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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

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

Legend:

:{{DecreasePositive}} – Backlog is reduced and has WikiGnome activity in 6 months range

:{{Steady}} – Backlog stays the same or not applicable (e.g. FAC, GAN)

:{{IncreaseNegative}} – Backlog is increasing in 6 months range

Update the delta at {{tl|Backlog status}} and refer to Internet Archive of this page.

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Oldest backlogs by issue

{{Backlog count|Accuracy disputes|March 2008}}

{{Backlog count|Article sections to be split|June 2024}}

{{Backlog count|Articles containing potentially dated statements|January 2006}}

{{Backlog count|Articles lacking in-text citations|August 2006}}

{{Backlog count|Articles lacking page references|July 2008}}

{{Backlog count|Articles lacking reliable references|January 2007}}

{{Backlog count|Articles lacking sources|July 2009}}

{{Backlog count|Articles needing additional references|October 2006}}

{{Backlog count|Articles needing cleanup|March 2010}}

{{Backlog count|Articles needing sections|January 2025}}

{{Backlog count|Articles slanted towards recent events|September 2009}}

{{Backlog count|Articles sourced by IMDb|April 2025}}

{{Backlog count|Articles sourced only by IMDb|April 2025}}

{{Backlog count|Articles that may be too long|December 2010}}

{{Backlog count|Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction|December 2007}}

{{Backlog count|Articles to be expanded|January 2007}}

{{Backlog count|Articles to be merged|September 2024}}

{{Backlog count|Articles to be split|March 2017}}

{{Backlog count|Articles with a promotional tone|January 2010}}

{{Backlog count|Articles with bare URLs for citations|March 2022}}

{{Backlog count|Articles with broken or outdated citations|June 2020}}

{{Backlog count|Articles with dead external links|April 2009}}

{{Backlog count|Articles with disputed statements|March 2008}}

{{Backlog count|Articles with minor POV problems|April 2010}}

{{Backlog count|Articles with peacock terms|April 2010}}

{{Backlog count|Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose|October 2010}}

{{Backlog count|Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases|October 2009}}

{{Backlog count|Articles with too few wikilinks|April 2025}}

{{Backlog count|Articles with topics of unclear notability|October 2010}}

{{Backlog count|Articles with trivia sections|March 2017}}

{{Backlog count|Articles with unsourced statements|February 2007}}

{{Backlog count|Articles with weasel words|January 2009}}

{{Backlog count|BLP articles lacking sources|January 2007}}

{{Backlog count|Dead-end pages|April 2025}}

{{Backlog count|Orphaned articles|September 2015}}

{{Backlog count|Recently revised|April 2025}}

{{Backlog count|Self-contradictory articles|June 2014}}

{{Backlog count|Unreferenced BLPs|April 2025}}

{{Backlog count|Userspace drafts|before 2007‎}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia articles in need of updating|December 2008}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia articles needing clarification|February 2007}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia articles needing context|October 2009}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia articles needing copy edit|September 2023}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia articles needing factual verification|November 2007}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia articles needing page number citations|September 2008}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia articles needing rewrite|November 2009}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia articles that are too technical|December 2007}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention|April 2008}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest|December 2009}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia articles with style issues|December 2007}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia external links cleanup|August 2014}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia introduction cleanup|September 2009}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes|April 2014}}

{{Backlog count|Wikipedia spam cleanup|December 2012}}

;See also

  1. Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year

Statistics

{{See also|Wikipedia:Statistics}}

For statistics on how a specific category's size has changed over time, use toollabs:apersonbot/cat-track. Not all categories are available; a category is only tracked if its page transcludes the {{tl|CatTrack}} template. Otherwise, at present there does not appear to be any other project-wide collation of backlog statistics. A discussion may be required to determine if one is wanted or needed.

Templates

  • {{tl|backlog}} – adds a category to :Category:Wikipedia backlog
  • {{tl|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
  • {{tl|Backlog count}} – date and count for backlogs categories that is updated by a bot
  • {{tl|Backlog progress bar}} – progress bar for tracking backlog elimination
  • {{tl|Backlog of the week}} – transcludes a box highlighting a randomly chosen backlog updated each week

See also

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