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Note:due to an MS operating system failure task 3 is on hold.

1. Correct "External link" to "External links".
2. Correct "Reference" to "References".
3. Correct "ISBN:" to "ISBN" to allow wikimagic to prevail.
   • Other minor improvements to layout of ISBN to allow wikimagic to prevail.
   • (Insert correct hyphenation of ISBNs, label articles with invalid ISBNs (too short, too long, lang code, pub code undefined)).
   • Check check digit, categorise articles with invalid ISBNs.
   • Convert to 13 digit code (standard from 2007) see ISBN (currently paused)
4. Add a date to the maintenance tags which put articles in sub-categories or planned sub-categories of sorted by month - mainly:

   • {{wikify}}
   • {{orphan}}
   • {{uncategorized}}
   • {{uncatstub}}
   • {{cleanup}}
   • {{unreferenced}}
   • {{notability}}
   • {{expand}}
   • {{merge}}
   • {{copyedit}}
   • {{citation needed}}
   • {{not verified}}

   and their synonyms and near-synonyms - something over 490 templates and 1900 redirects. (This should be exhaustive for those which are not merely planned -i.e all occurrences should be dated.)

   At the same time SB corrects mis-spellings, mis-entry and mis-formatting of the date parameter and other template features where it can.

5. Replace tags {{disambig}} and {{cleanup}} with {{disambig-cleanup}}.
6. Replace birth dates and death dates in Infoboxen with {{birth date}}, {{death date}}, {{birth date and age}} or {{death date and age}} as appropriate.
7. Add defaultsort to people-stubs so they are listed correctly
8. Add references section and appropriate mark of to articles with "ref" footnotes and no such mark up.
9. Unlink days of week and month names.
10. Remove ":" from redirects.
11. Replace start dates and end dates in Infoboxen with {{Start date}} etc as appropriate.

1. U.S. 2000 census articles into past tense.
2. Initial runs of recurrent tasks
3. Moved Saint Louis categories to St. Louis, and corrected links.
4. Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers - Most common 15 done.
5. Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers - second most common batch c. 230.
6. UK links direct to United Kingdom. Nazi to Nazism.
7. Pipe US to United States replace with U.S.
8. Replace/pipe link Academy Award with Academy Awards
9. In days of the year replace first occurrence of date with templated link, completed manually.
10. More Fix-ups in US Census articles.
11. Remove spurious links to months of year and days of week.
12. Labelled all bad checksum ISBNs. (Needs doing again.)
13. Renamed "invalid isbn" template "please check ISBN".
14. Modified Swiss geog. articles census field to avoid deprecated "as of month year" links.
15. Tidied up album articles (note there is a manual phase which is still going on).
16. Replace Erik9Bot category with appropriate unref tag.

1. Fix section headers and templates in Pokémon articles.

   Not started. Probably been done by someone else by now.

2. Clean up piped links

   Stopped probably permanently. Might roll into other tasks.

   Now built into AutoWikiBrowser as part of "General fixes"

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