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Welcome to the Wikipedia Cleanup project, everybody. This project is intended as a resource for Wikipedia Cleanup information and discussion. Cleanup issues that this project covers may include wikification, spelling, grammar, tone, and sourcing.

List of pages requiring cleanup are automatically generated from the {{cleanup}} banners placed on articles. See Category:All pages needing cleanup and Category:Cleanup by month. Older articles with issues that have not been dealt with in some time may be found at Wikipedia:BACKLOG.

All users are welcome to help in editing or fixing any page on these lists. Please remember to take the appropriate tag(s) off the page when you have completed cleaning an article. Please also document what you have done on the article's talk page for the reference of other editors.

Information on the cleanup process may be found at Wikipedia:Cleanup process. Other resources may be found at Wikipedia: Cleanup resources and Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup, for help on posting problems with Wikipedia pages, or for you to use as a guide.

As of 09:32, 3 February 2009 (UTC), 38,736 articles were tagged for cleanup, or 1.42% of the English Wikipedia's 2,724,732 articles.

General Cleanup lists:

Specific issue Cleanup lists:

Other Cleanup related projects include:

Volunteer to help Wikipedia:Cleanup

Due to the massive backlog of listings that have ballooned the Wikipedia:Cleanup lists to include thousands of articles, Wikipedia:Cleanup needs your help!

Feel free to add your name to the list of volunteers who are actively involved in this project! Adding your name will allow other editors to know that you are actively involved in this project as well as allow for better co-ordination between cleanup editors.

The Wikipedia Cleanup Legacy List

The manually maintained lists on this page (below) have to an extent been superseded by category lists that are automatically generated from the {{cleanup}} banners placed on articles. See Category:All pages needing cleanup and Category:Cleanup by month.

You may add cleanup requests here as well if you wish (though it is not necessary); see Wikipedia:Cleanup process for further information. Please only add articles to this list that are unlikely to be fixed without the help of Wikipedia cleanup volunteers. Editors are STRONGLY encouraged to try and perform clean-up themselves before posting articles to this list. Help in cleaning articles on this list is also greatly appreciated. [[Media:Media:Example.ogg[[Media:Media:Example.ogg]]]] Please keep in mind that the lists here constitute only a small fraction of the Wikipedia articles tagged as needing cleanup, and they may not always be maintained as new articles are tagged or old articles are fixed. The list is still active through a number of editors who do still regularly try to attend to this list. Assistance and participation of other editors is welcome.

You may report confusing/messy articles below and explain why they need to be cleaned-up (grammar, spelling, formatting, order, copyright issues, confusion, etc.). Be sure to cross post your entry on the article's own discussion page for the references of other editors who may not visit this page. Please do not add articles below simply because they are POV or are lacking sources. Make sure to sign your additions with the following format: --~~~~.

2009

June, 2009

May, 2009

  • Not sure what the issue is with this article. Can you elaborate? --

Lendorien (talk) 15:24, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On the talk page the "living person" tag has been included (and a reference to the query immediately below this one on the cleanup page). Jackiespeel (talk) 13:41, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

April, 2009

March, 2009

Hmmm... almost exactly the same situation for Shawn Texas. Am I missing something? Is this an acceptable format for athletes? -- edi(talk) 14:43, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

February, 2009

January, 2009

2008

December, 2008

November, 2008

- I worked on this site a little today. Plenty of information to expand it. Doctorfun (talk) 02:33, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Grammar and spellcheck on this completed today. ArcAngel (talk) 02:37, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nova Zagora - Coordinates and map on the entry for Nova Zagora, Bulgaria page have errors that need to be corrected. 7 November 2008.
Done. The coordinates now work correctly and put the marker (Google Maps & Earth) in the center of the town's central park/square. Astronaut (talk) 18:40, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Revised article, added wikiproject. needs sourcing and some research to fact check.—Lendorien (talk) 17:04, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

October

September

August, 2008

  • Auditory masking is a quite informative article; however, there's lots of unnecessary text scattered throughout the article. e.g. "(Gelfand 2004)." is repeated many times for no reason, and "{{{author}}}, {{{title}}}, [[{{{publisher}}}]], [[{{{date}}}]]" appears in another place. 4.242.147.244 (talk) 19:29, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

talk:Sergiogr|talk]]) 11:10, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

