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| Name | Nealbo | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||
| Country |  United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||
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Always happy to hear any suggestions of interesting new target areas of focus, Wiki Projects and initiatives!
| Area | Focus | Description |
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| Video games | New article | See section "My Contributions" |
| Expand | Research and expand existing articles | |
| Cover art | Uploading and adding cover art for articles | |
| Screenshots | Uploading and adding screenshots for articles | |
| Adding refs | Add references to articles; websites, archived websites and magazine scans from archive.org
See "My stance on archive.org magazine scans as references". | |
| Add infoboxes | Add infoboxes to articles | |
| Typo fixes | General | General typo fixes found via Google searches: example search for typo "occured" |
| Spacing | Fixing for example "from1985" -> "from 1985" | |
| Copy edit | Random | Hitting the Random article button and copy editing the article if it requires it |
| Focussed | Copy editing on articles in the backlog in articles needing copy edit. | |
| Non-native words & phrases | Search for non-native words and phrases such as “fastly”, “called as/like”, “many a times”, “cope up”, “a xx years old...” which generally identify articles written by non-native speakers that require significant copyedit. | |
| General cleanup | Empty sections | Remove empty sections, especially "External Links" & "See Also" if they have been empty for 1 year+ |
| General improvement | Date error | Fix Errors in dates for references. |
| Replace Euphemisms | Euphemisms can lead to misunderstandings, especially with non-native speakers. Examples:
”Passed away” -> “died” “Make love” -> “have sex” | |
| Replace idioms | Literal language makes sure things can't be misunderstood especially by non-native speakers. Examples:
”The lion's share of” -> “most of” | |
| Add wikilinks | Wikify articles by adding wikilinks. De-orphan articles by adding wikilinks to it. |