HRWiki:Cleanup
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These are ongoing projects that will probably never reach a "completed" stage. Since content is always being added to the Homestar Runner site and new Wiki pages are always being created, we will always be cleaning up our Wiki. If you consider yourself a WikiGnome, these are the projects for you. Also see Category:Articles needing cleanup for articles that have been flaged for revision and updating.
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General Cleanup
If you find an article in need of some work and are either unsure how to proceed or would like some help fixing it up, add the template {{cleanup}} to the beginning of the article to flag it for future edits. Also add a comment to the talk page indicating what you believe should be done. The Category:Articles needing cleanup will be updated automatically.
Disambiguation Pages with links
Ideally nothing should link to a disambiguation page. Using the "What links here" feature, you can determine if any article in the Category:Disambiguation has unneeded links. Links should be edited to go to the appropriate article.
Dead End Pages, Orphaned Pages, etc.
There are a number of pages on the "Special Pages" list that are useful tools to keep the Wiki in tip-top condition.
- Orphans: Pages that are not linked to by any other page (note: ideally, disambig pages should be orphaned)
- Dead End Pages: Pages that do not link to any other page
- Wanted Pages: Requested pages that do not exist yet
Before creating a new page, check that a suitable page does not already exist.
Merge and Redirect
Sometimes multiple pages are created for the same thing. If you find multiple pages that need merging, list them here or perform the cleanup yourself.
- (Nothing to list at the moment)
To cleanup this situation one will:
- Determine which page is the most suitable
- Move and integrate important information from the redundant pages to the proper page
- Use the What links here feature to list all the references to the redundant pages
- Fix all the found links to the appropriate page
- Turn the redundant pages into Redirects or add them to Category: To be deleted
Pages Needing Deletion
If you find a page that doesn’t seem to belong on the Wiki, adding to the bottom of the article {{tobedeleted}} will notify the administrators and they will either
- Delete the page outright
- Add a comment to the article's Talk page as to why the page should remain
Select The Usable Fun Facts
Once started as a way to keep new Fun Facts, well, fun and factual, the page has now grown bloated and unwieldy. In order to prevent this page from turning into a forum (we have one already!), users are to begin phasing out the page by putting new comments on the individual talk pages. However, we will keep using the STUFF page until further notice. After two months from introduction or two weeks from the last active comment, a verdict needs to be ruled, relocating the discusion to the Archive or the talk pages, and eventually moving all trace of the comment to the over STUFF'd page.