July

June

May

April

March

February

February 15–29

February 1–15, 2008

  • I did a little plot work too, but I only saw up to that part.-Sakuraluver(talk)

January 2008

2007

December 2007

November 2007

October 2007

September 2007

August 2007

11–31 August, 2007

1–10 August, 2007

  • Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq grammar, repeated sentences, sections read like it was written by some teenager unfamiliar with the language. As the general's place in Pakistani history is important, I would like someone with academic knowledge to review, since the article has changed since the last time I read it. Mac

July 2007

21–31 July 29, 2007

11–20 July, 2007

  • Deleted a LOT of material from this page following the Wikipedia Video Game Article guideline. Also spent some time rewriting several portions of the article correcting grammar, spelling, and poor writing. Some portions I have decided to leave alone for the time being, especially the Controversy section... I think it could be left, but rewritten to be neutral, as the controversy is an integral part of the game... lneely42 06:18, 14 July 2007 (CST)
I will definitely try to help, but most of the help I can offer is to clean up the language. It currently sounds very stilted. Sean Montgomery 14:23, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Mitotic inhibitor - Recently I have created and expanded the stub 'mitotic inhibitor'. This article is of great importance to cancer treatment and research, but I am very inexperienced in writing for wikipedia and therefore I believe the article needs extensive rewrite, seeing as it does not meet the quality of other wikipedia pages I have seen. I would be grateful if soeone were to help me format the page and expound upon the subject. Dancanm 14:46, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Quarantine - Based on the 1911 Britanica article, this article is out of date, poorly written (with too much emphasis on the 19th century) and needs sourcing.—Lendorien 15:57, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

1–10 July, 2007

June 2007

21–30 June, 2007

11–20 June, 2007

Looks to have been cleaned up way back in Aug 2007. Astronaut (talk) 20:38, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

1–10 June, 2007

May 2007

May 25–31, 2007

Article reads well enough to me. Issue seems to be lack of references, not messiness. Matt 19:35, 29 June 2007 (UTC).
  • Pre-qualification. Some of the information is incorrect, specifically regarding the social security number not being needed. That is absolutely incorrect.
  • European Irish - Legitimate topic, but seems to have been created as an advertisement for the europeanirish.com website. - Mike Rosoft 13:45, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hells Angels is really poorly written, controversy aside. There are all sorts of grammatical errors and odd syntaxes. I'd be bold, but I don't know enough abuot the subject to figure out what some of the article is trying to say—xAlpha 23:00, 26 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe a "subject matter expert"? What subject would that be? It may just need to be re-written - both the article and talk are a bit out of control.Lightwiki 01:53, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Timebase correction repeats a lot of the same information and is poorly organized.
  • Multimedia Fusion has mostly bad English grammar, there are misspelled words, and it just doesn't look gay.
Very fan focused - unencyclopedic character. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 13:34, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

May 22–24, 2007

  • Royal visits to Australia contains incorrect links and confusing third person pronouns such as a he which can refer to a few people. It's also a long article requiring organization.

-Cleaned up the grammar a little but still some incoherent phrases that I didn't get.jtimshel 20:34, 30 July 2007

May 17–21, 2007

May 1–15, 2007

April 2007

April 25–30, 2007

April 17-24, 2007

  • Cleaned it up a bit - 27 May 2007.

April 1–16, 2007

  • Supernatural - This is an important article, but unfortunately it contains many forward claims that require attribution to reliable sources, chief among them a strong support of methodological naturalism in science. It lacks references for many of its other claims, which I have marked with "citation needed" tags. It uses numerous weasel words. "Competing Explanations and Criteria of Preference" as well as the end of "Alleged instances of supernaturalization" have a naturalistic POV and should be cut down unless reliable sources can be found to support their statements. See what I wrote under "Unsourced." Good day.Schmitty120 19:35, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Zakir Hussain (musician) - Highly repetitive. Poor formatting.

March 2007

March 11–31, 2007

  • I took a jab at it. A lot of the work simply required naturalization of the English grammer, so that's done. I can't say anything about the informational content itself. Still needs sourcing.—Lendorien 17:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

March 1–11, 2007

February 2007

January 2007