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Expired entries

September 2020

 Comment: Struck part of the above, because this project no longer accepts requests for the addition of citations. North America1000 23:46, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 Done replaced dead links, added more refs. Looks ok for now. Less Unless (talk) 05:39, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

October 2020

 Partly done Trimmed some of the excessive detail. Removed blank refs. Needs a rewrite in the career section. ThinkHat (talk) 22:06, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

November 2020

December 2020

 Partly done. I cannot believe a year has gone by on this cleanup request and no one had jumped in yet. Platonk (talk) 00:28, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done - Misc fixes. — WILDSTARtalk 17:24, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
 Partly done Condensed the See also section by dividing entries there, shortening its length. North America1000 00:36, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

January 2021

 Partly done Removed some trivia and extra quotes. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 21:04, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done cleaned up everything related to the refs. Still needs to be substantially shortened. Not my field of expertise. Less Unless (talk) 20:26, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done shortened lead section a bit. The article needs expert attention to evaluate scientific content. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 17:31, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done - Fixed up punctuation issues and removed some archaic phrases and a red link. Don't know what to do with the lists, though. Phantasm99 (talk) 14:54, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done general clean up -- [[MarialeegRVT (talk) 06:06, 25 January 2021 (UTC)]]

Addressed entries

 FixedWILDSTARtalk 14:52, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 Done - Fixed story-like language and added sources. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 18:57, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done Removed promotional content for the most part, though the references are still press releases. AdoTang (talk) 15:27, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
☒N DeletedWILDSTARtalk 16:53, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
information Note: Article was nominated for speedy deletion, contested, and moved to Draft:African Fashion FoundationWILDSTARtalk 16:50, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done Trimmed some promotional. Partnerships section still too long. ThinkHat (talk) 17:16, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
 Comment:. Also the types of chairs, reception, and awards. I may list this for deletion as basically advertising. DGG ( talk ) 21:45, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
 Not done the article was deleted. Less Unless (talk) 19:25, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
Hey Less Unless - this article was recreated earlier this month and tagged for similar issues, so I'm going reopen it for now. Aranya (talk) 04:54, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
 Done I've done my best to resolve the problems and think the article is now in an acceptable state. PJvanMill)talk( 22:27, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done HeyItsFedor (talk) 13:32, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
 Done - Mostly with better historical data and citations from LBJ's article. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 16:54, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
information Note: - I started working on this and found that the article uses citations for two different bands of the same name. The one being discussed for real (the trance group) had just one minor release and little coverage. I have nominated them for deletion or redirect to the frontman. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lost Tribe. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 17:19, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
 Done - The result of the AfD discussion was to merge to the band's founder, which I completed. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 01:00, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
  • Lanisha Cole - Has been tagged for over a decade that it needs additional citations for verification and I think with the recent Mike Richards and Jeopardy! news that has hopefully reached its conclusion I think some citations on her dismissal and articles (if they are any) about her thoughts on Mike's dismissal along with some about her post The Price Is Right career. Pahiy (talk) 18:38, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
 FixedWILDSTARtalk 14:35, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
 Fixed - Books section had duplicate refs, so I disabled anchor generation for those. Aranya (talk) 16:49, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
 Done by MarnetteDWILDSTARtalk 15:05, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
 Done flod logic (talk) 09:31, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
 Fixed Platonk (talk) 01:39, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
 Done flod logic (talk) 11:33, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
 Fixed Platonk (talk) 01:45, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
 Fixed Platonk (talk) 22:57, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 Done thank to many users. Less Unless (talk) 05:46, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done - Condensed plot Jennablurrs7575 (talk) 20:49, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
 Done - I think this is done; long plot template has been removed and style changes were both made through edits of many users. I don't think the other parts of the request can be done with the existing sources, and they are unfortunately out of the scope of the WikiProject. Aranya (talk) 20:15, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
 Fixed ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 14:54, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 15:44, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
 FixedWILDSTARtalk 18:08, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
 Done - Removed many repeated links and others to unnecessary basic concepts. Many of the article's links are legit though because there are lots of WP articles about the country and region. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 17:27, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
