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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.

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
  • Preserving citations by archiving them with archive.today and the Wayback Machine

Scope

Open tasks

Guidelines

  • If you see a link that shows up as [1], try to convert it to show up with text (e.g. Google).
  • 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.

See also

Help:Citations quick reference

Examples

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. bdesham ( talk · contribs) 18:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC) reply
  2. Wtmitchell ( talk · contribs) 04:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC) reply
  3. Rifleman_82 ( talk · contribs)
  4. Wildhartlivie ( talk · contribs) 06:47, 28 September 2007 (UTC) reply
  5. Softtest123 ( talk · contribs) 13:56, 30 September 2007 (UTC) I mostly do link rot clean up or cleanup after a bot does link rot clean up (i.e. Missing authors, titles, and dates). reply
  6. Biochemza ( talk · contribs) 20:38, 1 November 2007 (UTC). Fixing citation style consistency. reply
  7. 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.) reply
  8. 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. reply
  9. Sparkygravity ( talk · contribs) I'm interested in working on citation style consistency, and increasing reliable sources 17:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC) reply
  10. Altairisfar ( talk · contribs) 02:20, 12 January 2008 (UTC) reply
  11. Brenont ( talk · contribs) 03:30, 7 March 2008 (UTC) reply
  12. EraserGirl ( talk · contribs) 03:46, 6 April 2008 (UTC) reply
  13. Skittleys ( talk · contribs) 04:52, 12 July 2008 (UTC) reply
  14. Leonard^Bloom ( talk · contribs) I hit " Random Article" and if whatever comes up needs work, I do it. 00:27, 29 July 2008 (UTC) reply
  15. Blehfu ( talk · contribs) 04:16, 17 August 2008 (UTC) reply
  16. N2e ( talk · contribs)04:26, 17 August 2008 (UTC) reply
  17. Legoktm ( talk · contribs) 02:28, 12 September 2008 (UTC) reply
  18. Jw_193 ( talk · contribs) 12:34, 14 November 2008 (UTC) reply
  19. UpstateNYer ( talk · contribs) 21:32, 3 December 2008 (UTC) - I also go for random articles and format into {{ cite}}. I'll also hit big-ticket pages and fix their references as well. reply
  20. OlEnglish ( talk · contribs) Always checking and adding citations. 23:19, 9 January 2009 (UTC) reply
  21. Atmoz ( talk · contribs) 16:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC) reply
  22. Emc2 ( talk · contribs) 22:02, 19 January 2009 (UTC) reply
  23. Speednat ( talk · contribs) 03:24, 21 February 2009 (UTC) I have been doing it already, mainly in birds. reply
  24. Jeffq ( talk · contribs) 18:44, 19 March 2009 (UTC). Most of my non-trivial WP edits of late involve cleaning up, expanding, and formatting citations, including turning bare external links to proper references, usually whenever I read an article for other purposes. reply
  25. Flipper24 ( talk · contribs) 11:37, 29 April 2009 (UTC)There are a number of Australian Schools articles that could use some citations. reply
  26. Unionhawk ( talk · contribs) 04:11, 25 May 2009 (UTC) reply
  27. Mistress of Awesome ( talk · contribs) 19:15, 30 May 2009 (UTC), unhealthily obsessed with checking footnotes and references. reply
  28. Matthew Desjardins ( talk · contribs)
  29. Lantrix ( talk · contribs) 02:54, 26 September 2009 (UTC), have been checking and correcting citations for quite a while. reply
  30. Zoeydahling ( talk · contribs) 03:59, 24 October 2009 (UTC) reply
  31. bender235 ( talk · contribs) 01:32, 28 December 2009 (UTC), I've fixed citation styles in Wikipedia for years. reply
  32. DutchTreat ( talk · contribs) 13:20, 30 January 2010 (UTC) reply
  33. PoeticVerse ( talk · contribs) 13:54, 17 March 2010 (UTC) reply
  34. CharlesGillingham ( talk · contribs) 16:29, 24 March 2010 (UTC) reply
  35. RDBrown ( talk · contribs) 14:37, 8 June 2010 (UTC) PMID etc. → cite journal reply
  36. Reaper_Eternal ( talk · contribs) 02:23, 2 November 2010 (UTC) - I commonly open "Random article", fix any citations, and then walk down the wikilinks looking for more citations to fix. reply
  37. Francophile124 ( talk · contribs) 09:51, 2 March 2011 (UTC) reply
  38. ShelleyAdams ( talk · contribs) 13:42, 21 March 2011 (UTC) reply
  39. TheJJJunk ( talk · contribs) 14:46, 24 March 2012 (UTC) reply
  40. ramaksoud2000 ( talk · contribs) 02:26, 14 December 2011 (UTC) reply
  41. Wtwilson3 ( talk · contribs) I don't have a lot of time to fix references, but have been tagging a lot and decided to join up. And it's good to be #41 on the list, I used to have a cat named 41. —  Bill W. ( Talk) ( Contrib)  –  28 March 2024, 22:35 (UTC) 19:24, 6 January 2012 (UTC) reply
  42. Benzband ( talk · contribs)
  43. Benjamil ( talk · contribs) Tagging, finding sources (I love to google). 22:31, 13 May 2012 (UTC) reply
  44. Faizanalivarya ( talk · contribs) I look at everything, Whatever article need me I would be there as protector of that article, love Wikipedia, love project Peace. -- 18:53, 25 May 2012 (UTC) reply
  45. kawaii♥bot ( talk) 09:35, 2 June 2012 (UTC) reply
  46. Ikerus ( talk · contribs) 15:13, 18 June 2012 (UTC) reply
  47. Renzoy16 ( talk · contribs) - I have been fixing citations for months using Twinkle. 20:02, 12 September 2012 (UTC) reply
  48. Stillwaterising ( talk · contribs) - journal, medical, and scientific citations. - 06:59, 28 September 2012 (UTC) reply
  49. FiendYT ( talk · contribs) - I have recently joined Wikipedia, and want to make a difference in the way articles are presented.
  50. Funandtrvl ( talk · contribs) 23:18, 10 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  51. Johnmperry ( talk · contribs) 00:07, 25 February 2013 (UTC) - I tend to look in history-related articles, mostly Philippine but others too reply
  52. Ecallow ( talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on computer related wikis) 16:30, 13 April 2013 (UTC) reply
  53. l1271435 ( talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on science related wikis) - 16:00, 14 April 2013 (UTC) reply
  54. Kjtobo ( talk · contribs) I have been working through Category:Articles needing link rot cleanup - 16:45, 27 June 2013 (UTC) reply
  55. Chaetodipus ( talk · contribs) 21:24, 27 June 2013 (UTC) reply
  56. Miszatomic ( talk · contribs) 20:50 29 July 2013 (UTC)
  57. MrBill3 ( talk · contribs) (Science, Medicine, Skepticism) 12:23, 10 September 2013 (UTC) reply
  58. Scottyoak2 ( talk · contribs) 16:45, 4 October 2013 (UTC) reply
  59. Frze ( talk · contribs) 10:30, 10 October 2013
  60. Ruby Murray ( talk · contribs) 09:22, 23 October 2013 (UTC) reply
