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 Not done Article deleted. AmericanAir88(talk) 06:45, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
 Not done Article was deleted and draft rejected for notability reasons A Very Purple Ostrich (talk) 16:40, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
 Done Converted bare URLs to full references with the partial exception of reference 12; subscription to the Gold Coast Bulletin is required to view the referenced article in full. LbtESet (talk) 04:16, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 Done A Very Purple Ostrich (talk) 18:12, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 Done. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 07:02, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 Done Created full citations from bare URLs Grisette (talk) 13:56, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 Done by Youknowinhindsight - Lacon432 (talk) 21:02, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 Done Fixed references, removed some inline URLs, tidied up a bit of promo wording. Grisette (talk) 14:33, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
 Done AmericanAir88(talk) 06:44, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
 Done --Less Unless (talk) 09:16, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
 Not done – This project is NOT for cleaning up draft COI contributions. Ghostofakina (talk) 15:44, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

 Not done Your rationale is a bit questionable considering the article still has a COI tag. Ghostofakina (talk) 11:23, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

 Partly done Formatted ref 7, marked ref 8 as a dead link. Syntaxlord (talk) 00:43, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
 Done Syntaxlord (talk) 02:35, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
  • L.O.S - Article on a band that appears to be notable, thanks to media coverage in their country, but the writing and formatting are in a sorry state. This one should be a fairly easy cleanup for any volunteer with half an hour to spare. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 13:36, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 Partly done Did some grammatical cleanup Syntaxlord (talk) 22:31, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 Partly done Did some additional grammar cleanup. werewolf (talk) 22:41, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
Article has been deleted. Syntaxlord (talk) 02:13, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
  • Draft:Steven Linne - A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. --TheWolfius (talk) 14:00, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 Not done TheWolfius, this project is NOT for cleaning up draft COI contributions. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 10:22, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
 Not done This project is NOT for cleaning up draft COI contributions. Please first work on notability.--Less Unless (talk) 14:06, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 Not done – Article has been deleted. Ghostofakina (talk) 02:11, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
 Done --Less Unless (talk) 00:10, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
 Done. Lapablo (talk) 21:49, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
  • Emeric Chantier section Techniques. I was reformatting the reference style, but I don't know how to make proper references after a quote. So i inserted them as bare urls. Please help me correct. And where can I find guidelines on that? Thank you. --Less Unless (talk) 13:59, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
 Done --doubleA11225 07:42, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
: Done --Less Unless (talk) 23:40, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
 Done --Less Unless (talk) 22:35, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
 Done --Less Unless (talk) 12:25, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Thanks! ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 13:36, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
The further reading section includes the same sources listed in references. Should we just remove it? References need proper formatting as well.Less Unless (talk) 11:15, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
 Done. Someone had already done some cleanup and formatting when I got there and there's now no duplication between the two. I've done some other clean up generally around the page, added an inbox, and fixed a few of the citations that needed sorting out. Grisette (talk) 20:48, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 Done but please do check as I'm new :)--Less Unless (talk) 09:36, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
 Done. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 16:46, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
  • Sergei Savateev - Ask one of the admins to remove the template from the page. I am the author of this article and created it for free and on my own. The article does not contain any advertising in its current form. All material that did not comply with Wikipedia rules was removed. Thank you. Çelebicihan (talk) 14:34, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
 Not done Nominated for the deletion as it fails WP:BIO. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 10:00, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
☒N Deleted per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sergei Savateev. North America1000 16:18, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
 Not done the article was deleted --Less Unless (talk) 12:53, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
 Done Ghostofakina (talk) 16:46, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 Done--Less Unless (talk) 13:58, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
  • ZS Associates - This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments, a violation of Wikipedia's terms of use. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies. Can any one please help to remove this template? Because of this a large amount of content is reverted back. I lost most of my research work.

Please help me to remove this template!! Thank you Jayjha89 (talk) 09:53, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

