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What DexDor does

Some of the things DexDor does:

• Creating new categories (where they form part of an existing categorization scheme or are a good way to divide up an existing category) - e.g. subcategories of Category:Firelighting, Category:Military trucks by country.
• Taking categories to CFD for deletion, renaming, listifying etc. Since 2013 DexDor has started over 500 discussions at CFD with 90% resulting in a change to the category/ies (as of October 2014).
• Categorizing uncategorized articles and uncategorized categories.
• Fixing incorrect categorization (e.g. talk pages and dab pages that are categorized as articles).
• Tidying up disambiguation pages (applying rules such as MOS:DAB and WP:PTM). In particular, resisting the tendency for some dab pages to get excessive text, references etc and hence morph into articles.
• Splitting articles - either because of the size of the article or because it is covering separate subjects (see WP:NAD).
• Creating stub articles - mainly where the lack of an article meant that links were going to inappropriate articles or to a disambiguation page - e.g. Revetment (aircraft), Aircraft ordnance and First aid room.
• Improving articles - e.g. adding a lede image, rewording per WP:REFERS.
• Adding content to articles (e.g. Flight helmet, School of Ballooning).
• Removing excessive detail and excessive images from articles.
• Closing (WP:NAC) discussions - mainly at CFD.
• Tidying up different namespaces etc - e.g. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Wiki/User Talk:Synergisticalism and Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Kinan khan.
• Developing templates - e.g. Template:Aircraft_types_(by_method_of_thrust_and_lift).

And, of course, reverting non-constructive changes (e.g. vandalism).

Links

• DexDor's editing statistics: xtools supercount
• Wikipedia article traffic statistics: grok
• Global contribs