  61. Prof. Squirrel ( talk · contribs) 00:12, 1 November 2013 (UTC) reply
  62. Meteor sandwich yum ( talk · contribs) 20:20, 23 November 2013 (UTC) reply
  63. Acb314 ( talk · contribs) 11:42, 27 December 2013 (UTC) reply
  64. Azaghal of Belegost ( talk · contribs) (I am interested in unifying citation style with {{ cite}}, particularly on physics articles) 20:32, 15 January 2014 (UTC) reply
  65. Diptanshu.D ( talk · contribs) I have been cleaning up references and using citation templates for WP:MED for quite some time. Did not know that a separate WikiProject existed for this 17:46, 18 January 2014 (UTC) reply
  66. Tgok ( talk · contribs) I've been doing this informally for a while. Might as well make it official. 21:32, 26 January 2014 (UTC) reply
  67. Safety_Cap ( talk · contribs) 09:28, 27 January 2014 (UTC) reply
  68. J Beake ( talk · contribs) 19:16, 29 January 2014 (UTC) reply
  69. Sesquiannual ( talk · contribs) 18:02, 16 February 2014 (UTC) Help with broken reference names reply
  70. Carriearchdale ( talk · contribs)07:40, 23 April 2014 (UTC) reply
  71. Randomdice ( talk · contribs)03:53, 21 June 2014 (UTC) reply
  72. Lloydsilver ( talk) 22:57, 5 July 2014 (UTC) reply
  73. Mahensingha ( talk · contribs)12:50, 26 September 2014 (UTC) reply
  74. George.Edward.C ( talk · contribs) 16:51, 12 November 2014 (UTC) - We need to clear those backlogs! reply
  75. AlbinoFerret ( talk · contribs) 16:06, 15 November 2014 (UTC) There is no scope to my interests in fixing citations, I have been doing it on my own and was happy to find this Wikiproject. reply
  76. StewdioMACK ( talk · contribs) 12:16, 29 November 2014 (UTC) reply
  77. BoonDock ( talk · contribs) 10:53, 18 December 2014 (UTC) reply
  78. Bosstopher ( talk · contribs) 13:00, 7 February 2015 (UTC) reply
  79. Nemesis2473 ( talk · contribs)
  80. Zveznet ( talk · contribs)
  81. Jablestech ( talk · contribs)
  82. AfroThundr3007730 ( talk · contribs) 06:54, 14 April 2015 (UTC) reply
  83. Olivettilly ( talk) 00:24, 26 June 2015 (UTC) reply
  84. Ouanor ( talk) 13:10, 4 July 2015 (UTC) reply
  85. Hampton11235 ( talk) 15:23, 4 July 2015 (UTC) reply
  86. Vivek.bekhabar ( talk · contribs) (Already correcting the wrong citations I see on article. Didn't know that their is a project. Its good to be here.) 07:10, 10 July 2015 (UTC) reply
  87. Geobeedude ( talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on fixing missing "|title=" fields in citations.) 03:24, 5 October 2015 (UTC) reply
  88. Clifford_Anderson ( talk · contribs) (I am interested in assisting librarians, college students, and faculty members with finding references for articles) 00:44, 19 October 2015 (UTC) reply
  89. Warga1 ( talk · contribs) (Interested in the concept of improving Wikipedia's authority by doing citation cleanup work. Excelsior!) 16:44, 21 October 2015 (UTC) reply
  90. LenTheWhiteCat ( talk · contribs) (working on name error backlog) 22:14, 28 December 2015 (UTC) reply
  91. Jennica ( talk · contribs) (cleaning up bare references) 11:28, 23 November 2016 (UTC) reply
  92. JayCodec ( talk · contribs) (Cleaning up bare references, primarily on Musical Articles.) 20:19, 27 January 2017 (UTC) reply
  93. Sirkablaam ( talk · contribs) 06:00, 5 February 2017 (UTC) reply
  94. PaleoNeonate ( talk · contribs) 18:32, 27 March 2017 (UTC) reply
  95. James_Shelton32 ( talk · contribs) (Cleaned up some articles on historical trains in the south. Added references, based on notes in Soil mesofauna) 14:28, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
  96. BulkData ( talk · contribs) 13:52, 25 May 2017 (UTC) reply
  97. EMachine03 ( talk · contribs) I am interested in fixing citation errors. 15:45, 5 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  98. Ohmyerica ( talk · contribs) (I love combating link rot!) 02:29, 27 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  99. RaptorChief ( talk · contribs) 05:48, 1 February 2018 (UTC) reply
  100. haakonsson ( talk · contribs) 19:25, 3 May 2018 (UTC) been doing it for years some one just linked to the page. reply
  101. TheTechnician27 ( talk · contribs) 23:13, 14 July 2018 (UTC) reply
  102. AmericanAir88 ( talk · contribs) 21:51, 5 September 2018 (UTC) reply
  103. Philharmonic Phil ( talk · contribs) 16:47, 29 October 2018 (UTC) reply
  104. Anas1712 ( talk · contribs) 21:14, 25 November 2018 (UTC) ( i correct bare references in templates since 6 months) reply
  105. jflopezfernandez ( talk · contribs) I love cleaning 23:59, 29 November 2018 (UTC) reply
  106. Prime Lemur ( talk · contribs) Sometimes people misplace citations during copy-editing, others add great material, but sometimes leave spartan citations. Fixing it contributes to the enduring robustness of WP. Or I think so, anyway *wink*. 10:01, 14 December 2018 (UTC) reply
  107. Smuckola ( talk · contribs) Seek and destroy all lack of citations and presence of non-template-formatted citations. Citations are the foundation of the encyclopedia. Please build automated tools to format and unify them all, such as Citoid, WP:REFILL, and wikidata.13:47, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
  108. Paleorthid ( talk · contribs) I love verifying citations. See talk. -- 17:33, 24 January 2019 (UTC) reply
  109. Mikhail Ishchenko ( talk · contribs)10:05, 31 January 2019 (UTC) reply
  110. A garbage person ( talk · contribs)—Love fixing weird citations. New, big fan of Harvard references.—22:23, 10 April 2019 (UTC) reply
  111. Mccull415 ( talk · contribs)18:54, 16 April 2019 (UTC) reply
  112. Masumrezarock100 ( talk · contribs) I combat against link rot. 09:01, 22 April 2019 (UTC) reply
  113. Jpotterlibr ( talk · contribs) 2:11, 23 April 2019
  114. Kodning ( talk · contribs) 05:12, 28 April 2019 (UTC) reply
  115. MonkeyStolen234 ( talk · contribs) I have been fighting through several pages to fix citations to the point of going to bed and dreaming of code every night for an entire week. I still love it, though. 17:55, 6 May 2019 (UTC) reply
  116. Diriector_Doc ( talk · contribs) I have been fixing link-only citation already. Thought I might aswell join the club! 21:28, 9 May 2019 (UTC) reply
  117. Nemo_bis ( talk · contribs) 12:17, 6 August 2019 (UTC) reply
  118. Ionmars10 ( talk · contribs) 19:32, 9 August 2019 (UTC) - will probably focus on cleaning up bare URLs reply
  119. Quuux ( talk · contribs) 02:53, 13 August 2019 (UTC) -- technical fixes (bare URLs, dead links, book details, etc.) reply
  120. Capewearer ( talk · contribs) verifying citations, moving them to what they actually verifiy, fixing bare URLs and dead links, etc. 04:58, 24 February 2020 (UTC) reply
  121. Esprit15d ( talk · contribs) 22:11, 24 February 2020 (UTC) reply
  122. Hatchens ( talk · contribs) 06:39, 10 March 2020 (UTC) reply
