Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Unreferenced GA task force
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The Unreferenced GA task force, comprised of editors experienced in WikiProject Good articles, has been created to find articles that are of GA quality, but lack citations and add them so that these articles may qualify for GA status.
Objectives
- Promote the use of citations in articles that go to WP:GAN.
- Compile a list of GA-class quality articles that need references, then add them.
- Encourage giving page numbers when large textbooks are being cited
- Develop tools to clean up references
- Advocate use of {{tl|cite science}} where appropriate
Participants of this project are also encouraged to actively add references to articles, or prevent them from becoming unreferenced by removal of references. One good way of achieving this is to find competent editors in the edit histories of the articles concerned, or related articles, and contact them to ask their help.
When you feel that the references of an article have been sufficiently improved, and the article has no other serious failings, please feel free to (re)nominate it for WP:GA.
Nominations
Please nominate pages that have been rejected from WP:GAN on the grounds of not being sufficiently well-referenced, on the Nominations page. You may also make direct nominations of articles that have not passed through WP:GAN.
Referencing styles
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade_and_usage_of_saffron&oldid=52736426 Example of citing page numbers] (citing page numbers is recommended, for easier verification)
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Computer_science&oldid=47877692 An example of Harvard references]
Tools
Todo
- Nominate articles from :Category:Former good article nominees and :Category:Delisted good articles.
Examples
- Geographic information system [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geographic_information_system&oldid=54533335 permalink] (IN PROGRESS)
- Bird [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bird&oldid=54531222 permalink]
- Tuatara [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tuatara&oldid=54505176 permalink]
- Insect [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Insect&oldid=54498607 perm] (some general references given, but inline references and page numbers would really help, see Trade and usage of saffron [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade_and_usage_of_saffron&oldid=52736426 perm])
- Nile crocodile [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nile_crocodile&oldid=53887602 permalink] (needs cleanup)
- Chameleon [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chameleon&oldid=54461644 permalink] (not quite GA, but lack of references the most serious failing)
Categories
See also
Participants
- User:Samsara (talk • contribs) 11:31, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
- LotLE×talk 16:39, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
- General Eisenhower • (at war or at peace) 19:16, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
- Armedblowfish (talk|contribs) 22:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- Madhur Kumar Tanwani | Talk Page for Madhur 08:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
- ck lostsword|queta!|Suggestions? 18:07, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
- Rifleman 82 02:47, 12 September 2007 (UTC)