Wikipedia:Maintenance

Maintenance departments

If you are a newbie or if you just want a list of jobs and tasks to be completed that is easy to understand, please see the Job Center.

General cleanup

Reference problems

Image cleanup problems

Other problems

lists articles which will be deleted if it can not be proven that we have permission to use them under the terms of the GFDL. For pages listed there, you could replace the infringing article's text with new (re-written) content of your own. This must be done on a temp page, so that the original "copyvio version" may be deleted by a sysop. Temp versions should be written at a page like: [[Talk:PAGE NAME/temp]]. If the original turns out not to be a copyvio, these two can be merged. Alternatively, you can write to the copyright owner and check whether they gave permission. You can also ask for permission using the boilerplate request for permission. If someone claims to have permission, but this has not been verified, you can send the confirmation of permission letter to check. If images have been listed, you may want to consider whether these constitute fair use and write the appropriate disclaimers on the image description page. See for guidance on this.

See for a list of existing portals and associated projects and maintainers.

Welcome people using one of the standard user greetings or make up your own. Use {{Opentask}} to leave an automatically updated task list on a new user's page. New users can be found by looking for red talk page links on recent changes or by querying the database. Efforts to co-ordinate the activities of welcomers are being made at . The {{Opentask}} message gives newcomers some ideas of articles to work on. The tasks listed in this template can be changed at .

The Main Page needs regular updating. Only sysops can edit the page itself. See for links to the relevant templates and further guidance.

Anyone can revert vandalism. See for instructions. If you see any recurrent vandalism, you can list it at . You can also check other listings on that page and follow them up by seeing if the users listed there have made any further vandalism since the listing. Do this by typing the url followed by the username or by clicking the contribs link in the page history. Unreverted edits will still have (current) next to them. Sysops may choose to block recurrent vandals, following a warning on the user's talk page using , or for unlogged-in users clicking the block link next to their IP on recent changes.

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