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Cleanup drive

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Here is the full list of anarchism articles in need of cleanup. Below is a subset for focus during the cleanup drive. Strike out completed items with {{s}} and we'll add more sections as we go.

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Biographies of living persons (10)

These articles have any cleanup tag but are high priority because we hold biographies on living people to a higher standard

Unsourced passages need footnotes {{citation needed}} (69)

Search for the passages tagged with {{citation needed}} and either (a) add a source and remove the tag, or (b) remove the passage and the tag if it cannot be verified

Our cleanup backlog has grown since the last drive, so thought we could kickoff another push for the month of May. There are currently 228 articles tagged in total with 386 tagged issues. Can we get it down to zero?

For a place to start, I thought biographies of living people (BLPs) and articles in need of citations would be good. To cross off finished items from the list, there is a link above to edit the section (so as not to bother watchers of this page). Open to any other ideas here as well to make it interesting. Perhaps we should set up a mailing list for editors who have participated in the project previously?

If this is your first time participating in a cleanup drive on Wikipedia, (1) you're invited to be bold and try your best to resolve cleanup issues, and (2) if you have any questions or need a hand, please respond below and someone will help! czar 14:36, 4 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Oof, there is a lot of work to do on some of these articles. Some should be simple enough to fix but damn, others have much deeper problems that I'm not sure simply addressing the CN tags will solve. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:42, 5 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Addressing the {{citation needed}} tags is enough to remove it from this list but if an article needs more support, feel free to bring it to discussion so others can chip in too. czar 03:10, 7 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Well, we can't fix everything all at once. It's a work in progress. As much as I'd like to fix everything everywhere, as long as we don't have falsehoods or policy violations hanging around... it's ok that some things are a bit crap. -- asilvering (talk) 03:38, 9 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Czar: Hey, we seem to have gone way over the limit of templates on one page, which I think has come down to both the cleanup drive transclusion and the recent literature transclusion having introduced a lot more than the page can handle. I manually archived a section and removed a bunch of templates from another, but this problem still persists. I think we may need to consider that striking every resolved entry, rather than simply removing it from the list, is causing problems of its own. --Grnrchst (talk) 08:43, 15 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Ok no, after doing a bunch of archivals and changes, then just fiddling around with removing random hings, I identified the newly-added "Recent stubs" template as the source of the problem. I have temporarily removed it, just so the entire page doesn't break. We need to figure out what went wrong with it before we add it back in. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:07, 15 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
There is a backlog drive for sourcing unsourced statements starting tomorrow, which can be a good reason for finishing our above {{citation needed}} list. :)
Also nice work on sourcing List of self-managed social centers, @Graveyardpansy! czar 11:48, 31 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Ooh we're close to finishing this one off! Don't know how much time I can spend on this area this month, as my attentions are focused on the Women in Green edit-a-thon, but I hope we'll be able to address these last few before the end of the unsourced statements drive. :) --Grnrchst (talk) 09:31, 6 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your citations on Ungdomshuset, @Replayful! czar 12:37, 17 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
No problem, I just thought I could help since I know Danish and could get Danish sources. There's still room for improvement in the article :) //Replayful (talk | contribs) 14:55, 17 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Just finished the last few articles needing citations and/or footnotes. I'll let the cleanup listing reset this week and add some new targets. I think this week will be a big drop in cleanup issue count and we're already halfway (54%) to goal. czar 00:54, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Challenges

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There are a few cleanups that look particularly challenging and I thought I'd list them here for consideration separate from the list above, in case someone is interested in a meatier project. czar 16:20, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Recent literature (2024 Q1/Q2)

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For not-as-recent lit, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Anarchism/Recent literature

New thread for 2024 and anything we've previously missed. Feel free to add! czar 03:05, 7 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Books

  • Johnson, Steven (May 14, 2024). The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective. New York: Crown. ISBN 978-0-593-44395-8.

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czar 03:05, 7 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Developing Countries WikiContest

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Hi everyone. Next week marks the beginning of the 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest, which is dedicated to improving articles about the Global South. Articles focused on Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe account for roughly one quarter of our project. If you fancy taking on some articles for improvement during this event, feel free to spool through our categories covering Africa, Asia and South America, as well as relevant parts of Europe and North America. We also have some vital articles from these regions that still need improving, so if you fancy taking those on, they are:

I don't know how much I'll be able to participate, as I'm feeling quite burned out at the moment, but I think this would be an excellent opportunity for us to expand our geographical focus. --Grnrchst (talk) 11:49, 25 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Fictional anarchists

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The List of fictional anarchists doesn't currently meet the list notability criteria, namely that there isn't sourcing that covers this group as a list. It's more of a collection of original research and primary sources that would be sufficiently handled as a category (if there are enough notable fictional anarchists). Wanted to see if anyone else had sources or thoughts before sending it to AfD or merger. czar 16:04, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

I think categories are probably the way to go in general, but I think there probably is coverage of individual parts of that list - eg there's a whole special issue on anarchists and comics here. -- asilvering (talk) 01:43, 5 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
I could see a potential article about anarchism in fiction based on sources like that but not a list of fictional anarchists. czar 14:07, 7 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
We already have Anarchism and the arts, which is a bit broader in scope. gobonobo + c 01:52, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
I'd be inclined to !vote keep if that list were nominated for deletion. Per WP:CLN, per academic sources that consider the evolving representation of anarchists across works of fiction (and list them [1], [2], [3]), or per WP:IAR. Aside from a strict reading of NLIST, is there a reason this should be deleted? We have plenty of crufty listicles on wiki that ought to be memory holed, but this list doesn't strike me as egregious. gobonobo + c 01:52, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply