SamWilson989

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

enThis user uses British English on talk pages, but the appropriate variety of English in articles.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 11 years and 9 months.

The Journeyman lv 3, Awarded for being a Registered Editor for 9 months and completion of 3,000 edits

Helpful links

Pending changes backlog
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Level 5

Very low backlog

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1 pages according to DatBot 02:15, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

Policies and guidelines

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages - List of categories for redirects.
• Help:Wiki markup - General instructions on Wiki markup.
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style - List of instructions for when copyediting and modifying articles.
• Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup - List of cleanup templates.
• Wikipedia:User access levels - List of permissions that each user group will have.
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment - Loose criteria for grading the majority of articles.
• Wikipedia:Peer review/guidelines - Guidelines on how to request a peer review.
• Wikipedia:Good article criteria - 6 criteria needed to be met for an article to be denoted 'good'.
• Wikipedia:Featured article criteria - 10 criteria needed to be met for an article to be recognised as one of the best on Wikipedia.

Needs attention

• Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links - General page that is updated each month with a new list of approximately 10,000 links.
• Wikipedia:Requested articles/Social sciences/History - Requested history articles (page needs a cleanup).
• Special:PendingChanges - Articles with pending changes for approval.
• Category:Pages with missing references list - Articles that usually are missing a notelist or have inconsistent referencing methods.
• Category:Pages using notelist with unknown parameters - Articles using the notelist template with invalid parameters.

Current backlogs

Click any linked number for that category's articles prioritized by their number of incoming links.

Backlog categories

• General
• Administrative
• Assessment
• Stub sorting
• Template parameter

Lacking references

• Needs references: 44,437
• Needs more references: 529,363
• Needs more references (BLP): 40,124
• Needs in-text citations: 109,003
• Needs reliable references: 98,682
• Has unsourced quotes: 1,189
• Has unsourced statements: 578,459
Fix one!

Accuracy

• Uses broken or outdated citations: 268
• Needs factual verification: 13,308
• Needs references list: 84
• Needs references clean up: 5,929
• Accuracy disputes: 15,625
• Neutrality disputed: 2,119
• Needs updating: 44,594
• Has original research: 17,172
• Self-contradictory: 887

Content

• Copied and pasted: 57
• Needs context: 2,648
• Needs coordinates: 70,457
• Too technical: 3,434
• Uses in-universe perspective: 1,065
• Plot summary needs attention: 7,958
• Of unclear notability: 56,847
• Popular low quality articles (top 5000 by pageviews with low ORES class predictions)

Links

• Has dead external links: 355,236
• Needs external links cleanup: 1,995

Layout

• Needs expansion: 52,201
• Needs to be merged: 238
• Needs to be split: 893
• Needs to be split (disambiguations): 3

Style

• Needs clarification: 6,048
• Has peacock terms: 476
• Uses promotional tone: 22,744
• Has weasel words: 19,236
• With style issues: 20,259

File description

• Copy to Wikimedia Commons: 83,373
• Needs author: 5,600

File quality

• Has inappropriate JPEG compression: 2,503
• Logos that should be in SVG format: 2,763
• Should be in PNG format: 227
• Has watermarks: 148

Non-free file use

• Has red backlink: 121

File licensing

• Has disputed copyright information: 401

Meta

• Biographies without "listas" parameter: 151
• Biographies without "blp" parameter: 2,390

Quality content

• Featured article candidates: 46
• Featured article review: 17
• Featured list candidates: 27
• Unreviewed good article nominations: 838

Other

• Needs cleanup: 34,169
• Needs cleanup (disambiguations): 20
• Needs expert attention: 1,321
• Needs infobox conversion: 188
• Is orphaned: 53,202
• Needs to be wikified: 19,439
• Overpopulated categories: 65

New articles

• Articles for creation: 4,526

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