Archive:The Big Cleanup

What's going on here? We need you, yes you, to sign up as a tester for the Big Cleanup. As a tester, for each article in a set of articles, you'll do two things: first, you'll go through a simple "to do" list; second, you'll slap the {{checklist}} template on the talk page and fill it out. Neither of these things is terribly difficult.

How to get started as a tester

Follow the following instructions; if you have any questions, ask below! Note, you might find it most efficient to follow the precise steps listed below in this precise order each time.

1. Sign up above. To find your articles, go to Special:Allpages and search on the page for your first article.
2. For each article, complete this to do list (it's quite easy to do), which can be found at The Article Checklist:
   • Bold the article title, if necessary.
   • Remove all unused (red) templates, category tags, images, and interwiki links. It might be a good idea to copy the templates and images to the talk page for people to reinsert later. Please don't remove links to nonexistent articles (unless you feel moved to work on the article: removing such links isn't part of the "assignment").
   • Add workgroup category tag(s). Please use only the workgroup categories listed under CZ:Discipline Workgroups. If you think there needs to be another workgroup (which hasn't been created) in addition to one that you've placed an article into, then simply specify: cat_check = y . Also, use "Category:Needs Workgroup" (capitalization important) only if there are not any suitable workgroups for an article.
   • Add Category:Topic Informant Workgroup if an article is a biography of a living person, profile of a company, group, etc.--essentially, any article that concerns an existing nonpolitical entity with legal interests.
   • Add (or remove) the CZ Live tag as appropriate. Note: remove "CZ Live" if no significant changes have been made to an article. Removing unused templates, etc., are not significant changes. For purposes of this exercise, let's define "significant changes" as at least three changes in three different places to the wording of an article. Deletions count as changes. Any new article, even if a stub, is automatically "CZ Live".
   • Check the "Content is from Wikipedia?" box if the article is sourced from Wikipedia. NOTE: if this is the only edit that you make to an article, you have to make some small edit in the article text box as well (e.g., add a space at the end of a line--it won't show up). Otherwise your change won't be saved. Doublecheck at the bottom of the page that there's a link to Wikipedia.
3. Then add Template:Checklist to the article's talk page, and complete the Article Checklist. Basically, copy the code in the box below, paste it on the article's talk page, and fill out the form. It's pretty easy. Essential instructions for doing so are on CZ:The Article Checklist. Please sign your name with four tildes, not three, so that the date you filled out the checklist is given.
4. If you have any suggestions or questions, please state them below. If you think this is all a big big mistake, say that, too!

Here is the checklist template you can copy and paste:

{{checklist
|                 abc = 
|                cat1 = 
|                cat2 = 
|                cat3 = 
|           cat_check = 
|              status = 
|         underlinked = 
|             cleanup = 
|                  by = 
}}

Some examples

A complete list of articles that make use of the Article Checklist can be found at Category:Checklisted Articles.

Tester sign-up

See Signup for the new signup sheet.