User:Deltaspace42

Fight with vandalism
1. Go to recent changes.

2. Use Likely have problems and Latest revision filters.

3. Look at all diffs

4. If it is vandalism, revert it with Twinkle and give warnings on user's talk page

5. If user persists, report here.

Diffuse categories (recategorize pages so that they go to subcategories of current category)
1. Often pages are included both in the category and its subcategory which is rarely a good thing. Remove the parent category from the page in this case.

2. Use HotCat (see ad on the top) when you need to fix one page.

3. Use StubSorter when you need to change stub templates.

4. Use Cat-a-lot when you need to move many pages at once to the subcategory.

5. Category:Free software once had over 400 pages! I went over each page and recategorized it by including a category like by open-source license used or programming language it was written in. Took me 2 days to finish the job, now this category contains only 6 pages. There are still many categories like this: Category:Overpopulated_categories

Fix spelling mistakes (typos)
1. Type in the search box some word with a typo (for example, "funtion" or "for for" - duplicate words).

2. When you search for duplicate words, use double quotes and regex • For example, I adopted the typo "the the", so when I search for duplicate "the" I type:

• "the the" insource:/the the /

3. If there are pages with this typo, they will all be listed

4. Go to these pages and fix the typo

Merge duplicate references
1. Sometimes there are duplicate references (which have the same links or their links go to the same page).

2. In that case, add &lt;ref name=(unique reference name - usually author or first words from title)&gt; to the first reference, and then replace all other duplicate references with &lt;ref name=(reference name)/&gt;.

3. This template is very useful!

Repair dead links
1. Click links in references.

2. If they go to 404 or other errors, use Wayback Machine.

3. This is important: Wayback Machine often has saved versions of the page with various dates - before choosing, look at access-date= or at Retrieved: and choose date which is closest and has the page with relevant information.

4. add archived link to reference: • If reference used {{cite web}} template, add archive-url=(url from wayback machine), archive-date=(date of saved page) and url-status=dead.

• If it is an external link, use {{webarchive |url=(wayback url) |title=...}} template.

5. Unfortunately, sometimes Wayback Machine doesn't have saved page.

6. In that case, add {{dead link|date=July 2024|fix-attempted=yes}} directly before &lt;/ref&gt;.

Improve references with bare URLs
1. This category contains all articles with bare URLs and number of them became very huge. Currently I am trying to reduce this number and you can help!

Articles I expanded from stub

 * BespokeSynth
 * Database Nation
 * Froxlor
 * HaXml
 * Jape (software)
 * Metaman
 * OpenDroneMap
 * Open Source Tripwire
 * OurGrid
 * Sigma knowledge engineering environment
 * Sonic Visualiser

Articles where I made significant contribution

 * Perplexity.ai
 * SwisTrack