Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention

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Scroll down to the very bottom for a listing of tagged categories that need reorganizing.

This page is for suggesting categories that need work. This might be when:

  • There are too many articles in a given category, so subcategories need to be created and articles sorted among them.
  • An existing categorization scheme has become problematic, messy, or hard to navigate, and needs to be refactored.
  • Articles are classified according to Scheme A, but need to be cross-referenced by Scheme B. (For example, "by date" vs. "by type" subcategory schemes.)
  • Links or titles are malformed

To add a category here, visit it, click the "edit" tab, and add the tag {{cleancat}} to the category, which will display the following text:

This category is in need of attention.
Improve it in any way you see fit. When the issues regarding this category have been resolved, remove this notice and the listing, but please do not remove this notice until the categorization has been fixed.

Add your comments about why it needs cleanup to its talk page.

Your work on these categories can help encourage others to pitch in if you add something like the following to your edit summary:

[[:Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention|Help fix categories in need of attention!]]

More categories needing cleanup are also listed below.

Active Wiki Fixup Projects +/-
Must be active, systematic, have lists, & need help.

Bad links - A new page highlighting mangled links in Oct. 29 dump.
Most wanted articles - Help create the most popular "red links". Updated from Oct. 20 dump.
Disambiguation pages with links - Updated from the 2005-10-20 database dump with lots of work.
Commons:Untagged_images - Untagged images on the Commons.
Most visited articles - Based on page views, to be made into featured articles.
Shortpages - Possibly broken, possibly stubs, but definitely too short. Updated 9 Sept.
Templates with red links - By special request. Updated as of the Sept 9 dump.
Linkrot - Fix broken links to external websites. Updated from Sept. 9 dump.
Punctuation - Fix missing punctuation. Round 2 for Sep '05!
Blank pages - Updated from Sept. 9 dump.
Elements of Style improvement project Improve diction and style.
Duplicated sections - An experimental list of articles with possible duplicate sections.
User categorisation - Help replace unwieldy, unsorted lists with a robust categorisation system.
Dead-end pages - Just updated (20 Sep 2005); articles that need wikification and other help.
Broken categories - For your inspection, a fresh list of malformed categories.
Missing articles - Wikipedia is not as complete as you might think!
Most wanted stubs - Help add to the shortest stubs with the most links.
Transwiki log cleanup - Help resolve the list of articles that have been transwikied to Wikipedia's sister projects. Dictionary definitions, recipes, how-tos, etc. need to be checked for possible merging or deletion.
Stub sorting - Sort stubs into topical categories so editors can locate and expand stubs on subjects they are interested in. Remove stub notices attached to non-stub articles.
Image sleuthing - A convivial club investigating the origin and copyright and licence terms for unverified images.
Main - Inactive - Mini

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Related pages

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Organizational problems

Please remove the below as they are fixed. For many more, see Tagged categories, below.

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Malformed titles and links

Sometimes articles link to non-existent or malformed categories. If this can be taken care of just by fixing links in the articles (the link displays red) then the categories below can just be fixed and de-listed. If it requires actually deleting a category (the link shows blue) then it needs to be fixed and then listed on WP:CFD.

  • It would be nice if Categories showed in Previews, so that one could fix malformed categories without committing to the edit (doing a Save Page) first. -- Mwanner 21:13, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
    • They do; just scroll down to the very bottom of the page, past the edit box. -- Beland 7 July 2005 03:22 (UTC)
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How to use these lists

Categories are "detected" in the below lists if they have weird, non-alphanumeric characters in the name. This may be an indication that either a syntax error was made on an article page (not unlikely if you only see one article for that category), or that the category should be renamed because it contains weird characters. If a category is listed here but does not have either of those problems, please add it to "Categories that appear to be ok". This will prevent it from being listed here in the future.

Categories have two things: 1.) A description page, and 2.) Member articles and subcategories. A category might:

  • Have no description page but have member articles or subcategories. (Red, but linked to from other pages.) If the category is being kept, a description page should be added which specifies an appropriate parent category (like this: [[Category:NAME OF PARENT CATEGORY HERE]]). If the category is not being kept, the articles linking there should be moved to other categories, or at least removed from this one.
  • Have a description page and member articles or subcategories. (Blue, and linked from other pages.) This is the normal state of affairs. If a category like this needs to be renamed, please list it on Wikipedia:Categories for deletion (which also handles renaming).

Some category names appear black on the below lists. The script which produces automated lists does this because some category names that contain weird characters such that they cannot be linked to directly. You should still be able to reach these categories by visiting articles that link to them.

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Character conventions

  • Namespace prefixes like "Wikipedia:" don't belong in category names. Use an alternative. For example, you can use "Wikipedia" as an adjective, without the colon.
  • Non-ASCII characters should be represented by their native UTF-8 (a Unicode representation) entity in category names. Neither HTML entities like & nor URL-encoded entities, like %2E should appear in category names as you see them in the wikitext when you edit a member article. You will see URL-encoded entities in URLs. (This, of course, is why it's easy to get confused and link to the wrong thing.)
  • Use "and" instead of "&" unless it is an integral part of a proper noun (e.g. "Law & Order").
  • To avoid the appearance of subpages, slashes should not appear in category names unless they are an integral part of a proper noun. (e.g. "OS/2") or unless there is another very good reason for having them. Try to rephrase or use hyphens instead (e.g. "Dallas-Fort Worth", "Minneapolis-St. Paul").
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Categories that appear to be ok

Add false positives here. You can remove the list of member articles.

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Extra spaces in link pages

These just need to be fixed on the article page. MediaWiki masks these errors so readers don't notice them.

  • All fixed as of 16 August 2005.
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Links from user space

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Wikipedia: categories

Listing these on WP:CFD for possible renaming. -- Beland 05:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

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Categories that should be deleted

See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion for instructions.

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TV stations

Listing these on WP:CFD for possible mass renaming. -- Beland 05:43, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

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Categories that should be renamed

Need to use UTF-8 instead of a URL-encoded characters or HTML entities.

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Categories with slashes in the name

Should these be renamed, split, or merged?

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Detected 6 Jul 2005 (unsorted)

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Tagged categories

Under "Subcategories", below, you will find categories that have been tagged {{cleancat}}.

Under "Articles", you will find categories with {{cleancat}} on their talk pages. Please ignore the Template: and Wikipedia: pages which appear there for technical reasons; they do not need cleanup.


Subcategories

There are 12 subcategories to this category.

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Articles in category "Wikipedia categories in need of attention"

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