Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement
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2026
Happy New Year
- write articles
- add articles here for review
- review
- make gnomish improvements
- improve accessibility
- exchange thoughts
Ongoing projects:
- The Recent deaths project, improving or writing articles of people who recently died, begun in 2019, continues.
- The Bach cantatas project, active from the beginnning in 2012, was a special focus in 2024, 300 years after Bach began his cycle of chorale cantatas, and ran into 2025 because he wrote the last of these on 25 March 1725. Special attention on his cantatas is still a focus. He composed selected few in 1726.
Gnomish tasks
- check for spelling mistakes
- check for links to current countries, capitals, languages, and remove them, per WP:OVERLINK
- check for unclosed new-line html <br>, replace by <br />
- check for direct links to foreign-language Wikipedias, replace by {{ill}}
- apply {{lang}} to foreign-language texts, with {{langr}} when they should not be automatically italic
- observe WP:Colons and asterisks by RexxS
- replace deprecated {{harv}} by {{sfn}}
- check if talk page headers fulfill the function for which they were meant: guidance on contentious pages
Inform other users about these things, hoping to make them do the same.
Infoboxes
Project members generally welcome infoboxes, as a means of WP:Accessibility, but don't pursue them against known wishes by principal editors, per User:RexxS/Infobox factors. Most RfCs of recent years supported the use of a concise infobox over no infobox, for example for Mozart (RfC).
Feel free to add to the tasks, list your articles for review, chat. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:01, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
History of infoboxes for composers of classical music
In 2023, it was 10 years that we had WP:arbinfobox, which also means 10 years of growing openness for the insight that composers are also human beings, - see 10 years. Yes, a 2010 RfC of WP:COMPOSERS recommended not to have one, which led to a removal of many of them. A list of composers where an infobox was added without objection, often by community consensus, was begun on 15 March 2023. I doesn't include the countless cases where editors simply added an infobox to articles they wrote or improved.
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:59, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
last update: --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:20, 11 March 2026 (UTC)