For Copyrights please use the COPY, C or Copyrights shortcuts.

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 Cleanup.

By doing this, you will put the article into one or more Category 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 fix-it work actually does get done, and helps keep the size of this collection from growing without bound.

Tags for articles that need cleaning up

De-listing cleaned articles

• Remove the }}, , etc. tag from the article itself, if there is one.
• Remove the listing from Cleanup, if there is one. Please don't just strikethrough; these will just accumulate in an unsustainable fashion.

Related pages

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

To request an image or map be added to an article, please see Requested pictures or 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 Bot requests.

Collaboration coordination

Some editors prefer that helpers work on Cleanup by month 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 Cleaning department page.

Wikipedia cleanup

Wikipedia:Problematiske artikler | ویکی‌پدیا:تمیزکاری | Wikipedia:整理依頼 | Wikipedia:Cleanup | Wikipedia:重写