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keep - fine - wikify - nonsense - OK now? - unimproved - insufficient - meta - stubified - substub - expand - nonexistent - obscure - idiosyncratic - ad/advert - selfpromotion - ungrammatic - silly - joke - repeat - link - chatty - rant - POV - NPOV - copyvio - brilliant - obscenity - blog - vanity page... |
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Reasons for listing an article here include
Style notes:
Resources for maintenance and collaboration |
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Cleanup |
Categories |
Create an article |
Referencing |
Stubs |
Deletion |
Polishing |
Translation into English |
Images |
Controversy |
To-do lists |
Disambiguation |
More |
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For a listing of ongoing discussions, see the dashboard. |
To remove an entry, you should fix it first; but common sense should govern how large the cleanup page gets and how long entries are left there. A good rule of thumb is to keep the page size below 30k, and to reduce size by summarising past discussion rather than removing old entries when possible (this is not VfD; comments are not sacred).
When an entry is removed, it can be:
Some common types of entry follow, together with advice on how to handle them:
Above all, fix things you know how to fix. If you're looking for something to do, aggressively target entries in the following places:
Unlike VfD, it doesn't really matter whether an article is on cleanup or not.
If the fact that an article is on cleanup upsets you, you may be reading too much into it. Most articles need improvement; someone just happened to stumble over this one. One way or another, it will be off cleanup in a few weeks. And since cleanup comments must be short, assume notes like "horrible" or "?!" or "eek" are hasty abbreviations for "could be better", not abbreviations for "this is the worst article I've ever seen, and I hate whoever helped write it".
If the fact that a particular article is not on cleanup upsets you, list it again. But if it has already gone from the top of cleanup to the bottom and "fallen off", it may be better to think of another solution rather than just trying cleanup again.
Sample terms to use |
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keep - fine - wikify - nonsense - OK now? - unimproved - insufficient - meta - stubified - substub - expand - nonexistent - obscure - idiosyncratic - ad/advert - selfpromotion - ungrammatic - silly - joke - repeat - link - chatty - rant - POV - NPOV - copyvio - brilliant - obscenity - blog - vanity page... |
~~~)
Reasons for listing an article here include
Style notes:
Resources for maintenance and collaboration |
---|
Cleanup |
Categories |
Create an article |
Referencing |
Stubs |
Deletion |
Polishing |
Translation into English |
Images |
Controversy |
To-do lists |
Disambiguation |
More |
|
For a listing of ongoing discussions, see the dashboard. |
To remove an entry, you should fix it first; but common sense should govern how large the cleanup page gets and how long entries are left there. A good rule of thumb is to keep the page size below 30k, and to reduce size by summarising past discussion rather than removing old entries when possible (this is not VfD; comments are not sacred).
When an entry is removed, it can be:
Some common types of entry follow, together with advice on how to handle them:
Above all, fix things you know how to fix. If you're looking for something to do, aggressively target entries in the following places:
Unlike VfD, it doesn't really matter whether an article is on cleanup or not.
If the fact that an article is on cleanup upsets you, you may be reading too much into it. Most articles need improvement; someone just happened to stumble over this one. One way or another, it will be off cleanup in a few weeks. And since cleanup comments must be short, assume notes like "horrible" or "?!" or "eek" are hasty abbreviations for "could be better", not abbreviations for "this is the worst article I've ever seen, and I hate whoever helped write it".
If the fact that a particular article is not on cleanup upsets you, list it again. But if it has already gone from the top of cleanup to the bottom and "fallen off", it may be better to think of another solution rather than just trying cleanup again.