Difference between revisions of "NSWiki:Cleanup"

Revision as of 03:31, 26 November 2005

Articles that require an extensive cleanup should be submitted to the list below with details. See Wikipedia:Cleanup process for more information.

Basically, if the article isn't quite a stub, but it is in need of more content, a re-wording, or even just a structural adjustment, it should be placed here. Those NSwikians who prefer to be editors can then go through this list and make their contributions to those pages that are most in need of help. This should not be a list of stubs. See also, What to contribute.

Note that articles in the general namespace should be put here, not meta pages.

Categories for cleanup

Ceorana and I (Sober Thought) have discussing ways to make my category and the articles in it conform better to Wiki and NSWiki practices. Although I only intended to write a one-page entry using the Nation template, it has grown over the last eight or ten months to 70+ pages with haphazard organisation and naming conventions. Until we sort it, please don't mess with them. If you have an idea, leave us NSWiki messages or (better yet) just send me an NS TG.

I would appreciate any straight forward typographical corrections because I'm notorious for transposing letters when the juices are flowing and the fingers are flying. And for reasons inexplicable to me, I frequently type "but" when I mean "by." However, please don't mess with British, American or Canadian spelling differences. I spell in a peculiar mixture of all three so that every group has something that strikes them odd -- be it an "-our," an "-ise," a "toque," or compound rather than hyphenated word.

I've been active in a few wikis, but I confess I have been the least systematic in this one because it is "fun" and a "factual" error for a fictional country strikes me as less important tham my work as Anderskin in the English, simple English, French, German and Czech wikis.

Thanks for the help

Sober Thought 22:56, 22 November 2005 (GMT)

I'll reserve judgement on whether this belongs here, for the moment. Nonetheless, you must be aware this is a wiki. People will 'mess' your articles, if they think it'll help the project. If there are specific articles you want certain things done or not done to, then I'd suggest you note such on their Talk pages, rather than on a Meta page which is visited infrequently by the majority of contributors. Gruen2alk 23:11, 22 November 2005 (GMT)

Tu as raison. Touché. Feel free to move it if you like, but I thought it would be helpful since it involves a lot of articles and some fairly regular edits which might attract attention. Ceorana her/him/itself (not sure of gender or IC/OOC is preferred) noted that she/he/it became aware of the peculiar or inconsistent article heads purely by chance (I assume by looking at the most recent additions/edits). It seems conceivable that others might find these pages the same way.

And definitely, mess with articles in a nice way; I do it all the time. However, the whole American vs. British English edit wars I've seen elsewhere are usually resolved by a simple statement that a particular article is written "American" or "British" so leave it that way. But what about us poor Canadians, especially ones like me who read from a wide variety of current and historical documents? Programme and progam look equally right to me, but I go for the extra "-me" because it looks more French; connexion and connection look equally right to me, but I go for the "t" because it looks less archaic; "might come in useful" and "might come in handy" look equally right to me, but I go for the former because my name is Andy and I hated having it rhyme like that. (I think there was a British children's book or book character called Handy Andy, 'cause I got that a lot.) As I said above, I spell in my own English which gives pause to all readers (including sometimes myself!), so I was just giving fair warning. And where I have an option to merge a hyphenated word, I usually take it (cooperation vs. co-operation) even though the quaint "to-day" I encounter even in British documents of the first half of the last century still looks fine to me, I'm a lazy typist so compounds mean one less keystroke.

I'll make copies at least for the article talk pages; I forgot about them. And also as a supposed wiki frequent flier, I am only too aware that people don't log in or check the right pages as they should (mille mea culpa).

Now hand me that spanner so I can get my toque out of the works! 8^)

Sober Thought 23:48, 22 November 2005 (GMT)

Articles for cleanup

• Real world - Too informal, needs cleanup. 64.50.192.206 23:23, 9 November 2005 (GMT)

I've tried to clean it up a bit; might need more. ~ Ceorant 02:19, November 15, 2005 (GMT)

• Violet - completely written in first person, very informal, needs to be cleaned up. -- Ceorant 16:25, 6 November 2005 (GMT)
• Discussion moved to Talk:Violet.
  • This is becoming a big conversation, that's dwarfing the Cleanup page, so I'm moving the comments here over to the talk page, so we can reach a consenus. Hope this makes sense. Gruen2alk 10:12, 17 November 2005 (GMT)
• Tanthan - terrible article. Needs cleanup. --|Knoot|KNOOtalk 18:30, 11 September 2005 (GMT)
• Union of Independent States - It seriously needs some formatting and just general cleanup. I'm working on it but I don't really have the time, so I'd appreciate it if someone cleaned it up a bit. --Jjuulliiaann 24 July 2005 17:54 (GMT) -- Reformatted, and cleaned up. No editing of the words in the constitution carried out. - IN 4 September 2005 17:10 (GMT).
• Fourth Edolian War - I started it but it needs to be finished by people who were more involved. Knoot 14:49, 3 Oct 2004 (GMT)
• Magic (Khrrck) needs some rewriting cleanup; was written a long time ago. I may do some of it myself, but if anyone's interested feel free. --Khrrck 02:40, 11 Nov 2004 (GMT) I dont think it needs anything. It doesnt seem passive or anything. Kerbistan.
• Despite the recommendation to avoid making this a "list of stubs", I'm including a link to a newly created category of real world stubs, all of which are in dire need of some additional NS based content. → Fris Θtalk 18:15, 15 Dec 2004 (GMT)
• Abu-Dhabi_Khristatata — First person account as straight text, needing to be put in third person, and formatted. Rechze • (talk) 02:58, 21 Jan 2005 (GMT) -- Cleaned up. -The Mindset 01:30, 29 Jun 2005 (GMT)
• Shapur I of Parthia needs a gazillion dead links removed. I would do it myself, but I'm just about to head off to bed. Pacitalia :: 05:35, 27 May 2005 (GMT).
• Mars Treaty Organisation, a cluttery narrative from the first-person perspective. I didn't agree with the cleanup to begin with but the article has been re-written and re-structured. --United States of Mars 19:49, 16 October 2005 (GMT)
• Adree Vorez speech to Parliament 13 January 2005 - atrocious spelling --|Knoot|KNOOtalk</s>small> 01:06, 9 October 2005 (GMT)

• Kaania - in a word, argh. Pacitalia|PaciTalk 07:46, 29 October 2005 (GMT)
  • Indeed. I've made a start and left a note on the talk page explaining what I've done so far. I'm going to TG Kaania and ask him what we should do. A lot of it (39 kb!) looks like it may need to be cut, as it is irrelevant to NS.Gruen2alk 14:05, 30 October 2005 (GMT)
• A Modern World - I have no idea what the authors plan to do with allll those dead links, but if they don't start soon, one of us gets prerogative to start removing them. Yikes. --Pacitalkia 07:31, 26 November 2005 (GMT)

Articles that may/may not need more cleanup

• Saige Dragon - POV first-person account. Needs to be wikified and NPOVed. If that's possible. --Goobergunch|? 03:16, 7 Jan 2005 (GMT)
  • As I said in the talk page, it probably needs a complete rewrite or a plain old delete. I did the best I could with it in the circumstances but it's still a poor article. Pacitalia :: 03:23, 26 May 2005 (GMT)

(The following pages were linked from Template:Cleanup)

• Amerigan War
• Shadow War