 Done by Niceguyedc and Plastikspork. Less Unless (talk) 11:43, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
  • Falan Andrea - This article may be written from a fan's point of view, rather than a neutral point of view. Nirdid (talk) 10.17, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
 Done per Nirdid's edit summary. — WILDSTARtalk 19:40, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
 Done - converted, marked some as dead. Less Unless (talk) 12:48, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
 Done - by Awker22— Preceding unsigned comment added by Taeluta (talkcontribs) 18:52, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
 Comment: Article is extremely overlinked. To assist in the duplicate link cleanup, you can use this tool.WILDSTARtalk 17:41, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
 Fixed - The notice in the article was placed two months ago and if there were many bare URLs then, it looks like the community fixed most of them. I found only one remaining and fixed it myself, so as of right now there are no more bare URLs in the article. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 18:24, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
I originally said "Done" above and other people have changed my comment to "Partly Done" and then "Fixed" because of the change in topic. That's inefficient and it also enables other people to speak with my voice. The answer here is to close the first request about bare URL's, which I really did fix. I will start a new entry on the over-linking problem (see above) and someone can fix it and say they did so with their own voice. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 14:57, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
 Done Taeluta (talk) 23:04, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
 Comment: with a ping to @Solidest:. Except for minor attempts to include music genre terminology, the two articles at Diablada and Diablada (Bolivia) are nearly identical, while History of the Diablada repeats info from both as well. I have initiated the merger proposal process for at least two of them at Talk:Diablada#Merger proposal. If nobody responds for a few weeks I can then do the merge myself, but if anyone resists we may need tough discussions on why duplicate info is inefficient. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 14:49, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 Done See the discussion at Talk:Diablada#Merger proposal, where we ended up with support for merging an absolute mess of six different articles into the main Diablada. The original request about music infoboxes has resulted in an extensive cleanup and massive merge process. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 20:23, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
 DoneWILDSTARtalk 22:31, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
 Fixed Platonk (talk) 17:57, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 Fixed Platonk (talk) 20:00, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 Fixed It was an extra "[[" in Template:Canadian Prairies. Platonk (talk) 13:08, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 Comment: - There is an exact copy of this article at: [1]; not sure which site copied which. I have been around WP for a long time and have never seen a more preposterous candidate for the WP:TNT process. It looks like a direct copy of a high school student's research paper. I suppose Ms. Landmann is eligible for an article because she has been covered by biographers, but this travesty needs to be reduced by 99%. I could help as part of a team effort but it may be an uphill battle if we get reverted by the article's fans. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 14:28, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
@Doomsdayer520: from the bottom of the page you linked: "Kiddle encyclopedia articles are based on selected content and facts from Wikipedia, edited or rewritten for children." The website seems to have copied their article from here, but they seem to be following Wikipedia's licensing terms judging by the attribution statement at the bottom. Definitely agree that our article needs an extensive rewrite though. Aranya (talk) 02:58, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
 Done, except for an issue with converting references to footnotes. I reduced the article to basic biographical facts, which made it probably 80% shorter. Most of it was about the general history of her religious group and deemed irrelevant for this one person's specific biography. I believe the whole thing was copied from a church publication. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 16:57, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
 Not done per scope of this project. — WILDSTARtalk 12:08, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
information Note: tried to address the detail a bit. I'm also unsure of Metternich's notability after reviewing the sources, so I've opened an AfD discussion. Aranya (talk) 15:16, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
☒N Deleted Aranya (talk) 15:10, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
  • Drako Motors - Manufacturer of electric sports cars. Reads entirely as an advertisement, and I feel that a lot of this article is impressive-sounding statistics that don't really mean anything, but I don't know anything about cars. Needs copyediting, and citations need re-formatting to have further information. Waxworker (talk) 08:40, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done - reworded the lead and replaced and removed unnecessary sources. Not too comfortable working in this topic area, so I've added a new advert tag due to the excessive detail on their main product. Aranya (talk) 15:54, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 Done, actually, I went ahead and boldly removed most of the detailed statistics on their main product. Aranya (talk) 17:32, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done: Removed the Advert tag. The article does not have a promotional tone at this time. North America1000 11:00, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
Red XN I do not think this article can be saved, and consequently I've (re-)nominated it for deletion. PJvanMill)talk( 15:26, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
Result: kept. Sources were found. PJvanMill)talk( 18:29, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
