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Women in Red July 2022, Vol 8, Issue 7, Nos 214, 217, 234, 235
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Unreferenced article project
Hi Kazamzam,
You left an invite to the unreferenced article project on my page, thanks. How can I help? Chagropango (talk) 05:59, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @Chagropango:! Thanks so much for responding! Basically the URA is trying to get through the backlog of completely unreferenced articles that dates back to February 2007, roughly 141,500 articles. The backlog is divided into categories by month (February 2007, March 2007, and so on) that were categorized by a bot with the date they were tagged as unreferenced. The bot also tagged +100,000 articles in December 2009 so that category is HUGE - you can definitely find a topic you are interested in to cite to your heart's content.
- The project page has a how-to guide for finding sources and the format for including them in an article so I won't bore you by repeating all that. I will stress that it's imperative that our citations be relevant, reliable, and verifiable, almost more so than other editors, because poor sources attached to this project undermine our credibility. Google Scholar/Books and JSTOR are definitely your friends and if you are ever having trouble finding sources, feel free to ask me as I have some extra library accesses through my own connections.
- The other big thing is to be sure to remove the unreferenced tag, for tracking purposes, and I use this edit summary to drum up awareness for the project: "Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles; you can help!". I like to put at least 2, ideally 3+, references on a given article. If you are unable to find more, the 'more citations' tag is helpful. Also some of these older articles don't have any WikiProject linked to their talk page so adding those, based on subject/area/other criteria, can be a good way to alert the relevant people that it is in need of rescue.
- If you're still interested, we'd be very happy to have you! Best, Kazamzam (talk) 13:57, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
- Wow, that is a lot. I'm not sure how much I could help, but I could definitely do some.
- So all I would need to do is go to the unreferenced article category and select a page? Chagropango (talk) 07:05, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Chagropango, pretty much! Any article tagged as unreferenced falls under our purview. The main concern is having high quality sources but if you have something good, let it rip. Kazamzam (talk) 15:00, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- Alright, thanks. What do you mean by "something good" though? I would think if a source is not high quality it would not be good. Chagropango (talk) 15:06, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- Oh also I just saw on your page you have a translation contest for women's biographies, is it too late to get in on that? Chagropango (talk) 15:08, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Chagropango the translation contest is open, go for it!
- As for reliable sources, this is a great how-to guide with information on Wikipedia's reliable source policy. Basically making sure we're not getting info from uncited Wordpress/Blogspot blogs that are full of personal opinions and no facts. So the New York Times, Cochrane reviews, JAMA, the Lancet, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, etc. would all be considered reliable sources. The other big thing is to make sure that we're not citing sources that are citing Wikipedia as their source. There is also the Wikipedia Reference Search which is a modified version of Google that only returns results from sites (some) editors consider generally reliable. Does that make sense? Kazamzam (talk) 15:33, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, got it. Chagropango (talk) 15:46, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Chagropango, pretty much! Any article tagged as unreferenced falls under our purview. The main concern is having high quality sources but if you have something good, let it rip. Kazamzam (talk) 15:00, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Please look at the AfD
Hi. Apart from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Muthurua Farm please look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Makere ya Gwano also. The user MIDI is really tricky as I found this. Regards - Signed by NeverTry4Me Talk 03:07, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Help request
@Kazamzam: can you please help me with the Draft:Sajid Mir and Draft:G Bidai. Notability is widely established and I am confident of NOTABILITY. Regards - Signed by NeverTry4Me Talk 07:06, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @NeverTry4Me - I will try to get to these but I'm working on the Kenya stubs so I'm not sure I can. My suggestions would be to polish the language more so than the references, i.e. removing terms like 'a.k.a.', cleaning up some grammar points, etc. I'm not an AfC reviewer but I think these probably meet notability criteria so just try to be patient! It will happen! Kazamzam (talk) 14:06, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
Please look at the AfD
@Kazamzam: please look at these AfD too Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/D. B. S. Jeyaraj, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aashir Wajahat, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wajahat Rauf, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shazia Wajahat (2nd nomination) also. - Signed by NeverTry4Me Talk 03:41, 4 July 2022 (UTC)