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Done – Converted external links to sources. — WILDSTARTALK 16:03, 12 March 2023 (UTC)Replyreply
February 2023
Okimi – Translation from Japanese. Thorough cleanup required.--
Hildeoc (
talk) 17:24, 16 February 2023 (UTC)Replyreply
Iu Mien people -- Needs major cleanup with grammar, style, formatting, basically everything --
Zhen Zhen (
talk) 21:33, 14 February 2023 (UTC)Replyreply
Larry Hankin - general clean up, formatting in film tables (italic titles, etc), other fixes needed.
Tinton5 (
talk) 07:47, 28 January 2023 (UTC)Replyreply
COVID-19 pandemic in Russia - Under the confirmed deaths per day there are just strings of numbers that are either unrelated to the graph or formulated improperly, but I'm not sure.
Pianolettuce (
talk) 15:09, 26 January 2023 (UTC)Replyreply
Partly done I've fixed some of the improperly formatted references with refill.
TheManInTheBlackHat (
talk) 22:08, 3 December 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Sports analyst - Someone added a lot of great information earlier, but didn't cite their sources properly. The sources need links and need to use ref tags.
TheManInTheBlackHat (
talk) 13:47, 2 December 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Comment: Short description is acceptable per
WP:SDLENGTH. However the {{
About}} hatnote template was shortened considerably. — WILDSTARTALK 11:33, 8 November 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Roohani Sisters - the page makes excess use of bolding beyond the main/alt titles and the lead is too long relative to the body.Iskandar323 (
talk) 10:46, 2 November 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Partly done Removed unnecessary bolding, but the article is too promotional in tone and excessive in information.
Rosalina2427(talk)
Partly done The lead has been shortened. The article is still tagged for having a promotional tone. North America1000 09:31, 31 January 2023 (UTC)Replyreply
Comment: Article is in the process of being cleaned following a talk page help request.
JRHorse (
talk) 14:01, 12 October 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Comment: The philanthropy section needs some cleanup now. The section still looks resume-like, poorly sourced and repetitive.
JRHorse (
talk) 22:50, 13 October 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
September 2022
Greece–Turkey relations -- Recent GA quick fail indicates several issues: sources have CS1 and CS1 maintenance errors, numerous missed punctuation marks, while the prose is exceedingly informal and essay-like. Does not comply with the guidelines of lead sections and words to watch.
Elias (
talk) 22:47, 30 September 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Conscription in Mexico - This article was created in 2006, and at no point has the article contained references or sources. This article has existed for 16 years without having a single sourced claim. It also has confusing prose, using jargon "framing" that may be an attempt to directly translate Spanish words/phrases to English. This article needs to be sourced or nominated for deletion.
Xwedodah (
talk) 05:38, 11 September 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Partly done -- Mostly done, but there is still some specialized language that I don't know if it is correct.
Pianolettuce(
talk) 14:09, 6 September 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
August 2022
Murder_of_Jermaine_Goupall – End of "Background" section has some weird footnote and heading problem at the bottom? (I'm very uncomfortable with anything involving citations.)LumonRedacts (
talk) 14:14, 7 August 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Done But there is still cleanup required for the "encyclopaedic tone".
Excellenc1 (talk) 14:14, 8 August 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Thank you. I'll poke at it a little, but I didn't want to break something and make it worse. :)
LumonRedacts (
talk) 00:13, 12 August 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Here are the other half of the articles tagged for cleanup from April 2010, the oldest monthly subcategory:
Magnetic particle inspection – Removed {{Prose|date=April 2010}}. Dated tag, and nobody on the talk page has commented about this at all. Maybe it's actually better in list format. North America1000 17:03, 21 August 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Chris Kirkpatrick - Article is written from a fan's/promotional POV and reads like a biography rather than an encyclopedic article.
Spectrallights (
talk) 08:01, 8 July 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Partly done Improved pretty much but maybe it can be worked on more.
Excellenc1 (talk) 16:36, 19 July 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Nir Bitton - I feel like the article needs several corrections here and there, and maybe there's a good amount of information that can still be included in the "International career" section. --
Oltrepier (
talk) 16:14, 1 July 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
List of years in television - All of the information found here can easily be accessed at the separate pages for certain years and nationalities (e.g.
2006 in American television). It seems better to just remove all the information from the sections and replace them with links to the Year pages. In fact, a majority of the main page consists of series debuts.
Turboplate (
talk) 03:16, 1 July 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Daniel Pipes - page peppered with primary citations sourced from the self-published "danielpipes.org"
Iskandar323 (
talk) 06:57, 9 June 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Zahabiya - this article was presumably translated from the Persian language version. Hard to know where to begin.
Iskandar323 (
talk) 15:29, 8 June 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
May 2022
Reminisce (rapper) - Nigerian rapper. Promotional tone issues and sections that read as advertisements for his albums, such as one of his albums being called "arguably as one of the most successful hip hop albums in Nigerian history", without quoting a source.
Waxworker (
talk) 16:10, 13 May 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Effat Moridi (Mother Moeini) - article on Iranian activist that has some clear MOS issues: lead doesn't summarize article, odd section headers, and a title that should likely be changed.
Bridget(talk) 16:03, 7 May 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
April 2022
Setsu & Shinobu Ito - Japanese product designer duo. Egregiously reads as an advertisement, has formatting and tone issues. Lots of product photos are uploaded as 'own work', which may be a copyright issue.
Waxworker (
talk) 02:46, 28 April 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Navy Marine Corps Intranet – Needs major cleanup and updating; page has seemingly been co-opted by editors who have loaded the page with material that violates
WP:PROMO.
KidAd •
SPEAK 23:02, 12 April 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Joseon Army and
Joseon Navy - Some of the information I gathered for these pages were from the Korean websites that I translated using Google Translate. I need to know if I properly translated them right. I also need help with the way I put citations on these pages.
Koreanidentity10000 (
Koreanidentity10000) 21:59, 4 April 2022 (EST)
@Koreanidentity10000 do you mean the source collumn?
Champ9642358 (
talk) 21:57, 5 April 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
@
Koreanidentity10000: This project focuses much more upon generalized cleanup matters that do not require a significant amount of research and language translation comparisons. This aspect of your request is for rather detailed work such as this, and would be much more suited to post at the Guild of Copy editors requests page at
WP:GOCER, or perhaps at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Korea. This project does focus upon citation formatting, so the latter part of your post may potentially receive some response from members of this project. North America1000 14:10, 6 April 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Partly done I fixed the citation error. Per
MOS:FORMULA inconsistent math styling seems fine, it is only a problem if both are used in the same expression.
Mathnerd314159 (
talk) 21:17, 15 June 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
Joseph in Islam - This article is in some ways very good and detailed, but has a serious tone problem and reads primarily like an essay. I'm not entirely sure where to begin editing it, especially since it seems like it has been the subject of several POV editing battles by somewhat inexperienced editors. I humbly ask for help. (Also if you think I should bring concerns about this article somewhere else, I'd gladly take suggestions.) - - mathmitch7(
talk/
contribs) 14:50, 18 March 2022 (UTC)Replyreply
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