Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories given month

This page is to assist in creating new monthly maintenance cats. Please do not create maintenance categories in advance by more than about 1 day. There are people who date templates in advance and not creating these categories helps detecting those incorrectly dated templates and fixing them.

Monthly process

1. Open each "Create" link in a new tab.
2. If present, adjust the month of parent categories , delete interwikis.
3. Save.

December 2024

If any of the categories below are redlinked, please check if they are empty. If not, please create them.

1. Create Category:1911_Britannica_articles_needing_updates from December 2024 1
2. Create Category:Accuracy_disputes from December 2024 51
3. Create Category:Article_sections_to_be_split from December 2024 1
4. Create Category:Articles_about_possible_neologisms from December 2024 1
5. Create Category:Articles_containing_potentially_dated_statements from December 2024 1,134
6. Create Category:Articles_lacking_in-text_citations from December 2024 485
7. Create Category:Articles_lacking_page_references from December 2024 8
8. Create Category:Articles_lacking_reliable_references from December 2024 1,171
9. Create Category:Articles_lacking_sources from December 2024 534
10. Create Category:Articles_needing_additional_categories from December 2024 295
11. Create Category:Articles_needing_additional_references from December 2024 3,648
12. Create Category:Articles_needing_cleanup from December 2024 184
13. Create Category:Articles_needing_expert_attention from December 2024 12
14. Create Category:Articles_needing_link_rot_cleanup from December 2024 0
15. Create Category:Articles_needing_more_viewpoints from December 2024 16
16. Create Category:Articles_needing_sections from December 2024 12
17. Create Category:Articles_needing_the_year_an_event_occurred from December 2024 4
18. Create Category:Articles_requiring_tables from December 2024 1
19. Create Category:Articles_slanted_towards_recent_events from December 2024 5
20. Create Category:Articles_sourced_by_IMDb from December 2024 0
21. Create Category:Articles_sourced_only_by_IMDb from December 2024 1
22. Create Category:Articles_that_include_images_for_deletion from December 2024 5
23. Create Category:Articles_that_may_be_too_long from December 2024 34
24. Create Category:Articles_that_may_contain_original_research from December 2024 166
25. Create Category:Articles_that_need_to_differentiate_between_fact_and_fiction from December 2024 3
26. Create Category:Articles_to_be_expanded from December 2024 577
27. Create Category:Articles_to_be_merged from December 2024 306
28. Create Category:Articles_to_be_split from December 2024 38
29. Create Category:Articles_with_a_promotional_tone from December 2024 233
30. Create Category:Articles_with_broken_or_outdated_citations from December 2024 4
31. Create Category:Articles_with_close_paraphrasing from December 2024 6
32. Create Category:Articles_with_close_paraphrasing_of_public_domain_sources from December 2024 0
33. Create Category:Articles_with_dead_external_links from December 2024 6,016
34. Create Category:Articles_with_disproportional_geographic_scope from December 2024 0
35. Create Category:Articles_with_disputed_statements from December 2024 87
36. Create Category:Articles_with_excessive_see_also_sections from December 2024 0
37. Create Category:Articles_with_ibid from December 2024 10
38. Create Category:Articles_with_improper_non-free_content from December 2024 2
39. Create Category:Articles_with_limited_geographic_scope from December 2024 33
40. Create Category:Articles_with_links_needing_disambiguation from December 2024 56
