Category:Cleanup by month

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This category groups together the monthly categories of articles needing general cleanup. Your help in cleaning up these articles is greatly appreciated. The oldest cleanup requests are the highest priority, to prevent embarrassing problems from going unfixed for an indefinite length of time. To increase visibility, the very oldest candidates are usually put on Template:Opentask. From there, they may end up being passed to the Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce.

Please see Wikipedia:Cleanup or the articles' talk pages for reasons why an article was tagged. If you're unsure why the tag is there, you can ask on the talk page, ask the person who added the tag, ask for a third opinion, or ask for an expert opinion on WP:RFC or a WikiProject. If you're sure the article has been cleaned up, addressing any obvious flaws as well as any specific problems mentioned on the talk page, feel free to remove the tag. There's not much harm in leaving it on if you aren't certain what to do; the tag will alert someone else to come by later and check up on the article.

Articles in the monthly subcategories are tagged e.g. {{cleanup|date=May 2009}}.

The only articles in this category are "central listing" pages from recent months. You will find links to more articles needing cleanup there, as well as links to some articles that have already been cleaned up. After a while, these listings are generally converted to the above-described tags, and any comments moved to the appropriate article's talk page.

For more specific needs or for help on deciding when and how to tag, see Wikipedia:Cleanup resources.

This category is a self-reference.

[edit] Number of articles remaining

As of 09:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC), 29,268 articles were tagged for cleanup, or 1.35% of the English Wikipedia's 2,160,474 articles.

Month	# of Articles
January 2006	23
February 2006	405
March 2006	492
April 2006	525
May 2006	454
June 2006	765
July 2006	645
August 2006	812
September 2006	863
October 2006	867
November 2006	952
December 2006	1,310
January 2007	1,188
February 2007	1,226
March 2007	1,456
April 2007	1,532
May 2007	1,931
June 2007	1,389
July 2007	1,428
August 2007	1,654
September 2007	1,847
October 2007	2,192
November 2007	2,381
December 2007	2,727
January 2008	204
Total:	29,268