  123. Secundus Zephyrus ( talk · contribs) 03:34, 17 March 2020 (UTC) I have been going through the huge backlog of Category:Pages with broken reference names, but definitely can't do it alone reply
  124. Matthewrbowker ( talk · contribs) 08:49, 29 March 2020 (UTC) reply
  125. Less Unless ( talk · contribs) 12:16, 13 April 2020 (UTC) reply
  126. WildStar ( talk · contribs) 18:37, 17 April 2020 (UTC) reply
  127. Ms4263nyu ( talk · contribs) Ms4263nyu ( talk) 07:47, 1 May 2020 (UTC) reply
  128. Chrisma0 ( talk · contribs) I feel like the "Quote" field for references is severely underused on Wikipedia! It's so useful. 15:01, 3 May 2020 (UTC) reply
  129. Philoserf ( talk · contribs) 08:47, 26 May 2020 (UTC) reply
  130. Peaceray ( talk · contribs) I convert bare URLs to citation templates either by using WP:REFILL or manually, add OCLC #s where applicable, & link unlinked shortened footnotes & the like to full citation templates. 20:11, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
  131. Hello world 6 ( talk) 00:12, 17 July 2020 (UTC) I have recently started playing Citation Hunt and feel that I should join this WikiProject to help. reply
  132. Ds2320 ( talk) 21:50, 25 July 2020 (UTC) reply
  133. Thunderbotz ( talk) 08:17, 28 July 2020 (UTC) reply
  134. Tadyatha ( talk · contribs)
  135. Gnarlyedits ( talk · contribs) 17:54, 21 August 2020 (UTC) -- enlisting to help with Category:Pages with broken reference names reply
  136. Bgrus22 ( talk · contribs) I enjoy adding what I read to here or just increasing citations for pages that lack references
  137. Limbshard ( talk · contribs) 14:59, 9 September 2020 (UTC) reply
  138. AmirahBreen ( talk · contribs) 01:12, 24 November 2020 (UTC) reply
  139. Curb Safe Charmer ( talk · contribs) 14:45, 26 November 2020 (UTC) reply
  140. Exswimmer495 ( talk · contribs) 03:12, 10 December 2020 (UTC) I enjoy fixing doi's and links reply
  141. Kevo327 ( talk · contribs) 17:28, 8 January 2021 (UTC) I started with converting bare URLs and now expanded to all sorts of maintenance tasks. reply
  142. Uffda608 ( talk · contribs) 13:46, 7 March 2021 (UTC) I mainly convert bare URLs. reply
  143. Aeyeu ( talk · contribs) 08:47, 20 April 2021 (UTC) I mainly add archive url's and organise citations accordingly. reply
  144. Wgullyn ( talk · contribs) 02:21, 21 April 2021 (UTC) Mostly fixing bare URLs reply
  145. Bill Neto ( talk · contribs) 4:41, 6 May 2021 (UTC) Completing as much as possible all existing references I come across.
  146. Swaare ( talk · contribs) 14:37, 22 June 2021 (UTC). Mainly focused on bare URLs and plain text citations and converting them into CS1, on random articles I encounter while on research. reply
  147. Kaltenmeyer ( talk · contribs) 21:31, 9 August 2021 (UTC) Fixing dead urls with current URLs or archived URLs, fixing Wikipedia errors in footnotes, multiple citations with the same ref name; ref names not attached to any reference; duplicate names of authors; fixing bare URLs; moving references to the correct location in the article reply
  148. TsunTsky ( talk · contribs) 03:12 24 September, 2021 (UTC) Interested in Fixing up citation that are cited in incorrect or not recommedned forms
  149. Apollo468 ( talk · contribs) 02:10 2 October, 2021 (UTC) Mostly focused on adding references for any pages - particularly music.
  150. Charlette9 ( talk · contribs) 20:17, 20 December 2021 (UTC) Fixing and completing existing references as much as I can. reply
  151. SidP ( talk · contribs) 17:12, 5 January 2022 (UTC) Fixing, completing and adding requested (or needed) references; I wish I'd known this group existed before! I've been doing this for so long, and just learned I was not following CITEVAR well. When adding additional data to references, I was often taking the time to use the ref template and was recently corrected (due to a revert which stung). reply
  152. Storchy ( talk · contribs) 14:24, 21 February 2022 (UTC) For now I'm mostly fixing bare urls, and replacing dead links. reply
  153. I'ma editor2022 ( talk · contribs) 23:18, 18 March 2022 (UTC) CITATION FIXER!!! reply
  154. Gasiseda ( talk · contribs) 13:14, 1 April 2022 (UTC) addition and modification of references to military weapons articles. reply
  155. Ira Leviton ( talk · contribs) 00:31, 9 May 2022 (UTC) I've been fixing articles on any of the pages that appear on Category:CS1_maintenance or Category:CS1_maintenance. reply
  156. Penguinmlle ( talk · contribs) 20:18, 11 May 2022 (UTC) Medicine, pharmacology, drug policy, alternative medicine articles. reply
  157. Lenny Marks ( talk · contribs) 08:53, 30 May 2022 (UTC) reply
  158. Sideswipe9th ( talk · contribs) 20:52, 4 June 2022 (UTC) I'm working my way through the bare URL backlog, but if you need an opinion on gender, sexuality, video games, science fiction, fantasy, or Disney feel free to ask. reply
  159. Sportsfangnome ( talk) 03:17, 19 July 2022 (UTC) I mainly do American sports. reply
  160. Roundish ( talk · contribs) 01:13, 18 November 2022 (UTC) reply
  161. Rabbe Quiz ( talk) 20:26, 18 November 2022 (UTC) reply
  162. BhamBoi ( talk · contribs) (I had NO IDEA there was a wikiProject for this! I've been doing this independently for a while (check my contribs), so I'm glad to have found a group of like-minded editors.) 03:39, 12 December 2022 (UTC) reply
  163. Demt1298 ( talk · contribs) Bare URLs is something I have been working on 03:16, 13 January 2023 (UTC) reply
  164. Spinixster ( talk · contribs) I like cleaning refs so why not?
  165. Edward-Woodrow ( talk · contribs) 23:37, 10 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  166. History person 2 ( talk · contribs) Bare URLs. 11:33, 2 June 2023 (UTC) reply
  167. Grumpylawnchair ( talk · contribs) 02:17, 25 June 2023 (UTC) Bare URLs are my mortal enemy. reply
  168. DressChimera241 ( talk · contribs) 19:28, 14 July 2023 (UTC) I enjoy cleaning up bare references. reply
  169. HistoryTheorist ( talk · contribs) 23:16, 17 July 2023 (UTC) I eat bare URLs for breakfast (among other things) reply
  170. I am wordsmyth ( talk · contribs) 22:58, 16 August 2023 (UTC) reply
  171. ItsThatLemon ( talk · contribs) 17:36, 3 September 2023 (UTC) Enjoy cleaning up citations, especially bare URLs. reply
  172. RotciW ( talk · contribs) 22:35, 14 September 2023 (UTC) reply
  173. Neko-chan ( talk · contribs) 20:58, 5 December 2023 (UTC) I've been working on scientific journal cites for a while now, especially ones with naked DOIs. reply
  174. Spida-tarbell ( talk · contribs) 23:27, 29 December 2023 (UTC) reply
  175. Flux55 ( talk · contribs) 19:52, 9 February 2024 (UTC) reply
  176. wjw1225 ( talk · contribs) 01:54, 20 March 2024 (UTC) I fix bare URLs and citations reply

