User:Gnome (Bot)/Help/CleanupCriteria

Gnome(bot) operation criteria for WP:CLEAN clean up tasking

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Disambig

If the article has {{Disambig}} and {{cleanup}} or {{cleanup-date}}, then add {{disambig-cleanup}}

• Reasoning: if {{Disambig}} is there, its a disambig page and the better place for the article is the more specialized {{disambig-cleanup}}, rather than the general cleanup tag.

• Safeguards: None currently needed. If someone can think of something that would cause a false hit, bring it up with me.

"List" found in title

If the title contians "list", and {{cleanup}} or {{cleanup-date}} are present, then add {{cleanup-list}}

• Reasoning: Only madmen title a page list if it is not such. Therefore it should be cleaned as such.

• Safeguards: Currently, against misidentifying articles with list as part of a word, e.g., enlist

"List" found in section headers

If there are only one or two sections, and one section's header contains "list", and {{cleanup}} or {{cleanup-date}} are present, then add {{cleanup-list}}.

• Reasoning: If there is only one heading and it has list in it, than it is very probable that the article is an incomplete list.

• Safeguards: Several simple regular expression statements against false hits.

• Settings:
  • Maximum # of sections = 2

Article is a stub

If the article has less than <X> words then replace cleanup with add {{stub}}.

• Reasoning: Objections have caused us to label stubs and retain the cleanup moniker. While we still feel that stubs are, by their nature, targets for cleanup and expansion, we bow to consensus and retain the {{cleanup}} tag. However, cleanup often contains stubs, and this is a simple means of identifying them.

• Safeguards: don't add {{stub}} if it's already present.

• Settings:
  • X = 225 words
    • Therefore, all articles marked for cleanup shorter than 225 words will be marked as stubs.

Article should be Wikified

NOTE:<MINWIKI> = percent of an articles words that are wikified.

If less than <MINWIKI> of its content is a wikilink then replace cleanup with add {{wikify}}.

• Reasoning: Identifying articles with a very low wikilink population is a good means of identifying text dumps and barely-wikified articles. Typically, good articles on Wikipedia have about 4% of their content wikified. A page already marked for cleanup, and with a low number of links, probably needs further wikification as part of the cleanup process.
  • Per objections of the community, wikify no longer supersedes cleanup.

• Safegaurds: Stub sized articles will not end up with a wikify tag, as Gnome prioritizes adding {{stub}} over adding {{wikify}}.

• Settings:
  • MINWIKI = 1%

No sections in the article

If an article contains zero sections and the article has > <X> words then replace cleanup with add {{Sections}}.

• Reasoning: Wikipedia discourages excessively long pages without sections.

• Safeguards: None

• Settings:
  • X = 750 words

Categories are needed

If article contians 0 categories and has greater than X words, then replace cleanup with add {{Uncategorized}}.

• Reasoning: This is too long to be a stub, so it doesn't fall under Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting. However, an article this specific probably needs a category.

• Safeguards: None

• Settings:
  • X = 600

• Example: Causes of the Great Depression