Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check

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Welcome!

Hello, welcome to the Fact and Reference Check WikiProject. The purpose of this project is to verify facts in Wikipedia by multiple independent sources. This project works to achieve the goals of the Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:No original research official policies. We have some way to go before we attain this goal, but this project will help Wikipedia on its way.

Getting Started

• Do you have an article/fact/reference that needs checking? See the Guidelines page for help with tagging articles for review and correction.

• Do you need help creating citations? See the Guidelines page for information on how to write references and create citations

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• Do you want to help increase the quality 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!

• Give me something simple to do! There are over 317,530 "Citation needed" statements on Wikipedia. Click here to use the Citation Hunt tool which makes it easy to pick one to fix.

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Scope and goals

Scope

This WikiProject covers the entire content of Wikipedia.

Goals

This WikiProject works to ensure the use of verified, reliable sources throughout Wikipedia. This is accomplished by:

• Identifying and tagging claims that require verification with appropriate templates.
• Performing fact and reference check services for articles with verification templates.
• Providing assistance with verification to Wikipedia editors as necessary.

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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:

Lacking references

• Needs references: 206,637
• Needs references (BLP): 2,947
• Needs more references: 304,637
• Needs more references (BLP): 51,900
• Needs in-text citations: 87,261
• Needs reliable references: 68,845
• Has unsourced quotes: 1,096
• Has unsourced statements: 317,530
• Fix one!

Accuracy

• Uses broken or outdated citations: 278
• Needs factual verification: 4,316
• Needs references list: 41
• Needs references clean up: 2,395
• Accuracy disputes: 7,271
• Neutrality disputed: 6,950
• Needs updating: 16,584
• Has original research: 15,403
• Self-contradictory: 454
• Needs geodata verification: 1

Help now: Solve Citations Needed!

At the moment, there are over 317,530 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 317,530 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!

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See Also

Related projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles - a category based project to review articles that are in Category:Articles lacking sources.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Unsourced Article Rescue
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup
• Wikicite - a project to create a standardized citation database.
  • m:Wikicite - new proposal on Meta
• Wikipedia:Content contradictory to other language versions - a list of pages where content contradicts other language versions.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange - a project where Wikipedians offer to search in their resources for the reference that you are looking for.

See also

• Category:Citation and verifiability maintenance templates
• Category:WikiProject reference libraries - listing resources from many projects
• Reliable sources in content review processes
• Sources in biology and medicine