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Help desk Reference desk Village pump Peer editing help WikiProjects Barnstars Dispute resolution Help out You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. Fix spelling and grammar Succession to Muhammad Eve of Passover on Shabbat Recruiting metrics Thomas Erastus Humayun Ahmed More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks Fiona Smith (badminton) Fragmenta de viribus Zheng Yuanjie PHF2 Willem Anthony Engelbrecht More... • Learn how Update with new information Hong Kong Touring Car Championship Humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake KidsCo Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Team jumping Khalistan Liberation Force More... • Learn how Expand short articles Chrysiptera starcki Chromis amboinensis Altrichthys Chrysiptera caeruleolineata Izuus More... • Learn how Check and add references Bombing of Dresden in World War II Koreans in Japan Black-necked stilt Coenonympha tullia VIVA-PSICOM Publishing More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Plateau iris Gauze (band) Sam Wetzel UBL Tower Central oil storage More... • Learn how Improve lead sections Jupiter Media Metrix Heritage Winnipeg Corporation K-85 (Kansas highway) List of US Open (tennis) champions Soyuz TMA-6 More... • Learn how Add an image Epsom, New Zealand Eomandu East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati Ealing Cricket Club Ground Eastern Express Highway More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Taikou Risshiden V Hrabischitz Arnout de Muyser Alice L. Pérez Sánchez Presidency of Fernando de la Rúa More... • Learn how Other helpful tasks include, fixing vandalism, welcoming newcomers, link recovery, categorization, and numerous behind the scenes tasks like moving free images to Wikimedia Commons. See Wikipedia:Maintenance for more maintenance tasks. New page patrolling The primary purposes of new page patrolling are to identify articles which do not meet the criteria for inclusion and/or to tag them for any glaring issues that need attention. Most critical are copyright violations and defamatory material about living persons. 01:48, 21 May 2016 ‎Forfeit Thee Untrue (hist) ‎[3,618 bytes] ‎The Cross Bearer (talk | contribs) (Creating Forfeit Thee Untrue) 01:46, 21 May 2016 ‎Tightrope (Steve Khan album) (hist) ‎[3,057 bytes] ‎Msheflin (talk | contribs) (Creating Album Page based on Grover Washington Jr Skylarkin' - someone might want to go back over the allmusic chart links) originally created as "Tight Rope (Steve Khan album)" 01:46, 21 May 2016 ‎Rio Preto National Forest (hist) ‎[3,260 bytes] ‎Aymatth2 (talk | contribs) (initial stub) 01:42, 21 May 2016 ‎Cameron Ambridge (hist) ‎[151 bytes] ‎Camstunz (talk | contribs) (First general information on Cameron Ambridge) 01:42, 21 May 2016 ‎Whispers in the Dark (Indecent Obsession song) (hist) ‎[2,079 bytes] ‎Tobyjamesaus (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox single | Name = Whispers in the Dark | Cover = | Artist = Indecent Obsession | Album = Indio | Released...') 01:41, 21 May 2016 ‎DJ Tab (hist) ‎[3,678 bytes] ‎Suthunmusicent (talk | contribs) (Entire Update) 01:35, 21 May 2016 ‎Semerah (federal constituency) (hist) ‎[2,977 bytes] ‎Alexander Iskandar (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox Malaysia electoral district |name =Semerah |state =Johor |image = |image_map = |caption...') 01:34, 21 May 2016 ‎Laguna Redonda (hist) ‎[2,801 bytes] ‎4lextintor (talk | contribs) (Created by translating the page "Laguna Redonda") (Tag: ContentTranslation) 01:34, 21 May 2016 ‎Renggam (federal constituency) (hist) ‎[2,897 bytes] ‎Alexander Iskandar (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox Malaysia electoral district |name =Renggam |state =Johor |image = |image_map = |caption...') 01:33, 21 May 2016 ‎Panti (federal constituency) (hist) ‎[3,446 bytes] ‎Alexander Iskandar (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox Malaysia electoral district |name =Panti |state =Johor |image = |image_map = |caption...') 01:33, 21 May 2016 ‎Tenggaroh (federal constituency) (hist) ‎[2,951 bytes] ‎Alexander Iskandar (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox Malaysia electoral district |name =Tenggaroh |state =Johor |image = |image_map = |caption...') 01:33, 21 May 2016 ‎Indio (song) (hist) ‎[1,953 bytes] ‎Tobyjamesaus (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox single | Name = Indio | Cover = | Artist = Indecent Obsession | Album = Indio | Released = 2 August 1...') 01:31, 21 May 2016 ‎Tangara (novel) (hist) ‎[2,069 bytes] ‎Perry Middlemiss (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox book | | name = Tangara | title_orig = | translator = | image = | caption = | author = Nan Chauncy | cover_artist...') 01:29, 21 May 2016 ‎Yoshida-Kōriyama Castle (hist) ‎[1,601 bytes] ‎Deathlibrarian (talk | contribs) (New page for Koriyama Castle) 01:28, 21 May 2016 ‎The SDR Show (hist) ‎[1,395 bytes] ‎CMooreEvil (talk | contribs) (Creating informative page for The SDR Show) 01:28, 21 May 2016 ‎Mantin (federal constituency) (hist) ‎[2,914 bytes] ‎Alexander Iskandar (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox Malaysia electoral district |name =Mantin |state =Negeri Sembilan |image = |image_map = |caption...') 