MarioWiki:Maintenance

As a wiki, we have technical and gritty cleanup to do. Now that we are an established and ever-growing wiki with tens of active contributors, problems such as short pages, badly-written articles and unlicensed images, maintaining order is just as important as adding articles to the database – hence, this page. You'll find what's new recently with new images and new articles, and many pages that need fixing – whether it's licensing, expansion or adding images. There are sometimes 200+ pages with one single issue, which is quite intimidating, but here we only show 3 per cleanup point.

Continuous Maintenance
Using the extension DynamicPageList, three pages that match the problem listed below are shown randomly. If you are good at fixing one of these issues, repair the articles listed in the row, then refresh this page for another batch of three. The issues that cannot be represented by using DPL at the bottom have links to special pages which look much more intimidating than what it would be, but can still be done in small steps, one at a time. Look for more description of each problem below the table.

Stubs
Stubs are an ongoing problem on this wiki. Category:Stubs is seriously backed up (though not noted above, and not as bad as image requested). A stub is basically an article that simply states the obvious (This is a character in this game) and has a navigation template to link it to related subjects, and a category or two. No real details that set apart from any other blank in the game.

See Help:Article to make sure it has the seven required steps, then add the details about the subject in question to give it its own article. A lengthy, non-stub article is usually over 1kB in size.

Note. The page size includes navigation templates and images. The actual text content of a 1kB page may be just one sentence.