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[[Image:Broom icon.png|right]]Welcome to the Wiki Maintenance and Cleanup Project. Everyone is invited to help keep the wiki clean through doing '''maintenance tasks.''' <br>  
[[Image:Broom icon.png|right|Broom icon.png]]Welcome to the Wiki Maintenance and Cleanup Project. Everyone is invited to help keep the wiki clean through doing '''maintenance tasks.''' <br>  


Maintenance work is a vital part of keeping the Research Wiki user friendly for its researchers. While helping with the maintenance tasks, remember two things:  
Maintenance work is a vital part of keeping the Research Wiki user friendly for its researchers. While helping with the maintenance tasks, remember two things:  
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*Document what you have done on the article's talk page for the reference of other editors.
*Document what you have done on the article's talk page for the reference of other editors.


Be careful to avoid creating more maintenance work through [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Instruction_creep instruction creep]. Organize when you can, but always keep [[The Vision: Why We Built FamilySearch Wiki|the big picture]] in sight: we are here to create a resource for family history researchers. If you wish to contribute to FamilySearch Wiki in ways other than maintenance, please consider some suggestions of [[FamilySearch Wiki:Things you can do|things you can do]].  
Be careful to avoid creating more maintenance work through instruction creep (bloating of instructions due to numerous edits/additions). Organize when you can, but always keep [[The Vision: Why We Built FamilySearch Wiki|the big picture]] in sight: we are here to create a resource for family history researchers. If you wish to contribute to FamilySearch Wiki in ways other than maintenance, please consider some suggestions of [[FamilySearch Wiki:Things you can do|things you can do]].  


'''See also:'''  
'''See also:'''  
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