WikiPedia:Pages needing attention

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Every entry on Wikipedia deserves attention. But some deserve tender loving attention. If you come across a page that you think needs a lot of work, list it here if:

It needs serious attention from someone familiar with the subject, or
You have no idea how to approach it

Resources for maintenance and collaboration edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:Resources_for_collaboration&action=edit)
Cleanup	General - Subject-specific - Move to Wiktionary - Wiki syntax - English grammar - Cleanup Taskforce
Categories	Orphaned - General cleanup - Articles to be sorted - Underpopulated - More...
Create an article	Most wanted - Requests 2 years+ - Requests 1 year+ - Requested articles - Blank pages - Missing encyclopedic topics
Stubs	Advice - Stubs by topic - Most wanted - Short pages - Incomplete lists - Collaboration of the week
Disambig	Articles to merge - Articles to split
Deletion	Speedy - Articles - Categories - Redirects - Templates - Jokes - Log - Discussion archives - Undeletion
Polishing	Expand an article - Peer review - Featured candidates - Fill a topic list - This week's improvement drive
Translation into English	From foreign Wikipedias - Existing pages - Spanish Translation of the Week
Images	Requested pictures - Pictures needing attention - Image recreation requests - Caption review - Images with missing articles
Controversy	Neutrality - Article accuracy - Statement accuracy - Copyright violations
To-do lists	Articles - Projects - Books
More	Active Wiki Fixup Projects - Offline reports - Open tasks

Before adding an article here, please check whether another collaboration mechanism is more appropriate for it.

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Basic use guidelines

Please add entries to the top of the appropriate category.
Please date entries. This makes it easier to judge when pages no longer need attention. Undated entries may be arbitrarily removed. You can sign & date at the same time by inserting ~~~~ (four tildes) after a comment.
Please fix articles that have been listed for a while first. This helps reduce the lag time between the time an article is listed and the time it's fixed.
Please indicate the reason for listing a page. Pages listed with no reason given may be arbitrarily removed because another person might not understand your intent.
Please add {{attention}} to the top of the page.
For each article you add to this list, please try to fix an article already on the list.

Useful tools for attending to these pages
Reference desk Boilerplate text Boilerplate request for permission

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Removal procedure

If you check an article on this list and you are sure that edits have fixed the page to about Wikipedia average in regard to defects, then remove that article from this page. Be sure to note the removal in your edit summary.

If you think that an article has been fixed to be Wikipedia average but you are not sure, then make a comment underneath the article's listing on this page so that someone else can doublecheck your perception that the article is Wikipedia average.

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