If anybody's willing to maintain it, there could also be a category for articles that are not well-written yet, but already severely lacking in references. It is usually easier to add references as you go along rather than add them after the fact.
I know that there are a lot of science articles that could be improved in this way. - Samsara ( talk • contribs) 12:35, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
That's true Samsara, there is a ton of those. Thetruthbelow (talk) 05:45, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
There are a lot of articles out there that simply need a script run to do the following things:
Samsara ( talk • contribs) 16:51, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Try searching the category Category:Former good article nominees most if not all of the articles that fail the GA nominees show up in this category. Since many articles are rejected for a lack of references you might find alot of worthwhile articles to work on. Perhaps one of the objectives of this wikiproject could be to bring articles in this category to GA status? Tarret 22:29, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
I've just finished going through , including all of letter A (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced GA/Nominations), and have the following observations to offer:
Please feel free to review and comment on my assessment of letter A and the numbers section. We should then probably give these pages some basic classification on a separate page, similar to the way it is being done on WP:GA.
Samsara ( talk • contribs) 17:55, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Armedblowfish 02:56, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Template:Gan-fail has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. TheJC Talk Contributions 22:35, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I propose a new template particularly for science references, which gives
Comments?
Samsara ( talk • contribs) 15:15, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
This template would in essence unify the purposes of {{ cite news}} and {{ cite journal}}, and possibly take much of the clientele of {{ cite web}}. - Samsara ( talk • contribs) 15:17, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
For subscription articles, it may be useful to include a reference to the abstract, e.g. on PubMed, as a third link. - Samsara ( talk • contribs) 22:26, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
My main issue wih such a proceeding is that in many cases, Full texts are not available to the casual internet user. I have used DOIs and PMIDs for {{ cite journal}} in numerous instances where I couldnot link to a full article. Aditionally, {{ cite journal}} and {{ cite news}} are aimed at two primarily different sources: newspaper/internet general news sites and academic/peer-reviewed journal, and have fundametally different formatting from {{ cite web}} for that very reason.
In scientific articles, references links can be included via the URL/DOI/ID parameters, which provide more than enough possibilities, I believe. Circeus 20:12, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I can see the logic behind having links to both the abstract and the full text, since almost any academic paper or journal article (scientific or otherwise) will have both. Likewise the fact that economics or access may prevent some users from obtaining the full text while abstracts may (often are?) more freely available. But there are a couple of points I don't understand:
RossPatterson 23:19, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Please support bug 4288 which is an enhancement that allows general tagging of revisions. This will allow user and group defined tags which can then be used for things like this project and possibly other stuff in the future. Thanks. -- Gbleem 23:22, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 14:26, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I propose spelling out the title of this article. See http://www.answers.com/topic/ga-abbreviation. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis 14:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
The above article is a current featured article whose continuing status as such is currently being challenged on the basis of its lack of references. Given it's quality and status, I think the help of any members of this project to provide references would be more than welcome. Badbilltucker 23:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Created Category:Good articles needing attention as an administrative cat. Actually, articles I place in there in the near future are those that may be delisted because they have been warned already, but the category will exist for other purposes as well. -- Ling.Nut 13:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:44, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I agree that citing both a science publication and general public readable news article should be encouraged; however, I disagree that the {{ cite science}} template should be used, as it is a fork from the much more common and familiar {{ cite journal}} citation template. Any related news articles should be cited using {{ cite news}}, or other appropriate template to give full credit to the author for that reference. These two reference can appear immediately one after another, e.g.[sci][news] So as a suggestion:
+ mwtoews 04:38, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
abstract
or news
parameters, which are the "features" that this template fork employs, as I understand—are there any other features?). +
mwtoews 00:22, 11 March 2007 (UTC)abstract
field. From my experience, DOIs and PMIDs always show the abstract to general domains, and provide links to the PDF or full text, if available, for registered domains (e.g., if your institution's library has a subscription). Providing a abstract
