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.

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

Backlog categories

• General
• Administrative
• Assessment
• Stub sorting
• Template parameter

Lacking references

• Needs references: 190,906
• Needs references (BLP): 2,453
• Needs more references: 343,544
• Needs more references (BLP): 41,911
• Needs in-text citations: 93,146
• Needs reliable references: 69,295
• Has unsourced quotes: 1,137
• Has unsourced statements: 349,944
Fix one!

Accuracy

• Uses broken or outdated citations: 293
• Needs factual verification: 4,812
• Needs references list: 26
• Needs references clean up: 3,393
• Accuracy disputes: 7,757
• Neutrality disputed: 5,881
• Needs updating: 22,202
• Has original research: 16,286
• Self-contradictory: 503

Content

• Copied and pasted: 511
• Needs context: 4,004
• Needs coordinates: 128,088
• Too technical: 2,544
• Uses improper non-free content: 157
• Uses in-universe perspective: 2,554
• Plot summary needs attention: 5,189
• Has trivia sections: 308
• Of unclear notability: 66,431
• Popular low quality articles (top 5000 by pageviews with low ORES class predictions)

Links

• Has dead external links: 217,640
• Needs external links cleanup: 3,020
• Too few wikilinks: 13,885

Layout

• Needs sections: 244
• Needs expansion: 128,589
• Needs to be merged: 4,478
• Needs to be split: 734

Style

• Needs clarification: 4,716
• Needs copy edit: 968
• Has peacock terms: 4,129
• Uses promotional tone: 23,174
• Has weasel words: 15,855
• With style issues: 18,497

File description

• Copy to Wikimedia Commons: 206,839
• Needs author: 12,402

File quality

• Has inappropriate JPEG compression: 3,182
• Logos that should be in SVG format: 4,402
• Should be in PNG format: 361
• Has watermarks: 66
• Has borders: 212

Non-free file use

• Has red backlink: 51
• Needs size reduction: 72
• Publicity photographs needing rationale: 568

File licensing

• Has disputed copyright information: 3,469
• License migration candidates: 47

Meta

• Biographies without "listas" parameter: 19,588

Quality content

• Featured article candidates: 45
• Featured list candidates: 27
• Good articles needing "oldid": 970
• Unreviewed good article nominations: 459

Other

• Needs cleanup: 35,591
• Needs cleanup (disambiguations): 8
• Needs expert attention: 7,061
• Needs infobox conversion: 11
• Is orphaned: 117,224
• Needs to be wikified: 34,164
• Underpopulated categories: 13,089

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Oldest backlogs by issue

1. Category:Accuracy disputes (March 2008—42)
2. Category:Article sections to be split (August 2018—1)
3. Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements (January 2006—9)
4. Category:Articles lacking in-text citations (July 2006—4)
5. Category:Articles lacking page references (July 2008—1)
6. Category:Articles lacking reliable references (July 2006—8)
7. Category:Articles lacking sources (November 2006—580)
8. Category:Articles needing additional references (June 2006—61)
9. Category:Articles needing cleanup (April 2008—1)
10. Category:Articles needing sections (June 2018—38)
11. Category:Articles slanted towards recent events (October 2008—1)
12. Category:Articles sourced by IMDb (July 2007—6)
13. Category:Articles sourced only by IMDb (June 2007—1)
14. Category:Articles that may be too long (May 2008—2)
15. Category:Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction (September 2007—1)
16. Category:Articles to be expanded (January 2007—57)
17. Category:Articles to be merged (April 2017—7)
18. Category:Articles to be split (May 2014—2)
19. Category:Articles with a promotional tone (August 2008—6)
20. Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations (December 2018—2)
21. Category:Articles with broken or outdated citations (October 2011—2)
22. Category:Articles with dead external links (October 2008—10)
23. Category:Articles with disputed statements (March 2008—11)
24. Category:Articles with minor POV problems (February 2010—2)
25. Category:Articles with peacock terms (August 2008—3)
26. Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose (April 2008—1)
27. Category:Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases (June 2009—35)
28. Category:Articles with too few wikilinks (October 2012—66)
29. Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability (October 2008—86)
30. Category:Articles with trivia sections (June 2016—1)
31. Category:Articles with unsourced statements (February 2007—3,806)
32. Category:Articles with weasel words (October 2007—1)
33. Category:BLP articles lacking sources (November 2006—7)
34. Category:Dead-end pages (December 2018—14)
35. Category:NPOV disputes (January 2012—2)
36. Category:Orphaned articles (February 2009—6,353)
37. Category:Recently revised (December 2018—0)
38. Category:Self-contradictory articles (December 2013—1)
39. Category:Unreferenced BLPs (March 2015—20)
40. Category:User-created public domain files (December 2005—79)
41. Category:Userspace drafts (September 2007—2)
42. Category:Userspace drafts created via the Article Wizard (November 2009—8)
43. Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating (January 2008—13)
44. Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification (December 2006—12)
45. Category:Wikipedia articles needing context (November 2008—1)
46. Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit (May 2018—7)
47. Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification (July 2007—52)
48. Category:Wikipedia articles needing page number citations (October 2007—1)
49. Category:Wikipedia articles needing rewrite (January 2008—3)
50. Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical (August 2008—2)
51. Category:Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention (April 2008—6)
52. Category:Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest (August 2007—3)
53. Category:Wikipedia articles with style issues (August 2006—1)
54. Category:Wikipedia external links cleanup (December 2011—15)
55. Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup (October 2008—1)
56. Category:Wikipedia spam cleanup (August 2010—13)

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 {{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

• {{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
• {{Backlog progress bar}} - progress bar for tracking backlog elimination

See also

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