Wikipedia:Backlog

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This week's backlog of the week is:

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This backlog page lists tasks that should be done to improve Wikipedia (assuming the cleanup templates were placed correctly). Helping reduce backlogs is an important issue, so please feel free to help out and/or develop this page (or ways to quantify these things) further. Wikipedia talk:Backlog is the discussion page for this page, and the technical Village Pump page is where technical issues are discussed.

Status

See Category:Wikipedia backlog for more categories, and Wikipedia:Task Center for brief guides.

Legend:

Positive decrease – Backlog is reduced and has WikiGnome activity in 6 months range
Steady – Backlog stays the same or not applicable (e.g. FAC, GAN)
Negative increase – Backlog is increasing in 6 months range

Update the delta at {{Backlog status}} and refer to Internet Archive of this page.

Click any linked number for that category's articles prioritized by their number of incoming links.


Oldest backlogs by issue

  1. Category:Accuracy disputes (March 2008—17)
  2. Category:Article sections to be split (June 2024—3)
  3. Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements (January 2006—2)
  4. Category:Articles lacking in-text citations (August 2006—9)
  5. Category:Articles lacking page references (July 2008—1)
  6. Category:Articles lacking reliable references (January 2007—45)
  7. Category:Articles lacking sources (June 2009—2)
  8. Category:Articles needing additional references (October 2006—116)
  9. Category:Articles needing cleanup (September 2010—1)
  10. Category:Articles needing sections (December 2024—1)
  11. Category:Articles slanted towards recent events (September 2009—1)
  12. Category:Articles sourced by IMDb (March 2025—0)
  13. Category:Articles sourced only by IMDb (March 2025—0)
  14. Category:Articles that may be too long (December 2010—1)
  15. Category:Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction (December 2007—1)
  16. Category:Articles to be expanded (January 2007—6)
  17. Category:Articles to be merged (June 2024—2)
  18. Category:Articles to be split (March 2017—1)
  19. Category:Articles with a promotional tone (January 2010—16)
  20. Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations (March 2022—9,336)
  21. Category:Articles with broken or outdated citations (June 2020—1)
  22. Category:Articles with dead external links (March 2009—1)
  23. Category:Articles with disputed statements (March 2008—5)
  24. Category:Articles with minor POV problems (April 2010—3)
  25. Category:Articles with peacock terms (December 2009—0)
  26. Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose (October 2010—5)
  27. Category:Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases (October 2009—40)
  28. Category:Articles with too few wikilinks (March 2025—0)
  29. Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability (October 2010—4)
  30. Category:Articles with trivia sections (March 2017—6)
  31. Category:Articles with unsourced statements (February 2007—904)
  32. Category:Articles with weasel words (June 2008—1)
  33. Category:BLP articles lacking sources (January 2007—25)
  34. Category:Dead-end pages (March 2025—0)
  35. Category:Orphaned articles (September 2015—127)
  36. Category:Recently revised (March 2025—1)
  37. Category:Self-contradictory articles (June 2014—1)
  38. Category:Unreferenced BLPs (March 2025—11)
  39. Category:Userspace drafts (before 2007‎—15)
  40. Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating (December 2008—6)
  41. Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification (February 2007—5)
  42. Category:Wikipedia articles needing context (October 2009—98)
  43. Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit (September 2023—27)
  44. Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification (November 2007—7)
  45. Category:Wikipedia articles needing page number citations (September 2008—1)
  46. Category:Wikipedia articles needing rewrite (November 2009—3)
  47. Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical (December 2007—2)
  48. Category:Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention (April 2008—1)
  49. Category:Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest (December 2009—4)
  50. Category:Wikipedia articles with style issues (December 2007—43)
  51. Category:Wikipedia external links cleanup (August 2014—2)
  52. Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup (September 2009—39)
  53. Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes (April 2014—3)
  54. Category:Wikipedia spam cleanup (February 2012—2)
See also
  1. Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year

Statistics

See also: Wikipedia:Statistics

For statistics on how a specific category's size has changed over time, use toollabs:apersonbot/cat-track. Not all categories are available; a category is only tracked if its page transcludes the {{CatTrack}} template. Otherwise, at present there does not appear to be any other project-wide collation of backlog statistics. A discussion may be required to determine if one is wanted or needed.

Templates

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