Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce
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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.
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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:
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{{cleanup taskforce notice|ARTICLENAME}}
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- 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 who you want to assign the article to, 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 '~~~~'.
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==[[ARTICLENAME]]== The [[ARTICLENAME]] article is too short. We should have more information about this. ~~~~
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- 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:
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''Added to [[User:USERNAME/Desk]]'' ~~~~
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- 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.
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{{Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/ARTICLENAME}}
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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
Please help assign the following tasks to Taskforce members, or grab some for yourself:
- /Witch-Hunt (needs different info)
- /Insider attack (on cleanup since December 2004)
- /Person
- /Table of Judgments (June 20)
- /Loving Female Authority,
- /Simhavisnu (On Template:Opentask cleanup list for more than 7 days, tagged since Oct 2004)
- /H5N1
- /Medical analysis of circumcision
- /Contact Consequences
- /We All Fall Down (self-contradictory, source material from article needs to be rewritten, perhaps by someone who's read it?)
- /Bai Ling (Too many links, rambling, unsubstantiated references)
- /Judicial activism
- /Marathi language
Assigned
The following tasks are currently active (with date of first assignment):
- /Knot polynomial (May 7)
- /Spiritual marriage (May 19)
- /Kambojas (June 2)
- /Winx Club (July 1)
- /Enlil (July 4)
- /Bloods (July 6)
- /Greek etymologies (July 9)
- /John III of Portugal (July 13)
- /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)
- /SDAIE (August 7, 2005)
- /SUMO class (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)
- /Venkateshwara (Septermber 10)
- /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)
- /Redbird (September 20, 2005) (Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Redbird Trains refers to a redirect to this page)
- /Hungarian prehistory (September 24, 2005)
- /Technomad (September 24, 2005)
- /Corpolitical (September 27, 2005)
- /Cornelius Harnett (September 27, 2005)
- /List of pseudorandom number generators (September 27, 2005)
- /Biofeedback (September 27, 2005)
- /Functionality assurance (September 27, 2005)
- /Francis L. Dade (September 27, 2005)
- /Rescuing Prometheus (October 5, 2005)
- /Nonblocking Minimal Spanning Switch (October 11, 2005)
- /Paintball marker (October 11, 2005)
- /H5N1 (October 12, 2005)
- /Skull and Bones (October 13, 2005)
- /Papua New Guinea (October 13, 2005)
- /Fei Yu Ching (October 13, 2005)
- /Medical analysis of circumcision (October 13, 2005)
- /Photorefractive keratectomy (October 16, 2005)
- /Dave Walker (October 16, 2005)
- /Rainbow mythology (on cleanup since September 2004) (October 17, 2005)
- /Jardin de Tivoli, Paris (October 20, 2005)
- /Transcience of time (October 21, 2005)
- /Loung Ung (October 23, 2005)
- /Fictional Resistance Movements and Fictional Resistance Groups (October 25, 2005)
- /Politics of Israel (November 4, 2005)
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