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This page lists the most neglected articles in the encyclopedia, based on some "red flags" various editors have concocted.

Contents

[edit] How the rankings are compiled

Active Wiki Fixup Projects
Leading the charge in the War on Error!
Must be active, systematic, have lists, & need help.
Writing
Articles that need to be wikified

Massive backlog.
(Category, live update)
Dead-end pages

These pages are not wikified.
(Updated 2007 Nov 3)
Most wanted stubs

(Updated from 2006 Jan 25 dump, still active as of 2007 May 4)
Most wanted articles

(Updated 2007 Sep 8)
Missing articles

Wikipedia is not as complete as you might think!
(ongoing)
Other
Disambiguation pages with links

Directing ambiguous links to the intended articles.
(Updated 2008 March 12)
Templates with red links

Help solve red links in templates through writing or repair.
(Updated 2007 December 5)
Interlanguage links

Add and improve interlanguage links in articles.
(Updated 2007 August 25)
Red Link Recovery

Repair red links in articles.
(Updated 2007 July 2)
Unreferenced articles

Ensuring articles include at least one reference or source.
(Category, live update)
Articles needing geo-coordinates

Help locate places. See WP:GEO
(Category, live update)
Uncategorised articles

Help categorise articles.
(Category, live update)
Orphaned articles

Help link to these orphaned articles.
(Category, live update)
Linkrot

Fix broken links to external websites.
(Updated 2007 Jan 13)
Transwiki log cleanup

Articles that have been transwikied and need to be checked for possible merging or deletion.
Main - Inactive - Mini

Low scores are bad; high scores are good. The worst articles come first in the listing. The factors considered in the scoring process, from most important to least important:

  • The number of distinct editors that have touched the page (+1000 points each)
  • If the first edit was by an anonymous contributor (-100 points)
  • If the last edit was by an anonymous contributor (-100 points)
  • The number of revisions (+1 point each)
  • The timestamp of the latest revision (determines the fractional part of the score)

Not all pages are included:

  • MediaWiki: pages are excluded, since these are only editable by administrators, and aren't supposed to change much.
  • Category: pages are excluded due to an extremely high number of false positives. In many cases, the only edit for these is to parent them, and this is fine. We have other lists that are designed to detect problems in the category tree.
  • Redirect pages are excluded, since these are often created in a single edit, and generally don't change after they are created.

[edit] How can I help?

Pick an article, and do some quick triage:

  • These articles are likely to meet the Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion. Please check the article against these criteria, which include blatant copyright violations (which are defined in detail). You can tag them for deletion as instructed, or delete them yourself if you are an administrator.
  • Please report all other actual or potential copyright violations on Wikipedia:Copyright problems.
  • These articles are likely to need cleanup of some kind, to make them sound encyclopedic, to purge falsehoods, and to maintain neutrality. You can either do the cleanup yourself (go you!) or tag the article for attention by other editors, and to let readers know we know there is a problem. Wikipedia:Cleanup resources is an excellent starting place to find the right tag. Quickies:
    • {{wikify}} if it just needs formatting
    • {{NPOV}} if it it's not neutral
    • {{mergeto|TARGET}} for short or redundant pages that can be merged with TARGET
    • {{cleanup-date|June 2008}} for non-specific cleanup (though lots of more-specific tags are available)
  • If the article is quite short (perhaps 3-10 sentences and missing vital information) tag it as a stub. You can either use {{stub}} or, preferably, a topic-specific stub tag (since someone else will just have to come along and find a topic-specific tag anyway). You can find a list of approved stub tags at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types.
  • If the article is longer than a stub, but could be expanded to include additional information of interest to readers, add the tag {{expansion}} to the talk page, and write a short note about what's missing.
  • If an article is uncategorized, consider placing it in a category or adding the {{tl:uncategorized}} tag. See Wikipedia:Categorization for advice. Finding the right category is also helpful in identifying different articles on the same subject that would be good for merging with.
  • For templates, check "What links here" (in the toolbox menu on the right-hand side of the page). Templates which aren't really being used, or which are redundant with other templates, should be listed on Wikipedia:Templates for deletion.
  • Wikipedia: namespace pages that have interesting but out-of-date content on them can be "archived" by tagging them {{historical}}.

If you either a.) add an attention tag of some kind or b.) edit the article enough so that it's taken care of to your satisfaction, please remove it from the list to avoid duplication of effort. Alternatively, you can move it to the bottom of the page if you think it needs further triage. When the list is next updated, the fact that you edited it will probably push it far enough down in the rankings that it won't appear on this page.

