Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Unreferenced GA task force
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This WikiProject, similar to the WikiProject Good Articles, aims to list those articles that are well-written but lack references, or, where applicable, lack printed or peer-reviewed references.
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[edit] Objectives
- Raise awareness of the need for good references and the abundance of badly-referenced articles
- Compile a list of good articles that need references added or cleaned up
- Encourage giving page numbers when large textbooks are being cited
- Develop tools to clean up references
- Advocate use of {{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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Referencing styles
- Example of citing page numbers (citing page numbers is recommended, for easier verification)
- An example of Harvard references
[edit] Tools
[edit] Features
Please feel free to add additional requested features to list.
- Diagnose issues related to content in non-first named references.
- ✔ Identify cases where multiple same-named references contain content. In such case, the non-first content will not be rendered by <references/>.
- ✔ Identify cases where an empty named reference occurs before the one (or more) with content, and <references/> renders that note as empty.
- ✔ Propose revision of article source with named reference content in first position. If multiple occurrences have contents, provide a manual choice of which one is the "authentic" note content.
- In a user-guided manner, convert m:Cite.php references that look like citations to either Harvard or Label reference templates.
- What's the criterion for "looks like"? Maybe start with ones that are entirely {cite XXX} templates.
- Any better idea of what a citation is (as opposed to a footnote), from a robot perspective?
- Create separate "Footnotes" and "References" sections for the two types of notes.
- ✔ Put the whole thing on a web interface that lets users make the necessary decisions with checkboxes and the like.
- ✔ The final result should be text that a user may copy into an article. I definitely don't want to have some errant bot make bad decisions without human guidance.
- Convert bare references (i.e. [http://example.com/page.html]) to full {{cite web}} citation templates by following links and extracting metadata.
- Automatically "WebCite" (cache/archive) cited URLs. WebCite has a relatively straightforward XML-based ASP for this, see http://www.webcitation.org/faq. Caching cited URLs with WebCite prevents Link rot and archives a snapshot of the URL an author meant to cite. The cited URL can either be replaced by a WebCite link (which contains the cited URL and caching date, or a unique snapshot ID) (note that this should be done only for new articles, otherwise we can't be sure if the page has been updated or disappeared), or the WebCite link could be added to the originally cited URL.
[edit] Todo
- Nominate articles from Category:Former good article nominees and Category:Delisted good articles.
[edit] Examples
- Geographic information system permalink
- Bird permalink
- Tuatara permalink
- Insect perm (some general references given, but inline references and page numbers would really help, see Trade and usage of saffron perm)
- Nile crocodile permalink (needs cleanup)
- Chameleon permalink (not quite GA, but lack of references the most serious failing)
- And here's an example of an accepted GA that could be more clearly referenced: Charles Darwin
- And some that may need to be updated to current practice: Global warming (this one has a relevant controversy on the talk page), Antioxidant
- Hot dog (permalink) - Good article on something everyone is familiar with, but few people know a lot about. However, it needs references.
