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● Category:Articles needing cleanup has lists of articles tagged for cleanup. ● If you've arrived at this page from a link on a {{ cleanup}} template in an article, the article may not meet one or more of Wikipedia's content standards. Information on the cleanup process may be found at Wikipedia:Cleanup process. Other resources are located at Wikipedia:Cleanup resources and Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup. If the article requires expert attention see template:Expert. ● See Wikipedia:BACKLOG for more articles tagged as needing various improvements.
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May 2023

• Joyce Eliason - date lineups are backwards Lacon432 ( talk) 03:31, 26 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - cast listing should be formatted better. Many of these credits can be removed and the ellipsis aren't very necessary as opposed to an "as". Lacon432 ( talk) 01:47, 26 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

   Partly done. I do not have the time to decide which of the credits can be removed. Hopefully I can get this done by tomorrow. TrademarkedTarantula ( talk) 06:10, 29 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

• Morgan Berry - tables are still a mess; dates and italics need to be implemented for better organization. Lacon432 ( talk) 01:47, 26 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• Calvin Levels, Paul Benjamin, Len Lesser, Christopher Cazenove, David Ackroyd, Jo Anderson, Jade Yorker, Ingrid Torrance, Art Evans, J. Don Ferguson, Clint Walker, Tonea Stewart, Ramon Bieri, Lloyd Gough, Bill Nunn - filmography should be split between film credits and television credits. Lacon432 ( talk) 01:47, 26 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis - there should be a table for her television credits and stage credits. For Ossie, a table for his credits should be done. Lacon432 ( talk) 01:47, 26 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• William Herle (spy) article appears to have properly sourced information but is ungrammatical and has extensive sentence structure issues and misspellings. Adambondy ( talk) 07:11, 25 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy - An anonymous user recently requested that this article be moved to the organization's new name: One Health Trust. I think that is a necessary move, but it would also require re-writing most of the article to indicate that its previous achievements were under its previous name, in an "artist formerly known as..." sort of way. --- DOOMSDAYER520 ( TALK| CONTRIBS) 14:09, 19 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

  We can move it to a new title page, and then put up a template stating that parts of the article may use the name "CDDEP" and/or other sub derivatives until a proper cleanup is done. We can also ask fellow editors to contribute to the cleanup, if possible. Sugeeth Jayaraj ( talk) 17:28, 22 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

  It is also worth noting that the cleanup can happen in Phases, and not necessarily in one go.

  Nowadays we can use the Find feature in most browsers to find and replace text where necessary. Sugeeth Jayaraj ( talk) 17:30, 22 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

• Sh-Boom - bare URL found in references.. Tinton5 ( talk) 04:33, 16 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

 Done - URL was placed within a citation inappopriately. --- DOOMSDAYER520 ( TALK| CONTRIBS) 19:59, 20 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

• British Overseas Territories citizen - A lot of content has been introduced into the article which is not WP:POV. A lot of sections may not be relevant to BOTCs, or even off-topic. I propose the moderators remove non-POV passages, then check the passages in boxes, until the community have had a chance to discuss them. They look like they’ve been copied across from other British and Irish nationality articles. ( Kreb ( talk) 07:06, 8 May 2023 (UTC)) Reply reply

Just to add to my earlier comment, it’s worth remembering that most British Overseas Territories are located in the Caribbean islands, and are much smaller than other former British colonies, which is why they haven’t become independent yet. There’s not much commonality between them and other colonies e.g. in Africa. So any passages relating to Ireland/Kenya/Uganda/India are simply not relevant. The Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 is only loosely relevant: whilst it did lay down conditions on people from the territories entering the UK, it was not specifically aimed at them. ( Kreb ( talk) 07:12, 8 May 2023 (UTC)) Reply reply

