User:Pigsonthewing/Technical robustness

Some tips for experienced editors, on improving the Technical robustness of articles:

Dates
Where applicable, dates (of birth, creation, founding, etc; or death, demolition, disestablishment etc.) should use Start date or End date.

Biographies
Check that dates of birth and (if applicable) death are provided, and add categories if not.

Add categories:


 * Category:Year of birth missing
 * Category:Date of birth missing
 * Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
 * Category:Date of birth missing (living people)
 * Category:Year of death missing
 * Category:Date of death missing

if dates are missing

Coordinates
When using Coord, make sure the type parameter is set, and the region parameter is not only set, but as specific as possible e.g.  for Birmingham, not just  ).

If an article has an infobox, and title coordinates, the coordinates should also display in the infobox.

Categories
Ensure that categories are not redundant (e.g. if Category: People from Birmingham, West Midlands is used, then Category: People from the West Midlands (county) and Category: People from England are redundant

Lists

 * Use Flatlist rather than comma-separated lists
 * Use Plainlist rather than  -separated lists