talk) 21:43, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
Note: I've identified some other issues: parts of it read as if they were written by a fan. I'm done with the lead section. PJvanMill (talk) 21:55, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- Anton Solomoukha - This article has a lot of strange and awkward wording (possibly written by someone whose second language is English). Lengthy sentences, article misuse, and tense inconsistencies are the main problems. Triethylborane (talk) 23:26, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
- Added more refs as there was only 1 Less Unless (talk) 11:04, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Partly done Corrected grammar and sentence structures; removed one redundant section as well as some unnecessary or unusable external links. werewolf (talk) 03:40, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
- Gummibär - A German virtual singer CGI gummy bear, primarily known for I'm a Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song). Excessive fancruft and tone and grammar issues, the episode descriptions for the cartoon based on the character in particular stike me as being written by a young fan, and they require serious rewriting. Waxworker (talk) 15:33, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Partly done Cleaned up part of the web series section, which has the most issues. Rosalina2427 (talk to me) 18:53, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
- Grading systems by country - this article is extremely long, poorly sourced, has numerous grammatical errors, and uses inconsistent formatting from section to section. Mysteryman blue 07:09, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
Partly done Corrected grammar, made formatting more consistent (and added tables), removed irrelevant details. Ashpie007 (talk) 19:36, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
- Creatures (1990 video game) - A 1990 platforming game with cartoon-y graphics contrasted by scenes of torture. Formatting & tone issues, plot is described in an in-universe style. Waxworker (talk) 18:17, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
PJvanMill (talk) 22:20, 19 June 2020 (UTC)Not done As the article cites no sources, and I don't seem to be able to find anything better, I've nominated it for deletion.
- Jason Altmire - Page involved in edit war based upon WP:RS and WP:MOS edits and clean up notice was issued. In doing the cleanup, the cleanup editor should also review the material in dispute, which is legitimate and RS and has been removed/restored en bloc multiple times today. EdwardsCluaser (talk) 18:11, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
- Chiller (video game) - A controversial 1986 light gun arcade game wherein the player takes the role of a torturer; the game's notible for its gore. Possible original research, and the article needs more citations; i've already removed some citations from unprofessional sources such as blogs. Waxworker (talk) 02:21, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
- Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins) - 1958 ballet. Revival and other companies sections are unreferenced and has formatting issues, should be either removed or reformatted. There had been revivals every few years and the ballet is performed by many companies so my stance is to remove the two sections. Corachow (talk) 16:08, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Partly done - Formatting done by myself and Corachow. Ghostofakina (talk) 19:40, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (ballet) - the revival section is unreferenced and has formatting issues. I think it has to be reformatted or removed. Corachow (talk) 15:33, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Partly done - I put the revival section in a table to fix the formatting and found one reference naming members of the original cast but this section needs more references Miriumjenkins (talk) 16:52, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
- Bolo (1987 video game) - A 1987 multiplayer tank strategy game, and an early game with networking capabilities. Uncited fancruft, and the articles only sources are two primary sources from the creator of the Macintosh port of the game. Waxworker (talk) 01:23, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Partly done I've found a secondary source, which is in "Further reading" for now. I've removed most of the fancruft. It still needs a lot more citations, but many claims in the article could be backed up adequately by a primary source. PJvanMill (talk) 19:12, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
- African diaspora I've never seen such a jumbled mess of wikitext in my life! Is there no source code editors here any more? You can't even find the lead because of a run on infobox. Is there a cleanup bot that can be run on this? Has many more issues like self-definition the the word disaspora (not in Chromium dictionary but neither was "disproven") and I stopped there and went to the talk page then made a clarifying edit. Jimbo's talk page was promoting the wikiproject with same name so i went there to find out what the word meant. Technophant (talk) 21:26, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
- Christine Shevchenko - Ukrainian-American ballet dancer. The page has many unreliable sources, mainly from blogs and forums, had been cleaned up twice before but was added again, with the unreliable source tag removed by the editor who place those sources back. Also some tone issues in the career section. Corachow (talk) 03:40, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