01:28, 21 May 2016 ‎Kuala Lumpur Bandar (federal constituency) (hist) ‎[3,138 bytes] ‎Alexander Iskandar (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox Malaysia electoral district |name =Kuala Lumpur Bandar |state =the Federal Territories of Malaysia |image =...') 01:25, 21 May 2016 ‎Hyder Baig (hist) ‎[1,118 bytes] ‎Hyderbaig195 (talk | contribs) (changed the main information) (Tags: possible autobiography or conflict of interest, Incorrectly formatted external link or image, Visual edit) 01:24, 21 May 2016 ‎Dariusz Batek (hist) ‎[1,486 bytes] ‎Seacactus 13 (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox cyclist | name = Dariusz Batek | image = | image_size = | caption = | fullname = | nickname = | birth_date...') 01:22, 21 May 2016 ‎Damansara (federal constituency) (hist) ‎[5,606 bytes] ‎Alexander Iskandar (talk | contribs) (←Created page with '{{Infobox Malaysia electoral district |name =Damansara |state =the Federal Territories of Malaysia |image = |image_map...') *Show me more Wikipedia backlog by category This backlog lists tasks that should be done to improve Wikipedia (assuming the cleanup templates were placed correctly). Helping reduce backlogs is an important issue, so please feel free to help out. Click any linked number for that category's articles prioritized by their number of incoming links. Backlog categories General Administrative Assessment Stub sorting Template parameter Lacking references Needs references: 216,631 Needs references (BLP): 2,876 Needs more references: 276,737 Needs more references (BLP): 58,702 Needs in-text citations: 84,594 Needs reliable references: 66,000 Has unsourced quotes: 1,082 Has unsourced statements: 303,589 Fix one! Accuracy Uses broken or outdated citations: 270 Needs factual verification: 4,079 Needs references list: 7 Needs references clean up: 2,255 Accuracy disputes: 6,953 Neutrality disputed: 6,782 Needs updating: 14,582 Has original research: 15,130 Self-contradictory: 397 Needs geodata verification: 1 Content Copied and pasted: 584 Needs context: 3,657 Needs coordinates: 139,269 Too technical: 2,141 Uses improper non-free content: 145 Uses in-universe perspective: 2,786 Plot summary needs attention: 4,523 Of unclear notability: 60,989 Links Has dead external links: 64,921 Needs external links cleanup: 3,582 No wikilinks: 699 Too few wikilinks: 19,948 Layout Needs sections: 785 Needs expansion: 124,131 Needs to be merged: 11,389 Needs to be split: 689 Needs to be split (disambiguations): 1 Style Needs clarification: 4,366 Needs copy edit: 1,583 Has peacock terms: 3,717 Uses promotional tone: 19,690 Has weasel words: 15,481 Needs style editing: 15,379 File description Copy to Wikimedia Commons: 269,685 Incomplete renaming requests: 5 Needs author: 6,773 File quality Has inappropriate JPEG compression: 2,586 Logos that should be in SVG format: 2,542 Should be in PNG format: 405 Has watermarks: 625 Has borders: 144 Non-free file use Needs size reduction: 14 Publicity photographs needing rationale: 229 File licensing Has disputed copyright information: 4,812 Meta Biographies without "listas" parameter: 140,435 Biographies without "living" parameter: 1,528 Quality content Featured article candidates: 42 Featured list candidates: 41 Good articles needing "oldid": 1,179 Unreviewed good article nominations: 313 Other Needs cleanup: 20,971 Needs cleanup (disambiguations): 14 Needs expert attention: 6,884 Needs infobox conversion: 20 Is orphaned: 131,993 New article needs review: 91 Needs to be wikified: 39,599 Underpopulated categories: 4,512 {{Backlog status}} () () Community bulletin board 17 May 2016   News and notes: Affiliates' nomination of WMF trustees announced; FDC's straight talking to WMF Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogss Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others" Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2! Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion Confirm on save when adding links to disambiguation pages Wikidata in infoboxes, opt-in or opt-out? Add a link to high-use maintenance templates explaining how they are removed Preferred protocol for external links Related Pages extension Consensus for changes in citation coding style Embedding full-length films/videos in articles This week's article for improvement is Ozone layer Ozone-oxygen cycle in the ozone layer. Please be bold and help to improve this article! WikiProject Missing Encyclopedic articles (% done) Project page—The goal of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other encyclopedia. Sign in! Monthly focus: MacTutor biographies 63 left 1911 verification: 12.2% ACF Regionals answers: 0% Hotlist of topics: 85.9% General topics: 79.6% Science topics: 92% Catholic Encyclopedia: 86.2% Easton's Bible Dictionary: 88% Encyclopaedia Biblica : 69.5% Evangelical Dictionary of Theology: 80.6% Gutenberg authors : 99% Jewish Encyclopedia : 39% Literary Encyclopedia: 81.9% List of Poles: 6% Find-A-Grave: 85.1% Stanford Archive answers 97.9% Missing paintings 60.8% Miscellaneous Many other lists of