If you find a page that is perfectly OK and should not be flagged again in the future, please write a note next to its listing and move it to the bottom of the page, so list updaters will be able to facilitate this. This will also help us improve the flagging algorithm.

[edit] Future improvements

Planned for the near future:

  • List disambiguation pages separately.
  • Red flag (-500?): Excessively short
  • Red flag (-500?): Long and not wikified (no [[, probable copyvio)
  • Red flag (-50?): Not wikified (no [[)
  • Red flag (-50?): Orphaned (What Links Here < 1 and it's not a self-link)

Possible:

  • Rank category description pages based on:
    • The same as other pages
    • Whether or not there is any text other than the link to the parent category
  • foul-language-o-meter

Proposed:

  • Red flag (-100): no category on page

[edit] Listings

These listings were created from the January 25, 2006 database dump.

[edit] Articles with single anon editor, Apr 2005

[edit] Miscellaneous

empty list

[edit] Towers and such

These are currently subject to a mass AfD. See the talk page.
  • 801.200504190937 Telemundo Tower San Antonio
  • 801.200504190939 WBBH TV Tower Tuckers Corner
  • 801.200504190942 Waterman Broadcasting Tower Punta Gorda
  • 801.200504190951 Emmis TV Tower Rural
  • 801.200504190954 Iowa Public TV Tower Hancock
  • 801.200504190957 KABB Tower
  • 801.200504191009 Cox Radio Tower Eutis
  • 801.200504191012 SpectraSite Tower Bandera
  • 801.200504191028 WOFL-TV35 Tower Bithlo
  • 801.20050419102 Pinnacle Towers Tower Santa Maria
  • 801.200504191033 Media General Operations Tower Youngstown
  • 801.200504191035 WCES TV Tower
  • 801.200504191039 WTVT Tower Balm
  • 801.200504191101 KXAN TV Tower
  • 801.200504191828 University of North Carolina Tower Concord
  • 801.20050419182 Springfield Independent TV Tower
  • 801.200504191837 KWQC TV Tower
  • 801.20050419184 Trinity Broadcasting Network Tower Oglesby
  • 801.200504191852 Entravision Tower Boylston
  • 801.20050419185 Entercom Tower Morriston
  • 801.200504191903 Tall Towers Tower La Feria
  • 801.200504191905 Spectrasite Communications Tower Frenchburg
  • 801.200504191907 Scripps Howard Broadcasting Tower Greenacres City
  • 801.200504191922 Lewis Broadcasting Tower Columbus
  • 801.200504192328 KMVT Television Tower
  • 801.200504201008 CHCH Television Tower
  • 801.200504201158 CICT TV Tower
  • 802.200504172339 Clear Channel Broadcasting Tower Jernigantown
  • 802.200504181206 WPSD-TV Tower
  • 802.200504181621 WJJY TV Mast
  • 802.200504211905 Tagblatt-Tower
  • 801.200504182237 WTOC TV Tower
  • 801.200504190931 Fort Myers Broadcasting Tower Punta Gorda
  • 801.20050414133 WFAA Tower
  • 801.200504141344 KPLX Tower
  • 802.200504141348 KTVT Tower