 Not done Jayjha89, this project is NOT for cleaning up COI contributions. Please first work on notability and discuss at COI Notifications board. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 09:55, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 Done, puffery removed – Thjarkur (talk) 18:07, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
 Not done - nominated it for deletion. Fails all the notability guidelines. --Less Unless (talk) 11:38, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
 Done --Less Unless (talk) 12:46, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
 Done Ghostofakina (talk) 17:44, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 Done Converted refs, added cats. Less Unless (talk) 17:42, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
 Done - major clean up, removed puffery, rewrote adding refs (there were no) and some new info. But do take a look on phrasing. Less Unless (talk) 18:18, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
@Less Unless: Amazing job! --Bbarmadillo (talk) 14:37, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
Deleted. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 21:18, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
 Not done the article was deleted. --Less Unless (talk) 14:30, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
 Done --Bbarmadillo (talk) 19:28, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 Partly done formatted the references --Less Unless (talk) 21:47, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
 Done Cleaned up by Doc James. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 14:40, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
 Done by another user in this diff, closing an open table tag. -Stelio (talk) 12:20, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
 DoneLacon432 (talk) 07:21, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 Partly done Formatted refs 287 and 288. Syntaxlord (talk) 19:53, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
 Done Fixed by Rosalina2427 Syntaxlord (talk) 02:30, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
 DoneThinkHat (talk) 17:27, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
 Done, also added wikilinks, refs. --Less Unless (talk) 19:37, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
 Done --Less Unless (talk) 20:35, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 Done --Less Unless (talk) 20:35, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 Done - corrected errors, almost all links are dead - added tags. --Less Unless (talk) 19:27, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
 Done --Less Unless (talk) 14:30, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

* Perceived psychological contract violation — Major reference issues.-Splinemath (talk) 19:29, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

 Partly done - Removed one duplicate reference. Pucidanuna (talk) 03:22, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
 Done - Cleaned up and formatted all references. Grisette (talk) 15:16, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
 Done --Less Unless (talk) 22:43, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
 Partly done - Cleaned up a bit and added some references. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 17:17, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
 Done --Bbarmadillo (talk) 09:04, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
 Done added more refs, works section. Looks fine to me. --Less Unless (talk) 22:49, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 11:06, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 11:06, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 11:06, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 11:06, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 11:06, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 Partly done - there are 4 links left in the table - I'm trying wikitext, but there's some mistake. Please help. Less Unless (talk) 11:18, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 Fixed WildStar talk 12:29, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 20:36, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done by Less Unless and JJMC89 - Ghostofakina (talk) 02:36, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 15:28, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 15:28, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 15:28, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 15:28, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 15:28, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 Fixed Tetrahedron17 (talk) 06:35, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 16:34, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 16:34, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 16:34, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 16:34, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 Not done Unfortunately, this has been tagged as a COI issue and cannot be addressed here. Admin has moved article back to Draft. WildStar talk 22:56, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 Fixed WildStar talk 19:40, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 Fixed WildStar talk 19:40, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 Fixed WildStar talk 19:08, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 Fixed WildStar talk 16:16, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 12:30, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 Fixed WildStar talk 16:12, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done many links are dead, marked. Less Unless (talk) 12:25, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 08:10, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 Fixed by North America1000 04:40, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 Fixed by North America1000 04:43, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Cleaned up by LlamaPedian. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 08:34, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 Done Moved citations to external links section. --MarialeegRVT (talk) 00:13, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 Not done Boosting "External links" section with URLs is not a proper way to clean-up the article. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 18:31, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
They were sources that made more sense as external links. You seem to have something specific in mind so maybe you should do it. MarialeegRVT (talk) 02:14, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Harwelden Mansion - Can someone look at this page to help with cleanup? I have updated spelling and grammar errors. Thank you! User:Teresaknox

