Category:Articles needing cleanup

This is a maintenance category, used for the maintenance of BTW. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories. This is a tracking category. It builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. They are not part of the BTW's categorization scheme. This category is hidden on its [member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (appearance → show hidden categories) is set. These categories can be used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience. These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or sub-categories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).

Administrators: Please do not delete this category as empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.

You can usually find more information about why the article was tagged:

• At the top of the article itself (the {{cleanup}} tag now requires a "reason" parameter).
• The article's talk page.
• Possibly on BattleTechWiki:Cleanup if the article has been dual-listed.

If you're unsure why the tag is there, the best thing to do is to ask on the article's talk page and ping the editor who added the tag (who can be found by checking the "View history" tab). If there is a dispute or if an expert opinion is needed, you can also ask for consensus. 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.

For more specific needs or for help on deciding when and how to tag, see BattleTechWiki:Cleanup.

Articles in the monthly subcategories are tagged e.g. {{Cleanup|date=January 2025}}.