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Help desk Reference desk Village pump Peer editing help WikiProjects Barnstars Dispute resolution Help out You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. Fix spelling and grammar J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai Victoria University, Australia Travis Kauffman National Party (Syria) Mohammed Bennis More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks Donnell Ryan Lawrence Gaughan James McNaughton (bobsleigh) Eberhard Melchior (naturalist) Khaled al-Ayoubi More... • Learn how Update with new information Left (Austria) North Lynbrook, New York 2010–11 Premier Academy League Tommy Bridewell VF8027 More... • Learn how Expand short articles Federal Road (Creek lands) Pinecrest Formation Florida's Shipwrecks Duke Energy Florida Bud Bar More... • Learn how Check and add references Ipomoea horsfalliae One St Peter's Square Chris Henry (wide receiver) J. Williams (cinematographer) Homalopoma More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Miss Perú 2004 Decay correct Midrash North Nazimabad Town Sri Mahamariamman Temple, Penang More... • Learn how Improve lead sections The Cider House Rules (film) Huangshanlong Petre Ivanovici Axel: The Biggest Little Hero Émile Faguet More... • Learn how Add an image Domo (NHK) Detroit Detention Center Douglas House, London Dhank Caves Diamond Creek, Victoria More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Flag of Tlaxcala ANPI Marcello Landi Françoise Dolto Pentapartito More... • Learn how Other helpful tasks include, fixing vandalism, welcoming newcomers, link recovery, categorization, and numerous behind the scenes tasks like moving free images to Wikimedia Commons. See Wikipedia:Maintenance for more maintenance tasks. New page patrolling The primary purposes of new page patrolling are to identify articles which do not meet the criteria for inclusion and/or to tag them for any glaring issues that need attention. Most critical are copyright violations and defamatory material about living persons. 11:54, 13 May 2016 ‎Aidan Tonge (hist) ‎[86 bytes] ‎Luke Tipping (talk | contribs) (←Created page with 'Aidan Tongue is lead guitarist in the band Motion Bridge.') (Tags: Mobile edit, Mobile web edit, very short new article) 11:51, 13 May 2016 ‎Edward Dudley (librarian) (hist) ‎[830 bytes] ‎Leutha (talk | contribs) (←Created page with ''''Edward Dudley''' (1920-2011) was an English librarian who also lectured in librarianship and edited the professional journals ''New Library...') 11:50, 13 May 2016 ‎Round hall (Ervy-le-Châtel) (hist) ‎[717 bytes] ‎Loupmomorel (talk | contribs) (←Created page with ' The '''round hall of Ervy-le-châtel''' is in Ervy-le-Châtel, in the Aube department in the north-east of France. It was built...') 11:50, 13 May 2016 ‎Busta Jones (hist) ‎[2,094 bytes] ‎Goongunther (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox musical artist | name = Busta "Cherry" Jones | birth_date = 1951 | death_date = December 6, 1995 | instrument...') 11:48, 13 May 2016 ‎Anne Charles Hérisson (hist) ‎[1,082 bytes] ‎Zee money (talk | contribs) (←Created page with 'right '''Charles Hérisson''' (October 12, 1831-November 23, 1893) was a French lawyer and politician of the French T...') 11:48, 13 May 2016 ‎Santhakumar (hist) ‎[1,210 bytes] ‎Santhakumaras (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = A. Santhakumar | image = | pseudonym = | birth_da...') (Tag: possible autobiography or conflict of interest) 11:48, 13 May 2016 ‎Rahulmanepatils (hist) ‎[140 bytes] ‎Rahulmanepatils (talk | contribs) (Informaiton) (Tags: possible autobiography or conflict of interest, very short new article, Visual edit) 11:46, 13 May 2016 ‎Up late with rylan (hist) ‎[40 bytes] ‎Dan1966 (talk | contribs) (←Created page with 'Rylan Clark-NealUP LATE WITH RYLAN]]') (Tag: very short new article) 11:46, 13 May 2016 ‎M40 at the 2014 European Masters Athletics Championships (hist) ‎[8,893 bytes] ‎JDWFC (talk | contribs) (Created page) (Tag: Visual edit) 11:45, 13 May 2016 ‎The New Yorker Presents (hist) ‎[266 bytes] ‎Ravikrishnani (talk | contribs) (Created a page for the show The New Yorker Presents) 11:43, 13 May 2016 ‎Mahadev Naik (hist) ‎[5,781 bytes] ‎Fitindia (talk | contribs) (created a page Mahadev Naik) 11:43, 13 May 2016 ‎AutoBox24 (hist) ‎[3,870 bytes] ‎Zikadiab (talk | contribs) (put much info) (Tag: Visual edit) 11:41, 13 May 2016 ‎Pengerang (federal constituency) (hist) ‎[4,589 bytes] ‎Alexander Iskandar (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox Malaysia electoral district |name =Pengerang |state =Johor |image = |image_map = |caption...') 