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Done I have gone through the article and fixed any problems that I saw. Tragically, the requesting user has since left Wikipedia over a dispute. PJvanMill)talk(17:36, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Note: I do not think this is a deletion candidate. The Jerusalem Post and Bangkok Post articles look to be reliable and significant coverage. This needs a lot of work on ref formatting and NPOV/excessive detail. PJvanMill (talk) 21:33, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
List of SS personnel – This quite detailed list needs a general overhaul, in particular regarding a standardized style (cf. e. g. use of uncommon and often German (!) abbreviations), and formatting; also still deficient typography (cf. e. g. false use of hyphens instead of dashes).--Hildeoc (talk) 19:25, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
Kristiansand – I just came across this article, which seems to need a thorough clean-up with regard to language (cf. e. g. the – IMHO unintelligible – passage in the Culture section beginning with "The municipality millennium is Tresse - Retranchement").--Hildeoc (talk) 19:12, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
Pulagam Chinnarayana - This article has been tagged for cleanup saying "This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments". I am working on updating it to comply with Wikipedia standards and update has been done to a certain extent. Please, do further cleanup if necessary. - Yasshu28 (talk) 15:41, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
Partly done Deleted large blocks of unreferenced, irrelevant text. Fixed the tone to some extant. The "History" section is yet to be fixed and the validity of its sole reference checked. Tetrahedron17 (talk) 18:09, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Free Territory: This article lacks secondary, scientific sources. The sources listed are almost exclusively political pamphlets that are obviously biased. The article itself was probably written as fanfiction and continues to be used as such. Sourced information on this civil war groups ethnic cleansing against the german-speaking menonite minority was recently replaced with additional quotes from anarchist propaganda literature. The lack of reputable sources and literature points towards another problem with the subject: The articles claim that the thing described was a state seems doubtfull. There may have been a militia and a warlord, but there are apparently no sources that indicate the existence of any institutions or anything else that would constitute a state or any society. tl;dr: This article seems to be fiction from the political fringes. -- Liberaler Humanist (talk) 15:05, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
Could anyone proofread Kain Rivers? Basically, the article is about a Ukrainian singer, which, nevertheless supposedly got media coverage for 2018–2019 to be presented on the Wikipedia, is an orphan and a mess. There are several paragraphs about the Jewish film where the subject acted just a cameo or so, such ad-like bold sentences, like «This is an art “bomb” comparable to the "Schindler's List" by Steven Spielberg», with no actual critic references at hand. On top of that, the authors of the all «interwikie» articles about [[Kain Rivers]] are pretty strange newly registered users with minimum edits except as to [[Kain Rivers]] himself, while his article in Russian has been already deleted thrice for being an ad and spam with no encyclopedic notability (https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kain_Rivers&action=edit&redlink=1). -- pr12402, 14 November 2019
Partly done I've removed the worst of it. I'm finding it difficult to evaluate whether the subject is even notable, as almost all of the sources are in Russian. PJvanMill (talk)22:25, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
Note:Sattvic7, this entry was partially striked. If cleanup is no longer required, please strike through the entire entry above, except for the signature. -- WILDSTARtalk16:22, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Revisionism (Spain) - Article about historical revisionism in Spain. Added excessive citations template/tone template. Extreme citation/footnote overkill in a section titled "Charge: re-fried Francoist fables" and article is written as a persuasive essay rather than an encyclopaedic article. --RevAndroid (talk) 17:38, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
Not done Seems pretty neutral - I've removed what little non-neutral content I saw. Zezen: per Wikipedia's talk page guidelines, we cannot remove the word "FUCKING" from someone else's comments (at least not if it's used for emphasis). Also, this WikiProject deals primarily with content problems - we clean up articles, not talk pages, and screaming IPs are well outside of our scope. Kind regards from PJvanMill)talk(12:35, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
HLHJ, I'd say from looking at a few edits that the solution for most of this is simply the "undo" button (and manual undoing when the "undo" button doesn't work), with "please provide a source for this" resp. "adding the age at death there is not necessary" in the edit summary. If they keep doing it and being non-responsive, that would eventually be cause for a block. Suspiciously similar editors, by the way. Not sure if I'm helping, you've been here way longer than I have. PJvanMill)talk(18:46, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you, PJvanMill. Having been here a long time is not a guarantee of experience; I know little about cleanup. I'll wait a week for a response (that's tomorrow) and then look at some sort of semi-automated mass revert. Possibly a sock check would be in order too, I'm not sure. HLHJ (talk) 03:43, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Done, that is the damage these accounts have done has been repaired. It remains to be seen if they can be convinced to give sources for the information they insert. PJvanMill)talk(20:19, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Malabo has some very inaccurate dates under History, e.g., that Equitorial Guinea was colonized in the 1960's and that Queen Isabel tried to regain control of the colony from the UK in 2018.
