Wikipedia:WikiProject Reliability

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Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to WikiProject Reliability. This WikiProject is dedicated to improving the reliability of Wikipedia articles. We ensure that articles are supported by reliable sources, answer inquiries on the reliable sources noticeboard, and maintain a list of frequently discussed sources. This project works to achieve the goals of the verifiability and no original research policies. If you would like to help, please join the project, participate on the talk page and see the open tasks below.

Getting started

  • Do you have an article/fact/reference that needs checking? See the guidelines for help with tagging articles for review and correction.
  • Do you want to help improve the reliability of Wikipedia? Lend a hand with some of the open tasks, and add your name to the participants list.
  • Do you have a question? Please feel free to comment on the project talk page, and someone will try to help as soon as possible!

Scope and goals

Scope

This WikiProject covers all articles on Wikipedia.

Goals

  1. Ensure that content in articles is verifiable
    • Identify and tag claims that require verification with appropriate templates
    • Perform fact and reference checks for articles with verification templates
    • Provide assistance with factual verification to editors
  2. Improve the reliability of sources cited in articles
    • Add citations to reliable sources
    • Replace citations to questionable sources with citations to better sources
    • Remove content supported by questionable sources when it is unsupported by reliable sources
  3. Participate in discussions on the reliable sources noticeboard
  4. Maintain the list of perennial sources
    • Add perennial sources that are missing from the page
    • Index new discussions from the reliable sources noticeboard
    • Update entries when noticeboard discussions are archived

Guidelines

Articles with no references

For an article with no citations, add the template {{unreferenced}} to the beginning of the article to flag it for review and addition of citations. This will automatically add the article to Category:Articles lacking sources.

Articles based on a single source

If the article has only one reference or external link (that is related to the article content), use {{one source}} to put the article in Category:Articles lacking sources.

Articles with partial or incomplete sources

For an article with partial sources, add the templates {{refimprove}} or {{primary sources}}. This will automatically add the article to Category:Articles needing additional references or Category:Articles lacking reliable references.

Articles with questionable resources

For an article with questionable resources, add the templates {{verify source}} or {{verify credibility}} to put the article in to Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification.

Articles with statements that lack references

For an article with small numbers of statements lacking references, add the template {{citation needed}} or {{citations missing}}. This will automatically add the article to Category:Articles with unsourced statements.

Other maintenance templates are available at Category:Citation and verifiability maintenance templates.

Open tasks

How can I help now?

There are a number of different Wikipedia Backlog categories that help track the existing backlog of referencing activities. They fall into two major groups, Lacking References and Ensuring Accuracy through existing references:

Help now: Solve Citations Needed!

At the moment, there are over 353,333 articles with "Citation needed" statements. They are some of the easiest referencing issues to solve, because you are frequently looking for a targeted and singular reference. You can browse the whole list of these articles at Category:All articles with unsourced statements.

With 353,333 statements that need WP:Verification, sometimes it's hard to choose which article to work on. The tool Citation Hunt makes that easier by suggesting random articles, which you can sort by topical category membership.

I can help! Give me a random citation to find!

Participants

Participants

If you wish to join the project, please add your name to the list with:

#{{np2|Your username}} ~~~~~

Join WikiProject Reliability

  1. A Quest For Knowledge (talk · contribs) 20:29, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
  2. Factseducado (talk · contribs) 22:33, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
  3. Fifelfoo (talk · contribs) 05:16, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
  4. History2007 (talk · contribs) 19:04, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
  5. IRWolfie- (talk · contribs) 20:12, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
  6. Joe Decker (talk · contribs) 22:32, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
  7. John Carter (talk · contribs) 23:12, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
  8. John Vandenberg (talk · contribs) 11:02, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
  9. JohnChrysostom (talk · contribs) 05:23, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
  10. Maunus (talk · contribs) 22:28, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
  11. Mauro Lanari (talk · contribs) 23:47, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
  12. Newslinger (talk · contribs) 16:52, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
  13. Orschstaffer (talk · contribs) 17:13, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
  14. RL0919 (talk · contribs) 19:52, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
  15. The Blade of the Northern Lights (talk · contribs) 04:01, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
  16. Waking-to Kindness (talk · contribs) 14:36, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
  17. Whiteghost.ink (talk · contribs) 02:46, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
  18. YHoshua (talk · contribs) 04:17, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
  19. Guy Macon (talk · contribs) 01:08, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

This project was merged with WikiProject Fact and Reference Check, whose participants are listed here.

Templates

Userbox

The WikiProject Reliability userbox can be added with {{User WikiProject Reliability}}, which shows:

Crosshairs Red.svgThis user is a participant in WikiProject Reliability.

Invitation

To invite a user to WikiProject Reliability, use {{subst:WikiProject Reliability invite}}, which displays:

Crosshairs Red.svg

Hi, WikiProject Reliability! Thanks for ensuring that articles are supported by reliable sources. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject Reliability, a collaborative effort to improve the reliability of Wikipedia articles.

If you would like to participate, please visit WikiProject Reliability for more information. Feel free to sign your name under "Participants". Thanks! ~~~~

Pages

To include a page under WikiProject Reliability, add {{WikiProject Reliability}} to the top of the corresponding talk page, which shows:

WikiProject Reliability
WikiProject iconThis page is part of WikiProject Reliability, a collaborative effort to improve the reliability of Wikipedia articles. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
 

This also adds the page to Category:Wikipedia reliable sources.

See also

Related projects

Key pages

Tools

Reports

Miscellaneous

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