URL is not desirable, since this could potentially be a copy-paste from the browser address bar where the abstract was viewed. Certainly URLs often use cookies, or they may change with time. PMIDs and DOIs are more or less permanent links to the article. +
mwtoews 00:22, 11 March 2007 (UTC)url
of {{
cite journal}}, if no full article online is available). +
mwtoews 16:53, 13 March 2007 (UTC)news
link, as I suggested before, is only a partial citation. It gives almost no credit to the author/publisher for the referred news material written in "laymen speak". I would expect any encyclopedia to give full credit for any sourced material — not just a URL. Furthermore, the "References" section of many articles is fairly substantial (> 100 in some). It would be difficult to see the link to the news
link if it is embedded in a single citation, which may also have links to the author, publisher, article PDF, and DOI. (Although I do acknowledge in the mock-ups above that they are clean and concise). Presenting the link to the news article as a separate citation is the simplest answer, since it gives full credit and is easier to find in the references. +
mwtoews 00:22, 11 March 2007 (UTC)laycite
which is at the very end, and makes a new line (<br/>
), and reads "Layman's read:" followed by a proper citation (from the collection of
Category:Citation templates, such as {{
cite news}} {{
cite web}}, etc.). So, for example, try:{{User:Mwtoews/Template:Cite journal |first=Roughgarden |last=J |coauthors=Oisho, M & Akçay, E |year=2006 |title=Reproductive social behaviour: cooperative games to replace sexual selection |journal=Science |volume=311 |pages=965–969 |doi=10.1126/science.1110105 |laycite={{cite news |title=Overthrowing Darwin's Number Two Theory |last=Wittlin |first=M |publisher=Seed Magazine |date=March 2, 2006 |url=http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/03/overthrowing_darwins_number_tw.php}} }}
J, Roughgarden; Oisho, M & Akçay, E (2006). "Reproductive social behaviour: cooperative games to replace sexual selection". Science 311: 965–969.
DOI:
10.1126/science.1110105.
Layman's read: Wittlin, M (March 2, 2006).
"Overthrowing Darwin's Number Two Theory". Seed Magazine.
(or you can view the same in single <ref> tags
here)This format makes it much more flexible, without the need to add many more parameters (personally I get confused by too many parameters in any template; I've removed all of the other lay.*
fields). We should depend the other citation template designers to design their templates, rather then reinventing the wheel. Is this looking more like something that we could agree on? Please comment. +
mwtoews 22:45, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
So where can such articles be found? I know the arguments about the Cleanup and Expand lists - but unless there is a way of readily finding articles in this category, (even a "look for [unreferenced article stub]" command) not much will be done. Jackiespeel 16:10, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Is this project active? It appears to be moribund. Geometry guy 19:49, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
If anybody's willing to maintain it, there could also be a category for articles that are not well-written yet, but already severely lacking in references. It is usually easier to add references as you go along rather than add them after the fact.
I know that there are a lot of science articles that could be improved in this way. - Samsara ( talk • contribs) 12:35, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
That's true Samsara, there is a ton of those. Thetruthbelow (talk) 05:45, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
There are a lot of articles out there that simply need a script run to do the following things:
Samsara ( talk • contribs) 16:51, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Try searching the category Category:Former good article nominees most if not all of the articles that fail the GA nominees show up in this category. Since many articles are rejected for a lack of references you might find alot of worthwhile articles to work on. Perhaps one of the objectives of this wikiproject could be to bring articles in this category to GA status? Tarret 22:29, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
I've just finished going through , including all of letter A (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced GA/Nominations), and have the following observations to offer:
Please feel free to review and comment on my assessment of letter A and the numbers section. We should then probably give these pages some basic classification on a separate page, similar to the way it is being done on WP:GA.
Samsara ( talk • contribs) 17:55, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Armedblowfish 02:56, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Template:Gan-fail has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. TheJC Talk Contributions 22:35, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I propose a new template particularly for science references, which gives
Comments?
Samsara ( talk • contribs) 15:15, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
This template would in essence unify the purposes of {{ cite news}} and {{ cite journal}}, and possibly take much of the clientele of {{ cite web}}. - Samsara ( talk • contribs) 15:17, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
For subscription articles, it may be useful to include a reference to the abstract, e.g. on PubMed, as a third link. - Samsara ( talk • contribs) 22:26, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
My main issue wih such a proceeding is that in many cases, Full texts are not available to the casual internet user. I have used DOIs and PMIDs for {{ cite journal}} in numerous instances where I couldnot link to a full article. Aditionally, {{ cite journal}} and {{ cite news}} are aimed at two primarily different sources: newspaper/internet general news sites and academic/peer-reviewed journal, and have fundametally different formatting from {{ cite web}} for that very reason.