11:39, 13 May 2016 ‎John Hearman (hist) ‎[5,546 bytes] ‎IgnorantArmies (talk | contribs) (create) 11:39, 13 May 2016 ‎Naijabambam (hist) ‎[1,671 bytes] ‎NaijaBamBam (talk | contribs) (New page for NaijaBamBam.com music website) (Tags: possible autobiography or conflict of interest, Visual edit) 11:39, 13 May 2016 ‎Proto xenomorph (hist) ‎[278 bytes] ‎ToxicReap (talk | contribs) (Didn't I already create this? Well , I can't see it in my history , so here it is again.) (Tag: very short new article) 11:37, 13 May 2016 ‎Nyah-Nyah West United Football Club (hist) ‎[3,382 bytes] ‎HeyJude70 (talk | contribs) (Created page, includes history and club members (with valid sources)) 11:36, 13 May 2016 ‎Bookitbee (hist) ‎[3,716 bytes] ‎Katiecrystal (talk | contribs) (General information on Bookitbee) (Tag: Visual edit) 11:32, 13 May 2016 ‎Simpang Renggam (federal constituency) (hist) ‎[4,732 bytes] ‎Alexander Iskandar (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox Malaysia electoral district |name =Simpang Renggam |state =Johor |image = |image_map = |caption...') 11:31, 13 May 2016 ‎Acacia aulacophylla (hist) ‎[986 bytes] ‎Hughesdarren (talk | contribs) (start new art) *Show me more Wikipedia backlog by category This backlog lists tasks that should be done to improve Wikipedia (assuming the cleanup templates were placed correctly). Helping reduce backlogs is an important issue, so please feel free to help out. Click any linked number for that category's articles prioritized by their number of incoming links. Backlog categories General Administrative Assessment Stub sorting Template parameter Lacking references Needs references: 216,971 Needs references (BLP): 2,864 Needs more references: 276,048 Needs more references (BLP): 58,671 Needs in-text citations: 84,521 Needs reliable references: 65,973 Has unsourced quotes: 1,075 Has unsourced statements: 303,166 Fix one! Accuracy Uses broken or outdated citations: 271 Needs factual verification: 4,071 Needs references list: 7 Needs references clean up: 2,649 Accuracy disputes: 6,945 Neutrality disputed: 6,764 Needs updating: 14,562 Has original research: 15,116 Self-contradictory: 397 Needs geodata verification: 2 Content Copied and pasted: 576 Needs context: 3,662 Needs coordinates: 139,832 Too technical: 2,133 Uses improper non-free content: 142 Uses in-universe perspective: 2,795 Plot summary needs attention: 4,480 Of unclear notability: 60,899 Links Has dead external links: 64,436 Needs external links cleanup: 3,578 No wikilinks: 693 Too few wikilinks: 20,000 Layout Needs sections: 782 Needs expansion: 124,106 Needs to be merged: 11,619 Needs to be split: 682 Needs to be split (disambiguations): 1 Style Needs clarification: 4,376 Needs copy edit: 1,805 Has peacock terms: 3,713 Uses promotional tone: 19,677 Has weasel words: 15,448 Needs style editing: 15,382 File description Copy to Wikimedia Commons: 271,041 Incomplete renaming requests: 2 Needs author: 6,772 File quality Has inappropriate JPEG compression: 2,570 Logos that should be in SVG format: 2,553 Should be in PNG format: 406 Has watermarks: 626 Has borders: 150 Non-free file use Needs size reduction: 11 Publicity photographs needing rationale: 220 File licensing Has disputed copyright information: 4,938 Meta Biographies without "listas" parameter: 139,325 Biographies without "living" parameter: 1,345 Quality content Featured article candidates: 47 Featured article review: 6 Featured list candidates: 40 Good articles needing "oldid": 1,136 Unreviewed good article nominations: 297 Other Needs cleanup: 20,961 Needs cleanup (disambiguations): 14 Needs expert attention: 6,884 Needs infobox conversion: 20 Is orphaned: 131,853 New article needs review: 89 Needs to be wikified: 39,631 Underpopulated categories: 4,464 {{Backlog status}} () () Community bulletin board 2 May 2016   News and notes: Wikimedia Switzerland's board and paid-editing firm; passing of Ed Dravecky In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps Traffic report: Purple Featured content: The best... from the past two weeks Arbitration report: Two editors unbanned; Wikicology case enters workshop phase; Gamaliel restricted from Gamergate at his own request Recent research: The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors? Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion Proposal to create "page mover" permission Add a link to high-use maintenance templates explaining how they are removed Preferred protocol for external links Related Pages extension Consensus for changes in citation coding style Embedding full-length films/videos in articles This week's article for improvement is Gustaf Skarsgård Gustaf Skarsgård Please be bold and help to improve this article! WikiProject Missing Encyclopedic articles (% done) Project page—The goal of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other encyclopedia. Sign in! Monthly focus: MacTutor biographies 63 left 1911 verification: 12.2% ACF Regionals answers: 0% Hotlist of topics: 85.9% General topics: 79.6% Science topics: 92% Catholic Encyclopedia: 86.2% Easton's Bible Dictionary: 88% Encyclopaedia Biblica : 69.5% Evangelical Dictionary of Theology: 80.6% Gutenberg authors : 99% Jewish Encyclopedia : 39% Literary Encyclopedia: 81.9% List of Poles: 6% Find-A-Grave: 85.1% Stanford Archive answers 97.9% Missing paintings 60.8% Miscellaneous Many other lists of politicians, songs, TV shows and others. Overall progress: 65.2% Spread the word through {{Project missing articles}} Active Wiki Fixup Projects Article Rescue Squadron Check Wikipedia Cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Fix common mistakes Free images to Commons Geo-coordinates Missing articles Most-wanted articles Orphaned articles Red Link Recovery Requested articles Single editor Stubsensor Today's articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini General notices On 1 November 2015, the English Wikipedia reached 5,000,000 articles. Free subscriptions to high-quality paywalled journals, newspaper archives, and online reference works are available for Wikipedia editors. For more information, see Wikipedia:TWL/Journals" Projects seeking help Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page. WikiProjects and Task Forces The Tip of The Day department is looking for tricks and techniques. If you have a special way of doing things, please stop by and share. Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon, a contest/editathon for April with substantial prize money for the most prolific editors is looking for contributors to contribute and produce Welsh-related content throughout April. It is supported by the National Library of Wales, which is hosting a physical editathon at the library on 22 April. Outlines See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines New outlines Outline of government Being overhauled or expanded Outline of medicine Outline of education Outline of knowledge Nearing completion (need remainder of annotations added) Outline of transhumanism Outline of Narnia Outline of canoeing and kayaking (Specific venues section) Outline of chess Outline of fishing (just a few annotations needed) Outline of forensic science Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling Outline of prehistoric technology Outline of wind energy Need link placement Outline of solar energy (place entries from See also into body of outline) Portal report The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep: Portal:A. R. Rahman Newly created Portal:Lighthouses Newly created Portal:Shreya Ghoshal Newly created Portal:Tuvalu Newly created Portal:Half-track Newly created Portal:Virginia Woolf Newly created Portal:Theosophy Newly created Portal:Machine learning Newly created Portal:Kyrgyzstan Newly created Portal:Trichy Newly created Portal:Space The selected article excerpts were copied and pasted between 2006 and 2009. The leads of the corresponding articles have greatly improved since then. Portal:Thinking "Selected" sections need new material. Been the same for years. The following portals have interesting design features that you may find useful: Portal:South East England A "parent" portal that uses selected content from several "child" portals, chosen at random for each type of content. Portal:Philosophy Automatically cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, year after year. Portal:Arts Uses random generators to display random featured status selections. Discussions and collaborations Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment: Biographies Economy and trade History and geography Language and linguistics Media, the arts, and architecture Politics, government, and law Religion and philosophy Science and mathematics Society, sports, and culture Wikipedia policies and guidelines Wikipedia style and naming WikiProjects and collaborations Wikipedia technical issues and templates Wikipedia proposals Unsorted See also Dashboard News Goings-on Milestones Meetups In the media Mailing lists Wikimedia community portals Here is a list of the main community pages of Wikipedia's sister projects. All of these projects are multilingual and open-content. Meta-Wiki – Coordination of all Wikimedia projects. Wiktionary – A collaborative multilingual dictionary. Wikinews – News stories written by readers. Wikibooks – A collection of collaborative non-fiction books. Wikiquote – A compendium of referenced quotations. Wikisource – A repository for free source texts. Wikispecies – A directory of species. Wikiversity – Where teachers learn, and learners teach. Wikivoyage – A world-wide travel guide. Wikidata – A free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. Commons – Repository for free images and other media files. Motto of the day Motto of the day... “ Wherever you go...   there you are. ” Nominate one! Tip of the day Tip of the day... When is a Wikipedia project a WikiProject? The term "WikiProject" is used for projects created for the purpose of managing a specific family of information within Wikipedia. For example, Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics organises articles related to Economics, including economic terms, theories, and economists. A WikiProject is a resource to help coordinate and organize article writing. Its attached talk page is a convenient forum for those interested in a particular project. WikiProjects can also have associated Portals. Some projects, like the Tip of the day project, coordinate internal Wikipedia processes rather than article content directly (though not all of these use the term "WikiProject"). Prior tip – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:WikiProject   Become a Wikipedia tipster – Tips library, by subject To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}