A lot of Lepidoptera-related articles need cleaning up and background work. A lot of them also need content-related work, but that's not what this to-do list is for. For that matter, the category structure could use some cleaning up and restructuring as well, but let's not do everything at the same time. This clean-up project is immense enough as is.

This is my personal checklist of matters to check for when cleaning up. If others want to use the same checklist while cleaning up, feel free to, but it was created first and foremost for personal purposes and as a result may use an order that seems illogical to someone else. This page also tracks my progress and holds a few lists of information for use during this clean-up process, related future processes and the content-stuff I hope to tackle later. If you do use this list to help clean up, please leave me a message somewhere (my talkpage, this list's talkpage, etc.) on what you've done.

This clean-up project is extremely large in scale, involving almost a hundred thousand pages, so I fully expect it to take a long, loooong time.

Checklist

Check all articles in Category:Lepidopterology and its subcategories (all the way down), with this checklist:

ALL LEPIDOPTERA ARTICLES

• Check spelling and grammar for any glaringly obvious mistakes. Similar for punctuation and gratuitous capitalization.
• Check if all occurrences of lower taxa names (genera, species, subspecies) are properly italicized, including in infoboxes. If not, correct. If any subspecies named use abbreviations like ssp., be careful not to italicize those.
• Check if all occurrences of names of genera and higher taxa are capitalized. Correct if not.
• Check if all occurrences of names of species and subspecies are fully lowercase. Correct if not. Includes names derived from proper nouns.
• Check if any common names are present. (Presuming article to be located at scientific name. If at common name, check list below except for first point with "scientific name" instead of "common name")
  • If so, and they’re capitalized, decapitalize unless proper nouns are involved.
  • If so, check if redirects from common name exist, or dab-page/hatnote if not viable. If redirects from some of the capitalized forms exist, but no de-capitalized form, that counts as not existing. If multiple ways of wrongly capitalizing it are possible and only one or two are present, create the remainder.
    • If dab-page exists, check if article is linked from there, and if not, add.
    • If none, add redir if viable.
    • If none, and redir is not viable, add hatnote and/or create dab-page.
  • If not, see if a quick google search finds any at the reliable places, and if so, add.
• Check if synonyms are present.
  • If so, check if there is a redir from them, or a dab-page and/or hatnote if redir’s for some reason not viable.
    • If dab-page exists, check if article is linked from there, and if not, add.
    • If none, add redir if viable
    • If none, and redir is not viable, add hatnote and/or create dab-page.
  • If not, check if a look at the standard sites reveal any, and if so, add.
• Check if any references are present. If not, try and find at least one to add or add to personal list if not easy to find.
• Check if any references use bare links. If so, fill out as well as possible.
• Check NHM-links for overly-long-ness and appropriately shorten them.
• Check if all images have captions. If not, add if possible.
• Check if names of authorities (genus, binomial, etc.) are spelled correctly. Particularly important for names which should have diacritics (but very frequently lack them).
• Check if all existing wikilinks go where they're supposed to go, and re-point if not.
• Check if anything ought to be wikilinked but is not, and if so, wikilink it. In particular, authorities with their own article on first occurrence on a page, if reasonably clear who is intended. For authorities who share their name with others, see if List of taxonomic authorities by name clears it up.
• Check if anything is wikilinked but should not be. If so, delink.
• Check if any redlinks are present.
  • If so, check if linked to the wrong place. (Misspelling, article located at different name, etc.)
    • If so, correct link.
    • If not, and not particularly relevant, de-link.
    • If not, and related to Lepidoptera, add to the missing articles list below, properly organized. somewhere in my documents. Need to add the missing ones here sometime, but... *shrug*
• Check if categories are correct. If cats are missing, add. If cats are redundant, remove. If cats are incorrect, remove or change.

Article not on one of the subjects mentioned below? Done. Otherwise, see below.

GENUS, SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES

• Check if at scientific name.
  • If so, check if title is italic; if not, add ((italic title)), unless subspecies with ssp. or similar. In that case, use ((displaytitle)) template.
• Already listed above, but check carefully if all occurrences in the infobox are properly capitalized (that is, none if species/genus/subspecies) and italized (if same), because it's VERY frequently not so in the infobox-title.

