SamWilson989

Userpage for Sam Wilson, a youth worker in Manchester.

• Talk to me here: Talk Page.
• See my drafts here: Drafts Page.
• Email me here: Email Page.
• See my contributions to Wikipedia here: Contributions Page.

Userboxes

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.	enThis user uses British English on talk pages, but the appropriate variety of English in articles.	{{Wiki}}This user is an intermediate writer in the MediaWiki language.
This user has been on Wikipedia for 9 years, 8 months and 26 days.	This user is a participant in WikiProject History.	This user is a participant in WikiProject Disambiguation.

Contributions

Articles

Creations:

• William FitzRalph.

Significant edits:

• Issoudun.
• Antelope squirrel.
• Angevin Empire.

Redirects:

These pages listed below are alternative names for their destination articles. The redirects I've created that are not listed here are probably alternative capitalisations, where the list would be too long. See the full list of all my page creations here.

• 1st Earl of Sandwich.
• 1st Earl of Rosslyn.
• 1st Earl Peel.
• 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith.
• 1st Baron Mancroft.
• 1st Earl of Gloucester.
• Islas del Paraná.
• Johnes Disease.
• Gisors Castle.
• Santa Barbara Film Festival.
• Royal Regalia Building.

Images

• Territorial Conquests of Philip II of France.png

Helpful links

Pending changes backlog
(review log)

Level 5

Very low backlog

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Policies and guidelines

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages - List of categories for redirects.
• Help:Wiki markup - General instructions on Wiki markup.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style - List of instructions for when copyediting and modifying articles.
• Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup - List of cleanup templates.
• Wikipedia:User access levels - List of permissions that each user group will have.
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment - Loose criteria for grading the majority of articles.
• Wikipedia:Peer review/guidelines - Guidelines on how to request a peer review.
• Wikipedia:Good article criteria - 6 criteria needed to be met for an article to be denoted 'good'.
• Wikipedia:Featured article criteria - 10 criteria needed to be met for an article to be recognised as one of the best on Wikipedia.

Needs attention

• Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links - General page that is updated each month with a new list of approximately 10,000 links.
• Wikipedia:Requested articles/Social sciences/History - Requested history articles (page needs a cleanup).
• Special:PendingChanges - Articles with pending changes for approval.
• Category:Pages with missing references list - Articles that usually are missing a notelist or have inconsistent referencing methods.
• Category:Pages using notelist with unknown parameters - Articles using the notelist template with invalid parameters.

Current backlogs

January's focus is "Articles lacking sources from December 2023": 41.3% complete

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

Backlog categories

• General
• Administrative
• Assessment
• Stub sorting
• Template parameter

Lacking references

• Needs references: 90,556
• Needs references (BLP): 939
• Needs more references: 455,545
• Needs more references (BLP): 43,025
• Needs in-text citations: 104,056
• Needs reliable references: 87,922
• Has unsourced quotes: 1,247
• Has unsourced statements: 521,420
Fix one!

Accuracy

• Uses broken or outdated citations: 238
• Needs factual verification: 10,709
• Needs references list: 12
• Needs references clean up: 1,046
• Accuracy disputes: 15,522
• Neutrality disputed: 7,627
• Needs updating: 38,215
• Has original research: 16,515
• Self-contradictory: 729

Content

• Copied and pasted: 85
• Needs context: 2,736
• Needs coordinates: 87,833
• Too technical: 3,333
• Uses improper non-free content: 79
• Uses in-universe perspective: 1,141
• Plot summary needs attention: 6,899
• Has trivia sections: 347
• Of unclear notability: 58,119
• Popular low quality articles (top 5000 by pageviews with low ORES class predictions)

Links

• Has dead external links: 296,145
• Needs external links cleanup: 2,251

Layout

• Needs expansion: 66,169
• Needs to be merged: 1,947
• Needs to be split: 788
• Needs to be split (disambiguations): 1

Style

• Needs clarification: 5,659
• Needs copy edit: 2,759
• Has peacock terms: 3,305
• Uses promotional tone: 22,590
• Has weasel words: 18,243
• With style issues: 19,947

File description

• Copy to Wikimedia Commons: 93,903
• Needs author: 6,374

File quality

• Has inappropriate JPEG compression: 2,439
• Logos that should be in SVG format: 3,019
• Should be in PNG format: 224
• Has watermarks: 68

Non-free file use

File licensing

• Has disputed copyright information: 500

Meta

• Biographies without "listas" parameter: 3,767
• Biographies without "living" parameter: 680

Quality content

• Featured article candidates: 51
• Featured article review: 26
• Featured list candidates: 44
• Unreviewed good article nominations: 540

Other

• Needs cleanup: 34,423
• Needs cleanup (disambiguations): 14
• Needs expert attention: 1,300
• Is orphaned: 56,823
• Needs to be wikified: 31,317

New articles

• Articles for creation: 3,070

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