[edit] Non-articles with single anon editor, 2002-2004

[edit] Project space

emtpy list

[edit] Template space

  • 801.200408282352 Template:Olympic_Games_Jeu_de_paume
  • 801.200408282356 Template:Olympic_Games_Rackets
  • 801.200408291552 Template:Olympic_Games_Hockey
  • 801.20040829212 Template:Olympic_Games_Polo
  • 801.200408312057 Template:Olympic_Games_Rugby
  • 801.200410310149 Template:GSL
  • 801.200411061844 Template:Imidazopyridines
  • 801.200411061846 Template:Imidazopyridine
  • 801.200411260319 Template:Taxobox_empire_entry
  • 801.200411260319 Template:Taxobox_superdomain_entry
  • 801.200412150338 Template:HP_unlinked
  • 801.200412240308 Template:Astrobox_end
  • 801.200412240328 Template:Astrobox_observe
  • 801.200412240331 Template:Astrobox_observegal
  • 801.200412240333 Template:Astrobox_observeclust
  • 801.200412240336 Template:Astrobox_observetar
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Accesskey-anontalk
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Accesskey-preferences
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Accesskey-userpage
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-addsection
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-anontalk
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-anonuserpage
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-article
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-atom
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-contributions
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-currentevents
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-delete
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-edit
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-emailuser
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-help
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-history
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-login
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-logout
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-mainpage
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-move
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-mycontris
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-mytalk
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-nomove
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-portal
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-preferences
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-protect
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-randompage
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-recentchanges
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-recentchangeslinked
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-rss
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-sitesupport
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-specialpage
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-specialpages
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-talk
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-undelete
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-unwatch
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-upload
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-userpage
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-watchlist
  • 802.200406020806 Template:Tooltip-whatlinkshere
  • 802.200410080458 Template:KTL
  • 802.200411110021 Template:Ref_9
  • 802.200412100248 Template:Ohio_five
  • 802.200412150331 Template:HP1_linked
  • 802.200412150332 Template:HP2_linked
  • 802.200412150333 Template:HP3_linked
  • 802.200412150333 Template:HP4_linked
  • 802.20041215033 Template:HP_linked
  • 802.200412240323 Template:Star_listings
  • 803.200406291004 Template:Commentedit
  • 803.200406291005 Template:Developerspheading
  • 803.200406291022 Template:Sysopspheading
  • 803.20040629102 Template:Sectionedit
  • 803.200408312151 Template:Olympic_Games_Tug_of_war
  • 803.200412150334 Template:HP5_linked
  • 803.200412240315 Template:Astrobox_begin2
  • 804.200412240314 Template:Astrobox_begin
  • 805.200412142341 Template:Timeline_Dukes_of_Argyll

[edit] Suppressed listings

The neglected articles linked to below have been automatically removed from the above listings. To do this, the update script looks for the text ==Suppressed listings== on this page, and excludes all links below that point. (So please don't change the header for this section without letting Beland know. Thanks!)

[edit] Special case for discussion

The following are apparently part of some project - I nominated five for MfD, before realizing that there was an entire structure in place to contain them - this requires a meta solution.

  1. 801.200411042351 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/Atari
  2. 801.200411131831 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/Plagiarism
  3. 801.200410291626 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/Syllabus
  4. 801.200410300301 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/System_of_Objects
  5. 801.200410300308 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/The_Society_of_Spectacle
  6. 801.20041030031 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/The_Language_of_New_Media
  7. 801.200411270227 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/William_Yardley
  8. 801.200411300618 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/MarthaGraham
  9. 801.200412151826 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/Internet_Art
  10. 801.200412151829 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/Rhythm_Science
  11. 801.200412151832 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/Samuels
  12. 801.200412151834 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/The_Interventionists
  13. 801.200412152101 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/cohendigital
  14. 802.200411042355 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/Sega
  15. 802.200411270216 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/Anne_Thompson
  16. 804.200412151821 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/The_Contingent_Object
  17. 805.200411042359 Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Open_Source_Culture/Patent_Scope

[edit] EB1911 claimed

Someone needs to check that these are from where they claim to be (Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 Edition).

