User:No Parking/Cleanup Checklist

Cleanup is an important job on Wikipedia. Cleanup is loosely defined as editing articles to conform to a higher standard of quality. While some on Wikipedia take encyclopedia articles and make them better, cleanup takes articles that aren't even encyclopedia articles and turns them into encyclopedia articles.

Articles that need clean up have this tag or a similar tag on them:

To meet Wikipedia's quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup.
Please discuss this issue on the talk page, and/or replace this tag with a more specific message. Editing help is available.

Problems with articles that need cleanup include (but are not limited to):

Copy editing
Contextualization
Wikification
Catigorization

Verification
Non-contradiction
Tone
Explaination of technical details

Bringing articles up to date
Distinction between fact and fiction
Despamification.

One of the difficulties in Cleanup is not being able to help. You can't fix everything and you shouldn't try. Wikipedia is a collaboration.

The other problem is being able to help but not quite seeing the problem. Sometimes we read over an article and we don't quite see a contradiction in the text or see any problem in the article's tone or know what's wrong with the style. Nobody is perfect at this. That's why this page is here.