This page documents the Unreferenced BLP Rescue Project's work on eliminating unreferenced BLPs from April 2008
Number of Unreferenced BLPs currently for April 2008: 0
SO I haven't seen as many flagrantly bad AfD nominations lately, and have been dabbling in Category:All unreferenced BLPs and adding sources, sometimes just bare URLs (but real newspaper-type sources nonetheless), to articles tagged as unreferenced BLPS. Then I either remove the tag or replace it with the "BLP refimprove" tag (i.e., it needs more citations, but it does have some).
There are currently 28,870 of these unreferenced BLPs (as of July 1, 2010, down from 43,000 in Feb. 2010, I believe). Anyone interested in joining me on a quest to eliminate one months' listing of these as a start? (The articles are marked according to when they were tagged as unreferenced, not when they were created, oftentimes the article existed for years without being tagged.) I guess this task is not wholly unrelated to Ikip's BLP contest idea, but that didn't get that far and this would be a collaborative team project).
I nominate April 2008 as a start: Category:Unreferenced_BLPs_from_April_2008, which has a manageable 458 articles tagged right now as a start (Now: 0). Who's interested? Also, if you source anything fascinating to you (even if its fascinatingly boring), add commentary as we keep a running tally of how the project is going.
One we close out a month, suitably creative barnstars will be distributed to those deserving!
Category:Unreferenced_BLPs_from_April_2008
I've done all of the Ws except for three, which I can't find any references for. I'm not sure what to do with them now. Should I WP:AFD them, WP:PROD them, leave a note on the talk page saying I'm going to do this, or what? Any thoughts would be welcomed. Hallucegenia ( talk) 13:57, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm rather glad I could find a reference to keep this hurler in the encyclopedia. See diff [1]. Hallucegenia ( talk) 16:28, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Rather than doing all the outstanding hurlers one at a time, I've started to add a reference to the team templates. If you look at Paddy Moran (hurler), he now has a reference contained within the template boxes for each Kilkenny team he played for: you have to "show" the templates to see the reference. I hope to add the equivalent reference to all 55 Kilkenny team templates in Category:Kilkenny Senior Hurling Team navigational boxes by the end of today. This should knock off several hundred completely unreferenced BLPs in one go. :).
But this only works for Kilkenny hurlers. If anyone here has come across similar comprehensive listings for other counties, please add them to the list below. By using them to reference the templates, we could save ourselves an enormous amount of work. Thanks. Hallucegenia ( talk) 14:09, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
(unindent). Awesome finishing up folks! I like the randomness of whats contained in a month myself. I'm all for doing May 2008 next, it is fun to see the numbers drop. I daresay we could even move the project out of my userspace because we seem to have a good thing going? I think I just move this page to Wikipedia:Unreferenced BLP Rescue? Then I'll see about getting our project featured on Signpost?-- Milowent • talk blp-r 18:45, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
(unindent) if people want to stick to whole months, why not take the oldest? Category:Unreferenced BLPs from June 2007 only has 30 left and Category:Unreferenced BLPs from July 2007 130, so you could polish off quite a few months, and in theory the articles that have sat around unreferenced longest are in most need of TLC. Also I've got a little experiment running in later months where I reviewed the project tags of a whole month with a view to seeing how effective that was at getting them fixed - so if you don't mind I'd like to steer you away from that month and its neighbours for a little longer whilst I see how effective that project tagging is. Ϣere SpielChequers 14:07, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
This page documents the Unreferenced BLP Rescue Project's work on eliminating unreferenced BLPs from April 2008
Number of Unreferenced BLPs currently for April 2008: 0
SO I haven't seen as many flagrantly bad AfD nominations lately, and have been dabbling in Category:All unreferenced BLPs and adding sources, sometimes just bare URLs (but real newspaper-type sources nonetheless), to articles tagged as unreferenced BLPS. Then I either remove the tag or replace it with the "BLP refimprove" tag (i.e., it needs more citations, but it does have some).
There are currently 28,870 of these unreferenced BLPs (as of July 1, 2010, down from 43,000 in Feb. 2010, I believe). Anyone interested in joining me on a quest to eliminate one months' listing of these as a start? (The articles are marked according to when they were tagged as unreferenced, not when they were created, oftentimes the article existed for years without being tagged.) I guess this task is not wholly unrelated to Ikip's BLP contest idea, but that didn't get that far and this would be a collaborative team project).
I nominate April 2008 as a start: Category:Unreferenced_BLPs_from_April_2008, which has a manageable 458 articles tagged right now as a start (Now: 0). Who's interested? Also, if you source anything fascinating to you (even if its fascinatingly boring), add commentary as we keep a running tally of how the project is going.
One we close out a month, suitably creative barnstars will be distributed to those deserving!
Category:Unreferenced_BLPs_from_April_2008
I've done all of the Ws except for three, which I can't find any references for. I'm not sure what to do with them now. Should I WP:AFD them, WP:PROD them, leave a note on the talk page saying I'm going to do this, or what? Any thoughts would be welcomed. Hallucegenia ( talk) 13:57, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm rather glad I could find a reference to keep this hurler in the encyclopedia. See diff [1]. Hallucegenia ( talk) 16:28, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Rather than doing all the outstanding hurlers one at a time, I've started to add a reference to the team templates. If you look at Paddy Moran (hurler), he now has a reference contained within the template boxes for each Kilkenny team he played for: you have to "show" the templates to see the reference. I hope to add the equivalent reference to all 55 Kilkenny team templates in Category:Kilkenny Senior Hurling Team navigational boxes by the end of today. This should knock off several hundred completely unreferenced BLPs in one go. :).
But this only works for Kilkenny hurlers. If anyone here has come across similar comprehensive listings for other counties, please add them to the list below. By using them to reference the templates, we could save ourselves an enormous amount of work. Thanks. Hallucegenia ( talk) 14:09, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
(unindent). Awesome finishing up folks! I like the randomness of whats contained in a month myself. I'm all for doing May 2008 next, it is fun to see the numbers drop. I daresay we could even move the project out of my userspace because we seem to have a good thing going? I think I just move this page to Wikipedia:Unreferenced BLP Rescue? Then I'll see about getting our project featured on Signpost?-- Milowent • talk blp-r 18:45, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
(unindent) if people want to stick to whole months, why not take the oldest? Category:Unreferenced BLPs from June 2007 only has 30 left and Category:Unreferenced BLPs from July 2007 130, so you could polish off quite a few months, and in theory the articles that have sat around unreferenced longest are in most need of TLC. Also I've got a little experiment running in later months where I reviewed the project tags of a whole month with a view to seeing how effective that was at getting them fixed - so if you don't mind I'd like to steer you away from that month and its neighbours for a little longer whilst I see how effective that project tagging is. Ϣere SpielChequers 14:07, 19 July 2010 (UTC)