Wikibooks:Maintenance

Read the Deletion policy first. If you are not an admin, insert {{delete|reason}}.

• Candidates for speedy deletion
• Images with unknown copyright status will be deleted after a week if the author does not provide proper license information.
• Copyright violations (automatically put in speedy delete category after 7 days)
• Pages to be transwikied - Pages that are to be transfered to another wiki.
• Requests for Import - Pages to be imported into this wiki.
• Transwiki log - Content that has been moved to Wikibooks from another wiki and needs to be formated or edited before it is ready for use in an existing book or as a new book.
• Images available on Commons contains images that can be deleted from Wikibooks: same & different filename at Commons.
• Votes for deletion - for discussion of books that should possibly be deleted but are not speedy deletion candidates

• Uncategorized Pages - Pages that have not been organized yet.
• Uncategorized Categories Categories that aren't categorized yet. The only uncategorized category should be Category:Main Page.
• Uncategorized Templates Templates that aren't categorized.
• Uncategorized Images Images that aren't categorized.

For these tasks, see Wikibooks:CCO Resources.

• LOC: Uncategorized Books that aren't properly categorized for WB:LOC.
• DDC: Uncategorized Books that aren't properly categorized for WB:DDC.
• Alphabetical: Uncategorized Books that aren't properly categorized for WB:ABC.

• Accuracy and NPOV disputes
• List of controversial issues
• Pages needing attention and Modules needing cleanup need work like fixing wikicode, spelling, layout etc.
• Orphaned pages are not linked to by any other pages. They often contain old vandalisms, useless content or their content was copied elsewhere. If they are useful, link them to a bookshelf or other book. Otherwise tag them for deletion.
• Short pages - if page is blank and not linked (check "What links here") and was not vandalised (check page history), it can be safely deleted
• Duplicate modules
• Queried pages - If it appears that a stub was created in error or want to check with the author to see if it will soon be expanded, use the template {{qr-em}} to tag it; the page will be automatically listed in the speedy deletions after 7 days.
• Stubs might be fixed. Old stubs may be removed or submitted to WB:VFD. See Help:Stub
• Books to be merged
• Books waiting to be added to a bookshelf
• Books needing naming convention change
  • See tsca.bot or Mike's bot which can rename many pages fixing related links

• Broken redirects
• Double redirects

• Upload log - check if new images are not copyright violations, use {{copyvio|URL}}. If you find image without source or license, use{{subst:nld}}. For invalid fair use claims, use {{subst:bfu}}. For fair use claims without a rationale, use {{subst:nfur}}. Make sure you notify uploaders; appropriate code is given on the aforementioned templates.
• New pages - check for very short pages, use {{delete}} to mark nonsense, vandalisms and spam for deletion.
• Recent changes of anonymous users - first place to look for spam and vandalisms. However, if you find good edits by anonymous user, add {{anon}} or {{joinus}} to their talk page to encourage him or her to create an account here.
• Newbies contributions - verify edits by new users, insert {{welcome}} to welcome them (we don't add welcome text to users without any edits).

See Wikibooks:Template messages/Image namespace and Wikibooks:Media

• Images with unknown copyright status - fix license or delete
• Unused files Look for duplicates, nonsense and copyright violations