User:Paulbrock/Todo

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1 To do
2 Policies
3 Improvements
4 Discussion
5 Deletion
- 5.1 Deletion departments
6 Images
7 Conflict
8 Article fixing
9 Department Directory

[edit] To do

This user is a newpage patroller.

task	amount per day	timescale	backlog
Prods	100	5 days	5 days
AFD	103	5 day	5 days
Speedy	1000+	Really quick	5 hours
Special:New pages	1500	no hurry	1 month
Speedy	1000+	Really quick	5 hours
RFC	?	?	?

and Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs needs sorting

[edit] Policies

[edit] Policy creation and revision

Village pump policy and proposal forum	WP:VPP
Most P&G revisions take place on policies' talk pages. To find specific policies and guidelines, see...
Policies and guidelines, an overview	WP:RULES
Policies	WP:LOP
Guidelines	WP:GUIDELINES

[edit] Article standards

Citing sources	WP:CITE • WP:REF
Copyrights	WP:C
Editing	WP:EP

[edit] Working with others

Consensus	WP:CON
Resolving disputes	WP:DR
Vandalism	WP:VAND

[edit] Improvements

[edit] Create articles

Article creation Articles for creation
Article requests (Backlog)
Missing articles
Most wanted articles
Most wanted stubs

[edit] Check new pages/Expand

Patrol new pages and help improving new articles.

Expansion requests
Review new overhauls
Requests for feedback ·

Respond to a request for comment
Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve.

Vital articles

[edit] Make Good articles

Make recommendations on articles listed at Good article review.

Good articles ·

[edit] Peer review

Wikipedia:Peer review is designed to solicit comments on articles that have had major work by a single author. Articles that don't successfully become featured are often referred back to this step.

Editors are needed to:

Comment on articles listed
Remove old requests (instructions are on the page itself)

[edit] Make Featured Articles

Featured articles	WP:FA
Featured lists	WP:FL
Featured pictures	WP:FP

Featured article candidates	WP:FAC
Featured list candidates	WP:FLC
Featured picture candidates	WP:FPC
Featured portal candidates	WP:FPORTC
Featured article review	WP:FAR

Guidelines, help, and resources

[edit] Editing

A list of template messages
What special pages are
Tools for editing

Inserting a picture in an article

The syntax used for displaying an image is:

[[Image:{name}|{type}|{location}|{size}|{caption}]]

Only [[Image:{name}]] is required. The other details are optional and can be placed in any order. They are:

Type: 'thumb' / 'thumbnail' or 'frame'. This causes image to be displayed with specific formatting. "thumb" is normally preferred.

Location: 'right', 'left', 'center' or 'none'. Determines placement of the image on the page. "Left" or "right" is the norm, but large panoramas or timelines can be displayed in the center.
Size: {width}px or {width}x{height}px (e.g. 50x40px, would limit width to 50 and height to 40). Normally only one variable is used. Use common sense when determining the sizes; you can use the "Show preview" button if you need to.
Caption: Any element which cannot be identified as one of the above is automatically treated as caption text. It is traditional to put this last. The caption should identify what the image is, and ideally be a complete sentence that adds to the article by pointing out something a casual reader wouldn't have noticed otherwise, or add information the pertains to the image.

If you have a picture that isn't already in Wikipedia's image collection that you want to include in an article, you will need to upload it first.

Read more (includes examples): Wikipedia:Extended image syntax

Prior tip - Next tip

[edit] Discussion

[edit] Help with building or operating Wikipedia

Help Desk	WP:HD
Newcomers' help department	WP:NUH
Adopt-a-User	WP:ADOPT
Admin coaching	WP:ADMINCOACH
Image copyright help desk	WP:ICHD • WP:IMAGEHELP
Media copyright questions	WP:MCQ
Requests for administrator attention	WP:RAA
Village pump (assistance)	WP:VPA
Village pump (technical)	WP:VPT

[edit] Noticeboards

Administrators' noticeboard	WP:AN • WP:ANB
Administrators' incident noticeboard	WP:ANI • WP:AIN
Arbitration enforcement noticeboard	WP:AE
Checkuser noticeboard	WP:RFCU/C/N
Conflict of interest noticeboard	WP:COIN
Biographies of living persons noticeboard	WP:BLPN • WP:BOLPN
Fiction noticeboard	WP:FRN • WP:FICT/N
Fringe theories noticeboard	WP:FTN
No original research noticeboard	WP:NORN • WP:ORN
Neutral point of view noticeboard	WP:NPOVN • WP:POVN
Reliable sources noticeboard	WP:RSN

[edit] News departments

Community bulletin board	WP:CBB
The Signpost	WP:POST
Announcements	WP:ANN
Press releases
Stats	WP:ST
Milestones

[edit] Community support groups and programs

Awards	WP:AWARDS
Award Center	WP:AWC

Also WP:VPA,WP:NCH,WP:HD

[edit] Deletion

(also fighting deletion)

Deletion templates (policy · log)

{{copyvio}}Copyvios (howto · log)
{{ifd}}Images (log)
{{rfd}}Redirects (howto · log)
{{md1}}Miscellaneous (howto · log)
{{delrev}}Deletion review

Articles (howto · log)

Mergers

Page moves

Non-admins can help keep deletion pages clean by resolving discussions. Administrators are needed to actually delete pages. Anyone can nominate pages for deletion. See:

Deletion - Speedy - Redirects

[edit] Deletion departments

Candidates for speedy deletion	C:CSD CAT:CSD
Deletion review	WP:DRV
Deletion log
See also:
Deletion tools
Deletion policy	WP:DP • WP:DEL

[edit] Images

Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image.