• Announcement: All the articles tagged for cleanup in April 2010 have been resolved, yay! Based on how quickly folks took care of those (many just needed the tag removed), I think we could probably accelerate resolution of end-of-queue articles from the current speed (about one month per year) to one month per month, which would mean the backlog wait time would stop growing. In that spirit, here are all the remaining articles that were tagged in May 2010:
• Anti-rape movement
• Dosanjh, Moga
• Economy of the Netherlands Antilles
• Bobby Gerould
• Global Hands-On Universe
• Devender Goud
• Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío
• Ibrahim Ali Omar Shah
• Identity Performance
• Khabibullin's conjecture on integral inequalities
• Lesson plan
• List of blade materials
• Metal Improvement Company
• Neanderthals in popular culture
• Reactions to the 2005 French riots
• Resulting trust
• Sankurathri Foundation
• Zane Schwenk
• Solaris Books
• Stonewall Young Democrats
• Masasue Suho
• Trench map
• Trusted Computing
• University of the Philippines School of Labor and Industrial Relations
• Westernised Chinese language

-- Beland ( talk) 17:48, 16 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

April 2023

• Davie504 - I tried transcribing his name on IPA based on this YouTube video of his as source. I only used IPA characters present in Help:IPA/Italian. I would like the accuracy of my transcription to be verified or improved. Thank you. Kyleroo ( talk) 00:39, 30 April 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• Identity and language learning - written like an essay, with no lead section and an oversized "further reading" section, among several other major issues in this article. DM5 ^(talk) 21:31, 29 April 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• Mary Kenner - Inline citations are not hyperlinked Merpin ( talk) 16:47, 28 April 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

 Comment: Merpin, those are "general references" per WP:CITETYPE, which of course can also be supplemented with inline citations. — WILDSTAR ^TALK 20:05, 2 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

 Done - The community has worked on the article since the request, and the request itself indicated an issue that did not necessarily require cleanup. --- DOOMSDAYER520 ( TALK| CONTRIBS) 17:32, 30 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

• Tom Gibis, Brian Beacock, William Frederick Knight, Lia Sargent, Matt Hill, Jaxon Lee, Spike Spencer, Skip Stellrecht, Cam Clarke, Pat Fraley, R. Martin Klein, Jamie Simone, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Robbie Rist, Henry Dittman, Brian Donovan, Mimi Woods, Derek Stephen Prince, Chris Edgerly, Amanda Winn-Lee, Paula Tiso, Chiemi Chiba, Jonathan Fahn, Doug Erholtz, Paul Mercier, Quinton Flynn, John DeMita, Olivia Hack, Barbara Goodson, Grant George, Keith Silverstein, Tom Fahn, Michael Sinterniklaas, Eddie Frierson, Peter Lurie, Kim Mai Guest, Steve Kramer, Debi Mae West, Michael Sorich, Richard Cansino, Michael Lindsay, JB Blanc, John Swasey, John Gremillion, Jessica Boone, Andy McAvin, Jason Douglas, Don Rush - tables for credits requested for updating pages. Lacon432 ( talk) 05:03, 18 April 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• Tatar confederation - same statements (e.g. "From the 10th to 13th centuries, Shatuo Turks joined Tatar confederation and became known as White Tatars branch of the Tatars.") repeated in multiple sections (e.g. in both "Name and origin" and "History") even though the article is relatively short. Erminwin ( talk) 16:50, 28 April 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• Jay Hickman - slight formatting issues in credit tables. Lacon432 ( talk) 05:03, 18 April 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• Kira Vincent-Davis - dates are out-of-order in tables. Lacon432 ( talk) 05:03, 18 April 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

   Partly done - tables are now sorted by year, but I was unable to find actual dates for most so I have not sorted within each year at all. Tollens ( talk) 11:04, 21 April 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

• List of supermarket chains in Oceania - Incorrect grammar and formatting. Doctorkaufman ( talk) 14:41, 4 April 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• Indian Premier League - The article have lots of triva and outdated material, it should be removed or moved in history section. Rock Stone Gold Castle ( talk) 18:48, 3 April 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
  • According to mass stats, this page got over a million page views per day in April, the highest among all articles currently tagged for cleanup. -- Beland ( talk) 17:50, 16 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• Solar Electric Light Fund Too much reliance on the subject's self-published webpage as a source. Sounds like an advertisment. The talk page has a detailed list of To-Do items and a list of better sources. BruceThomson ( talk) 09:00, 22 April 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

•  Partly done: Most problems fixed, but needs to have more sources added. A good source list is on the talk page. BruceThomson ( talk) 22:08, 5 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

February 2023

• Okimi – Translation from Japanese. Thorough cleanup required.-- Hildeoc ( talk) 17:24, 16 February 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

   Comment: Grammar is okay at this point. The article needs someone who can translate some referenced engravings and correctly place the citations from the original article. StigmaOfTruth ( talk) 04:12, 2 April 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

• Iu Mien people -- Needs major cleanup with grammar, style, formatting, basically everything -- Zhen Zhen ( talk) 21:33, 14 February 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• Daniil Konstantinov - Needs general cleanup with wording and formatting Pianolettuce ( talk) 14:36, 14 February 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

January 2023

• Larry Hankin - general clean up, formatting in film tables (italic titles, etc), other fixes needed. Tinton5 ( talk) 07:47, 28 January 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

   Partly done by Wikieditor019 Wikieditor019 ( talk) 18:19, 28 January 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

• COVID-19 pandemic in Russia - Under the confirmed deaths per day there are just strings of numbers that are either unrelated to the graph or formulated improperly, but I'm not sure. Pianolettuce ( talk) 15:09, 26 January 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• SUSE_Linux_Enterprise#Version_history Should probably be using one of these fancy version history templates, which I sadly have no idea how to use – Marcusmueller ettus ( talk) 10:14, 19 January 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

   Done Changed list to a formatted table StigmaOfTruth ( talk) 19:37, 19 April 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

• NPE Extension Expressway - Mess of colors and tables, cites no sources and needs a lot of cleanup. - Pianolettuce ( talk) 16:50, 18 January 2023 (UTC) Reply reply
• Dietrich Grunewald – Reference with bare URL, and the article needs to be deorphaned. — WILDSTAR ^TALK 02:41, 16 January 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

 Partly done by Leomk0403. — WILDSTAR ^TALK 14:21, 16 January 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

• Starmus Festival - Heavy overlinking (namedropping), promotional, uncited OR. Grorp ( talk) 04:53, 2 January 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

December 2022

• Bhabendra Nath Saikia – Promotional tone and general need for summarization. Rosalina2427 ^(talk) 07:25, 21 December 2022 (UTC) Reply reply
• Sergei Osipov (artist)#Bibliography.-- Hildeoc ( talk) 22:50, 16 December 2022 (UTC) Reply reply
• Aurum (liqueur) - mess of images that needs to be formatted for style. TheManInTheBlackHat (Talk) 02:50, 12 December 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

   Done but the page needs more work, it's just a stub ♦ WikiUser70176 ♦ ^{(My talk page)} 01:41, 3 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

• 2011 National Camogie League - Many of the citations are links that no longer work or are improperly formatted. Pianolettuce ( talk) 16:19, 2 December, 2022 (UTC)

 Partly done I've fixed some of the improperly formatted references with refill. TheManInTheBlackHat ( talk) 22:08, 3 December 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

• Sports analyst - Someone added a lot of great information earlier, but didn't cite their sources properly. The sources need links and need to use ref tags. TheManInTheBlackHat ( talk) 13:47, 2 December 2022 (UTC) Reply reply
• Template error-tracking Category:Pages using Template:Longitem with unnamed style parameter has been cleared out. Interested editors are invited to add it to their watchlist to help keep the error tracking category empty. —⁠ andrybak ( talk) 03:26, 2 December 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

November 2022

• Iraq War - This page does not have any bolding and has a short description that is too long. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SpyridisioAnnis ( talk • contribs) 12:15, 7 November 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

 Comment: Short description is acceptable per WP:SDLENGTH. However the {{ About}} hatnote template was shortened considerably. — WILDSTAR ^TALK 11:33, 8 November 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

• Roohani Sisters - the page makes excess use of bolding beyond the main/alt titles and the lead is too long relative to the body. Iskandar323 ( talk) 10:46, 2 November 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

 Partly done Removed unnecessary bolding, but the article is too promotional in tone and excessive in information. Rosalina2427 ^(talk)

 Partly done The lead has been shortened. The article is still tagged for having a promotional tone. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:31, 31 January 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

October 2022

• Sheryl Leach - Article has been heavily edited by IPs in the last few days. New material appears to be WP:SOAP WP:RESUME and definitely not neutral. JRHorse ( talk) 17:13, 10 October 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

