User:ExcarnateSojourner/Todo

I know only English, so the projects below generally relate only to English terms.

Active

 * 1)  (waiting for admin)
 * 2)  (waiting a bit for input before moving to RFDO and changing the tag accordingly)
 * 3) Unless I get input at  I want to remove the cat from the preload template and depopulate the cat manually.

Add rhymes
See User:ExcarnateSojourner/Terms lacking rhymes.

Categorization
See Todo/Lists/Uncategorised pages (all namespaces) and Category:Uncategorized templates.

Add derived terms
See Todo/phrases not linked to from components.

Document templates
See Category:Templates and modules needing documentation (progress).

Match mismatched HTML comments
See User:Benwing2/mismatched-comments-2023-05-20-dump. I am purposefully removing archives from this list without fixing their comments (as archives should generally not be edited). I am skipping over Rhymes-space pages (leaving them listed), because of discussion about retiring the Rhymes namespace.

Moves, mergers, and splits
RFM is a large enough page that my devices often struggle to load it, so I have a backlog of terms I would like to list at RFM at some point in the future when it is hopefully smaller. Or maybe I'll just move / merge them myself in clear-cut cases.


 * Progress in ensuring pages listed at RFM are tagged: 2023-12.
 * Progress in commenting on and attempting to resolve RFM discussions:
 * Progress in archiving closed RFM discussions: 2023-09.

Move

 * to : Consider how dare they.
 * U:en:non-rhotic rhymes, U:en:other rhymes: Named as usage templates even though they are rhyme templates.
 * Category:TOC templates to Category:Category TOC templates. See.
 * preload-Swadesh to Module:Swadesh/preload, preload-accel to Module:accel/preload, and preload-number list to Module:number list/preload: These templates are not meant to be transcluded, but are preloaded into module edit fields by these modules' documentation pages. Having them be templates is problematic because the module preloading system doesn't respect, meaning these templates cannot be categorized or documented without preloading extra text that editors would have to be expected to remove every time. Since they are each used in a single place, I think it makes sense to make them subpages of their respective modules.

Categorization of templates
I think the categorization of templates is currently quite poor.


 * cat:Uncategorized templates and Special:UncategorizedTemplates serve the same purpose.
 * Nominated for deletion.
 * cat:Category templates contains both templates that are used in category-space (like ) and templates that are used to categorize pages (like ).
 * ✅: Split into cat:Category templates and cat:Categorization templates.
 * cat:TOC templates should be moved to something like cat:Category TOC templates.
 * This category has many members, so I want to use a bot, meaning consensus needs to be established first. I have therefore added it to my list of postponed move requests.
 * The quotation template members of cat:Navigation templates should be alphabetized.
 * The meaning of "Preloaded" in cat:Preloaded templates is unclear.
 * cat:Reference templates (unrelatedly nominated for deletion) should not be a child of cat:Templates; it is already a child of cat:Dictionary templates.
 * cat:Supplementary templates is a terribly undescriptive name, and there is no description on the category page to clarify. The descriptions of the children of cat:Supplementary templates by language might help: "Templates used to keep contents for other [language] templates". It seems most templates that are immediate children of this category do not meet this description, and should therefore be recategorized.
 * cat:Templates for generating characters used in wiki code should instead be a child of cat:Character insertion templates.
 * cat:Topic templates contains a few sparsely populated, overly precise subcategories.
 * cat:Astrology templates and cat:Religion templates can be combined.
 * cat:Chemistry templates and cat:Mathematics templates can be combined.
 * cat:Untranscluded templates serves the same purpose as Special:UnusedTemplates.
 * Nominated for deletion.
 * cat:User warning templates should be a subcategory of cat:Discussion templates.
 * cat:Welcome templates should be a subcategory of cat:Discussion templates.
 * cat:WOTD templates should be a subcategory of cat:Administration templates.
 * cat:Wiktionary templates should be merged into cat:Administration templates and cat:Maintenance templates.


 * After these changes have been made, the sections at Templates should be updated to match.

English

 * , sense 8 ("aggregate of desirable characteristics"): Can't any marketable noun be used this way?

Collections
There are some terms that are being discussed at RFDE, each of which is representative of a group of terms that could be nominated for the same reason as the original. Assuming that the original fails, I want to nominate the other members of each group.


 * English road names. See . I have most recently nominated El Camino Real.


 * Adjectives suffixed with . See.

Others

 * : This template (created by Daniel Carrero in 2010) displays a collapsible box containing two links to appendixspace, one of which is now a redlink. It is only used on two pages; one can be replaced by the single blue link, and the other can be removed.
 * and : Unused and redundant to.

RFM
2023-02: I want to hold off on listing these terms until RFM is smaller.

All terms in the following categories should be listed at RFM:
 * cat:Requests for moves, mergers and splits
 * cat:Pages to be moved
 * cat:Pages to be merged
 * cat:Pages to be split

RFC
All terms in Category:Requests for cleanup in English entries should be listed at WT:RFC.

Next: Citations:cuckold

Lacking explanation
These terms were tagged but never listed with no explanation given for why in the tag or edit summary, and for which the tagger is active (last edit within a month or so). I have pinged the tagger to get their input. If I get no response within two weeks or so, I think it is reasonable to simply remove the tag.


 * Talk:business girl

For terms for which no explanation can be found and the tagger is inactive, I find it reasonable to remove their tags immediately.

Categorize shortenings
Some acronyms and initialisms do not use acronym of or initialism of, and are therefore not appropriately categorized. I've used one of my Python scripts to find all English senses for terms that consist only of two uppercase English letters, where the sense is not labelled as an initialism and does not use acronym of or initialism of.

Add pronunciations
Requests listed at Category:Requests for pronunciation in English entries.

2022-09-20: Reviewed all.

2023-02-07: Reviewed A - K.

Add audio pronunciations
Based on Category:Requests for audio pronunciation in English entries. I do not know when I might get around to recording these, so do not consider them reserved or anything.

Add syllable counts to existing rhymes
See User:ExcarnateSojourner/Rhymes lacking syllable counts. I am putting this on hold as I think it is possible to do much of this by bot by having the bot look for subcategories of cat:English words by number of syllables.

Review one-line talk pages
See User:ExcarnateSojourner/One-line talk pages. I will need to generate a new list before doing this again.

Potential future projects

 * Many English appendices do not have English in their title when they ought to.
 * In categorizing appendices, I have come across several that are just lists of existing mainspace entries, which might be better handled (and maybe already are!) using categories instead.