in my experience, all pages for genuine European universities with a significant history can be rescued fairly easily. Other areas can be much harder to find sources. DGG ( talk ) 21:14, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
 Partly done - Style/layout fixes. — WILDSTARtalk 16:32, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 Done I hope you are enjoying your travels through Delaware Tinton5 :-) 16:10, 1 November 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarnetteD (talkcontribs)
 Done 16:10, 1 November 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarnetteD (talkcontribs)
 DoneWILDSTARtalk 14:05, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done I have addressed all the issues and reorganized the article to comply with MOS. The info is mostly collected from several sources which I have found and added as refs. Less Unless (talk) 20:05, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
 Done Both links were dead and have been tagged as such. MarnetteD|Talk 04:17, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
 Done — Removed excessive detail from sub-headings. Less Unless, it being so close to Halloween... leaves me wondering if that was a "trick" question?  :) — WILDSTARtalk 18:25, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
@WildStar: Those are all citations from 20-50 year old print magazines. I'm not sure they're available online (to get a title). We could, however, change the format of the citation so that the 'red font' in the references section goes away. Let me know if you think that would help, and I'll do that for you. Platonk (talk) 15:24, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
Platonk, since all of those CS1 style references fail to provide the needed bibliographic data (title), I believe it would be acceptable to improve them per WP:CITEVAR, retaining as much (if not all) of the information already there. If you feel the need, please feel free to discuss it further on the article's talk page. All the best and thank you! — WILDSTARtalk 16:58, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 Fixed Platonk (talk) 19:17, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
  • Oxford English Dictionary - Many citations appear broken (e.g. [18]:xx). These may be referring to a specific page of the cited resource, and should be moved to into the citation as per WP:CITE. Also, any of the revisions of the OED mentioned in the text contain question marks (e.g. ?th impression). I don't have easy access to the find the correct revision numbers. aaPle (talk) 03:04, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 Done – Struck the above at this time. I fixed the last two instances of bare urls used as sources for notes in the article (diff, diff), and the (e.g. ?th impression) matter would require edits that may require significant research, which is not under the particular purview of this project; this latter aspect may be better addressed by posting a request at the Guild of Copy Editors' Requests page. North America1000 01:11, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done shortened lead section. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 20:10, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
 Done – Has been addressed, with edits such as this that removed 19,001 bytes of information in March 2021, with the edit summary, "stubbed article and removed the eleven maintenance templates as an alternative to PROD, working on rewrite". North America1000 00:46, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done – Struck the above entry. Appears to have been addressed, with edits such as this that removed 17,734 bytes of information in March 2021, with the edit summary, "see previous; this is not the bible". North America1000 00:39, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done – Has been addressed by various editors since the time this was posted here. See this difference between revisions as an example. The article is well-sourced at this time as well. North America1000 00:56, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
 Comment: MoonlightVector, there is a process, outlined here, if you believe the GA no longer merits its current status and needs to be reassessed. — WILDSTARtalk 17:00, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 Comment: MoonlightVector, Just noticed the reassessment that you indeed did start. :) — WILDSTARtalk 17:48, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done - Cleanup, mostly the lead. — WILDSTARtalk 20:17, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
 Resolved - Article appears to have been sufficiently cleaned up and has passed a GA reassessment. — WILDSTARTALK 12:37, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 18:56, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 14:23, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 17:33, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 17:33, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done per Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Links_and_ID_numbers. MarnetteD|Talk 19:47, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done Removed leftover campaign blurbs and non-notable events; plus general cleanup and copy-editing. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 14:50, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done removed all the links - I couldn't find any info about any of the actors. Less Unless (talk) 14:28, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 17:48, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done filled bare URLs, but the coding at references can be improved further. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 19:54, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 17:48, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 17:48, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 Done fixed. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 15:19, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done MarnetteD|Talk 02:41, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 10:59, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
 DoneWILDSTARTALK 14:36, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
Comment the article was nominated for the deletion. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 23:50, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 Not done Deleted. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 07:56, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