Djibrilla, the dates were changed in the latest edit by an account named Davvec, seemingly vandalism. Just go to the page history, click "undo" for that edit, and save. Kind regards from PJvanMill)talk(17:09, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
2038 FIFA World Cup – It was changed from a redirect to an article only a couple days ago. It has been heavily edited by only one user, who only made their account in July, and has received multiple notices in their talk page regarding the articles they created, including copyright violations among the many problems. -boldblazer (talk) 07:25, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
Done - the cleanup work at least. As for notability, I've left the tag up for now; I'm thinking it might be borderline notable (emphasis on might), but it depends on how AfD participants would evaluate the reliability and independence of certain sources, and there might be better sources out there. PJvanMill)talk(21:08, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
Streamelements - streaming platform. The tone of the article is promotional and the sources need proper evaluation (esp. at "CEO Doron Nir is frequently cited for his data-related industry observations, including being quoted by publications such as CNN, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, WIRED, and Los Angeles Times"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbarmadillo (talk • contribs)
I'm going to disagree and say it's Partly done. I feel like the tone of the history and the federal court case sections could be improved still. But, it does look better. I do have a question for @Wikibijay1:, though: when you uploaded the logo for the NSAI, you put the copyright for it as CC0. Are you sure that it is copyright free? Jcb cummings (talk) 18:33, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Comment: I reviewed History section, but I feel it still requires additional check, in particular more sources and citations --P1221 (talk) 15:55, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
Mindy Escobar-Leanse - American puppeteer. The article is referenced with self-published sources and contains unreferenced personal trivia (such as "Escobar-Leanse has a passion for coffee and sharing it with others". --Bbarmadillo (talk) 11:22, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
Radovan Sloboda: Apparently, the existing article about the ice hockey player (born 1982) was simply overwritten by an article about another person (politician, born 1966). I'm unfamiliar with procedures for this in the English Wikipedia, so please forgive me for just posting this here to alert someone more familiar to take a look on that matter --Memorino00:03, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
This was a translation from the German WP. The article was translated, the sources not carriewd over. This is a common problem, because the deWP handles sources a little differently and the CITE macros don't translate properly. So I fixed a few and added them. Everyone working with articles on a figure from a non-English speaking country should check the WP for that country's language. DGG ( talk ) 21:12, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Santadas Kathiababa - The most critically deprived article I've ever seen that isn't nominated for deletion. I have tried to correct some grammar here and there but I really need help. It has no sources and is poorly written. I sometimes try to correct something but I sometimes see that the context changes and I have no clue what the writer meant.Wretchskull (talk) 14:40, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
Done - I was not able to find that without buying the issue in question, but I did find a different source. Thankfully it was just sourcing a claim as to the subject matter and location, which seems to be easy enough to find. A S U K I T E 21:34, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
Done. to be exact, done to the small amount needed, Most of the history section is fully justified by the detailed material that follows. DGG ( talk ) 21:50, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Chia Pet - Terracotta figurines, often in the shape of characters, people or animals, on which chia is grown. Excessive product descriptions, reads as a collector's guide as opposed to a wikipedia article.Waxworker (talk) 20:13, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Comment: Per a cursory review, the references are well formatted, and this project no longer accepts requests for the addition of references, so struck part of the nomination above. North America100023:26, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Comment: Striking my formal cleanup request, as I ran this article by the GoCE in July and the result was satisfactory. — Goszei (talk) 23:54, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Comment I have removed inappropriate sourcing and also have nominated it for deletion - I don't think he passes the guidelines.Less Unless (talk) 14:48, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Kevin McMahon (filmmaker) - Canadian film director. Possibly WP:ORIGINAL. The style of the article is somewhat promotional with phrases like "Over the next 25 years, the contrasting of sacred and profane, serious and comic, beautiful imagery and raw documentary became the hallmark of McMahon's non-fiction style." --Bbarmadillo (talk) 18:24, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
Done This and another article have been merged into the article on the series, which I've rewritten as well as the articles on the seven individual books. PJvanMill)talk(19:07, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
Das Kapital (according to the tags on it) has way too many problems with missing information, original research, and bad citations for an article about such an influential book.DemonDays64 (talk) 21:58, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Comment: - I would consider this request to be outdated or moot because Griffin's article is frequently edited by many contributors, so the above issues have slowly been tackled over time while new ones have arisen. I see few passages that need better sourcing or expansion, while the call to generally improve the article or combine sections are matters of opinion that can be discussed at its Talk page. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 23:56, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
Elvira Fortunato - Inventor of the paper transistor and pioneer of paper electronics. I drafted this article and it's my first article. It's partly translated from the Portuguese Wikipedia page, I added new information and more relevant sources and links to scientific papers. --IsabelAllegro (talk) 10:17, 10 May 2020 (GMT+1)
Note: The cleanup this seems to need is: improving the formatting of the awards section, some copyediting and citing in the first paragraph of the career section, and removing/rewriting/re-citing some statements based on non-independent sources. PJvanMill (talk) 22:02, 21 June 2020 (UTC)