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 (currently inactive).

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=July 2009}}.

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.

[edit] Number of articles remaining

As of 08:30, 4 July 2009 (UTC), 42,777 articles were tagged for cleanup, or 1.46% of the English Wikipedia's 2,931,970 articles.

Month	# of Articles
October 2006	130
November 2006	310
December 2006	512
January 2007	616
February 2007	684
March 2007	723
April 2007	810
May 2007	1,082
June 2007	720
July 2007	755
August 2007	787
September 2007	945
October 2007	1,078
November 2007	1,192
December 2007	1,193
January 2008	1,615
February 2008	1,224
March 2008	1,799
April 2008	1,334
May 2008	1,512
June 2008	1,397
July 2008	1,155
August 2008	1,528
September 2008	1,565
October 2008	1,453
November 2008	1,471
December 2008	1,867
January 2009	2,470
February 2009	1,683
March 2009	2,503
April 2009	1,947
May 2009	2,244
June 2009	2,246
July 2009	227
Total:	42,777