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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.

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 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:

  • /Kashmir Conflict, needs some cleanup, the dates and such aren't exactly correct. Some fact checking and revising is needed.
  • /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.
  • /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
  • /Web-brigade Apparently a Russian phenomenon; Google in English found only wikipedia entry. I can't look it up in Russian.
  • /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)
  • /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
  • /BMW E90 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.
  • /History of Libya In desperate need of attention, maybe could use some of the material from the main libya article.
  • /MiceChat is extremely biased and either needs to be rewritten or struck from Wikipedia. It reads just like a promotional piece instead of an encyclopedic record.
  • /The Killam Trusts (surviving AFD, needs rewrite)
  • /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.
  • /Tardive dysphrenia looks messy.
  • /Clique Issues with style and sentence structure, sounds a little bit unprofessional and lacking in citations in some areas.
  • /Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists Anons keep reverting my wikification edits, I don't know what to remove or how to validate anything, and the article is about 4 pages long.
  • /Bosnian War
  • /Pāli
  • /Ken McElroy
  • /WiMAX unorganized and self-contradictory at places
  • /Directory Opus
  • /Kosovo War (20 June 2006) if cleaned up FA status is possible
  • /Philadelphia Project (23 June 2006)) - article is nothing but uncited conjecture. either needs references or should be purged.

Assigned

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


Taskforce Tasks

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

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)[reply]

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

  1. 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.
  2. Make sure any cleanup tags have been removed from the article and its talk page.
  3. Remove it from Taskforce members' desks. (Visit the collaboration page and check "What links here".)
  4. Remove it from this page and, optionally, archive it at Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/closed

See also

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