Wikibooks:Maintenance

Category:Wikibooks maintenance contains categorized list of all pages needing some work.

Maintenance work is vital to keeping Wikibooks running optimally. You can help with most of these tasks to make Wikibooks a better project!

For these tasks, see Wikibooks:CCO Resources.

• Pages, Categories, Templates, and Files that need to be organized. Only Category:Categories should be left uncategorized.
• Books to be Alphabetized.
• Pages missing a reference section Pages with inline references but no <references/> or {{reflist}}.
• Category:Book:Wikibooks Stacks/Attention needed Pages that have detected problems interfering with the hierarchical shelving of pages in the Wikibooks Stacks.
• Naming convention

• Pages to be transwikied to another wiki.
• Requests for import to Wikibooks. Only admins and importers can do the actual import, but all Wikibookians are welcome to comment on requests.
• Transwikis needing a home may be useful to merge into an appropriate book.
• Pages needing to be dewikified – When appropriate these pages may be dewikified. Pages that do not meet our inclusion requirements may be marked for deletion.

• Unused files – Look for duplicates, nonsense, and copyright violations, and tag them accordingly.
• Files now at Commons & Files now at Commons (different name) – Files now available on Commons that can be deleted from Wikibooks.
• Files with unknown copyright status – These will be deleted after a week if the author does not provide proper license information.
• Files with no non-free use rationale – These will be deleted after a week if the uploader does not provide a full non-free use rationale.
• Files lacking an author – These files need information on who created them in the first place.
• Files with unknown source – These files need information as to where they came from.

• Accuracy and NPOV disputes
• Books to be merged and History merge requests
• Broken and Double redirects
• Copyright violations – Check whether permission was granted by the copyright owner for works.
• Correct typos in one click
• New pages – Add category templates to pages, {{query}} to pages that might be in a transition stage to becoming real books, and add {{delete}} to very short pages that meet the speedy deletion criteria.
• Pages needing attention like fixing wikicode, spelling, layout, etc.
• Pending changes – Accept or reject edits to previously reviewed pages.
• Requests for deletion – Discussions about books that don't meet the speedy deletion criteria.
• Requests for editstoprotected pages.
• Requests for expansion of books, pages, and sections.
• Requested books – Check for existing books, remove some of those already created.
• Speedy deletions – Read the Deletion policy first.
• Stubs, Orphans, Queries, and Short pages are often missing categories, links, explanations, and other elements books and pages are expected to include. They may be speedy deleted when abandoned and improves are unlikely.
• Recent changes by new and anonymous contributors. Verify edits. Welcome new and anonymous contributors who have made good contributions. See Wikibooks:Templates/User messages
• Requests for unblock – Requests by users to be unblocked.

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