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Collaboration and review

Peer review
Assessment
I will assist if this team decides to take action. Note that the article's creator may react unfavorably. --- DOOMSDAYER520 ( Talk| Contribs) 12:27, 8 April 2019 (UTC) reply
I've rewritten the 2002-06 section and listed the references for them (from 600 words to 250). I'm not comfortable editing the actual page as I'd likely break the references as I kept just nine (but only their URL). Any recommendation for a next step? ogenstein ( talk) 15:27, 14 May 2019 (UTC) reply
  • Good grief. This is far and away the worst case of WP:REFBOMB I've ever seen. I'm not even kidding when I say it might be worth it to just completely undo all of Pr12402's edits to the article. For crying out loud, the article on the American Civil War has fewer references. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 07:36, 6 June 2019 (UTC) reply

Templates

Citation templates

Article tagging templates

Categories

Click on "►" below to display subcategories:

Subpages

Resources

Tools

  • mw:Citoid – use in the visual editor to quickly "Convert" a bare URL into a citation template.
  • refill - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references.
  • Google book tool Converts bare url into {{ cite book}} format.
  • RefScript dead link
  • Universal reference formatter for journal article citations.
  • WebCite — tool to archive webpages to allow stable citation links.
  • Wikipedia template filling (was Diberri template builder) — given an ISBN, a PubMed PMID or PMCID, etc., output a citation which can be pasted into a Wikipedia article. Uses vauthors rather than first, last pairs.
  • Reference generator — generates wikicode for journals, webpages, and other commonly cited sources.
  • Citation bot — for finding and fixing citation errors, and adding missing data.
  • User:CitationTool — finds a different set of errors. Not currently working.
  • 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
  • Smith609's Google Scholar interface lets you search for articles in Google Scholar and automatically produce an appropriate cite template.
  • User:Richiez tools to handle citations for a whole article at a time. Converts occurrences 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.
  • WikiProject Check Wikipedia produces a series of daily reports with checks on various wiki syntax elements. The reports on broken template syntax frequently list {{ citation}} templates.
  • Automatic Referencing Assistant — The Automatic Referencing Assistant (ARA) is a script which aids users in correcting referencing errors. It notifies the user when the article being edited is missing the {{ Reflist}} template, has invalid or broken <ref></ref> tags, and many other small functions. Clicking a fix link will automatically add the necessary template or information to the correct location in the article.
  • WikiBlame - To find first entry of incorrect formating with broken reference names.

