Wiki143:WikiProject Good articles/Unreferenced GA task force

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 Template:Tl 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

• Example of citing page numbers (citing page numbers is recommended, for easier verification)
• An example of Harvard references

Tools

• Cyde's Ref Converter

Todo

• Nominate articles from Category:Former good article nominees and Category:Delisted good articles.

Examples

• Geographic information system permalink (IN PROGRESS)
• 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)

Categories

• Category:Articles lacking sources

See also

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
• Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles

Participants

1. Samsara (talk • contribs) 11:31, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
2. LotLE×talk 16:39, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
3. General Eisenhower • (at war or at peace) 19:16, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
4. Armedblowfish (talk|contribs) 22:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
5. Madhur Kumar Tanwani | Talk Page for Madhur 08:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
6. ck lostsword|^queta!|_Suggestions? 18:07, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
7. Rifleman 82 02:47, 12 September 2007 (UTC)