Partly done Cleaned up sources again. Details may need condensing. ThinkHat (talk) 16:28, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Partly done I cleaned up some grammar and made some details more concise, removing a few I deemed irrelevant. Not sure if more fixing is desired. If no more is, consider this page done. Triethylborane (talk) 17:21, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – excessively long plot. I've already tried compressing the first half but there's extremely excessive details that could use some help cleaning up. Rosalina2427 (talk to me) 04:04, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- List of warez groups - A list of warez groups, which publish pirated/cracked content. This article has a serious issue: the site 'defacto2' is used extensively throughout the article, but the site is now usurped and links to straight-up malware that MalwareBytes identifies as a trojan. Many of the links are permanent dead links as well. Waxworker (talk) 01:26, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
May
- Hunter (video game) - A 1991 video game using procedurally generated 3D graphics. The gameplay & reception sections read as being written by a fan, and gameplay appears as original research due to this and the lack of inline citations in it. I've already done some work on this article in improving its citations to have archive.org links and such. Waxworker (talk) 18:47, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
- Team Yankee - A fictional 1987 war novel. Formatting issues, consists primarily of a long plot summary,
lack of inline citations. Citations are bare URLs.Waxworker (talk) 17:23, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Partly done converted urls, marked 1 as dead Less Unless (talk) 12:58, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
Comment: Struck part of the nomination above. The article presently has no bare urls, and this project no longer accepts requests for the addition of citations. North America1000 23:42, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
- The Case of the Cautious Condor - A 1989 mystery adventure game. Tone issues,
minimal citations, and the majority of the page's content is in the summary section. Waxworker (talk) 12:17, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Comment: Struck part of the above. The article was expanded with the addition of sections, which addressed the matter of all its content formerly being in the lead section. Also, this project no longer accepts requests for the addition of citations. North America1000 23:39, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
- Tolu' A Akinyemi - This article belongs to [People] and requires cleanup because of improper citations and tone. Help reimprove.Thanks Olatunde Brain (talk) 21:12, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Note: - Article was under deletion review but has since been restored. Ghostofakina (talk) 22:21, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
- List of Kamen Rider Ghost characters - List of characters from the series Kamen Rider Ghost, a live-action Japanese drama. Excessive uncited fancruft. Waxworker (talk) 18:27, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
- Snafu Comics - A site that hosts webcomics. Uncited fancruft and reads as an advertisement, and there are many external links to DeviantArt in the text. Waxworker (talk) 18:27, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
- List of The Keys to the Kingdom characters - List of characters from The Keys to the Kingdom, a fantasy novel series. Excessive uncited fancruft. Waxworker (talk) 18:27, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
Note: I have proposed to merge it into the main article here. Your input would be appreciated. PJvanMill (talk) 13:24, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- Up for Grabs (play) - A 2000 play about the international art market. Page reads somewhat as an advertisement and has overall issues with tone and quality of citations. Waxworker (talk) 18:27, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
- Dinny and the Witches - A satirical 1948 play. Overall issues with tone, formatting,
and lack of sources. Waxworker (talk) 18:27, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
Partly done - added 3 refs, removed unreferenced tag.Less Unless (talk) 09:10, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Comment: Struck part of the above. This project no longer accepts requests for the addition of citations. North America1000 23:44, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
- Casanova (comics) - 2006 spy/espionage themed comic series. Uncited fancruft, minor formatting and tone issues. Waxworker (talk) 18:27, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
- Elvira Fortunato - Inventor of the paper transistor and pioneer of paper electronics. I drafted this article and it's my first article. It's partly translated from the Portuguese Wikipedia page, I added new information and more relevant sources and links to scientific papers. --IsabelAllegro (talk) 10:17, 10 May 2020 (GMT+1)
Note: The cleanup this seems to need is: improving the formatting of the awards section, some copyediting and citing in the first paragraph of the career section, and removing/rewriting/re-citing some statements based on non-independent sources. PJvanMill (talk) 22:02, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
- Roxlee: This is an article that must adhere to the biographies of living persons policy. It has multiple issues (see its templates), including containing highly promotional content and having virtually no reliable sources. I'm suspecting it may even violate the BLP policy. As such, it urgently needs cleanup. Please help by improving it, and/or correct me if I am wrong. MrSwagger21 (talk) 03:03, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
- LGBT rights in Zambia - Some issues: duplicate information, citations in incorrect place, lack of coherence, uncited information. Mnonkes (talk)17:39, 26 January 2021 UTC [refresh]
April
