StrategyWiki:Cleanup project/Long term tasks

The StrategyWiki cleanup project aims to improve the quality of writing, templating, categorising and layout in every article in the wiki to attain better consistency throughout. A lot of our work stems from discussion of new ideas on the forums.


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Periodic tasks

 * Fix all pages with:
 * broken redirects (?) ✅
 * double redirects (?) ✅
 * missing nums (?) ✅
 * missing Header Navs (?) ✅
 * subpage nums (?) ✅


 * Categorise:
 * all uncategorised categories (?) — only the 11 core categories should remain; those are currently: Companies, Dates, Engines, Games, Genres, Guides by completion stage, Miscellaneous, Modes, Official pages, Series, Systems ✅
 * all uncategorised main pages (uncategorised pages list)/uncategorised main pages (?) (pages needing categorisation category,  pages)
 * files in the file list (last done through letter "S") / uncategorised images (?) ✅
 * all TODO lists without a priority (?) ( TODO lists)


 * Check for bad/duplicate:
 * unused categories (?)
 * unused files (?)
 * wanted categories (?), and create the other categories (481 pages on April 18, 2009)
 * wanted pages (?) (49529 pages on April 5, 2009)
 * redirects (?)


 * Add:
 * links on dead-end pages (?) ✅
 * links to lonely pages (?)
 * rename template to images (?)
 * rename template to pages (?)
 * boxart to pages needing box artwork (?) (if the game never came in a box, a logo or screenshot will do,  pages)
 * control selector and control templates to pages needing control selector (?) ( pages)
 * transparency to all images needing transparency (?) ( images or categories)


 * Remove:
 * references to deprecated templates (?) ( templates)
 * deprecated template usages from pages ( pages)
 * duplicates of general templates in guide-specific templates ( templates)


 * Rename:
 * templates to sensible, standard names in guide-specific templates ( templates)
 * any pages needing renaming ( pages)
 * Name given ( pages)


 * Deal with:
 * pages with possible copyright violation ( pages)
 * Add sources to pages marked with copyvio with no source provided ( pages)
 * requests for deletion ( pages)
 * any images in Category:Guide-specific images


 * Clean up:
 * pages containing drivel ( pages)
 * any pages lacking control images (31 controller categories)
 * and pages with no system specified ( pages)
 * pages needing cleanup ( pages)
 * pages needing wikification ( pages)
 * pages to be merged ( pages)
 * pages needing copyedit ( pages)
 * pages containing spelling mistakes or misnamed categories.


 * Expand:
 * stubs ( pages)
 * works in progress ( pages)
 * pages needing an infobox ( pages)

Ongoing tasks

 * Categorize pages: (All games)
 * according to multiplayer or single player
 * according to year and day of release, using years and days
 * according to developer, producer and hardware
 * according to genres
 * according to series
 * Categorize images (Uncategorized images)
 * Re-categorize images in Category:Artwork with alternate categories or subcategories.
 * Add infoboxes to every guide
 * Add Header Nav to every guide page
 * Add game art and images to pages where appropriate
 * Patrol every edit

Specific tasks

 * Ensure all policies and guidelines are documented in Guide
 * Clean up these guides and makes sure all are filled with the information imported from other wikis:
 * America's Army
 * City of Heroes
 * Grand Theft Auto III
 * Super Mario World
 * .hack (fix all game names)
 * Simply clean up these guides/pages:
 * Disney's Toontown Online
 * EverQuest
 * Fable/Walkthrough
 * Final Fantasy X
 * The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GameCube) (convert to Control selector)
 * Mario Adventure
 * Ragnarok Online
 * Sid Meier's Colonization
 * Super Mario 64
 * Total Annihilation
 * Integrate information from a page dump into the other pages (please check whether the dumps are a copyvio first, then integrate via rewrite if need be):
 * Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire
 * Fix all misspellings noted on User:Green Fig/Log and add these misspellings to the misspellings list.