41. Create Category:Articles_with_minor_POV_problems from December 2024 20
42. Create Category:Articles_with_neologism_issues from December 2024 0
43. Create Category:Articles_with_obsolete_information from December 2024 16
44. Create Category:Articles_with_peacock_terms from December 2024 44
45. Create Category:Articles_with_sections_that_need_to_be_turned_into_prose from December 2024 36
46. Create Category:Articles_with_specifically_marked_weasel-worded_phrases from December 2024 397
47. Create Category:Articles_with_too_many_wikilinks from December 2024 3
48. Create Category:Articles_with_topics_of_unclear_notability from December 2024 789
49. Create Category:Articles_with_trivia_sections from December 2024 15
50. Create Category:Articles_with_unsourced_statements from December 2024 19,708
51. Create Category:Articles_with_weasel_words from December 2024 20
52. Create Category:Attempted_de-orphan from December 2024 1
53. Create Category:BLP_articles_lacking_sources from December 2024 335
54. Create Category:Categories_for_discussion from December 2024 2,565
55. Create Category:Clean_up_categories from December 2024 0
56. Create Category:Copied_and_pasted_articles_and_sections from December 2024 2
57. Create Category:Copied_and_pasted_articles_and_sections_with_url_provided from December 2024 5
58. Create Category:Current_events from December 2024 2
59. Create Category:Dead-end_pages from December 2024 0
60. Create Category:Disambiguation_pages_in_need_of_cleanup from December 2024 1
61. Create Category:Incomplete_disambiguation from December 2024 0
62. Create Category:Incomplete_lists from December 2024 76
63. Create Category:NPOV_disputes from December 2024 0
64. Create Category:Orphaned_articles from December 2024 1,422
65. Create Category:Pages_with_excessive_dablinks from December 2024 4
66. Create Category:Pages_with_non-English_text_lacking_appropriate_markup from December 2024 6
67. Create Category:Recently_revised from December 2024 0
68. Create Category:Self-contradictory_articles from December 2024 17
69. Create Category:Suspected_copyright_infringements_without_a_source from December 2024 0
70. Create Category:Deprecated_templates from December 2024 0
71. Create Category:Uncategorized from December 2024 11
72. Create Category:Uncategorized_stubs from December 2024 0
73. Create Category:Unreferenced_BLPs from December 2024 3
74. Create Category:Unreviewed_new_articles from December 2024 0
75. Create Category:Unreviewed_new_articles_created_via_the_Article_Wizard from December 2024 0
76. Create Category:Userspace_drafts from December 2024 90
77. Create Category:Userspace_drafts_created_via_the_Article_Wizard from December 2024 0
78. Create Category:Use_American_English from December 2024 1,284
79. Create Category:Use_Australian_English from December 2024 223
80. Create Category:Use_British_English from December 2024 856
81. Create Category:Use_British_(Oxford)_English from December 2024 0
82. Create Category:Use_Canadian_English from December 2024 324
83. Create Category:Use_Indian_English from December 2024 590
84. Create Category:Use_Pakistani_English from December 2024 84
85. Create Category:Use_dmy_dates from December 2024 9,744
86. Create Category:Use_mdy_dates from December 2024 4,158
87. Create Category:User-created_public_domain_files from December 2024 0
88. Create Category:User-created_public_domain_images_without_user-name from December 2024 0
89. Create Category:Vague_or_ambiguous_geographic_scope from December 2024 25
90. Create Category:Vague_or_ambiguous_time from December 2024 364
91. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_containing_buzzwords from December 2024 7
92. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_in_need_of_updating from December 2024 643
93. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_clarification from December 2024 770
94. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_context from December 2024 17
95. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_copy_edit from December 2024 242
96. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_factual_verification from December 2024 166
97. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations from December 2024 241
98. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_reorganization from December 2024 25
99. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_rewrite from December 2024 97
100. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_style_editing from December 2024 0
101. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_time_reference_citations from December 2024 2
102. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_that_are_too_technical from December 2024 28
103. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_with_plot_summary_needing_attention from December 2024 88
104. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_with_possible_conflicts_of_interest from December 2024 82
105. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_without_plot_summaries from December 2024 95
106. Create Category:Wikipedia_categories_needing_cleanup from December 2024 0
107. Create Category:Wikipedia_external_links_cleanup from December 2024 32
108. Create Category:Wikipedia_introduction_cleanup from December 2024 391
109. Create Category:Wikipedia_laundry_list_cleanup from December 2024 0
110. Create Category:Wikipedia_list_cleanup from December 2024 8
111. Create Category:Wikipedia_pages_needing_cleanup from December 2024 98
112. Create Category:Wikipedia_references_cleanup from December 2024 59
113. Create Category:Wikipedia_spam_cleanup from December 2024 2
114. Create Category:Wikipedia_templates_needing_cleanup from December 2024 0
115. Create Category:Wikipedians_having_been_offered_adoption from December 2024 0
116. Create Category:Articles_prone_to_spam from December 2024 2
117. Create Category:Articles_to_be_redirected from December 2024 0
118. Create Category:Articles_with_improper_non-free_content_(lists) from December 2024 0
119. Create Category:Autobiographical_articles from December 2024 15
120. Create Category:Cleanup_tagged_articles_with_a_reason_field from December 2024 98
121. Create Category:Cleanup_tagged_articles_without_a_reason_field from December 2024 0
122. Create Category:Disambiguation_pages_with_many_incoming_links from December 2024 8
123. Create Category:Miscellaneous_pages_that_include_images_for_deletion from December 2024 0
124. Create Category:NRHP_articles_with_dead_external_links from December 2024 0
125. Create Category:Pages_needing_music_examples from December 2024 0
126. Create Category:Talk_pages_that_include_images_for_deletion from December 2024 1
127. Create Category:Templates_that_include_images_for_deletion from December 2024 0
128. Create Category:Unverified_BLPs from December 2024 0
129. Create Category:Use_Irish_English from December 2024 0
130. Create Category:Use_Jamaican_English from December 2024 1
131. Create Category:Use_New_Zealand_English from December 2024 182
132. Create Category:Use_South_African_English from December 2024 15
133. Create Category:User_pages_that_include_images_for_deletion from December 2024 1
134. Create Category:User-created_public_domain_files_(no_Commons) from December 2024 0
135. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_a_junction_list from December 2024 3
136. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_with_citations_needing_edition from December 2024 1
137. Create Category:Wikipedia_red_link_cleanup from December 2024 1