Images for cleanup - Caption review

[edit] Conflict

[edit] Disputes

, Wikiquette alert or provide a third opinion.

How to resolve conflicts

Alert others · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy

[edit] Disputes

There are many pages in Category:Wikipedia dispute resolution which could use help in resolving various kinds of disputes. Some disputes are easy to resolve - someone needs to propose or implement a compromise (check out the appropriate talk page), or the dispute is over and someone just needs to declare the problem solved. Many disputes between parties can be resolved after uninvolved strangers wander in, read the article in question and the debate so far, and just give common-sense opinions. In rare cases, delicate negotiating skills are needed to bring warring parties to a satisfactory agreement, or administrative powers are needed to ban vandals or uncooperative editors.

The main page to list disputes is Wikipedia:Requests for comment. This is a static listing, and your help is needed to remove old requests, in addition to commenting on current requests.

There are lists of articles in dispute in:

[edit] Dispute resolution departments

Third opinion (to break article deadlocks)	WP:3O
Resolving disputes	WP:DR
Requests for comment	WP:RFC
Requests for mediation	WP:RFM
Requests for arbitration	WP:RFAR
Mentorship and probation

[edit] Abuse response departments

Report copyright problems	WP:RCRP • WP:CP
Report edit wars	WP:REW • WP:AN3
Report long term abuse	WP:RLTA • WP:LTA
Report spam	WP:RSPAM • WT:WPSPAM
Report vandalism	WP:RVAN • WP:AIV

[edit] Article fixing

[edit] Links

WikiProject Wikify

Page	Last known update
Outgoing wikilinks
Wikipedia:Templates with red links	25 January 2006
Incoming wikilinks
Wikipedia:Most referenced articles	30 November 2006
Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links	26 September 2006

Interlanguage links-Add and improve interlanguage links in articles.
(Updated 2007 August 25)

Red Link Recovery - Dead-end pages- - Orphaned articles- Linkrot

[edit] Content

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Category:NPOV disputes
Updating needed

[edit] Grammar

Elements of Style (more)

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Elements of Style
League of Copyeditors

Wikipedia:Typo - Wikipedia Typo Department, fixing common spelling mistakes. Links to related lists.

Wikipedia:How to copy-edit Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit
Punctuation
Typos

[edit] References

Verify:'''Backlog...

Fact-check - Articles lacking sources - Need more references - Original research-Unreferenced articles

[edit] Maintenance departments

Maintenance

Resources for maintenance and collaboration v • d • e
Cleanup	General - By topic - Copy to Wiktionary - Notability Sorting - English grammar - Copyediting - Spam - Cleanup Taskforce - Wikify an article - Deorphan an article
Create an article	Most wanted - Requests 1 year+ - Requested articles - Short pages - Missing encyclopedic topics - Review anonymous article submissions
Stubs	Advice - Stubs by topic - Most wanted - Short pages - Incomplete lists
Polishing	Expand an article - Peer review - Featured candidates - Fill a topic list
Controversy	Neutrality - Article accuracy - Statement accuracy
To-do lists	Articles - Projects - Books
Disambiguation	Disambiguation - Manual of Style Disambiguation - Hatnotes - Templates
More	Active wiki fixup projects - Open tasks - Articles to merge - Articles to split - Copyright violations - Requests - Backlogs - Expert request sorting - Missing names

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[edit] Collaborative cleanup projects

These are groups of people that get together to try to fix certain aspects of Wikipedia. Join them!

Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting - Classifying short articles to make them easier to find by interested parties
Wikipedia:Cleanup

[edit] Things to watch

Wikipedia:As of - Information that may be out of date
New pages - Patrol for vandals and redundancy with existing articles

[edit] Reports

Special page	Other versions
Short pages	User:Zorglbot/Shortpages
Long pages
See also Maintenance Reports

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
Most wanted stubs (Updated from 2006 Jan 25 dump, still active as of 2007 May 4)
Other
Articles needing geo-coordinates Help locate places. See WP:GEO
Transwiki log cleanup Articles that have been transwikied and need to be checked for possible merging or deletion.

User:Topbanana/Reports
Special:Specialpages (see chart at right)
Wikipedia:Statistics (info only)

[edit] See also

[edit] Fix-up projects

Core topics needing cleanup
Notability

Missing articles
Stub sorting
Articles written by a single editor

[edit] Request and maintenance queues

Category	Description	Relevant page
Cleanup	Articles to cleanup	Wikipedia:Cleanup
Stubs	Stub articles	Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub-see Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting
Too long	Articles which strain browsers	Special:Longpages