Related projects

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

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
  • Preserving citations by archiving them with archive.today and the Wayback Machine

Scope

Open tasks

Guidelines

  • If you see a link that shows up as [1], try to convert it to show up with text (e.g. Google).
  • 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.

See also

Help:Citations quick reference

Examples

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. bdesham ( talk · contribs) 18:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC) reply
  2. Wtmitchell ( talk · contribs) 04:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC) reply
  3. Rifleman_82 ( talk · contribs)
  4. Wildhartlivie ( talk · contribs) 06:47, 28 September 2007 (UTC) reply
  5. Softtest123 ( talk · contribs) 13:56, 30 September 2007 (UTC) I mostly do link rot clean up or cleanup after a bot does link rot clean up (i.e. Missing authors, titles, and dates). reply
  6. Biochemza ( talk · contribs) 20:38, 1 November 2007 (UTC). Fixing citation style consistency. reply
  7. 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.) reply
  8. 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. reply
  9. Sparkygravity ( talk · contribs) I'm interested in working on citation style consistency, and increasing reliable sources 17:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC) reply
  10. Altairisfar ( talk · contribs) 02:20, 12 January 2008 (UTC) reply
  11. Brenont ( talk · contribs) 03:30, 7 March 2008 (UTC) reply
  12. EraserGirl ( talk · contribs) 03:46, 6 April 2008 (UTC) reply
  13. Skittleys ( talk · contribs) 04:52, 12 July 2008 (UTC) reply
  14. Leonard^Bloom ( talk · contribs) I hit " Random Article" and if whatever comes up needs work, I do it. 00:27, 29 July 2008 (UTC) reply
  15. Blehfu ( talk · contribs) 04:16, 17 August 2008 (UTC) reply
  16. N2e ( talk · contribs)04:26, 17 August 2008 (UTC) reply
  17. Legoktm ( talk · contribs) 02:28, 12 September 2008 (UTC) reply
  18. Jw_193 ( talk · contribs) 12:34, 14 November 2008 (UTC) reply
  19. UpstateNYer ( talk · contribs) 21:32, 3 December 2008 (UTC) - I also go for random articles and format into {{ cite}}. I'll also hit big-ticket pages and fix their references as well. reply
  20. OlEnglish ( talk · contribs) Always checking and adding citations. 23:19, 9 January 2009 (UTC) reply
  21. Atmoz ( talk · contribs) 16:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC) reply
  22. Emc2 ( talk · contribs) 22:02, 19 January 2009 (UTC) reply
  23. Speednat ( talk · contribs) 03:24, 21 February 2009 (UTC) I have been doing it already, mainly in birds. reply
  24. Jeffq ( talk · contribs) 18:44, 19 March 2009 (UTC). Most of my non-trivial WP edits of late involve cleaning up, expanding, and formatting citations, including turning bare external links to proper references, usually whenever I read an article for other purposes. reply
  25. Flipper24 ( talk · contribs) 11:37, 29 April 2009 (UTC)There are a number of Australian Schools articles that could use some citations. reply
  26. Unionhawk ( talk · contribs) 04:11, 25 May 2009 (UTC) reply
  27. Mistress of Awesome ( talk · contribs) 19:15, 30 May 2009 (UTC), unhealthily obsessed with checking footnotes and references. reply
  28. Matthew Desjardins ( talk · contribs)
  29. Lantrix ( talk · contribs) 02:54, 26 September 2009 (UTC), have been checking and correcting citations for quite a while. reply
  30. Zoeydahling ( talk · contribs) 03:59, 24 October 2009 (UTC) reply
  31. bender235 ( talk · contribs) 01:32, 28 December 2009 (UTC), I've fixed citation styles in Wikipedia for years. reply
  32. DutchTreat ( talk · contribs) 13:20, 30 January 2010 (UTC) reply
  33. PoeticVerse ( talk · contribs) 13:54, 17 March 2010 (UTC) reply
  34. CharlesGillingham ( talk · contribs) 16:29, 24 March 2010 (UTC) reply
  35. RDBrown ( talk · contribs) 14:37, 8 June 2010 (UTC) PMID etc. → cite journal reply
  36. Reaper_Eternal ( talk · contribs) 02:23, 2 November 2010 (UTC) - I commonly open "Random article", fix any citations, and then walk down the wikilinks looking for more citations to fix. reply
  37. Francophile124 ( talk · contribs) 09:51, 2 March 2011 (UTC) reply
  38. ShelleyAdams ( talk · contribs) 13:42, 21 March 2011 (UTC) reply
  39. TheJJJunk ( talk · contribs) 14:46, 24 March 2012 (UTC) reply
  40. ramaksoud2000 ( talk · contribs) 02:26, 14 December 2011 (UTC) reply
  41. Wtwilson3 ( talk · contribs) I don't have a lot of time to fix references, but have been tagging a lot and decided to join up. And it's good to be #41 on the list, I used to have a cat named 41. —  Bill W. ( Talk) ( Contrib)  –  28 March 2024, 22:35 (UTC) 19:24, 6 January 2012 (UTC) reply
  42. Benzband ( talk · contribs)
  43. Benjamil ( talk · contribs) Tagging, finding sources (I love to google). 22:31, 13 May 2012 (UTC) reply
  44. Faizanalivarya ( talk · contribs) I look at everything, Whatever article need me I would be there as protector of that article, love Wikipedia, love project Peace. -- 18:53, 25 May 2012 (UTC) reply
  45. kawaii♥bot ( talk) 09:35, 2 June 2012 (UTC) reply
  46. Ikerus ( talk · contribs) 15:13, 18 June 2012 (UTC) reply
  47. Renzoy16 ( talk · contribs) - I have been fixing citations for months using Twinkle. 20:02, 12 September 2012 (UTC) reply
  48. Stillwaterising ( talk · contribs) - journal, medical, and scientific citations. - 06:59, 28 September 2012 (UTC) reply
  49. FiendYT ( talk · contribs) - I have recently joined Wikipedia, and want to make a difference in the way articles are presented.
  50. Funandtrvl ( talk · contribs) 23:18, 10 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  51. Johnmperry ( talk · contribs) 00:07, 25 February 2013 (UTC) - I tend to look in history-related articles, mostly Philippine but others too reply
  52. Ecallow ( talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on computer related wikis) 16:30, 13 April 2013 (UTC) reply
  53. l1271435 ( talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on science related wikis) - 16:00, 14 April 2013 (UTC) reply
  54. Kjtobo ( talk · contribs) I have been working through Category:Articles needing link rot cleanup - 16:45, 27 June 2013 (UTC) reply
  55. Chaetodipus ( talk · contribs) 21:24, 27 June 2013 (UTC) reply
  56. Miszatomic ( talk · contribs) 20:50 29 July 2013 (UTC)
  57. MrBill3 ( talk · contribs) (Science, Medicine, Skepticism) 12:23, 10 September 2013 (UTC) reply
  58. Scottyoak2 ( talk · contribs) 16:45, 4 October 2013 (UTC) reply
  59. Frze ( talk · contribs) 10:30, 10 October 2013
  60. Ruby Murray ( talk · contribs) 09:22, 23 October 2013 (UTC) reply
  61. Prof. Squirrel ( talk · contribs) 00:12, 1 November 2013 (UTC) reply