January 2025

If any of the categories below are bluelinked, please:

1. Check if they are empty, and if not, please fix the incorrectly dated tags.
2. Nominate the category for deletion.

Note that during the last hours of the month, in some places on Earth it may already be the next month, so do not furiously delete correctly dated tags because of time zone misunderstanding.

1. Create Category:1911_Britannica_articles_needing_updates from January 2025 0
2. Create Category:Accuracy_disputes from January 2025 0
3. Create Category:Article_sections_to_be_split from January 2025 0
4. Create Category:Articles_about_possible_neologisms from January 2025 0
5. Create Category:Articles_containing_potentially_dated_statements from January 2025 0
6. Create Category:Articles_lacking_in-text_citations from January 2025 0
7. Create Category:Articles_lacking_page_references from January 2025 0
8. Create Category:Articles_lacking_reliable_references from January 2025 0
9. Create Category:Articles_lacking_sources from January 2025 0
10. Create Category:Articles_needing_additional_categories from January 2025 0
11. Create Category:Articles_needing_additional_references from January 2025 0
12. Create Category:Articles_needing_cleanup from January 2025 0
13. Create Category:Articles_needing_expert_attention from January 2025 0
14. Create Category:Articles_needing_link_rot_cleanup from January 2025 0
15. Create Category:Articles_needing_more_viewpoints from January 2025 0
16. Create Category:Articles_needing_sections from January 2025 0
17. Create Category:Articles_needing_the_year_an_event_occurred from January 2025 0
18. Create Category:Articles_requiring_tables from January 2025 0
19. Create Category:Articles_slanted_towards_recent_events from January 2025 0
20. Create Category:Articles_sourced_by_IMDb from January 2025 0
21. Create Category:Articles_sourced_only_by_IMDb from January 2025 0
22. Create Category:Articles_that_include_images_for_deletion from January 2025 0
23. Create Category:Articles_that_may_be_too_long from January 2025 0
24. Create Category:Articles_that_may_contain_original_research from January 2025 0
25. Create Category:Articles_that_need_to_differentiate_between_fact_and_fiction from January 2025 0
26. Create Category:Articles_to_be_expanded from January 2025 0
27. Create Category:Articles_to_be_merged from January 2025 0
28. Create Category:Articles_to_be_split from January 2025 0
29. Create Category:Articles_with_a_promotional_tone from January 2025 0
30. Create Category:Articles_with_broken_or_outdated_citations from January 2025 0
31. Create Category:Articles_with_close_paraphrasing from January 2025 0
32. Create Category:Articles_with_close_paraphrasing_of_public_domain_sources from January 2025 0
33. Create Category:Articles_with_dead_external_links from January 2025 0
34. Create Category:Articles_with_disproportional_geographic_scope from January 2025 0
35. Create Category:Articles_with_disputed_statements from January 2025 0
36. Create Category:Articles_with_excessive_see_also_sections from January 2025 0
37. Create Category:Articles_with_ibid from January 2025 0
38. Create Category:Articles_with_improper_non-free_content from January 2025 0
39. Create Category:Articles_with_limited_geographic_scope from January 2025 0
40. Create Category:Articles_with_links_needing_disambiguation from January 2025 0
41. Create Category:Articles_with_minor_POV_problems from January 2025 0
42. Create Category:Articles_with_neologism_issues from January 2025 0
43. Create Category:Articles_with_obsolete_information from January 2025 0
44. Create Category:Articles_with_peacock_terms from January 2025 0
45. Create Category:Articles_with_sections_that_need_to_be_turned_into_prose from January 2025 0
46. Create Category:Articles_with_specifically_marked_weasel-worded_phrases from January 2025 0
47. Create Category:Articles_with_too_many_wikilinks from January 2025 0
48. Create Category:Articles_with_topics_of_unclear_notability from January 2025 0
49. Create Category:Articles_with_trivia_sections from January 2025 0
50. Create Category:Articles_with_unsourced_statements from January 2025 0
51. Create Category:Articles_with_weasel_words from January 2025 0
52. Create Category:Attempted_de-orphan from January 2025 0
53. Create Category:BLP_articles_lacking_sources from January 2025 0
54. Create Category:Categories_for_discussion from January 2025 0
55. Create Category:Clean_up_categories from January 2025 0
56. Create Category:Copied_and_pasted_articles_and_sections from January 2025 0
57. Create Category:Copied_and_pasted_articles_and_sections_with_url_provided from January 2025 0
58. Create Category:Current_events from January 2025 0
59. Create Category:Dead-end_pages from January 2025 0
60. Create Category:Disambiguation_pages_in_need_of_cleanup from January 2025 0
61. Create Category:Incomplete_disambiguation from January 2025 0
62. Create Category:Incomplete_lists from January 2025 0
63. Create Category:NPOV_disputes from January 2025 0
64. Create Category:Orphaned_articles from January 2025 0
65. Create Category:Pages_with_excessive_dablinks from January 2025 0
66. Create Category:Pages_with_non-English_text_lacking_appropriate_markup from January 2025 0
67. Create Category:Recently_revised from January 2025 0
68. Create Category:Self-contradictory_articles from January 2025 0