- Northanger Abbey -- too long, excessively detailed, needs to be written more cohesively. Tetrahedron17 (talk) 04:15, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Comment: @Tetrahedron17: Despite being a lengthy article, much (but not all) of it is well-cited. The request above will require extensive copy editing, along with a cleanup editor willing to take what could be a fair amount of time to first learn a great deal about the novel before before embarking upon reducing the article. It is possible that the accommodation of this extensive request may not come into fruition here. Ultimately, this request, relative to the article, would be better suited for WP:GOCER, in my opinion. North America1000 18:11, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
- Das Kapital (according to the tags on it) has way too many problems with missing information, original research, and bad citations for an article about such an influential book. DemonDays64 (talk) 21:58, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
- Jamia Millia Islamia -- Indian public university. The page is written like the uni's info brochure. Tetrahedron17 (talk) 09:42, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- Democratic Socialists of America — major overuse of first-party sources leads to an article with no criticism that makes the organization sound way more significant than it is. See Talk:Democratic Socialists of America#No criticism, bad sources. DemonDays64 (talk) 14:23, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
- Armageddon#Etymology – needs thorough copy-editing / revision; see there.--Hildeoc (talk) 19:57, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
- Kathy Griffin - I edit on a smartphone so moving texts around is a challenge:
- this BLP might need to integrate Controversies sections into career sections.
- Mark any statements needing sourcing.
- Mark any sections needing expanding.
- open to any suggestions to improve the overall article. Many thanks in advance! Gleeanon409 (talk) 22:43, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
- Staci Bilbo - American neuroscientist. The article is too long and needs to be shortened. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 14:07, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
Partly done Select publications is still too long. Tetrahedron17 (talk) 18:14, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
- Bullseye (mascot) — could be expanded, clean up confusing statements. DemonDays64 (talk) 01:56, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
March
- Mamta Sagar - very detailed, CV-like article I don't know where even to start from. Less Unless (talk) 13:20, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Partly done The article still has issues like extraneous and unreferenced info, but it no longer reads like a CV. Tetrahedron17 (talk) 18:04, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Partly done Additional grammar and style cleanup. werewolf (talk) 03:53, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
- World War I casualties#Casualties by post-war (1924) borders — way too repetitive explaining the book by Erikman. I'm not sure how to make it more elegant, could someone please take a look? Thanks, DemonDays64 (talk) 18:50, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
- C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) – Requires some extensive copyediting for grammar as well as unreferenced and lengthy quotes. Nrco0e (talk) 03:35, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
- Tricontinental Conference 1966 - lead section too long, multiple cases of references duplication. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 20:54, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
Partly done by MarialeegRVT and MiasmaEternal. Rosalina2427 (talk) 18:04, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
- Joel Martin Rubin - former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs in the Obama administration. The article reads like an advertising and has some referencing errors. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 20:08, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
Partly done Fixed bare URLs, tagged Washington Post citations with "Subscription Needed". -- WILDSTAR talk 12:53, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
- Irinel Popescu the article is too long, over detailed. Needs serious shortening. I have divided into sections for better understanding. Need you help. Less Unless (talk) 13:13, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
Partly done by Ghostofakina and Bbarmadillo. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 21:34, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
February
- Ancient warfare — seems it hasn't been updated since 2017. Needs some tone changes and grammar cleanup, especially in section Ancient Warfare#Tactics and weapons --Ommar365 (talk) 10:55, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
Partly done Cleanup, removed many of the duplicate hyperlinks in this overlinked article. -- WildStar talk 18:52, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Partly done Editing for tone/clarity, removing information about armor in Ancient Warfare#Weapons MoominGenesisEVA (talk) 23:43, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
- List of fictional extraterrestrials - Many of the links are broken or don't lead to any of the lists of alien races. And if we clear all those links, only few lists will remain - which will move this article away from the neutral point of view even further. EchoBlu (talk) 07:11, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
January
- William V. D'Antonio - US social scientist. Promotional
and unreferenced. I emoved some puffery, but a bit more cleanup is needed. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 21:05, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Comment: Struck part of the above, as the article presently has nine inline citations (diff). North America1000 23:30, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
- Visitdallas - US non-profit. Overly detailed and contains multiple reference duplications. I cleaned up some but a bit more work is needed. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 19:22, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
