Category:Articles needing cleanup
This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories.
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This category groups together the articles needing general clean-up. You can help by clicking through to an article and editing it.
You can find articles by:
- Longest wait time - see the monthly subcategories below.
- Most daily page views last month
- Topic, using WikiProject tags, subdivided by type of cleanup needed
- Topic, using Category:Wikipedia cleanup by subject
You can usually find more information about why the article was tagged:
- At the top of the article itself (the {{cleanup}} tag now requires a "reason" parameter).
- The article's talk page.
- Possibly on Wikipedia:Cleanup if the article has been dual-listed.
If you're unsure why the tag is there, the best thing to do is to ask on the article's talk page and
For more specific needs or for help on deciding when and how to tag, see Wikipedia:Cleanup resources.
Articles in the monthly subcategories are tagged e.g. {{Cleanup|date=March 2024}}. Articles placed in this category (by a clean-up tag) will be automatically re-filed by a bot to the appropriate monthly subcategory. This usually happens within 15 minutes, so there should not be many articles in the category.
Subcategories
This category has the following 165 subcategories, out of 165 total.
- Articles needing cleanup from August 2022 (10,806 P)
- Articles needing cleanup from September 2022 (5,907 P)