Wikipedia:Cleanup resources

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Contents 1 How to mark articles for cleanup 2 Tags for articles that need cleaning up 3 Content expert needed 4 Related pages 5 Collaboration coordination

How to mark articles for cleanup

1. Make sure this is the page you should be using. (See the section "Related pages" below.)
2. Find the appropriate tag(s) in the table below.
3. Add the tags to the top of the article.
4. Add an explanatory note to the article's talk page and/or list the article on Wikipedia:Cleanup.

By doing this, you will put the article into one or more categories where other Wikipedians can find and fix it. The categories are linked from the tables below.

If you don't have time to do anything more than tag an article as needing cleanup, that's fine and a very useful thing to do. (Reading and evaluating articles does indeed take a lot of time and is certainly real work.) If you do have the time to do so, it would be helpful to fix one article already on the list for every one that you add. This helps ensure that at least some fixit work actually does get done, and helps keep the size of this collection from growing without bound.

Tags for articles that need cleaning up

See Wikipedia:Template messages for other useful tags.

Content expert needed

If you find a page that needs attention from someone more familar with the subject than the average Wikipedian, list it under Wikipedia:Pages needing attention and tag it: {{expert}}.

Related pages

Resources for maintenance and collaboration edit
Cleanup	General - Subject-specific - Move to Wiktionary - Wiki syntax - English grammar - Cleanup Taskforce
Categories	Orphaned - General cleanup - Articles to be sorted - Underpopulated - More...
Create an article	Most wanted - Requests 2 years+ - Requests 1 year+ - Requested articles - Blank pages - Missing encyclopedic topics
Stubs	Advice - Stubs by topic - Most wanted - Short pages - Incomplete lists - Collaboration of the week
Disambig	Articles to merge - Articles to split
Deletion	Speedy - Articles - Categories - Redirects - Templates - Misc. pages - Jokes - Log - Discussion archives - Undeletion
Polishing	Expand an article - Peer review - Featured candidates - Fill a topic list - This week's improvement drive
Translation into English	From foreign Wikipedias - Existing pages - Spanish Translation of the Week - Interwiki link checker
Images	Requested pictures - Pictures needing attention - Images for cleanup - Image recreation requests - Caption review - Images with missing articles
Controversy	Neutrality - Article accuracy - Statement accuracy - Copyright violations
To-do lists	Articles - Projects - Books
More	Cleaning department - Active Wiki Fixup Projects - Offline reports - Open tasks

For images that need to be improved, see Wikipedia:Images for cleanup.

To request an image or map be added to an article, please see Wikipedia:Requested pictures or Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Requested and orphan maps.

For categories that need to be improved, see Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention.

For repetitive cleanup that would benefit from automation, see Wikipedia:Bot requests.

Collaboration coordination

Some editors prefer that helpers work on leftovers and older articles, just to deal with them and get them out of the way. But whether your preference is new or old; all help is appreciated. If you work on cleanup regularly, you can add your name and a description of what you do to the Wikipedia:Cleaning department page.