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WikiProject Hinduism automated pages

Article alerts - List of deletions, featured & good article candidates, requests for comments, peer reviews etc.
Article log - List of "Moved (renamed)" articles and recent assessments.
maintenance/cleanup tags
Unreferenced BLPs - Articles of living people with no references. See BLPs
Popular pages - Listing of the most viewed pages that should be improved (if need be) and watched over closely for vandalism.

Tools

Wikipedia:Tools - Contain various tools and tutorials intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to Wikipedians.
Reflinks - Adds title/dates/publisher/accessdates etc., to bare references automatically. (Interactive mode recommend)
Checklinks - External link verifier, that allows editing and replacement of dead links.
Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links by click and pick.
Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
Google book tool - Converts bare url's into {{cite book}} format.

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