Forum:Project:New year overhaul

With the beginning of another year, I feel that this is an appropriate time to commence another clean-up project to maintain our wiki's standard of quality. Although chatting with other users this time of year is within reason, we have one of, if not the largest, database on Call of Duty at our hands. We must be vigilant about improving the improved if we want to maintain that status.

Administrators are welcome to add to the list. All other users can come up with proposals on the discussion page. 18:25, January 2, 2011 (UTC)

Page categorization
As seen here, we still have some articles that do not have any categories. Similar to the last time we had this project, any categories that you may encounter while categorizing that are duplicates/poorly named may be deleted (or requested to be deleted) or merged with others. In short, make sure the policy on categorization is followed correctly. 18:25, January 2, 2011 (UTC)

Notability + Articles for Deletion
For registered users, please nominate any articles that you find that do not meet the criteria for notability. Administrators, please go through this page and close successful/unsuccessful requests and delete the page if needed. Additionally, see if any of the nominations can have the respective page speedy deleted.

AWB/Bot typo fixing
For those who have bots or use the AWB, go through some of the major article categories and run the RegExTypoFix. 18:25, January 2, 2011 (UTC)

Article expansion
Neglect has been given to a myriad of articles that relate to the earlier games in the series. Even if you don't have extensive knowledge of Call of Duty: United Offensive, please, just read through some of the articles and see if you can do anything to improve them. Additionally, looking through the vast amount of Stubs is a good starting place. 18:25, January 2, 2011 (UTC)

On the heels of Forum:Dedication
Read through that topic and see if you can help with any of the things mentioned there. Some of these include:
 * Special:WantedPages
 * Special:WantedTemplates
 * Special:WantedFiles
 * Special:UnusedImages

...and likely others that I may have missed. 18:40, January 2, 2011 (UTC)

Images!
Yes, images, something which really needs to be sorted out. The topics Forum:Ban PimpMyGun and Forum:New usergroup need input, and reading these could help you understand what the problems are.

At the moment, around 80% of new images uploaded are unlicensed. In co-ordination with the policy here these images should be deleted, but a lot of editors have decided to not follow that policy and instead take it upon themselves to license images which the original uploaders have neglected to license themselves. This allows us to keep the images, but at the expense of a lot of time being used up to license them. There are a few categories which can help you here:


 * Category:Unlicensed images
 * Category:Files needing copyright information

Also, those with PCs or with capture cards, try capturing some images for the Pack a punch weapons. These have gone neglected for a long time.

Thanks! 18:59, January 2, 2011 (UTC)

Count me in. I'll do what I can to clean up the wiki. -- 18:47, January 2, 2011 (UTC)

I will try my best but my friend literally just showed me World of Warcraft, so maybe inactive for a while. -- N7  Talk 19:16, January 2, 2011 (UTC)