politicians, songs, TV shows and others. Overall progress: 65.2% Spread the word through {{Project missing articles}} Active Wiki Fixup Projects Article Rescue Squadron Check Wikipedia Cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Fix common mistakes Free images to Commons Geo-coordinates Missing articles Most-wanted articles Orphaned articles Red Link Recovery Requested articles Single editor Stubsensor Today's articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini General notices On 1 November 2015, the English Wikipedia reached 5,000,000 articles. Free subscriptions to high-quality paywalled journals, newspaper archives, and online reference works are available for Wikipedia editors. For more information, see Wikipedia:TWL/Journals" Projects seeking help Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page. WikiProjects and Task Forces The Tip of The Day department is looking for tricks and techniques. If you have a special way of doing things, please stop by and share. Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon, a contest/editathon for April with substantial prize money for the most prolific editors is looking for contributors to contribute and produce Welsh-related content throughout April. It is supported by the National Library of Wales, which is hosting a physical editathon at the library on 22 April. Outlines See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines New outlines Outline of government Being overhauled or expanded Outline of medicine Outline of education Outline of knowledge Nearing completion (need remainder of annotations added) Outline of transhumanism Outline of Narnia Outline of canoeing and kayaking (Specific venues section) Outline of chess Outline of fishing (just a few annotations needed) Outline of forensic science Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling Outline of prehistoric technology Outline of wind energy Need link placement Outline of solar energy (place entries from See also into body of outline) Portal report The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep: Portal:A. R. Rahman Newly created Portal:Lighthouses Newly created Portal:Shreya Ghoshal Newly created Portal:Tuvalu Newly created Portal:Half-track Newly created Portal:Virginia Woolf Newly created Portal:Theosophy Newly created Portal:Machine learning Newly created Portal:Kyrgyzstan Newly created Portal:Trichy Newly created Portal:Space The selected article excerpts were copied and pasted between 2006 and 2009. The leads of the corresponding articles have greatly improved since then. Portal:Thinking "Selected" sections need new material. Been the same for years. The following portals have interesting design features that you may find useful: Portal:South East England A "parent" portal that uses selected content from several "child" portals, chosen at random for each type of content. Portal:Philosophy Automatically cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, year after year. Portal:Arts Uses random generators to display random featured status selections. Discussions and collaborations Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment: Biographies Economy and trade History and geography Language and linguistics Media, the arts, and architecture Politics, government, and law Religion and philosophy Science and mathematics Society, sports, and culture Wikipedia policies and guidelines Wikipedia style and naming WikiProjects and collaborations Wikipedia technical issues and templates Wikipedia proposals Unsorted See also Dashboard News Goings-on Milestones Meetups In the media Mailing lists Wikimedia community portals Here is a list of the main community pages of Wikipedia's sister projects. All of these projects are multilingual and open-content. Meta-Wiki – Coordination of all Wikimedia projects. Wiktionary – A collaborative multilingual dictionary. Wikinews – News stories written by readers. Wikibooks – A collection of collaborative non-fiction books. Wikiquote – A compendium of referenced quotations. Wikisource – A repository for free source texts. Wikispecies – A directory of species. Wikiversity – Where teachers learn, and learners teach. Wikivoyage – A world-wide travel guide. Wikidata – A free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. Commons – Repository for free images and other media files. Motto of the day Motto of the day... “ → HORATIO. I saw him once: he was a goodly king. HAMLET. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. ” Nominate one! Tip of the day Tip of the day... Featured content The Wikipedia community decides whether articles meet certain criteria to be selected as Featured articles, representing the best that Wikipedia has to offer. A different featured article is chosen to appear on the Main Page every day. Any user can nominate an article as a Featured article candidate, or comment on any of the existing candidate articles. Similar processes select Featured lists, Featured pictures, Featured portals, Featured topics and Featured sounds. Prior tip – Next tip Read more: Portal:Featured content   Become a Wikipedia tipster – Tips library, by subject To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}