MarioWiki:Maintenance

Sub-pages: Lists, Main Page

As a wiki, we have technical and gritty cleanup to do. Now that we are an established and ever-growing wiki with tons of active contributors, and here you will find certain items to keep order around here.

Continuous Maintenance

Problems such as short pages, badly-written articles and unlicensed images, maintaining order is just as important as adding articles to the database – hence, this section. You'll find many pages that need fixing – whether it's licensing, expansion or adding images. There are sometimes 200+ pages with one single issue, which is quite intimidating, but here we only show three per cleanup point.

Using the extension DynamicPageList, three pages that match the problem listed below are shown randomly. If you are good at fixing one of these issues, repair the articles listed in the row, then refresh this page for another batch of three. The issues that cannot be represented by using DPL at the bottom have links to special pages which look much more intimidating than what it would be, but can still be done in small steps, one at a time.

SB	Stubs: Articles that lack basic information. A stub should be at least be expanded to 350 bytes or more in depending on the article. {{#dpl:debug=1|ordermethod=size|category=Stubs¦Rewrite and Expansion Requested|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3|addpagesize=true|allowcachedresults=true}}
LI	Unlicensed Images: Images without one of these templates that excludes them from a sub-category of this. {{#dpl:debug=1|namespace=File|shownamespace=false|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |notuses=Template:Album-cover¦Template:Art¦ Template:Attribution¦Template:Book-cover¦Template:Cc-by-nc-sa-2.5¦Template:Cc-by-nc-sa-3.0¦Template:Character-artwork¦Template:Comic-cover¦Template:Comic-scene¦ Template:Copyrighted free use¦Template:Dvd-cover¦Template:Fal¦Template:Film-screenshot¦Template:Game-cover¦Template:Smiley-image¦Template:Game-logo¦Template:personal-image¦Template:personal-image-sig¦ Template:Game-screenshot¦Template:Gfdl¦Template:Lgpl¦Template:Magazine-scan¦Template:Logo¦Template:Mag-cover¦Template:Non-free poster¦Template:Pd¦Template:Pd-self¦Template:Permission¦ Template:Promophoto¦Template:Restricted use¦Template:Soundclip¦Template:Tv-screenshot¦Template:Vhs-cover¦Template:Video-screenshot¦ Template:Videoclip¦Template:Web-screenshot¦Template:BJAODN image¦Template:template-image¦Template:Shroom-image¦Template:Game-logo¦Template:Userbox-image¦Template:Figure¦Template:Wallpaper¦Template:derivative-work|randomcount=3|allowcachedresults=true}}
AF	Images without {{aboutfile}}: {{aboutfile}} is important because it shows a description and the source of an image. These are images without the {{aboutfile}} template. {{#dpl:debug=1|namespace=File|shownamespace=false|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |notuses=Template:aboutfile¦Template:Personal-image|randomcount=3|allowcachedresults=true}}
RW	Rewrite: Poorly-written articles (e.g. ridden with grammar mistakes) that need to be fixed, or articles dumped from Wikipedia that need originality here. Normal: {{#dpl:debug=1|uses=Template:Rewrite¦Template:Rewrite-expand|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3|allowcachedresults=true}} • You: {{#dpl:debug=1|uses=Template:Rewrite-you|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3|allowcachedresults=true}} • Wikidump: {{#dpl:debug=1|uses=Template:Rewrite-wikidump|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3|allowcachedresults=true}} • Expand: {{#dpl:debug=1|uses=Template:Rewrite-expand|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3|allowcachedresults=true}} • Grammar: {{#dpl:debug=1|uses=Template:Rewrite-grammar|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3|allowcachedresults=true}}
IM	Image requested: Articles that need an image(s) to illustrate the subject. Note: The queue is severely backed up. {{#dpl:debug=1|category=Image requested¦category=Articles that need more images|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3|allowcachedresults=true}}
IQ	Images with bad quality: These images are of bad quality, and need to be reuploaded. {{#dpl:debug=1|category=Quality requested|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3|allowcachedresults=true}}
NC	No category: Articles without a category, excluding the Main Page {{#dpl:debug=1|categoriesminmax=0,0|namespace=|nottitlematch=Main Page|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3|allowcachedresults=true}}
UT	Unresolved talk pages: Talk pages with unresolved questions. {{#dpl:debug=1|category=Unresolved talk pages|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3|allowcachedresults=true}}
WP	Wanted pages: Nonexistent articles that have the most red links to them. Most wanted in special page is at top. See Special:Wantedpages
OR	Orphaned: Articles that have no links from anywhere else. See Special:Lonelypages
DE	Dead-end pages: Articles that have no links to anywhere else. See Special:Deadendpages
DR	Double redirects: Redirects that lead to another redirect. Should be edited so both redirect to the same target page. See Special:DoubleRedirects
BR	Broken redirects: Redirects that lead to a nonexistent page. Article should be created or redirect fixed to target page. See Special:BrokenRedirects
UN	Unused files: All files should be used in at least one page. Some are lying around waiting to be tagged with {{delete}} as well. See Special:Unusedimages