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Welcome to WikiProject citation cleanup. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving the quality and consistency of citations and footnotes in Wikipedia. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
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Goals
- Standardising the use of citations by making all citations within the same article consistent with each other
- Ensuring that no citations are broken at any time
Scope
- Any article that utilises footnotes. For unreferenced or underreferenced articles, see WikiProject Unreferenced Article Cleanup
Open tasks
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Guidelines
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- Please note that Wikipedia's style guideline on embedded links says, "A full citation is also required in a References section at the end of the article." If able, please provide this.
- If you see a reference to a news article, it is helpful to link to an online-version of this article (typing the title of the article in the search engine is often sufficient).
Tagging articles
If you don't have time to fix citations/references at the moment, you can still help by tagging the article so that others can find and fix them.
- Broken citations and Dead links: Pages are currently added to this category by {{Cite web}} and {{Cite news}} if they use incorrect syntax. You can also tag articles with dead links by using {{citations broken}}.
- Articles lacking in-text citations: This category is filled by the {{nofootnote}} template
- Citation style: Use the {{Citation style}} tag to put articles in this category.
- Articles with unsourced statements: use {{Fact}} or {{subst:Fact-now}}
- Articles needing page number citations: use {{page number}}
- Articles needing more detailed references: Use {{specify}}, to add an article to this category.
- Articles lacking reliable references: use {{Primarysources}} or {{rs}}.
- Articles needing additional references: use {{Refimprove}}, {{Refimprovesect}} and {{Unreferencedsection}}.
See also
Help:Citations quick reference
Examples
Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
- bdesham (talk · contribs) 18:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
- Wtmitchell (talk · contribs) 04:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
- Rifleman_82 (talk · contribs)
- Wildhartlivie (talk · contribs) 06:47, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
- Softtest123 (talk · contribs) (I am adding citations to computer oriented articles with no citations) 13:56, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
- Biochemza (talk · contribs) 20:38, 1 November 2007 (UTC). Fixing citation style consistency.
- Jw21 (talk · contribs) 01:37, 2 December 2007 (UTC) (I have been adding and checking citations before this WikiProject came into light, and I'd be happy to be affiliated with it.)
- Superm401 (talk · contribs) 12:55, 31 December 2007 (UTC) As with Jw21, I've been doing this often, and I'm glad to join up. Superm401 - Talk 12:55, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- Sparkygravity (talk · contribs) I'm interested in working on citation style consistency, and increasing reliable sources 17:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- Altairisfar (talk · contribs) 02:20, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
- Rosiestep (talk · contribs) 21:50, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
- Brenont (talk · contribs) 03:30, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
- EraserGirl (talk · contribs) 03:46, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- Skittleys (talk · contribs) 04:52, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
- Leonard^Bloom (talk · contribs) I hit "Random Article" and if whatever comes up needs work, I do it. 00:27, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
- Blehfu (talk · contribs) 04:16, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
- N2e (talk · contribs)04:26, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Please note that it is "User|" not "User:" and five tildes to add the date, not four.
Note: If you are a participant, then you may wish to add {{User WikiProject Citation cleanup}} to your userpage.
This user is a member of
WikiProject Citation cleanup.
Collaboration and review
Templates
Citation templates
- {{citation style}}
- {{nofootnote}}
- {{Citation}}
- {{cite book}}
- {{cite court}} (Court Case)
- {{cite encyclopedia}}
- {{cite episode}} (Television or radio episode)
- {{cite journal}}
- {{cite conference}}
- {{cite mailing list}}
- {{cite map}}
- {{cite news}}
- {{cite newsgroup}}
- {{cite paper}} (Papers, theses, dissertations)
- {{cite press release}}
- {{cite video}}
- {{cite web}}
See also: Wikipedia:Citation templates
Article tagging templates
- {{citations broken}}
- {{nofootnote}}
- {{Citation style}}
- {{Fact}} or {{subst:Fact-now}}
- {{page number}}
- {{specify}}
- {{Primarysources}}
- {{rs}}
- {{Refimprove}}
- {{Refimprovesect}}
- {{Unreferencedsection}}
Categories
- Category:All articles with broken or outdated citations
- Category:All articles with unsourced statements
- Category:Articles lacking in-text citations
- Category:Articles lacking page references
- Category:Articles needing additional references
- Category:Articles needing more detailed references
- Category:Articles with broken citations
- Category:Wikipedia articles needing page number citations
- Category:Wikipedia references cleanup
- Category:Articles lacking reliable references
Resources
Tools
- Wikipedia Citation Assistant for journal article citations
- WebCite — tool to archive webpages to allow stable citation links.
- Template builder — given an ISBN, a PubMed ID, etc., output a citation which can be pasted into a Wikipedia article.
- Reference generator — generates wikicode for journals, webpages, and other commonly cited sources.
- User:CitationTool — tool for finding citation errors and fixing them.
- Wikicite — a free program that helps editors to properly reference their Wikipedia contributions using citation templates. It is written in Visual Basic .NET, making it suitable only for users with the .NET Framework installed on Windows, or, for other platforms, the Mono alternative framework.
- OttoBib.com — a free tool to generate an alphabetized bibliography for books, using an input list of International Standard Book Number (ISBN) numbers, with output in MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, BibTeX, or Wikipedia format (also generates a permalink).
- Cite.php — a MediaWiki extension that enables the use of <ref>.
- Zotero allows you to find articles in Mozilla Firefox and easily paste them into Wikipedia as citation templates using Ctrl-Alt-C
- Verisimilus's Cite generation page lets you find articles using built-in Google Scholar interface and automatically produce an appropriate cite template. It also features a BibTeX to {{cite}} converter.
- User:Richiez tools to handle citations for a whole article at a time. Converts occurences of {{pmid XXXX}} or {{isbn XXXX}} to properly formatted footnote or Harvard style references. Written in Ruby and requires a working installation with basic libraries.
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