69. Create Category:Suspected_copyright_infringements_without_a_source from January 2025 0
70. Create Category:Templates_deprecated from January 2025 0
71. Create Category:Uncategorized from January 2025 0
72. Create Category:Uncategorized_stubs from January 2025 0
73. Create Category:Unreferenced_BLPs from January 2025 0
74. Create Category:Unreviewed_new_articles from January 2025 0
75. Create Category:Unreviewed_new_articles_created_via_the_Article_Wizard from January 2025 0
76. Create Category:Use_American_English from January 2025 0
77. Create Category:Use_Australian_English from January 2025 0
78. Create Category:Use_British_English from January 2025 0
79. Create Category:Use_British_(Oxford)_English from January 2025 0
80. Create Category:Use_Canadian_English from January 2025 0
81. Create Category:Use_Indian_English from January 2025 0
82. Create Category:Use_Pakistani_English from January 2025 0
83. Create Category:Use_dmy_dates from January 2025 0
84. Create Category:Use_mdy_dates from January 2025 0
85. Create Category:Userspace_drafts from January 2025 0
86. Create Category:Userspace_drafts_created_via_the_Article_Wizard from January 2025 0
87. Create Category:User-created_public_domain_files from January 2025 0
88. Create Category:User-created_public_domain_images_without_user-name from January 2025 0
89. Create Category:Vague_or_ambiguous_geographic_scope from January 2025 0
90. Create Category:Vague_or_ambiguous_time from January 2025 0
91. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_containing_buzzwords from January 2025 0
92. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_in_need_of_updating from January 2025 0
93. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_clarification from January 2025 0
94. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_context from January 2025 0
95. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_copy_edit from January 2025 0
96. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_factual_verification from January 2025 0
97. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations from January 2025 0
98. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_reorganization from January 2025 0
99. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_rewrite from January 2025 0
100. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_style_editing from January 2025 0
101. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_time_reference_citations from January 2025 0
102. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_that_are_too_technical from January 2025 0
103. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_with_plot_summary_needing_attention from January 2025 0
104. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_with_possible_conflicts_of_interest from January 2025 0
105. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_without_plot_summaries from January 2025 0
106. Create Category:Wikipedia_categories_needing_cleanup from January 2025 0
107. Create Category:Wikipedia_external_links_cleanup from January 2025 0
108. Create Category:Wikipedia_introduction_cleanup from January 2025 0
109. Create Category:Wikipedia_laundry_list_cleanup from January 2025 0
110. Create Category:Wikipedia_list_cleanup from January 2025 0
111. Create Category:Wikipedia_pages_needing_cleanup from January 2025 0
112. Create Category:Wikipedia_references_cleanup from January 2025 0
113. Create Category:Wikipedia_spam_cleanup from January 2025 0
114. Create Category:Wikipedia_templates_needing_cleanup from January 2025 0
115. Create Category:Wikipedians_having_been_offered_adoption from January 2025 0
116. Create Category:Articles_prone_to_spam from January 2025 0
117. Create Category:Articles_to_be_redirected from January 2025 0
118. Create Category:Articles_with_improper_non-free_content_(lists) from January 2025 0
119. Create Category:Autobiographical_articles from January 2025 0
120. Create Category:Cleanup_tagged_articles_with_a_reason_field from January 2025 0
121. Create Category:Cleanup_tagged_articles_without_a_reason_field from January 2025 0
122. Create Category:Disambiguation_pages_with_many_incoming_links from January 2025 0
123. Create Category:Miscellaneous_pages_that_include_images_for_deletion from January 2025 0
124. Create Category:NRHP_articles_with_dead_external_links from January 2025 0
125. Create Category:Pages_needing_music_examples from January 2025 0
126. Create Category:Talk_pages_that_include_images_for_deletion from January 2025 0
127. Create Category:Templates_that_include_images_for_deletion from January 2025 0
128. Create Category:Unverified_BLPs from January 2025 0
129. Create Category:Use_Irish_English from January 2025 0
130. Create Category:Use_Jamaican_English from January 2025 0
131. Create Category:Use_New_Zealand_English from January 2025 0
132. Create Category:Use_South_African_English from January 2025 0
133. Create Category:User_pages_that_include_images_for_deletion from January 2025 0
134. Create Category:User-created_public_domain_files_(no_Commons) from January 2025 0
135. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_a_junction_list from January 2025 0
136. Create Category:Wikipedia_articles_with_citations_needing_edition from January 2025 0
137. Create Category:Wikipedia_red_link_cleanup from January 2025 0

See also

• Wikipedia:List of monthly maintenance categories with templates