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These articles (mostly underCategory:Articles needing cleanup) are in need of general cleanup. Please seeWikipedia:Cleanup or the articles'talk pages for reasons why. If you're not sure why the tag is there, you can ask on the talk page, ask the person who added the tag, ask for athird opinion, or ask for an expert opinion onWP:RFC or aWikiProject. 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.
"Cleanup" is a generic label and is a subset of "maintenance". It encompasses allremedial work that needs to be done, whereas other maintenance lists may contain suggestions for improvement to intact articles.
Please ignore the Wikipedia: listings. These appear here for technical reasons. They do not need to be cleaned up, and the tags should not be removed.
Use the{{cleanup}} tag to put articles inCategory:Articles needing cleanup. Please do notsubst the cleanup tag. The bot that sorts cleanup into by-month categories is currently unable to handle subst'ed cleanup tags. Additionally other processes are likely to break the subst'ed tags. Thiscategory is aself-reference.
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