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Shortcut: WP:CSQ

Wikipedia:CiterSquad is a category-based project. Per Wikipedia:Verifiability The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. "Verifiable" in this context means that any reader should be able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source. Wikipedia:Verifiability is one of Wikipedia's core content policies. The others include Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view.

The primary goal to ensure that articles meet at least the barest minimum of verifiability, by including at least one reliable published (online or offline) reference. The project Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles also has this goal, articles with {{Unreferenced}} are reviewed, based on the length of time the article has been tagged.

An optional goal of this project is to check that the article is unreferenced, and if the article is appropriate for Wikipedia, ensure that the correct template {{BLP unsourced}}, {{Unreferenced}} to encourage editors to reference the article. If there are poorly formatted references in the article, format them per Wikipedia:Citing sources or place the {{Refimprove}} tag.

Contents 1 The tasks 1.1 Clean-up categories needing references 1.2 Category:Articles lacking sources (Erik9bot) 2 Hints and tips 2.1 General 2.2 Check validity of articles 3 See also 4 Volunteers

[edit] The tasks

[edit] Clean-up categories needing references

1. Pick an article from one of the categories listed below
2. Check for any references
3. If it is a Disambiguation page add {{disambig}}, these generally don't require references.
4. If there are poorly formatted references in the article, format them per Wikipedia:Citing sources or add {{Refimprove}}, {{citation style}}
5. Find and add references as needed
6. Update or remove tagging as appropriate.
7. For bonus points see if your references are also useful for related articles.

Articles needing additional references (refresh) June 2006 394 July 2006 238 August 2006 115 September 2006 64 October 2006 167 November 2006 165 December 2006 310 January 2007 313 February 2007 442 March 2007 404 April 2007 632 May 2007 934 June 2007 1,306 July 2007 2,455 August 2007 1,724 September 2007 1,392 October 2007 1,278 November 2007 1,403 December 2007 1,700 January 2008 2,230 February 2008 2,044 March 2008 2,038 April 2008 2,034 May 2008 2,002 June 2008 2,085 July 2008 2,303 August 2008 2,318 September 2008 1,833 October 2008 1,927 November 2008 1,872 December 2008 2,406 January 2009 2,730 February 2009 2,055 March 2009 3,168 April 2009 3,055 May 2009 3,251 June 2009 2,957 July 2009 3,109 August 2009 2,987 September 2009 3,083 October 2009 2,893 November 2009 3,422 Undated articles 25 All articles 73,305	unreferenced BLPs (refresh) October 2006 57 November 2006 212 December 2006 345 January 2007 388 February 2007 435 March 2007 573 April 2007 524 May 2007 497 June 2007 538 July 2007 541 August 2007 434 September 2007 482 October 2007 509 November 2007 607 December 2007 607 January 2008 862 February 2008 629 March 2008 961 April 2008 943 May 2008 607 June 2008 813 July 2008 757 August 2008 701 September 2008 617 October 2008 893 November 2008 793 December 2008 1,862 January 2009 2,715 February 2009 2,137 March 2009 1,914 April 2009 1,509 May 2009 4,081 June 2009 7,373 July 2009 3,601 August 2009 6,685 September 2009 2,998 October 2009 2,583 November 2009 1,127 Undated articles 9 All articles 53,957	Articles lacking sources (refresh) September 2006 242 October 2006 5,466 November 2006 6,146 December 2006 6,594 January 2007 6,166 February 2007 5,991 March 2007 5,929 April 2007 2,445 May 2007 2,429 June 2007 2,603 July 2007 2,221 August 2007 2,805 September 2007 2,731 October 2007 3,188 November 2007 3,967 December 2007 4,540 January 2008 4,675 February 2008 4,173 March 2008 5,101 April 2008 4,907 May 2008 4,042 June 2008 5,072 July 2008 4,137 August 2008 4,613 September 2008 3,798 October 2008 5,200 November 2008 3,987 December 2008 5,107 January 2009 6,838 February 2009 4,452 March 2009 6,345 April 2009 4,524 May 2009 5,263 June 2009 4,787 July 2009 5,474 August 2009 6,465 September 2009 5,345 October 2009 4,537 November 2009 5,380 Undated articles 121 All articles 177,806

[edit] Category:Articles lacking sources (Erik9bot)

1. Pick an article from Category:Articles lacking sources (Erik9bot)
2. Check for any references, unreferenced tag or under referenced tag
3. If it is a Disambiguation page add {{Disambig}}, these generally don't require references.
4. If there are poorly formatted references in the article, format them per Wikipedia:Citing sources or add {{Refimprove}}, {{citation style}}
5. Reference or action as you would any article in Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles Or
6. Add the template {{BLP unsourced}}, {{Unreferenced}}, to encourage editors to reference the article
7. After adding references or tags, remove the [[Category:Articles lacking sources (Erik9bot)]].
8. For bonus points see if your references are also useful for related articles.

The category Category:Articles lacking sources (Erik9bot) was populated by a bot named Erik9bot, it found articles that didn't appear to have a reference or unreferenced tag. The category is a hidden category.

[edit] Hints and tips

[edit] General

• In order to help people find this project, consider using an edit summary like the following: Wikipedia:CiterSquad; [[Wikipedia:CiterSquad|you can help!]]
• If the article has even one reference or external link (that is related to the article content) use -

• Templates {{Refimprove}}, {{Primarysources}}, and {{Onesource}} as appropriate to put the article in Category:Articles lacking reliable references
• Templates {{Verify source}}, or {{Verify credibility}} tags to put the article in to Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification.
• If the reference is spam or completely unrelated, you may want to remove it and consider further action.

• If an article has no reference, attempt to locate and add a reference(s) to the article.

• Add a section ==References== adding "{{Reflist}}" below will automatically generate the list of footnotes if they are used.
• At the barest minimum add {{Unreferenced}}
• {{uw-unsor1}} may be placed on the talk page of the original editor of an unreferenced article.

[edit] Check validity of articles

• Check if the article qualifies for speedy deletion/prod/afd/merge/redirect, review the rules and nominate as appropriate.
• If suspicious, check for possible copyright violation.
• Consider using {{find}} to look for sources.
• Validity related templates include {{Citation style}}, {{Or}} and others from Category:Citation and verifiability maintenance templates

[edit] See also

• User:Jeepday/Cite
• Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Article Cleanup

[edit] Volunteers

Feel free to sign your name and leave any comments if you volunteer for this cleanup project.

• This will be fun :) Jeepday (talk) 11:15, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
• Good idea. Jclemens (talk) 15:41, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
• Sure. ThemFromSpace 18:16, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
• Rettetast (talk) 18:59, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
• Yet another way to spend too much time on Wikipedia! PamD (talk) 07:39, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
• PhilKnight (talk) 22:17, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
• Of course! —œ^™ 21:24, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
• Count me in. N2e (talk) 04:57, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
• Bring it on!  Dspradau → talk  14:48, 29 July 2009 (UTC)