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=June 2008}}.

There are no articles in this category directly. Instead, there are only subcategories, which contain articles sorted by month. In the subcategories, you will find articles needing cleanup, 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 08:33, 9 June 2008 (UTC), 33,063 articles were tagged for cleanup, or 1.37% of the English Wikipedia's 2,405,494 articles.

Month	# of Articles
June 2006	171
July 2006	488
August 2006	676
September 2006	717
October 2006	738
November 2006	781
December 2006	871
January 2007	950
February 2007	1,006
March 2007	1,118
April 2007	1,198
May 2007	1,524
June 2007	1,087
July 2007	1,105
August 2007	1,262
September 2007	1,402
October 2007	1,632
November 2007	1,776
December 2007	1,831
January 2008	2,504
February 2008	1,938
March 2008	2,725
April 2008	2,154
May 2008	2,596
June 2008	813
Total:	33,063