  62. Meteor sandwich yum ( talk · contribs) 20:20, 23 November 2013 (UTC) reply
  63. Acb314 ( talk · contribs) 11:42, 27 December 2013 (UTC) reply
  64. Azaghal of Belegost ( talk · contribs) (I am interested in unifying citation style with {{ cite}}, particularly on physics articles) 20:32, 15 January 2014 (UTC) reply
  65. Diptanshu.D ( talk · contribs) I have been cleaning up references and using citation templates for WP:MED for quite some time. Did not know that a separate WikiProject existed for this 17:46, 18 January 2014 (UTC) reply
  66. Tgok ( talk · contribs) I've been doing this informally for a while. Might as well make it official. 21:32, 26 January 2014 (UTC) reply
  67. Safety_Cap ( talk · contribs) 09:28, 27 January 2014 (UTC) reply
  68. J Beake ( talk · contribs) 19:16, 29 January 2014 (UTC) reply
  69. Sesquiannual ( talk · contribs) 18:02, 16 February 2014 (UTC) Help with broken reference names reply
  70. Carriearchdale ( talk · contribs)07:40, 23 April 2014 (UTC) reply
  71. Randomdice ( talk · contribs)03:53, 21 June 2014 (UTC) reply
  72. Lloydsilver ( talk) 22:57, 5 July 2014 (UTC) reply
  73. Mahensingha ( talk · contribs)12:50, 26 September 2014 (UTC) reply
  74. George.Edward.C ( talk · contribs) 16:51, 12 November 2014 (UTC) - We need to clear those backlogs! reply
  75. AlbinoFerret ( talk · contribs) 16:06, 15 November 2014 (UTC) There is no scope to my interests in fixing citations, I have been doing it on my own and was happy to find this Wikiproject. reply
  76. StewdioMACK ( talk · contribs) 12:16, 29 November 2014 (UTC) reply
  77. BoonDock ( talk · contribs) 10:53, 18 December 2014 (UTC) reply
  78. Bosstopher ( talk · contribs) 13:00, 7 February 2015 (UTC) reply
  79. Nemesis2473 ( talk · contribs)
  80. Zveznet ( talk · contribs)
  81. Jablestech ( talk · contribs)
  82. AfroThundr3007730 ( talk · contribs) 06:54, 14 April 2015 (UTC) reply
  83. Olivettilly ( talk) 00:24, 26 June 2015 (UTC) reply
  84. Ouanor ( talk) 13:10, 4 July 2015 (UTC) reply
  85. Hampton11235 ( talk) 15:23, 4 July 2015 (UTC) reply
  86. Vivek.bekhabar ( talk · contribs) (Already correcting the wrong citations I see on article. Didn't know that their is a project. Its good to be here.) 07:10, 10 July 2015 (UTC) reply
  87. Geobeedude ( talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on fixing missing "|title=" fields in citations.) 03:24, 5 October 2015 (UTC) reply
  88. Clifford_Anderson ( talk · contribs) (I am interested in assisting librarians, college students, and faculty members with finding references for articles) 00:44, 19 October 2015 (UTC) reply
  89. Warga1 ( talk · contribs) (Interested in the concept of improving Wikipedia's authority by doing citation cleanup work. Excelsior!) 16:44, 21 October 2015 (UTC) reply
  90. LenTheWhiteCat ( talk · contribs) (working on name error backlog) 22:14, 28 December 2015 (UTC) reply
  91. Jennica ( talk · contribs) (cleaning up bare references) 11:28, 23 November 2016 (UTC) reply
  92. JayCodec ( talk · contribs) (Cleaning up bare references, primarily on Musical Articles.) 20:19, 27 January 2017 (UTC) reply
  93. Sirkablaam ( talk · contribs) 06:00, 5 February 2017 (UTC) reply
  94. PaleoNeonate ( talk · contribs) 18:32, 27 March 2017 (UTC) reply
  95. James_Shelton32 ( talk · contribs) (Cleaned up some articles on historical trains in the south. Added references, based on notes in Soil mesofauna) 14:28, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
  96. BulkData ( talk · contribs) 13:52, 25 May 2017 (UTC) reply
  97. EMachine03 ( talk · contribs) I am interested in fixing citation errors. 15:45, 5 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  98. Ohmyerica ( talk · contribs) (I love combating link rot!) 02:29, 27 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  99. RaptorChief ( talk · contribs) 05:48, 1 February 2018 (UTC) reply
  100. haakonsson ( talk · contribs) 19:25, 3 May 2018 (UTC) been doing it for years some one just linked to the page. reply
  101. TheTechnician27 ( talk · contribs) 23:13, 14 July 2018 (UTC) reply
  102. AmericanAir88 ( talk · contribs) 21:51, 5 September 2018 (UTC) reply
  103. Philharmonic Phil ( talk · contribs) 16:47, 29 October 2018 (UTC) reply
  104. Anas1712 ( talk · contribs) 21:14, 25 November 2018 (UTC) ( i correct bare references in templates since 6 months) reply
  105. jflopezfernandez ( talk · contribs) I love cleaning 23:59, 29 November 2018 (UTC) reply
  106. Prime Lemur ( talk · contribs) Sometimes people misplace citations during copy-editing, others add great material, but sometimes leave spartan citations. Fixing it contributes to the enduring robustness of WP. Or I think so, anyway *wink*. 10:01, 14 December 2018 (UTC) reply
  107. Smuckola ( talk · contribs) Seek and destroy all lack of citations and presence of non-template-formatted citations. Citations are the foundation of the encyclopedia. Please build automated tools to format and unify them all, such as Citoid, WP:REFILL, and wikidata.13:47, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
  108. Paleorthid ( talk · contribs) I love verifying citations. See talk. -- 17:33, 24 January 2019 (UTC) reply
  109. Mikhail Ishchenko ( talk · contribs)10:05, 31 January 2019 (UTC) reply
  110. A garbage person ( talk · contribs)—Love fixing weird citations. New, big fan of Harvard references.—22:23, 10 April 2019 (UTC) reply
  111. Mccull415 ( talk · contribs)18:54, 16 April 2019 (UTC) reply
  112. Masumrezarock100 ( talk · contribs) I combat against link rot. 09:01, 22 April 2019 (UTC) reply
  113. Jpotterlibr ( talk · contribs) 2:11, 23 April 2019
  114. Kodning ( talk · contribs) 05:12, 28 April 2019 (UTC) reply
  115. MonkeyStolen234 ( talk · contribs) I have been fighting through several pages to fix citations to the point of going to bed and dreaming of code every night for an entire week. I still love it, though. 17:55, 6 May 2019 (UTC) reply
  116. Diriector_Doc ( talk · contribs) I have been fixing link-only citation already. Thought I might aswell join the club! 21:28, 9 May 2019 (UTC) reply
  117. Nemo_bis ( talk · contribs) 12:17, 6 August 2019 (UTC) reply
  118. Ionmars10 ( talk · contribs) 19:32, 9 August 2019 (UTC) - will probably focus on cleaning up bare URLs reply
  119. Quuux ( talk · contribs) 02:53, 13 August 2019 (UTC) -- technical fixes (bare URLs, dead links, book details, etc.) reply
  120. Capewearer ( talk · contribs) verifying citations, moving them to what they actually verifiy, fixing bare URLs and dead links, etc. 04:58, 24 February 2020 (UTC) reply
  121. Esprit15d ( talk · contribs) 22:11, 24 February 2020 (UTC) reply
  122. Hatchens ( talk · contribs) 06:39, 10 March 2020 (UTC) reply