In scientific articles, references links can be included via the URL/DOI/ID parameters, which provide more than enough possibilities, I believe. Circeus 20:12, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I can see the logic behind having links to both the abstract and the full text, since almost any academic paper or journal article (scientific or otherwise) will have both. Likewise the fact that economics or access may prevent some users from obtaining the full text while abstracts may (often are?) more freely available. But there are a couple of points I don't understand:
RossPatterson 23:19, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Please support bug 4288 which is an enhancement that allows general tagging of revisions. This will allow user and group defined tags which can then be used for things like this project and possibly other stuff in the future. Thanks. -- Gbleem 23:22, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 14:26, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I propose spelling out the title of this article. See http://www.answers.com/topic/ga-abbreviation. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis 14:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
The above article is a current featured article whose continuing status as such is currently being challenged on the basis of its lack of references. Given it's quality and status, I think the help of any members of this project to provide references would be more than welcome. Badbilltucker 23:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Created Category:Good articles needing attention as an administrative cat. Actually, articles I place in there in the near future are those that may be delisted because they have been warned already, but the category will exist for other purposes as well. -- Ling.Nut 13:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:44, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I agree that citing both a science publication and general public readable news article should be encouraged; however, I disagree that the {{ cite science}} template should be used, as it is a fork from the much more common and familiar {{ cite journal}} citation template. Any related news articles should be cited using {{ cite news}}, or other appropriate template to give full credit to the author for that reference. These two reference can appear immediately one after another, e.g.[sci][news] So as a suggestion:
+ mwtoews 04:38, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
abstract
or news
parameters, which are the "features" that this template fork employs, as I understand—are there any other features?). +
mwtoews 00:22, 11 March 2007 (UTC)abstract
field. From my experience, DOIs and PMIDs always show the abstract to general domains, and provide links to the PDF or full text, if available, for registered domains (e.g., if your institution's library has a subscription). Providing a abstract
URL is not desirable, since this could potentially be a copy-paste from the browser address bar where the abstract was viewed. Certainly URLs often use cookies, or they may change with time. PMIDs and DOIs are more or less permanent links to the article. +
mwtoews 00:22, 11 March 2007 (UTC)url
of {{
cite journal}}, if no full article online is available). +
mwtoews 16:53, 13 March 2007 (UTC)news
link, as I suggested before, is only a partial citation. It gives almost no credit to the author/publisher for the referred news material written in "laymen speak". I would expect any encyclopedia to give full credit for any sourced material — not just a URL. Furthermore, the "References" section of many articles is fairly substantial (> 100 in some). It would be difficult to see the link to the news
link if it is embedded in a single citation, which may also have links to the author, publisher, article PDF, and DOI. (Although I do acknowledge in the mock-ups above that they are clean and concise). Presenting the link to the news article as a separate citation is the simplest answer, since it gives full credit and is easier to find in the references. +
mwtoews 00:22, 11 March 2007 (UTC)laycite
which is at the very end, and makes a new line (<br/>
), and reads "Layman's read:" followed by a proper citation (from the collection of
Category:Citation templates, such as {{
cite news}} {{
cite web}}, etc.). So, for example, try:{{User:Mwtoews/Template:Cite journal |first=Roughgarden |last=J |coauthors=Oisho, M & Akçay, E |year=2006 |title=Reproductive social behaviour: cooperative games to replace sexual selection |journal=Science |volume=311 |pages=965–969 |doi=10.1126/science.1110105 |laycite={{cite news |title=Overthrowing Darwin's Number Two Theory |last=Wittlin |first=M |publisher=Seed Magazine |date=March 2, 2006 |url=http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/03/overthrowing_darwins_number_tw.php}} }}
J, Roughgarden; Oisho, M & Akçay, E (2006). "Reproductive social behaviour: cooperative games to replace sexual selection". Science 311: 965–969.
DOI:
10.1126/science.1110105.
Layman's read: Wittlin, M (March 2, 2006).
"Overthrowing Darwin's Number Two Theory". Seed Magazine.
(or you can view the same in single <ref> tags
here)This format makes it much more flexible, without the need to add many more parameters (personally I get confused by too many parameters in any template; I've removed all of the other lay.*
fields). We should depend the other citation template designers to design their templates, rather then reinventing the wheel. Is this looking more like something that we could agree on? Please comment. +
mwtoews 22:45, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
So where can such articles be found? I know the arguments about the Cleanup and Expand lists - but unless there is a way of readily finding articles in this category, (even a "look for [unreferenced article stub]" command) not much will be done. Jackiespeel 16:10, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Is this project active? It appears to be moribund. Geometry guy 19:49, 28 June 2008 (UTC)