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=May 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, 30 May 2009 (UTC), 42,652 articles were tagged for cleanup, or 1.47% of the English Wikipedia's 2,897,186 articles.

Month	# of Articles
October 2006	181
November 2006	481
December 2006	568
January 2007	630
February 2007	698
March 2007	748
April 2007	830
May 2007	1,116
June 2007	749
July 2007	785
August 2007	808
September 2007	973
October 2007	1,121
November 2007	1,239
December 2007	1,236
January 2008	1,686
February 2008	1,257
March 2008	1,849
April 2008	1,375
May 2008	1,565
June 2008	1,442
July 2008	1,424
August 2008	1,579
September 2008	1,606
October 2008	1,746
November 2008	1,514
December 2008	1,949
January 2009	2,569
February 2009	1,748
March 2009	2,621
April 2009	2,092
May 2009	2,467
Total:	42,652