LEPIDOPTERISTS

• Check if name includes diacritics.
  • If so, check if title also includes those. If not, move page. Check if occurrence throughout article is consistent. If not, correct where needed.
  • If so, check if title without diacritics redirects to article, if not, add.
  • If so, add to list of lepidopterists with diacritics in their name below, to run an AWB-check for later.

Progress

A check-mark solely means the articles not further categorized; e.g. the articles directly in the category the check-mark's behind, not its subcategories. I intend to only update this at the end of each session or when a category or subcategory is completely done.

Category:Lepidopterology

• Category:Lepidopterology: 2/2 articles. Done 2 subcategories.
  • Category:Lepidopterists: 5/365 articles.  In progress. No further subcategories in this tree.
  • Category:Lepidoptera: 0/33 articles. For the subcategories, see below.

Subcategories of Category:Lepidoptera

Will add in article-count for the "toplevel" subcategory and its subcats once I reach that point. Project is going to take long enough without me spending a few hours checking exact counts for a few hundred categories now.

1. Category:Butterflies and moths by region: 10 subcategories.
   1. Category:Lists of butterflies by location: 3 subcategories.
      1. Category:Lists of butterflies of India
      2. Category:Lists of butterflies of Sri Lanka
      3. Category:Lists of butterflies and moths of the United States
   2. Category:Lists of moths by location: 7 subcategories.
      1. Category:Lists of moths of Australia‎
      2. Category:Lists of moths of Canada
      3. Category:Lists of moths of Israel
      4. Category:Lists of moths of Japan
      5. Category:Lists of moths of Metropolitan France
      6. Category:Lists of moths of South Africa
      7. Category:Lists of butterflies and moths of the United States: already listed above.
   3. Category:Butterflies and moths of Africa: 2 subcategories.
      1. Category:Lepidoptera of Madagascar: 1 subcategory.
         1. Category:Moths of Madagascar
      2. Category:Moths of South Africa: 1 subcategory.
         1. Category:Lists of moths of South Africa: already listed above
   4. Category:Lepidoptera of Australia: 2 subcategories.
      1. Category:Butterflies of Australia
      2. Category:Moths of Australia: 1 subcategory.
         1. Category:Lists of moths of Australia: already listed above
   5. Category:Butterflies and moths of Asia: 10 subcategories.
      1. Category:Butterflies of Bangladesh
      2. Category:Butterflies of India: 1 subcategory.
         1. Category:Lists of butterflies of India: already listed above
      3. Category:Butterflies of Indonesia
      4. Category:Butterflies of Iran
      5. Category:Butterflies of Japan
      6. Category:Lepidoptera of the Philippines
      7. Category:Butterflies of Malaysia
      8. Category:Moths of Asia: 7 subcategories
         1. Category:Moths of China
         2. Category:Moths of India
         3. Category:Moths of Iran
         4. Category:Moths of Israel: 1 subcategory
            1. Category:Lists of moths of Israel: already listed above
         5. Category:Moths of Japan: 1 subcategory
            1. Category:Lists of moths of Japan: already listed above
         6. Category:Moths of Korea
         7. Category:Moths of Sri Lanka
      9. Category:Butterflies of Singapore
      10. Category:Butterflies of Sri Lanka: 1 subcategory
          1. Category:Lists of butterflies of Sri Lanka: already listed above
   6. Category:Butterflies and moths of the Caribbean‎
   7. Category:Butterflies and moths of Europe: 2 subcategories
      1. Category:Butterflies of Europe: 1 subcategory
         1. Category:British butterflies
      2. Category:Moths of Europe: 1 subcategory
         1. Category:Lists of moths of Metropolitan France: already listed above
   8. Category:Lepidoptera of New Zealand: 1 subcategory
      1. Category:Moths of New Zealand
   9. Category:Butterflies and moths of North America: 5 subcategories.
      1. Category:Lists of butterflies and moths of the United States: already listed above. Twice
      2. Category:Butterflies of Canada
      3. Category:Lists of moths of Canada
      4. Category:Moths of Canada: 1 subcategory
         1. Category:Lists of moths of Canada: already listed above. Like, straight above its parent. Redundant much?
      5. Category:Butterflies of the United States: 1 subcategory
         1. Category:Lists of butterflies and moths of the United States: already listed above. Thrice
   10. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America: 25 subcategories
       1. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Andesianidae)‎
       2. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Arctiidae)‎
       3. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Castniidae)‎
       4. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Coleophoridae)‎
       5. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Dalceridae)‎
       6. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Erebidae)‎
       7. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Gelechiidae)‎
       8. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Geometridae)‎
       9. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Gracillariidae)‎
       10. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Hedylidae)‎
       11. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Hesperiidae)‎
       12. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Lycaenidae)‎
       13. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Noctuidae)‎
       14. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Notodontidae)‎
       15. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Nymphalidae)‎
       16. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Papilionidae)‎
       17. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Pieridae)‎
       18. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Pterophoridae)‎
       19. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Pyralidae)‎
       20. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Riodinidae)‎
       21. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Sematuridae)‎
       22. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Sphingidae)‎
       23. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Tortricidae)‎
       24. Category:Butterflies and moths of South America (Uraniidae)‎
       25. Category:Lepidoptera of French Guiana: 2 subcategories
           1. Category:Butterflies of French Guiana
           2. Category:Moths of French Guiana
2. Category:Books on Lepidoptera: 1/8 articles done.  In progress
3. Category:Butterflies: 15 subcategories.
   1. Will list its subcategories and their subcategories later. When I am no longer, say, eighty-hundred categories from reaching it.
4. Category:Fictional butterflies and moths: Not done - while within category structure, falls outside the scope of this clean-up.
5. Category:Fossil Lepidoptera
6. Category:Lepidoptera by country: 7 subcategories
   1. Will list its subcategories and their subcategories later. When I am no longer, say, eighty-hundred categories from reaching it.
7. Category:Lists of Lepidoptera: 5 subcategories
   1. Will list its subcategories and their subcategories later. When I am no longer, say, eighty-hundred categories from reaching it.
8. Category:Moths: 47 subcategories
   1. Will list its subcategories and their subcategories later. When I am no longer, say, well over a hundred categories from reaching it.

