Wikipedia:Backlog

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This week's backlog of the week is:

Category:All articles with too many examples

This backlog page 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 and/or develop this page (or ways to quantify these things) further. Wikipedia talk:Backlog is the discussion page for this page, and the technical Village Pump page is where technical issues are discussed.

Status

See Category:Wikipedia backlog for more categories, and Wikipedia:Task Center for brief guides.

Legend:

– Backlog is reduced and has WikiGnome activity in 6 months range

– Backlog stays the same or not applicable (e.g. FAC, GAN)

– Backlog is increasing in 6 months range

Update the delta at {{Backlog status}} and refer to Internet Archive of this page.

2024's focus is "Articles lacking sources from December 2023": 91.8% complete

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: 74,008
• Needs references (BLP): 13
• Needs more references: 473,047
• Needs more references (BLP): 42,131
• Needs in-text citations: 105,552
• Needs reliable references: 90,589
• Has unsourced quotes: 1,246
• Has unsourced statements: 533,786
Fix one!

Accuracy

• Uses broken or outdated citations: 260
• Needs factual verification: 11,119
• Needs references list: 17
• Needs references clean up: 1,968
• Accuracy disputes: 15,741
• Neutrality disputed: 7,415
• Needs updating: 39,804
• Has original research: 16,566
• Self-contradictory: 769

Content

• Copied and pasted: 101
• Needs context: 2,754
• Needs coordinates: 86,077
• Too technical: 3,408
• Uses improper non-free content: 89
• Uses in-universe perspective: 1,122
• Plot summary needs attention: 7,208
• Has trivia sections: 347
• Of unclear notability: 56,601
• Popular low quality articles (top 5000 by pageviews with low ORES class predictions)

Links

• Has dead external links: 312,659
• Needs external links cleanup: 2,289

Layout

• Needs expansion: 66,158
• Needs to be merged: 1,327
• Needs to be split: 819

Style

• Needs clarification: 5,707
• Needs copy edit: 2,467
• Has peacock terms: 2,786
• Uses promotional tone: 22,840
• Has weasel words: 18,784
• With style issues: 19,509

File description

• Copy to Wikimedia Commons: 91,378
• Needs author: 6,321

File quality

• Has inappropriate JPEG compression: 2,374
• Logos that should be in SVG format: 2,928
• Should be in PNG format: 223
• Has watermarks: 113

Non-free file use

File licensing

• Has disputed copyright information: 461

Meta

• Biographies without "listas" parameter: 476
• Biographies without "living" parameter: 1,472

Quality content

• Featured article candidates: 40
• Featured article review: 22
• Featured list candidates: 23
• Unreviewed good article nominations: 541

Other

• Needs cleanup: 34,079
• Needs cleanup (disambiguations): 4
• Needs expert attention: 1,335
• Needs infobox conversion: 293
• Is orphaned: 52,999
• Needs to be wikified: 27,722

New articles

• Articles for creation: 1,272

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Oldest backlogs by issue

1. Category:Accuracy disputes (March 2008—18)
2. Category:Article sections to be split (June 2024—3)
3. Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements (January 2006—3)
4. Category:Articles lacking in-text citations (August 2006—13)
5. Category:Articles lacking page references (July 2008—1)
6. Category:Articles lacking reliable references (January 2007—47)
7. Category:Articles lacking sources (January 2009—1)
8. Category:Articles needing additional references (October 2006—120)
9. Category:Articles needing cleanup (September 2010—4)
10. Category:Articles needing sections (November 2024—3)
11. Category:Articles slanted towards recent events (September 2009—1)
12. Category:Articles sourced by IMDb (November 2024—0)
13. Category:Articles sourced only by IMDb (October 2024—1)
14. Category:Articles that may be too long (December 2010—2)
15. Category:Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction (December 2007—1)
16. Category:Articles to be expanded (January 2007—8)
17. Category:Articles to be merged (January 2024—2)
18. Category:Articles to be split (March 2017—1)
19. Category:Articles with a promotional tone (December 2009—7)
20. Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations (March 2022—13,007)
21. Category:Articles with broken or outdated citations (March 2020—1)
22. Category:Articles with dead external links (March 2009—7)
23. Category:Articles with disputed statements (March 2008—5)
24. Category:Articles with minor POV problems (April 2010—4)
25. Category:Articles with peacock terms (October 2009—5)
26. Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose (October 2010—4)
27. Category:Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases (October 2009—40)
28. Category:Articles with too few wikilinks (November 2024—7)
29. Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability (October 2010—29)
30. Category:Articles with trivia sections (March 2017—7)
31. Category:Articles with unsourced statements (February 2007—930)
32. Category:Articles with weasel words (June 2008—1)
33. Category:BLP articles lacking sources (January 2007—26)
34. Category:Dead-end pages (November 2024—0)
35. Category:Orphaned articles (March 2015—4)
36. Category:Recently revised (November 2024—0)
37. Category:Self-contradictory articles (November 2013—2)
38. Category:Unreferenced BLPs (December 2023—2)
39. Category:Userspace drafts (before 2007‎—12)
40. Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating (December 2008—8)
41. Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification (February 2007—6)
42. Category:Wikipedia articles needing context (October 2009—101)
43. Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit (July 2023—38)
44. Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification (November 2007—9)
45. Category:Wikipedia articles needing page number citations (September 2008—1)
46. Category:Wikipedia articles needing rewrite (May 2009—18)
47. Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical (November 2007—1)
48. Category:Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention (April 2008—2)
49. Category:Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest (December 2009—13)
50. Category:Wikipedia articles with style issues (December 2007—45)
51. Category:Wikipedia external links cleanup (July 2014—3)
52. Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup (September 2009—43)
53. Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes (January 2012—2)
54. Category:Wikipedia spam cleanup (February 2012—2)

See also

1. Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year

Statistics

See also: Wikipedia:Statistics

For statistics on how a specific category's size has changed over time, use toollabs:apersonbot/cat-track. Not all categories are available; a category is only tracked if its page transcludes the {{CatTrack}} template. Otherwise, at present there does not appear to be any other project-wide collation of backlog statistics. A discussion may be required to determine if one is wanted or needed.

Templates

• {{backlog}} – adds a category to Category:Wikipedia backlog
• {{Backlog status}} – used in the "Status" section above. It has code in it that has been commented out that allows for the focus on a particular backlog
• {{Backlog count}} – date and count for backlogs categories that is updated by a bot
• {{Backlog progress bar}} – progress bar for tracking backlog elimination
• {{Backlog of the week}} – transcludes a box highlighting a randomly chosen backlog updated each week

See also

• Wikipedia:Maintenance, managerial tasks that are not necessarily backlogged.
• mw:Wikimedia Research/Showcase#February 2018, presentation on Wikipedia backlogs