wikiHow:Tag Removal Project

Merges

1. Become familiar, or refamiliarize yourself, with the wikiHow Merge Policy
2. Identify Duplicate Articles on wikiHow
3. Go to the Merge Category and start removing tags, if appropriate.
4. Go to Merge Tool site to get a master list of articles.
5. Be prepared to do some editing. While the goal is not to make major changes, but to remove tags, try making changes if they are blatant errors or easy to do.

EditStatistics

• January 8th, 2011 - 2467 Articles - Beginning of project
• January 15th, 2011 - 2441 Articles - 1.1 % reduction
• February 12, 2011 - 0.16 % reduction from beginning - 0.90 % increase from previous
• March 19th, 2011 - 2392 Articles - 3.0 % reduction from beginning

Stubs

1. Look at the article. Don't take into consideration its brevity.
2. Decide if it is complete, even if short.
3. Realize that you don't need to have a certain number of steps to make a complete article.
   • Go to the Master Stub page to get a complete list (and count) of stubs.
4. Be prepared to do some editing. While the goal is not to make major changes, but to remove tags, try making changes if they are blatant errors or easy to do.
5. If you deem the article to be a stub, update it by removing the date that is on there.

EditStatistics

• January 8th, 2011 - 4757 Articles - Beginning of project
• January 9th, 2011 - 4698 Articles - 2% reduction
• January 12th, 2011 - 4590 Articles - 3.5 % reduction
• January 15th, 2011 - 4555 Articles - 4.25 % reduction
• January 22nd, 2011 - 4540 Articles - 4.56 % reduction
• February 12, 2011 - 4367 Articles - 8.20 % reduction
• February 16, 2011 - 4234 Article - 10.994 % reduction
• April 10, 2011 - 4100 Articles - 13.881 % reduction
  • The reduction is from the original number of 4757 articles.