Wikipedia:WikiProject Short article clean-up

It is important that Wikipedia contain quality, referenced articles. To address this, this WikiProject has been created to focus the attention of interested editors on small batches of short articles that need improvement.

What you can do to help

Articles identified as having less than five sentences and no references are listed in subpages below, in groups of ten. Take a group of ten articles and go through them.

  • If the article is a candidate for deletion, tag it for speedy deletion, prod or AFD as appropriate
  • Remove inappropriately used non-free images
  • Look for and fix improperly substituted templates (likely subst'ed that should not be, e.g. {{decadebox}} and {{year nav}})


Suggestions on how to clean-up articles

Assuming they are good, and don't need to see AFD, PROD, or CSD....

  • Most of these simply need a reference section, with a few references in it. We strive to be verifiable. Articles on years do not need references, nor do Disambiguation pages. See the talk page for more
  • Please try to avoid tagging these with {{cleanup-xxxx}} – we already know there is a problem with these pages, and one more layer of indirection won't help get the article up to snuff any faster
  • Be bold
  • Have fun!