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We are a group of volunteers dedicated to reviewing and adding references to articles that are in Category:Articles lacking sources and Category:Unreferenced BLPs.
Wikipedia's verifiability policy requires that: all quotations and anything challenged or likely to be challenged be attributed in the form of an inline citation that directly supports the material. Unfortunately, there are approximately 87,000 articles tagged as having no citations, which is one of Wikipedia's biggest cleanup categories.
We need your help! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them on our discussion page.
The goal of this project is to ensure that:
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There are 204 months of unreferenced articles in the backlog ( Category:Articles lacking sources) with a count of 87,080 articles.
To view the progress of the backlog:
Category:Articles lacking sources from October 2008
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534 / 582 (92%)
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Category:Articles lacking sources from November 2008
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269 / 484 (56%)
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Category:Articles lacking sources from December 2008
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295 / 594 (50%)
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Category:Articles lacking sources from January 2009
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383 / 768 (50%)
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Focusing on the oldest subcategories from Category:BLP articles lacking sources, currently this is:
Category:BLP articles lacking sources from January 2007
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45 / 76 (59%)
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Category:BLP articles lacking sources from February 2007
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24 / 62 (39%)
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Category:BLP articles lacking sources from March 2007
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13 / 51 (25%)
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Focusing on the oldest subcategories from Category:Articles needing additional references, currently this is:
Category:Articles needing additional references from October 2006
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15 / 139 (11%)
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Category:Articles needing additional references from November 2006
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4 / 261 (2%)
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Focusing on the oldest subcategories from Category:Articles lacking reliable references, currently this is:
Category:Articles lacking reliable references from January 2007
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22 / 76 (29%)
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Category:Articles lacking reliable references from February 2007
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3 / 49 (6%)
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Category:Articles lacking reliable references from March 2007
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1 / 43 (2%)
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This is list of the main ideas to keep in mind when working on this project. For a more detailed, step-by-step guide see this how to guide.
This section advises on how deal with articles that have insufficient inline citations or general references, appearing in the ==Notes== or ==References== section or both, as described in the citing sources guideline.
This page was provided with references by an Unreferenced articles project volunteer on July 13, 2024. If you edit this page, please build on the good work by citing your sources. |
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This banner is used to signify that an article has been provided with references by a member of this project. Like traditional project banners, this banner is placed on the talk page but it is only inserted after the improvements have been made. This will hopefully encourage others to follow suit when editing the article, and perhaps even join the project! The template should be placed in section 0 of the articles talk page, which is after any project templates and before any threaded discussions. When this template is applied the article's talk page becomes a member of Category:Articles improved by WikiProject Unreferenced articles.
Use the following code to place the banner on the article's talk page:
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The date field is optional, but should be included.
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at the bottom of the list. If you'd like, you can also add a comment after your name if you volunteer for this cleanup project.{{
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unreferenced articles on Wikipedia, we need your help! Simply
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