Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Article maintenance

This guide outlines processes related to article maintenance such as creating, merging, moving and deleting Scouting-related articles. These processes include the use of templates specific to WikiProject Scouting and how to announce maintenance related issues to the project community.

Creating or finding articles
When creating or finding a Scouting-related article, add the WikiProject Scouting template to the talk page. Announce new or found articles at New Scouting articles.

Articles needing attention
To mark an article that needs major work, edit the WikiProject Scouting template on the talk page and add:

This will place the talk page in Category:Scouting articles needing attention. Major issues may be announced at the watchlist of Scouting articles in need of attention.

Merges, moves and deletions
Apply the proper template to the page(s) in question. Announce proposals at Watchlist of Scouting articles in need of attention.

Redirects
When articles are merged, apply the standard redirect to the merged-from page and add the Scouting redirect from merge template; this places the merged-from article into Category:Scouting Redirects from merges to maintain edit history. Then, derate the talk page so that the redirect page no longer appears in a quality category by changing:


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Talk subpages
When moving a page, the talk page is automatically moved as well. However, any subpages such as archived talk pages, todo pages and the like must be manually moved. These will show as redlinks on the new talk page until they are moved. To ensure that all subpages are located, use Special:Prefixindex; enter the name of the old article page and set the namespace to Talk. Note that this is a prefix search, so it will find any pages starting with the selected name.

Stubs
Tag stub Scouting articles with Scout-stub.

Content issues
Issues such as bias, lack of citations, original research and the like should be discussed on the article talk page before applying tags to the article so that other editors may understand the problems. Tags should be inserted only when no action has been taken within a reasonable time or where needed to illustrate the points of an issue. Citations and content tone are the responsibility of the editor who added the material.

Biographies of living persons
Editors should immediately remove any contentious material about living persons that is unsourced, relies upon sources that do not meet verifiability standards or is a conjectural interpretation of a source. These issues must be discussed on the talk page.

Copyright issues
When there is suspicion of a copyright violation, then the issues will be discussed on the talk page before any action is taken. If material is determined to be in violation, then the instructions for copyright problems will be followed. Application of the copyvio tag is appropriate if and only if the article cannot be reverted to a version before the problem occurred.