Partly done Finished removing duplicate references. Ghostofakina (talk) 02:27, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
- Anant Laxman Kanhere - ...Just check the tags. Not even 100% sure it meets notability, but going on a hunch to say it might..? --moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 17:05, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
- Janhavi Panwar - i created this page but now it does have 4 cleanup tags, i feel it needs to be re-written as per wp:tone and some citation cleanup required too. Shubhi89 (talk) 14:24, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
Partly done - Fixed bare URL, replaced short blacklisted YouTube URL with full URL. -- WILDSTARtalk 21:56, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
- T. V. John Langworthy - citation overkill, however not inline. External links need to be transformed in inline citations as well (or at least formatted properly). --Less Unless (talk) 00:06, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
Partly done Fixed bare external URLs, removed dead external link. -- WILDSTAR talk 12:53, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
- Shadi Hamid - American political scientist. Promotional and relies on self-published sources. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 11:35, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
- the Mysterious Benedict Society - book written by Trenton Lee Stewart, needs a major cleanup for better clarification for newer readers. The Baltic Sea (talk) 17:58, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
- United Business Institutes - private university in Belgium. Suffers from WP:CITEKILL and WP:PROMO. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 16:20, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
- Revisionism (Spain) - Article about historical revisionism in Spain. Added excessive citations template/tone template. Extreme citation/footnote overkill in a section titled "Charge: re-fried Francoist fables" and article is written as a persuasive essay rather than an encyclopaedic article. --RevAndroid (talk) 17:38, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
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- Northamerica1000, February 2012
- OlEnglish, February 2012
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- Amadscientist, February 2012
- EdiOnjales, February 2012
- AuthorAuthor (talk) 00:20, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
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- Rouenpucelle (talk)Rouenpucelle, February 2013
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- Staszek Lem (talk) 20:12, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
- Steven Walling • talk 23:41, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
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- Chri$topher 11:51, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
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- Ugog Nizdast (talk) 16:48, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
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- Rich Farmbrough, 12:50, 27 October 2017 (UTC).
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- Bbarmadillo Bbarmadillo (talk) 19:29, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
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- Hareesh Sivasubramanian (talk) 20:35, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
- Armvis (talk) --Armvis (talk) 19:46, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
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- Ghostfakina (talk) 01:29, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
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- Mccull415, April 7, 2019
- TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 07:45, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- Less Unless (talk) 10:51, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
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- Rosymaplemothman, December 27, 2019
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- Shubhi89 (talk) 14:20, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
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- Acabashi (talk) 17:00, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
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- A S U K I T E 18:47, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
- DestinationFearFan (talk) 17:41, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
- MoominGenesisEVA (talk) 22:54, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
- Texttramp (talk) 04:47, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- Ashpie007 (talk) 19:45, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
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Templates
- See Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup for the templates used to mark pages for cleanup.
The following are templates used by WikiProject Cleanup.
User box
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See also
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup – templates for adding to articles needing a cleanup
Barnstars
The following are barnstars used to award users who clean up articles. To award a user, just copy and paste one of the following barnstars to a user's talk page, customizing your message where it says "message" within the code:
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Related WikiProjects
Below are some WikiProjects that do related work.
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See also
- Forgotten articles (database report)
- Clarify the cleanup (essay)
Tools
Below are some tools that can be useful in cleanup work. Feel free to edit this list.
- AutoEd – automatically make clean-up changes in articles
- reFill – edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.
- IA Bot – marks dead external links (including references) and adds archived copies to live references
- WPcleaner – helps fix various errors, including links to disambig pages (installable program)