Wikipedia:Backlog

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This backlog page lists tasks that should be done to improve Wikipedia (assuming the

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.

Click any linked number for that category's articles prioritized by their number of incoming links.

1. Category:Accuracy disputes (March 2008—19)
2. Category:Article sections to be split (July 2021—1)
3. Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements (January 2006—4)
4. Category:Articles lacking in-text citations (August 2006—20)
5. Category:Articles lacking page references (July 2008—1)
6. Category:Articles lacking reliable references (January 2007—55)
7. Category:Articles lacking sources (May 2008—0)
8. Category:Articles needing additional references (October 2006—126)
9. Category:Articles needing cleanup (July 2010—8)
10. Category:Articles needing sections (November 2023—1)
11. Category:Articles slanted towards recent events (May 2009—1)
12. Category:Articles sourced by IMDb (February 2024—0)
13. Category:Articles sourced only by IMDb (March 2024—1)
14. Category:Articles that may be too long (March 2010—1)
15. Category:Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction (December 2007—4)
16. Category:Articles to be expanded (January 2007—14)
17. Category:Articles to be merged (August 2023—8)
18. Category:Articles to be split (March 2017—1)
19. Category:Articles with a promotional tone (April 2009—1)
20. Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations (March 2022—17,784)
21. Category:Articles with broken or outdated citations (September 2019—2)
22. Category:Articles with dead external links (February 2009—5)
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 (July 2010—1)
27. Category:Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases (October 2009—47)
28. Category:Articles with too few wikilinks (March 2024—0)
29. Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability (August 2010—0)
30. Category:Articles with trivia sections (January 2017—10)
31. Category:Articles with unsourced statements (February 2007—1,366)
32. Category:Articles with weasel words (March 2008—1)
33. Category:BLP articles lacking sources (January 2007—33)
34. Category:Dead-end pages (March 2024—0)
35. Category:Orphaned articles (May 2014—59)
36. Category:Recently revised (January 2024—1)
37. Category:Self-contradictory articles (November 2013—2)
38. Category:Unreferenced BLPs (June 2020—2)
39. Category:Userspace drafts (before 2007‎—11)
40. Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating (November 2008—1)
41. Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification (February 2007—6)
42. Category:Wikipedia articles needing context (October 2009—105)
43. Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit (January 2023—28)
44. Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification (August 2007—3)
45. Category:Wikipedia articles needing page number citations (September 2008—3)
46. Category:Wikipedia articles needing rewrite (May 2009—198)
47. Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical (November 2007—1)
48. Category:Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention (April 2008—1)
49. Category:Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest (October 2009—4)
50. Category:Wikipedia articles with style issues (December 2007—51)
51. Category:Wikipedia external links cleanup (July 2014—4)
52. Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup (September 2009—58)
53. Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes (December 2011—3)
54. Category:Wikipedia spam cleanup (August 2010—3)

See also

1. Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year

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.

• {{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

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