< Edit check
Edit Check is an effort to offer people actionable feedback about Wikipedia policies while they are editing. The initial "check" will prompt people to decide whether the new content they are intent on publishing warrants an inline citation.
This page intended to be a gathering place for future "checks" for volunteers and staff to consider implementing.
Check ideas
| Scenario | Ticket | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Person is about to break en.wiki's three-revert rule | via Samwalton9_(WMF) | |
| Adds a redlinked entry to a dynamic list | ||
| Adds an image lacking alt text to an article related to accessibility, e.g. Blindness | ||
| Links to a projectspace page from the mainspace body of an article | ||
| Links to a disambiguation page from an article body (already implemented) | ||
| Uses a word from a variety of English different from the one the article is tagged as having | ||
| Uses a word that is likely a typo | ||
| Adds a section titled "criticism" or "controversy" | ||
| Adds a link to an article that is already linked in that section (very likely a WP:DUPLINK violation) | ||
| Adds a reference with the same URL as an existing reference (likely a duplicate) | ||
| Uses a relative time word like "recently" in an article body | ||
| Use a word or phrase indicating a likely personal attack on a talk page | ||
| Adds a reference containing only a bare URL | ||
| Adds an external link in an article body | ||
| Adds many entries to an external links section (likely a violation of WP:ELNO) | ||
| Uses a phrase indicative of likely promotional language (e.g. "mission statement", "award-winning") | ||
| Expands a section titled "Plot" beyond, say, 1400 words (recommend max length is 700) | ||
| Uses a word or phrase listed at MOS:Words to Watch | ||
| Adds a link to a word that is likely an overlink (e.g. a year, or a major country/language/ethnicity/etc.) | ||
| Adds an image gallery to an article on an ethnicity (likely a violation of MOS:PEOPLEGALLERY) | ||
| Adds a short description longer than 40 characters (see WP:SDSHORT) | ||
| Adds a very long quote (likely a summary style violation, if not also a copyright one) | ||
| Adds an article to a category when the article is already in a subcategory | ||
| Creates a new section on a talk page with the same title as a recent discussion started by the same editor elsewhere (possibly a talk fork)) | T337360 |
Place to look
This section contains places to look for additional check ideas:
- Edit notices (e.g. en:Template:Editnotice templates)
- Abuse filters
- Maintenance tags
- Guidance pages
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