User:Sjkennedy/SandboxMay07

FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance Welcome to the Wiki Maintenance and Cleanup Project. Everyone is invited to help keep the wiki clean through doing maintenance tasks. Maintenance work is a vital part of keeping the Research Wiki user friendly for its researchers. While helping with the maintenance tasks, remember two things: •	Take the appropriate tag(s) off the page when you have completed cleaning an article. •	Document what you have done on the article's talk page for the reference of other editors. Be careful to avoid creating more maintenance work through instruction creep (bloating of instructions due to numerous edits/additions). Organize when you can, but always keep the big picture in sight: we are here to create a resource for family history researchers. If you wish to contribute to FamilySearch Wiki in ways other than maintenance, please consider some suggestions of things you can do.

FamilySearch Wiki:Things you can do In order to make this wiki a better research tool, we need your help! Many tasks need to be done. You can help by doing any of the following: •	Edit an article or Expand a stub •	Categorize articles •	Create a new article •	Get an idea for an article •	Suggest an article •	Add external links to articles •	Add internal links to articles •	Help with site maintenance •	Be a moderator •	Join the Welcoming Committee

See also: •	Maintenance Templates used to report some problems •	Maintenance Report that tracks amount of work needing to be done over time. •	Weekly Report This report shows were we stand on each of the maintenance pages. https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/FamilySearch_Wiki:Maintenance_Templates#Maintenance_Flag_Monitoring

FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance Templates Several maintenance template flags are ready for use in the Wiki. There are three things to be aware of for each maintenance template flag: 1.	Monitor the usage of each flag by viewing the category page for each template. Click here to review the categorized maintenance reports. 2.	Use the Talk page for ongoing discussion about the use of the flag. 3.	Documentation for each template is on every Template and Category page. The Maintenance Template Flags ready for use are: Contents [hide] •	1 Maintenance Templates for Articles •	2 Maintenance Templates for Files •	3 Label Templates •	4 Maintenance Flag Monitoring •	5 File Message boxes

Maintenance Flag Monitoring For a quick way to monitor the category pages for each template, simply copy and paste the following text onto your own user page: •	Category:Deletion Requests - immediate action is needed •	Category:Outdated articles - flag remains until fixed •	Category:Neutrality disputes - two week requirement •	Category:Non-English articles - move pages to language wiki if available •	Category:Copyright problems - one week requirement •	Category:Ambiguous page title - flag remains until fixed •	Category:Merge articles - flag remains until fixed •	Category:Articles needing citations - discussion needed before implementation