Wikipedia:Clarify the cleanup

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This page in a nutshell: Use a specific cleanup template other than {{cleanup}}.

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can.

The above is a useless template. It tells an editor that a certain page may require cleanup. However, most articles are quite long, and finding the section that needs "cleanup" is very boring and an unpleasant task to do. Please discuss the specific cleanup issue on the talk page or replace the generic cleanup tag with a more specific message. This helps the cleaners a LOT.