Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball/Cleanup

This page is part of the WikiProject on Basketball and lists ways you can help clean up articles related to basketball which have been tagged as requiring attention.

Create articles
Articles that need creating to fill redlinks are listed at Most wanted articles.

Articles whose creation has been requested by other users are listed at Requested articles/sports.

You can help by creating a requested article from either of the lists above.

Expand articles
Articles requiring expansion (stubs) are listed in Category:Basketball stubs. They are placed there by a variety of stub templates as listed on the category page.

You can help by choosing an article in that category and expanding it, removing the stub template and re-assessing the article.

Add Infoboxes
Basketball player biographies requiring infoboxes are listed in Category:Basketball articles needing infoboxes. They are added to this category using the code  |needs-infobox=yes  on the Basketball template.

Please add an appropriate infobox to the articles and remove the needs-infobox parameter from the talk page template

Add images
Articles that have had requests to add pictures, photos or diagrams to them are listed at Category:Wikipedia requested images of basketball.

Articles needing expert attention
Articles that need the attention of an expert on a subject relating to basketball are tagged with the template   and placed in Category:Basketball articles needing expert attention.

You can help by choosing an article in that category and assisting with any queries on it's talk page.

Fix dead links
Over time, links used as references on pages become inactive (see WP:LINKROT). These links sometimes display the [dead link] notice. To fix links, you can use WayBack Machine, enter the original url and try to find an archived link. Once successful, you can add |archiveurl=|archivedate= inside the citation tag and remove the tag. To check the status of any particular Wikipedia page, you can use the Checklinks tool.

Assess articles
Articles are assessed using the criteria at WikiProject Basketball/Assessment, you can use this criteria to change the assessment rating of any article covered by this project. You can also fulfill requests by other users to re-assess certain articles as listed at Requests for assessment.

You can also give advice to others who have put their articles up for Peer review or as a Featured Article candidate. Articles undergoing these processes are listed at Articles currently under a review.

Project tagging
Articles related to basketball that fall into the scope of this project should be tagged with the template Basketball on the talk page. This helps identify articles for project members to work on and helps us manage the thousands of articles that the project helps oversee. Using the fields in the template helps us to organise these articles into the scope of our various task forces, please see the template page for usage instructions.

Add content to the Portal
Portal:Basketball is a place where we can exhibit our best articles and most interesting free images. Any article which is FA, GA, High or Top importance can be added for display as a Selected article or as a Selected biography, free images can be added to be displayed as Selected pictures. All of these are chosen randomly for display on each page view to avoid both bias and having to manually update the page monthly. If you've created or seen an article or image that you feel would be a good addition to the portal, follow the instructions on the pages linked above.