 Comment: Article is in the process of being cleaned following a talk page help request. JRHorse ( talk) 14:01, 12 October 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

 Comment: The philanthropy section needs some cleanup now. The section still looks resume-like, poorly sourced and repetitive. JRHorse ( talk) 22:50, 13 October 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

September 2022

• Greece–Turkey relations -- Recent GA quick fail indicates several issues: sources have CS1 and CS1 maintenance errors, numerous missed punctuation marks, while the prose is exceedingly informal and essay-like. Does not comply with the guidelines of lead sections and words to watch. Elias ( talk) 22:47, 30 September 2022 (UTC) Reply reply
• Conscription in Mexico - This article was created in 2006, and at no point has the article contained references or sources. This article has existed for 16 years without having a single sourced claim. It also has confusing prose, using jargon "framing" that may be an attempt to directly translate Spanish words/phrases to English. This article needs to be sourced or nominated for deletion. Xwedodah ( talk) 05:38, 11 September 2022 (UTC) Reply reply
• Machiliwale Shah – copy-editing required.-- Hildeoc ( talk) 04:21, 5 September 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

 Partly done -- Mostly done, but there is still some specialized language that I don't know if it is correct. Pianolettuce( talk) 14:09, 6 September 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

July 2022

• Chris Kirkpatrick - Article is written from a fan's/promotional POV and reads like a biography rather than an encyclopedic article. Spectrallights ( talk) 08:01, 8 July 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

   Partly done Improved pretty much but maybe it can be worked on more. Excellenc1 ( talk) 16:36, 19 July 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

• Untitled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film - Needs careful revaluation of sources, as some of the information on them doesn't reflect what is written in the article. Production companies for example have Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Animation listed, when that hasn't been mentioned by any sources. -- Averyfunkydude23 ( talk) 10:52, 2 July 2022 (UTC) Reply reply
• Nir Bitton - I feel like the article needs several corrections here and there, and maybe there's a good amount of information that can still be included in the "International career" section. -- Oltrepier ( talk) 16:14, 1 July 2022 (UTC) Reply reply
• List of years in television - All of the information found here can easily be accessed at the separate pages for certain years and nationalities (e.g. 2006 in American television). It seems better to just remove all the information from the sections and replace them with links to the Year pages. In fact, a majority of the main page consists of series debuts. Turboplate ( talk) 03:16, 1 July 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

   Comment: But instead of adding 2006 in American television, 2006 in French television, 2006 in Brazilian television, 2006 in British television and 10 more like these for each section, a summary for a year would rather help. Excellenc1 ( talk) 06:19, 13 July 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

June 2022

• NPE Extension Expressway - very confusing table with too many colors and links. Pianolettuce( talk) 12:21, 26 June 2022 (UTC) Reply reply
• Dale Duguid - formatting/style issues and bare URL in references. Tinton5 ( talk) 21:17, 17 June 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

 Partly done: Fixed the bare url. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:44, 17 June 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

 Done - Fixed the formatting/style issues. The article still has tags for notability and BLP sources, but that is a different discussion. --- DOOMSDAYER520 ( TALK| CONTRIBS) 17:37, 30 May 2023 (UTC) Reply reply

• Daniel Pipes - page peppered with primary citations sourced from the self-published "danielpipes.org" Iskandar323 ( talk) 06:57, 9 June 2022 (UTC) Reply reply
• Donna Robinson Divine - has a collection of maintenance notes from 2012, potentially not all warranted. Iskandar323 ( talk) 06:49, 9 June 2022 (UTC) Reply reply
• Zahabiya - this article was presumably translated from the Persian language version. Hard to know where to begin. Iskandar323 ( talk) 15:29, 8 June 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

May 2022

• Reminisce (rapper) - Nigerian rapper. Promotional tone issues and sections that read as advertisements for his albums, such as one of his albums being called "arguably as one of the most successful hip hop albums in Nigerian history", without quoting a source. Waxworker ( talk) 16:10, 13 May 2022 (UTC) Reply reply
• Effat Moridi (Mother Moeini) - article on Iranian activist that has some clear MOS issues: lead doesn't summarize article, odd section headers, and a title that should likely be changed. Bridget  (talk) 16:03, 7 May 2022 (UTC) Reply reply

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