User:Auntof6/Things to do

• Check Category:Administrative backlog
• Check Category:Quick deletion requests
• Check Wikipedia:Requests for deletion to see if any are ready to close
  • For requests closed as kept, put {{oldrfdfull}} on talk page
• Check Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress

• Chenzw's list of pages that may have typos

MOS notes

• Wikipedia:Simple talk/Archive 112#Style guidelines: please note from March 2015 (date formats, heading capitalization, time-dependent language, using surname)

Other topics to cover:

• Time-dependent language redux: time in office, etc.
• Ways to simplify
  • "Who" in first sentence: John Doe is an American actor who has... --> John Doe is an American actor. He has...

Check Category:Uncategorized stubs

Go through lists of births/deaths/events to improve links, disambiguate, and generally clean up. This includes days, months, decades (e.g., 1960s), years, etc.

• Days: finished through January 31

Articles to make:

• Cirque du Soleil
• Code talker
• Pony Express
• Squares of Savannah, Georgia

Make redirects for science professions that don't have their own article:

anthropologist astronomer astrophysicist biochemist biologist botanist chemist cosmologist geneticist geographer geologist mathematician microbiologist neurologist neuroscientist nuclear physicist oceanographer ornithologist paleontologist pharmacologist physicist psychologist statistician virologist zoologist

Add template {{Infobox instrument}} to musical instrument articles.

Language items:

• For linked words that indicate a nationality (Russian, Chinese, etc.), make sure that if these redirect a language, that that is what is meant everywhere they are linked.
• Ensure standard setup on cats in Category:Articles containing non-English language text
• Make sure any language with a "lang-xx" template is included in template {{lang}}. Also check to see if they need "Category:Articles containing xxx language text" created.
• Try to get articles in Category:Articles containing non-English language text into subcategories. This can sometimes by done by adding codes to template {{Lang}}.

Check these page that tend to acquire incorrect links to them:

Android * Gospel * Heavy metal * Icon * Major * Musical * Perth * San Juan

Periodically check stubs to be sure they have "regular" categories.

Requests for comment/review

• Look at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion

Simplifying: Replace use of the following:

Other

• Look at Special:RecentChanges, check for vandalism
• Category:Wikipedia maintenance (may contain some of the things below)
• Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls
• Category:Categories requiring diffusion
• Category:Pages needing cleanup
• Category:Pages to merge
• Category:Redirect categories with content
• Category:Template issues

• Check articles names "List of...": be sure they have defaultsorts and at least one list category
• Check for defaultsort on articles that start with a, an, the
• Check for italicization of titles of moves, plays, TV programs, video games, etc.