Wikipedia:Backlog

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This backlog page lists tasks that should be done to improve Wikipedia (assuming the cleanup templates were placed correctly). Helping reduce backlogs is an important issue, so please feel free to help out and/or develop this page (or ways to quantify these things) further. Wikipedia talk:Backlog is the discussion page for this page, and the technical Village Pump page is where technical issues are discussed.

Status[edit]

See Category:Wikipedia backlog for more categories, and Wikipedia:Job Center for brief guides.

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

Oldest backlogs by issue[edit]

1. Category:Accuracy disputes (March 2008—56)
2. Category:Article sections to be split (September 2016—1)
3. Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements (January 2006—4)
4. Category:Articles lacking in-text citations (July 2006—9)
5. Category:Articles lacking page references (January 2008—1)
6. Category:Articles lacking reliable references (June 2006—2)
7. Category:Articles lacking sources (October 2006—65)
8. Category:Articles needing additional references (June 2006—85)
9. Category:Articles needing cleanup (October 2007—8)
10. Category:Articles needing sections (July 2013—4)
11. Category:Articles slanted towards recent events (October 2008—2)
12. Category:Articles sourced by IMDb (July 2007—10)
13. Category:Articles sourced only by IMDb (June 2007—4)
14. Category:Articles that may be too long (May 2008—3)
15. Category:Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction (September 2007—3)
16. Category:Articles to be expanded (January 2007—80)
17. Category:Articles to be merged (December 2013—57)
18. Category:Articles to be split (December 2012—4)
19. Category:Articles with a promotional tone (August 2008—37)
20. Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations (October 2016—1)
21. Category:Articles with broken or outdated citations (August 2010—2)
22. Category:Articles with dead external links (June 2008—61)
23. Category:Articles with disputed statements (March 2008—14)
24. Category:Articles with minor POV problems (February 2010—2)
25. Category:Articles with peacock terms (July 2008—2)
26. Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose (December 2007—2)
27. Category:Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases (October 2007—6)
28. Category:Articles with too few wikilinks (October 2012—448)
29. Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability (July 2008—6)
30. Category:Articles with trivia sections (October 2015—3)
31. Category:Articles with unsourced statements (January 2007—4)
32. Category:Articles with weasel words (October 2007—2)
33. Category:BLP articles lacking sources (October 2006—3)
34. Category:Dead-end pages (August 2016—32)
35. Category:NPOV disputes (August 2009—1)
36. Category:Orphaned articles (February 2009—19,145)
37. Category:Recently revised (January 2017—0)
38. Category:Self-contradictory articles (October 2013—1)
39. Category:Unreferenced BLPs (November 2014—15)
40. Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard (May 2016—25)
41. Category:Unreviewed new articles (May 2016—27)
42. Category:User-created public domain files (December 2005—584)
43. Category:Userspace drafts created via the Article Wizard (October 2009—1)
44. Category:Userspace drafts (September 2004—1)
45. Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating (January 2008—22)
46. Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification (December 2006—17)
47. Category:Wikipedia articles needing context (October 2008—3)
48. Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit (December 2015—22)
49. Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification (June 2007—3)
50. Category:Wikipedia articles needing page number citations (April 2007—1)
51. Category:Wikipedia articles needing rewrite (January 2008—3)
52. Category:Wikipedia articles needing style editing (August 2007—9)
53. Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical (August 2008—3)
54. Category:Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention (April 2008—7)
55. Category:Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest (July 2007—7)
56. Category:Wikipedia external links cleanup (February 2011—8)
57. Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup (July 2008—2)
58. Category:Wikipedia spam cleanup (August 2010—16)

See also

1. Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year

Statistics[edit]

At present there does not appear to be any project-wide collation of backlog statistics. A discussion may be required to determine if this is wanted or needed.

Templates[edit]

• {{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

See also[edit]

• Wikipedia:Maintenance, managerial tasks that are not necessarily backlogged