CZ:How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles

All articles in Wikipedia are not of the same standard. Many are quite exhaustive and accurate, following a good format. Those may require less attention. However, a large number of articles in Wikipedia are not coherent, logical or authoritative. These articles will certainly require much greater attention from Citizendium. To make a decent start, the important Wikipedia articles that need a facelift in Citizendium, can be brought under a proper structure, followed by wikification to other articles in Citizendium.

Principles

• Articles should be well-written and unified, not grab-bags of unintegrated facts.
• Templates should "pay their own way" by actually helping the user rather than distracting the user from important information.

When to rewrite an article altogether

When and how to scrap and rewrite an article entirely, general guidelines: to elaborate

Stuff to delete

Note, while we should delete this stuff in CZ Live articles, basically, many of these things can be deleted by a script.

Delete many template messages--particularly the ones that are for contributors and are self-referential. This includes timing-related messages, expansion requests, and all Wikimedia sister projects.

Other templates to delete can, perhaps, be usefully moved to talk pages, including: requesting sources, deletion, disputes and warnings, maintenance, cleanup, and lists

Many infobox templates and navigational templates need to be completely revisited. Many are useful, but many are not.

All self-referential material, including all instructions to contributors that are placed either at the top of articles or inline, should either be deleted or moved to the talk page--preferably the former, as more information is usually required to be useful.

Categories: delete? This is to debate.

Interwiki links: delete

Delete links to missing images (after images have been uploaded and we've deleted the ones with questionable licensing).