Lists of information

Lepidopterists with diacritics in their names

• Alphéraky
• Guenée
• Herrich-Schäffer
• Franz Hübner and Jacob Hübner. When it comes to Lepidoptera, the latter is usually meant. (However, if pre-1877, it's almost certainly the former instead)
• Oberthür (note: his brother, René Oberthür also was an entomologist, albeit specialized in Coleoptera. Their father, François-Charles Oberthür also was an entomologist, specialized in Lepidoptera. Before wikilinking any of these, best be really careful which one's meant)
• Fischer von Röslerstamm (also v. Röslerstamm, von Röslerstamm; Fischer v. Röslerstamm)
• Schiffermüller (usually in the context "Denis & Schiffermüller")

--- Newer bunch I came across:

• Koçak. No article yet.
• Bergsträsser
• The many, many Müllers in zoology/biology/etc. Most of them thankfully did not concern themselves with Lepidoptera. When it comes to binomial authority & year is 1897 or earlier, Fritz Müller is most likely. If prior to 1784, Otto Friedrich Müller.
• Frölich (Lepidopterist) & his father Frölich (Coleopterist)
• Müller-Rutz. No article yet.
• Tengström, no article yet.

Lepidoptera-related articles to be created

Going to add those as I come across them, categorized by subject, genus, family etc. rather than alphabetically.

People

• J. D. Bradley - author of British Tortricoid Moths and many other Lepidoptera-related books: google books in-author search
• W. G. Tremewan - author of British Tortricoid Moths and many other Lepidoptera-related books: Google books in-author search

Categorization

Lots and lots of articles missing basic categories like Moths/Butterflies/Lepidoptera of [location] & Moths/Insects described in [year]. Let's try to remember to add those. Also see about properly catting the 600-some pages in Category:Lepidoptera of Australia, since that one has both a Moths and a Butterflies subcat, which are a wee bit underpopulated with like 90% of the relevant species lounging in the parent cat. Verrry little that needs to remain in the parent category. (Fix when coming across them. Otherwise, something for a rainy day when I have an over-abundance of both time and patience.)