 Not done Dl2000 who placed the maintenance template has already responded to the previous COI removal.WildStar (talk) 20:14, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
  • Ashton Stevens "The character of Jedediah Leland in the film Citizen Kane is based on Stevens, a close boyhood friend of Orson Welles.[1] " Stevens was about 40 years older than Orson Welles. The above statement is ambiguous at best, very wrong at the worst. Note: this is in the first paragraph. I do not know how to edit that paragraph.
 Done Ghostofakina (talk) 13:32, 16 March 2020
 Not done This project is not for cleaning up COI contributions. Also I don't see any particular problems with this article. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 09:24, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
 Fixed Trimmed irrelevant information Ghostofakina (talk) 19:11, 17 March 2020
  • Please clean up Munck Wilson Mandala draft, its says my article; "This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments." This is untrue and should be removed from my page immediately. Thanks! --Lwilliamson (talk) 21:40, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
 Not done This project is not for cleaning up COI contributions (esp. at the draft stage). --Bbarmadillo (talk) 09:26, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Single_Market?markasread=184951231&markasreadwiki=enwiki
  • My article has been marked for deletion however having looked at the reason why, I think it is best placed under cleanup.
ChefBear01 (talk) 16:25, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 Not done The sources from the world population predictions like the UN or the USCB, can't be found. Ferctus used extremely unreliable sources like YouTube, which won't work. Help Ferctus to find the The Angus Maddison Project & UN World Population Prospects in which the YouTubers used, but he can't find it. The YouTubers never link the sources. --Ferctus (talk) 1:15, 28 March 2020 (CST)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_population_milestones_by_country
 Not done Several reviewers highlighted that the subject of this draft is not notable enough for Wikipedia. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 09:03, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
 Not done Article has been moved or deleted.
 Done ThinkHat (talk) 15:34, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 Done --Less Unless (talk) 14:54, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 Done --Less Unless (talk) 08:28, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
 Done Cleaned up by Spiders1577. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 19:12, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 Not done While doing some grammar changes, I noticed that some of the information doesn't match up with the sources provided. This page could definitely use a comb-through before it can be polished. Armvis (talk) 16:02, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
 Not done Article has been moved or deleted.
 Done by another editor. —UCLAgirl623 (Whats up!) 00:18, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
 Done Tetrahedron17 (talk) 08:14, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Improved inline citations, removed deadlinks and links with no reference to the subject, de-orphaned. Pucidanuna (talk) 03:05, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
 Partly done Cleaned most of the duplicate hyperlinks. WildStar talk 17:27, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Cleaned up writing style and grammar. werewolf (talk) 15:07, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
 Done Replaced date template to use MDY dates. Ghostofakina had already changed the dates from DMY to MDY. WildStar talk 02:03, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
 Fixed Not sure why {{Cite web}} is not working with shortened Wikimedia URLs. Was able to add the full URL in the template by encoding the pipe characters. WildStar talk 15:16, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
 Done -- Lacon432 (talk) 20:54, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 Done -- Lacon432 (talk) 20:54, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 Done --Less Unless (talk) 22:44, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
 Done ThinkHat (talk) 22:50, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

October 2018

 Partly done Formatted refs, cut out a lot of the content that was more fluffy and copy edited (there was a lot lost in translation in this one!). It's not perfect but much better, I hope. Lots of the sources here are gossip news sites, so I hesitate to remove the reliable source banner. Grisette (talk) 14:23, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
I feel this one is a candidate for a full rewrite, and I've while I've already done some, it needs a lot of work Armvis (talk) 19:53, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
Agree with above, Armvis. Making a start.  Partly done Would be helpful for interested editors to discuss on talk page. Tony Holkham (Talk) 11:43, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

 Partly done Have done a major rewrite. I have completely rewritten the introductory and closing sections. There was also some information that is completely irrelevant, i.e. Tannins of tropical woods... This information have been removed, Still need further detail, more sources, and images. Rubberducky785 (talk) 20:48, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

 Partly done Fixed issues with the reference section. Expert editor should look at page to add some deleted info back. Tplaza64 (talk) 00:32, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 Partly done Fixed the references, shortened and restructured a bit. More information could be added to this article. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 21:30, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
 Partly done Put the holdout reference in the external links section and fixed comma splices. --A garbage person (talk) 22:26, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
 Partly done A Very Purple Ostrich (talk) 17:13, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
 Partly done Tidied, and removed embedded commercial links. Badly needs references, but not my area of interest. Tony Holkham (Talk) 11:05, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 Partly done Changed the list portion to prose and removed a few peacock-ish terms in the "Hull" section. I'm not too well versed on sailboats so I'd like an editor familiar with them to make sure the "hull" section isn't biased. --Madds212 (talk) 14:24, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

November 2018

  • All-India Muslim League - This article contains multiple issues as identified in the talk pages. But for the most important is the with the introdution itself. The third paragraph contains poorly written text which is quite confusing and is making little sense. For the probable solution was to delete the text but I rather thought someone else shoul take a look at it. May be it can be improved by a little editing. I can't figure out how, though. Sajjad Arif (talk) 11:22, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
 Partly done Edited grammar.werewolf (talk) 05:41, 03 December 2018 (UTC)
Improved the references further. Needs more cleanup, imho. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 19:31, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
  • List of Muslim scientists - requires large-scale clean up: since it is organized thematically, several individuals appear on the list multiple times (e.g. Averroes is listed 6 times) - chronological order might make more sense; there is at least one Christian on the list; there is at least one legendary person on the list; there are at least two groups on the list (e.g. Brethren of Purity); many individuals lack dates and descriptions; there is not a distinction made between natural and social sciences; etc.Akasseb (talk) 22:43, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
 Partly done Updated references. Still working on standardizing information and formatting. A garbage person (talk) 16:42, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