[edit] Articles that have received some attention but may need more

801.200501071927 Melatonin_(album) and 801.200501071934 Arousal_Disasters
Two albums by a artist whose notability is "unclear"(at least to me). Need someone to check this with the WP:MUSIC guidelines, and possibily delete. JesseW, the juggling janitor 08:39, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Minor artist on a minor label in Canada. Might need to {{prod}} the whole thing, methinks.--み使い'''Mitsukai 04:27, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Placed for {{prod}} Does not hold a gainful point, poss made with good intentions but doesnt seem to have been give TLC!--Phil Green 13:18, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
804.200504060045 Joey_Sellers
Tags added, but is going to need a bit of TLC.--み使い Mitsukai 04:36, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
Added references/external links. Still a stub. — ERcheck (talk) 18:20, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Missing references for awards received. Also, external link to "Sellers biography, Saddleback College" is defunct.Nomenphile 00:48, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
802.200502190404 Fouta and 802.200502190407 Fleuve
stubbed both, but they're going to need some extensive work.--み使い Mitsukai 05:35, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
801.200504110755 RSDN
added {{notability}} tag. This one is really going to need some work, since it's regarding a Russian programming group, something I suspect is not quite commonly known here on the En WP.--み使い Mitsukai 06:30, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
802.200502081241 Neck_dissection
added wikify, confusing and catneeded tags. This page is going to need a lot of work.--み使い Mitsukai 04:06, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
801.200504221704 Metapsychiatry
stubbed and wikified. Still going to need extensive work.--み使い Mitsukai 07:04, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
802.200504270954 GM_Proving_Grounds
tags added, but it's going to need some massive work to get the article worthy, otherwise recommend it go up for AFD.--み使い Mitsukai 05:17, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
802.200501291926 Texas_A&M_University_System_Health_Science_Center
This article needs serious work. As it stands right now, all it is, is merely a collection of links. If it wasn't for the name, it'd otherwise be deleted.--み使い Mitsukai 04:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
It looks like this was merged into Texas_A&M_University_System Mishatx 17:26, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Texas_A&M_University_System is in need of post-merge help. As Mitsukai said, it's a collection of links.Nomenphile 00:51, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
801.200504131756 Buddy_Greco
stubbed, will require someone with knowledge of the subject matter to expand.--み使い Mitsukai 17:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
802.200502180348 Norodom_Chakraping_Proloung_Khmer_Party
Going to need some extensive editing.--み使い Mitsukai 14:04, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
802.200504212045 Ira_Mellman and 802.200504211843 Chalk_Hill
Tagged and stubbed, but still going to need some work.--み使い Mitsukai 06:49, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Added new information and links; still could use work. User:Ithink72wp 11 June 2008
801.20050405205 SUBDUE
Not sure what can be done with this article. It's already once been copyvio'd, and I'm not sure anyone else knows what to do about it.--み使い Mitsukai 20:30, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
801.20050427033 Roland_Glassl
Tagged and stubbed, but still going to need some work.--み使い Mitsukai 22:28, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
802.200502152135 Adolph_Hausrath
Stubbed. Seems like a decent stub. Iggle 11:52, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
801.200502231113 S26_(Berlin)
Stubbed. It's a list of train stops on this particular line. --Iggle 12:06, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
802.200503111042 Windlesham House School
Expanded a bit, but little more can be done unless someone who attended the place gets round to it. Saga City 21:58, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
801.200504141209 Cage aerial
I tagged it as a stub, but I don't know if I used the correct stub tag. Foxjwill 01:23, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Articles that do not need attention,
to be excluded from future listings

  1. 801.200411021826 Fort_McIntosh -- This is a Disambiguation page. It looks fine. Dalf | Talk 05:23, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
  2. 801.200503040159 Helen_Hayes_Awards_Non-Resident_Production — looks legit in content & standard in formatting. Probably written by a registered user who forgot to log on. Doops | talk 02:28, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
  3. 801.200503011859 Committee_on_Veterans'_Affairs - Looks good, I can't see anything to fix...
  4. 801.200503011921 Reciprocal_innervation- Written by an expert. Don't know if accurate...
  5. 801.200407060906 Gledhill - disambig page, looks fine --Alynna 07:20, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
  6. 801.200408012112 Viscount_Savage - looks ok --Alynna 07:20, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
  7. 801.200408201503 Risk_Management_Chairman - harmless redirect --Alynna 07:33, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
  8. 801.200409090314 Wolf-Rayet - disambig page, looks fine --Alynna 07:33, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
  9. 801.200409171226 Reit_im_Winkl - looks fine to me --Alynna 07:33, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
  10. 802.200411060659 On_the_Road_(String_Cheese_Incident) - looks fine --Alynna 07:49, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
  11. 801.20050206011 Great_Bear disambiguation page, looks ok --Melaen 11:59, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
  12. 801.200502152344 Orenstein disambiguation page, looks ok ----Melaen 12:11, 24 January 2006 (UTC)Melaen
  13. 801.200502170442 Eyadéma disambiguation page,---Melaen 12:11, 24 January 2006 (UTC)Melaen
  14. 801.200412112102 Template:Blanking4, just a redirect... --Werdna648T/C\@ 23:19, 11 February 2006 (UTC) 23:18, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
  • 802.200410041838 Weißenborn - Some of the red links need help, but the article's fine otherwise.--み使い Mitsukai 07:09, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

These are all disambiguation pages.--み使い Mitsukai 14:04, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

These articles aren't going to change anytime soon.--み使い Mitsukai 04:51, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

801.200501020536 Media_guide 
  1. I wikified it, but it's an American specific term, or purports to be, so preferably needs an American to give it the all clear. Hiding talk 21:16, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
  2. I'm familiar with the term "Media Guide" from various sports references. Article seems ok. --Iggle 12:11, 30 March 2006 (UTC)