  123. Secundus Zephyrus ( talk · contribs) 03:34, 17 March 2020 (UTC) I have been going through the huge backlog of Category:Pages with broken reference names, but definitely can't do it alone reply
  124. Matthewrbowker ( talk · contribs) 08:49, 29 March 2020 (UTC) reply
  125. Less Unless ( talk · contribs) 12:16, 13 April 2020 (UTC) reply
  126. WildStar ( talk · contribs) 18:37, 17 April 2020 (UTC) reply
  127. Ms4263nyu ( talk · contribs) Ms4263nyu ( talk) 07:47, 1 May 2020 (UTC) reply
  128. Chrisma0 ( talk · contribs) I feel like the "Quote" field for references is severely underused on Wikipedia! It's so useful. 15:01, 3 May 2020 (UTC) reply
  129. Philoserf ( talk · contribs) 08:47, 26 May 2020 (UTC) reply
  130. Peaceray ( talk · contribs) I convert bare URLs to citation templates either by using WP:REFILL or manually, add OCLC #s where applicable, & link unlinked shortened footnotes & the like to full citation templates. 20:11, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
  131. Hello world 6 ( talk) 00:12, 17 July 2020 (UTC) I have recently started playing Citation Hunt and feel that I should join this WikiProject to help. reply
  132. Ds2320 ( talk) 21:50, 25 July 2020 (UTC) reply
  133. Thunderbotz ( talk) 08:17, 28 July 2020 (UTC) reply
  134. Tadyatha ( talk · contribs)
  135. Gnarlyedits ( talk · contribs) 17:54, 21 August 2020 (UTC) -- enlisting to help with Category:Pages with broken reference names reply
  136. Bgrus22 ( talk · contribs) I enjoy adding what I read to here or just increasing citations for pages that lack references
  137. Limbshard ( talk · contribs) 14:59, 9 September 2020 (UTC) reply
  138. AmirahBreen ( talk · contribs) 01:12, 24 November 2020 (UTC) reply
  139. Curb Safe Charmer ( talk · contribs) 14:45, 26 November 2020 (UTC) reply
  140. Exswimmer495 ( talk · contribs) 03:12, 10 December 2020 (UTC) I enjoy fixing doi's and links reply
  141. Kevo327 ( talk · contribs) 17:28, 8 January 2021 (UTC) I started with converting bare URLs and now expanded to all sorts of maintenance tasks. reply
  142. Uffda608 ( talk · contribs) 13:46, 7 March 2021 (UTC) I mainly convert bare URLs. reply
  143. Aeyeu ( talk · contribs) 08:47, 20 April 2021 (UTC) I mainly add archive url's and organise citations accordingly. reply
  144. Wgullyn ( talk · contribs) 02:21, 21 April 2021 (UTC) Mostly fixing bare URLs reply
  145. Bill Neto ( talk · contribs) 4:41, 6 May 2021 (UTC) Completing as much as possible all existing references I come across.
  146. Swaare ( talk · contribs) 14:37, 22 June 2021 (UTC). Mainly focused on bare URLs and plain text citations and converting them into CS1, on random articles I encounter while on research. reply
  147. Kaltenmeyer ( talk · contribs) 21:31, 9 August 2021 (UTC) Fixing dead urls with current URLs or archived URLs, fixing Wikipedia errors in footnotes, multiple citations with the same ref name; ref names not attached to any reference; duplicate names of authors; fixing bare URLs; moving references to the correct location in the article reply
  148. TsunTsky ( talk · contribs) 03:12 24 September, 2021 (UTC) Interested in Fixing up citation that are cited in incorrect or not recommedned forms
  149. Apollo468 ( talk · contribs) 02:10 2 October, 2021 (UTC) Mostly focused on adding references for any pages - particularly music.
  150. Charlette9 ( talk · contribs) 20:17, 20 December 2021 (UTC) Fixing and completing existing references as much as I can. reply
  151. SidP ( talk · contribs) 17:12, 5 January 2022 (UTC) Fixing, completing and adding requested (or needed) references; I wish I'd known this group existed before! I've been doing this for so long, and just learned I was not following CITEVAR well. When adding additional data to references, I was often taking the time to use the ref template and was recently corrected (due to a revert which stung). reply
  152. Storchy ( talk · contribs) 14:24, 21 February 2022 (UTC) For now I'm mostly fixing bare urls, and replacing dead links. reply
  153. I'ma editor2022 ( talk · contribs) 23:18, 18 March 2022 (UTC) CITATION FIXER!!! reply
  154. Gasiseda ( talk · contribs) 13:14, 1 April 2022 (UTC) addition and modification of references to military weapons articles. reply
  155. Ira Leviton ( talk · contribs) 00:31, 9 May 2022 (UTC) I've been fixing articles on any of the pages that appear on Category:CS1_maintenance or Category:CS1_maintenance. reply
  156. Penguinmlle ( talk · contribs) 20:18, 11 May 2022 (UTC) Medicine, pharmacology, drug policy, alternative medicine articles. reply
  157. Lenny Marks ( talk · contribs) 08:53, 30 May 2022 (UTC) reply
  158. Sideswipe9th ( talk · contribs) 20:52, 4 June 2022 (UTC) I'm working my way through the bare URL backlog, but if you need an opinion on gender, sexuality, video games, science fiction, fantasy, or Disney feel free to ask. reply
  159. Sportsfangnome ( talk) 03:17, 19 July 2022 (UTC) I mainly do American sports. reply
  160. Roundish ( talk · contribs) 01:13, 18 November 2022 (UTC) reply
  161. Rabbe Quiz ( talk) 20:26, 18 November 2022 (UTC) reply
  162. BhamBoi ( talk · contribs) (I had NO IDEA there was a wikiProject for this! I've been doing this independently for a while (check my contribs), so I'm glad to have found a group of like-minded editors.) 03:39, 12 December 2022 (UTC) reply
  163. Demt1298 ( talk · contribs) Bare URLs is something I have been working on 03:16, 13 January 2023 (UTC) reply
  164. Spinixster ( talk · contribs) I like cleaning refs so why not?
  165. Edward-Woodrow ( talk · contribs) 23:37, 10 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  166. History person 2 ( talk · contribs) Bare URLs. 11:33, 2 June 2023 (UTC) reply
  167. Grumpylawnchair ( talk · contribs) 02:17, 25 June 2023 (UTC) Bare URLs are my mortal enemy. reply
  168. DressChimera241 ( talk · contribs) 19:28, 14 July 2023 (UTC) I enjoy cleaning up bare references. reply
  169. HistoryTheorist ( talk · contribs) 23:16, 17 July 2023 (UTC) I eat bare URLs for breakfast (among other things) reply
  170. I am wordsmyth ( talk · contribs) 22:58, 16 August 2023 (UTC) reply
  171. ItsThatLemon ( talk · contribs) 17:36, 3 September 2023 (UTC) Enjoy cleaning up citations, especially bare URLs. reply
  172. RotciW ( talk · contribs) 22:35, 14 September 2023 (UTC) reply
  173. Neko-chan ( talk · contribs) 20:58, 5 December 2023 (UTC) I've been working on scientific journal cites for a while now, especially ones with naked DOIs. reply
  174. Spida-tarbell ( talk · contribs) 23:27, 29 December 2023 (UTC) reply
  175. Flux55 ( talk · contribs) 19:52, 9 February 2024 (UTC) reply
  176. wjw1225 ( talk · contribs) 01:54, 20 March 2024 (UTC) I fix bare URLs and citations reply