December 2018

  • Hair Peace Salon – There is currently an AfD in progress for this article. I suspect that the article will survive but several people at the AfD have noted its preposterous source bombing and firehose-like overkill for a band that has only droplets of basic notability in their home country of Belarus. I recommend a team effort to reduce the article by a good 90% to basic facts, while whacking all the pointless trivia and convincing the article's creator that doing so is necessary and prudent. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 21:07, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
Update: The article has survived the AFD through a "No-consensus" vote. AmericanAir88(talk) 01:03, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
 Partly done Over 300 citations! It is a true WP:CITEKILL madness! I removed some but much-much more cleanup is needed. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 07:23, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
@Doomsdayer520: I've also added a COI warning to the article and to the main contributor's page. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 07:47, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
Recent cuts resulting in removing sources are going to be trusted and bolster up the subject's notability. They are not going to be minor edits as were marked and should have been discussed to gain consensus. All involved please chime in on the talk page. Pr12402 | January 7, 2018
 Partly done — Fixed references. More cleanup needed. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 21:42, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 Partly done — added bare url tag so problem should be fixed in no time. ⊂Emoteplump (Contributions) (Talk) 11:48, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

January 2019

  • Arnold Ehret was a quack who claimed that certain foods were causing "muscus" to flow within the body and cause disseases. His ideas are far away from any biological facts. In a misrepresentation of facts, the article portrays his ideas as if they were correct and makes no notation about their esoteric nature. Nearly all of the listed sources are in contradiction to Wikipedia:Verifiability. -- Liberaler Humanist (talk) 22:09, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

February 2019

 Partly done Fixed bare urls and added red link tag. AmericanAir88(talk) 03:58, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
 Partly done Cleaned up the red links.SWP13 (talk) 19:17, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
 Partly done Cleaned up some of the more promotional wording A Very Purple Ostrich (talk) 17:31, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
  • I agree that it needs cleanup. Going to the article immediately prompts a translation option, and some of her discography might be better organized with a table. Additionally, the article is still tagged as needing to be updated. Syntaxlord (talk) 21:48, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

March 2019

Tbilisi1 (talk) 21:39, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Tagged "linkrot" for the automatic bare URLs fix. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 20:38, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Removed puffery. Syntaxlord (talk) 02:34, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
Thanks, Syntaxlord and Bbarmadillo! I've crossed out the things you did on the request.-- A garbage person (talk) 21:26, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

April 2019

 Partly done – Made the "footnotes" on the columns into hyperlinked footnotes. I also found a revision from 2015 with the symbol-footnotes intact, and managed to make edits that added those back in. However, there were intermediate edits and I didn't have time to re-write the whole thing, so I pasted the whole page as I had it into sandbox. Please feel free to copy & paste these notations as you see fit until I have enough time to get back to it. —A garbage person (talk) 15:21, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
 Partly done I am pretty much finished with all the references for all of the size and mass estimates. All that is left is to find additional sources for citation needed tags along with the uncited Surface gravity section. I will do further changes to the list, mostly reducing the size of this list since a majority of asteroid size estimates are from the same source. I have changed the reason statement of the cleanup tag since the previous reason is resolved. Nrco0e (talk) 20:34, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
  • Dorothée - As it says on the talk page: "This article is written with very poor standards. The grammar is off (using literally translated french constructions) and the repeated use of exclamation marks betrays the fact that this was written by a fan with little to no oversight. The information may be factual but completely lacks citations; some details seem very anecdotal. This article needs a serious review, a lot of additional research and a substantial rewrite" Mvcg66b3r (talk) 21:02, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 Partly done Cleaned up grammar and punctuation errors, fixed a few minor stylistic issues in discography. werewolf (talk) 00:08, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
 Partly done I fixed refs 12 and 13, but ref 14 is missing the URL. Syntaxlord (talk) 01:23, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
@Doomsdayer520: I created a COI Noticeboard discussion about this article but the issue was ignored. I personally think that the main contributor of this article has a clear conflict of interest (they created 90%+ content of the Belarusian and the English article) and their account should be blocked. I tried to clean it carefully reviewing the sources, but there are over 300 of them, eh... -- Bbarmadillo (talk) 19:18, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
@Bbarmadillo: I would love to WP:TNT that article and pare it down to what the band deserves, but I don't want to do the work because the creator might just revert any change. That's why I have called for a team effort here, or "strength in numbers" if you will, because a team can be more convincing on the need for drastic action. I suppose the article is isn't really hurting anything if few people read it, but it still violates a heckuva lot of guidelines. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 19:52, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
I also started a topic at WP:WCC. -- Bbarmadillo (talk) 09:48, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
  • List of countries by firearm-related death rate - Lots of issues here. Uses one website almost exclusively; lists this source in the table instead of just linking to relevant citations; compares data across several years within the same row; should also sort with the highest death rate on top. I've done some work to improve the External Links section, which lists several sources that could be used to update the page. --A garbage person (talk) 16:44, 1 April 2019 (UTC)