User:Garrettw87/WikiProject Talk pages

Welcome! WikiProject Talk pages, sometimes known as the Talk Page Cleanup Crew, was proposed and created by Garrettw87 who also currently maintains and coordinates the project.


 * Join us by adding your name to our roster
 * Bulletin board of announcements, notifications, etc.
 * Requests from people who want our help in some way

Purpose
Our aim is to encourage adherence to WP:TP and WP:TPG by:
 * Sorting topics into chronological order with the oldest at the top
 * Correcting any obvious indentation mistakes
 * Cleaning up formatting mistakes, such as tags that didn't get closed
 * Sorting misplaced comments into the correct topic or adding a topic header when needed
 * Encouraging civility by warning those who engage in personal attacks and such
 * Adding appropriate WikiProject banners while keeping such boilerplates and related templates down to a reasonable maximum
 * Helping SineBot by signing unsigned comments or adding dates to undated comments
 * Helping MiszaBot et al. by archiving discussions
 * Helping out here and there with vandalism repair

Since talk pages are our area of expertise, we also participate in:
 * Discussing proposed talk page guidelines
 * Developing talk page templates

As a group, we do not:
 * Create rules for talk pages
 * Fundamentally restructure user talk pages

Other specific duties
In addition to the aforementioned general duties, there are also some more specific duties we may engage in:
 * DEFAULTSORTing
 * Putting bio cleanup categories on talk pages (Category:Place of birth missing (living people), etc.)
 * Removing Talkheader from all but the most controversial pages (and making sure Archivebox replaces it for talkheaders also using the archive functions)
 * Fixing mangled headings
 * Merging duplicate threads
 * Marking resolved topics with Resolved
 * Confirm bot assessments of article class and remove "auto=yes" from project banners (e.g. here)
 * Expand month abbreviations in dates to help archiving of talk pages by bots (e.g. replace "25 Jan 2010" with "25 January 2010")
 * Replace IP signatures pointing to a red link IP user page with a link to the IP's contributions history (e.g. here)
 * Pipe-link unlinked user names in signatures (e.g. replace "Example 12:00, 25 January 2010" with "Example 12:00, 25 January 2010")

Guidelines

 * This section is under construction.

Our templates

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Related templates

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Our categories

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Related categories

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