 Done all the above mentioned.Less Unless (talk) 20:19, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 FixedWILDSTARTALK 16:41, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done Removed 2 sections, corrected the refs, minor copy-editing. Needs more ce. Less Unless (talk) 14:52, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done Removed uncited UNDUE section, changed unnecessary lists to prose, added wikilinks. Platonk (talk) 18:02, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done with the participation of Less Unless, Platonk, Rusalkii and yours truly. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 08:21, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
 Comment:I've noticed that all of the links are for the catalogue section, and once you delete that, it becomes completely unsourced. As such, I'm nominating it for deletion.
 Not done Deleted. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 08:22, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
  • Listia - Online auction marketplace that uses credits instead of money. Lots of unreliable/primary refs and original research, I've already removed a bunch of links to individual auctions for Amazon gift cards. Waxworker (talk) 13:37, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done Original research has been removed, still has a lot of primary refs though. HoneycrispApples (talk) 21:53, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
 Done with the participation from Bridget, HoneycrispApples, David Gerard and yours truly. I also added "Update" tag as some parts of the article might not reflect the current state of things. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 09:38, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done trimmed down promotion, added citation requests. A lot more cleanup is needed. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 18:37, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
 Partly done cleaned up 'early life' and rolled education into it. Stroness (talk) 19:13, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
 Done; article has been rewritten and sources have been provided for most of the remaining content. Bridget (talk) 17:49, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 20:43, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
 Done. Platonk (talk) 10:24, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 22:51, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 22:51, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 22:51, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 22:51, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 Done by Bridget. Less Unless (talk) 09:32, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
Comment The article was nominated for the deletion. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 07:54, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
☒N Deleted per afd and moved to draftspace. — WILDSTARTALK 05:59, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
 Comment: this wikipage is PR --Devokewater (talk) 05:03, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
 Not done @Devokewater: thanks for expressing your point of view. Moved it to the draft. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 19:32, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
 Not done. @Pahiy: I struck your entry above. Per the header atop this page, this project "does not accept requests for additional sources or citations to be added to articles". North America1000 21:03, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 13:11, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 12:54, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
 Done AreyouMach-ingme (talk) 05:23, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 12:59, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 12:59, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 12:38, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 22:20, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 22:20, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 13:43, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
☒N Deleted under A7. Less Unless (talk) 21:21, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
 Done I decided to mop this one up myself for no reason. I think the article is at least readable now; though it might need more work in some places, I think it's clean enough for me to mark this as done. AdoTang (talk) 21:15, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
 Done Less Unless (talk) 12:53, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
 Partly done - converted all the bare urls, but there's a ref called Ibid that is used about 10 times and is not citing anything. Also I've noticed original research and npov violations. Less Unless (talk) 08:14, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
 Comment: Thank you Less Unless for the cleanup! — From what I can surmise, using Ibid is to indicate they are referencing the same source as the previous reference. — WILDSTARTALK 14:14, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
@WildStar and Less Unless: I went ahead and really boldly reverted the Biography section to an older version because of concerns with prose and sourcing. I think the sources with ibid were OK, it was more the heavy reliance on things like Baidu Baike, thepaper.cn, and IMDB/FindAGrave.com (per WP:RSP). The two sections analyzing her films are still there, I just moved them to separate section tagged for OR. I didn't change any recent reference additions and formatting changes, but I know I undid a lot of edits so please revert if you think I misjudged. Bridget (talk) 16:25, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
Marking this as  Done Bridget (talk) 04:42, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 Done (I think) - Reduced number of links. May need a second pass with a fresh pair of eyes. I see blue everywhere now! Thanks Platonk!  :) WILDSTARTALK 22:53, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
So much better. I was so hopeful looking at your diff, but surprised to still see a lot of blue. You removed around 16 just the first paragraph and the diff went on and on and on! Sorry to turn your world blue on you. ;) Thank you. I couldn't have done it without blowing up on whoever did that to the article. Platonk (talk) 04:30, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
 Not done - article has been draftified mainly due to COI issues, see Draft:Senreve. Bridget (talk) 19:47, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
☒N Deleted after going through AfD. Bridget (talk) 19:47, 28 January 2022 (UTC)