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I will assist if this team decides to take action. Note that the article's creator may react unfavorably. --- DOOMSDAYER520 ( Talk| Contribs) 12:27, 8 April 2019 (UTC) reply
I've rewritten the 2002-06 section and listed the references for them (from 600 words to 250). I'm not comfortable editing the actual page as I'd likely break the references as I kept just nine (but only their URL). Any recommendation for a next step? ogenstein ( talk) 15:27, 14 May 2019 (UTC) reply
  • Good grief. This is far and away the worst case of WP:REFBOMB I've ever seen. I'm not even kidding when I say it might be worth it to just completely undo all of Pr12402's edits to the article. For crying out loud, the article on the American Civil War has fewer references. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 07:36, 6 June 2019 (UTC) reply

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  • mw:Citoid – use in the visual editor to quickly "Convert" a bare URL into a citation template.
  • refill - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references.
  • Google book tool Converts bare url into {{ cite book}} format.
  • RefScript dead link
  • Universal reference formatter for journal article citations.
  • WebCite — tool to archive webpages to allow stable citation links.
  • Wikipedia template filling (was Diberri template builder) — given an ISBN, a PubMed PMID or PMCID, etc., output a citation which can be pasted into a Wikipedia article. Uses vauthors rather than first, last pairs.
  • Reference generator — generates wikicode for journals, webpages, and other commonly cited sources.
  • Citation bot — for finding and fixing citation errors, and adding missing data.
  • User:CitationTool — finds a different set of errors. Not currently working.
  • 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
  • Smith609's Google Scholar interface lets you search for articles in Google Scholar and automatically produce an appropriate cite template.
  • User:Richiez tools to handle citations for a whole article at a time. Converts occurrences 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.
  • WikiProject Check Wikipedia produces a series of daily reports with checks on various wiki syntax elements. The reports on broken template syntax frequently list {{ citation}} templates.
  • Automatic Referencing Assistant — The Automatic Referencing Assistant (ARA) is a script which aids users in correcting referencing errors. It notifies the user when the article being edited is missing the {{ Reflist}} template, has invalid or broken <ref></ref> tags, and many other small functions. Clicking a fix link will automatically add the necessary template or information to the correct location in the article.
  • WikiBlame - To find first entry of incorrect formating with broken reference names.

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