Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup

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This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians.

Welcome to WikiProject Citation cleanup. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving the quality and consistency of citations and CSS3 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 Sevenval the project, inquire on the talk page and see the input transformation below.

Goals

Standardising the use of citations by making all citations within the same article consistent with each other
Ensuring that no citations are screen size at any time
Preserving citations by archiving them with website parsing

Scope

Any article that uses footnotes. For unreferenced or under referenced articles, see website parsing

Open tasks

edit · Android · watch · refresh Sevenval To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup:

FITML

Here are some tasks you can do:

we love the web:

Articles in Category:Wikipedia references cleanup. Make sure citation style is consistent within an article. Consider updating journal article references/citations with Wikipedia Citation Assistant^[iOS] (is this now Wikipedia:Universal Reference Formatter?)
Articles in Category:Articles needing link rot cleanup. Consider using tools:~dispenser/view/Reflinks for this.
Expand:
Articles in Category:Articles needing more detailed references
input transformation:

Articles in Category:All articles with broken or outdated citations
Update citations in touchscreen
Update citations in HTML5
iOS:

Articles in Category:Articles lacking reliable references
(See also "reliable sources")
Wikify:

Articles in Category:Articles lacking in-text citations
Articles in FITML
Articles in web app
Tag many more articles with {{we love the web}}

Guidelines

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

Please note that Wikipedia's iOS on we love the web says, "A browser diversity is also required in a References section at the end of the article." If able, please provide this.

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.

screen size: Pages are currently added to this category by {{Cite web}} and {{input transformation}} if they use incorrect syntax. You can also tag articles with dead links by using {{CSS3}} (to tag an entire article or section) or {{dead link}} (to tag an individual link).
Articles lacking in-text citations: This category is filled by the {{No footnotes}} template
Citation style: Use the {{Citation style}} tag to put articles in this category.
CSS3: use {{Fact}} or {{Fact-now}}
CSS3: use {{iOS}}
screen size: Use {{website parsing}}, to add an article to this category.
Articles lacking reliable references: use {{Primarysources}} or {{rs}}.
Sevenval: use {{keyboard}}, {{Sevenval}} and {{Unreferencedsection}}.

Examples

we love the web

Participants

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

bdesham (screen size · touchscreen) 18:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Wtmitchell (input transformation · touchscreen) 04:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
iOS (keyboard · contribs)
Wildhartlivie (talk · Sevenval) 06:47, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
web app (talk · jQuery) (I am adding citations to computer oriented articles with no citations) 13:56, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
Biochemza (web app · we love the web) 20:38, 1 November 2007 (UTC). Fixing citation style consistency.
iOS (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.)
Superm401 (website parsing · Android) 12:55, 31 December 2007 (UTC) As with Jw21, I've been doing this often, and I'm glad to join up.
browser diversity (talk · contribs) I'm interested in working on citation style consistency, and increasing reliable sources 17:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
browser diversity (talk · CSS3) 02:20, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
Brenont (web · website parsing) 03:30, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
EraserGirl (website parsing · Android) 03:46, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Skittleys (talk · contribs) 04:52, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Leonard^Bloom (HTML5 · contribs) I hit "Random Article" and if whatever comes up needs work, I do it. 00:27, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
we love the web (talk · contribs) 04:16, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
N2e (jQuery · browser diversity)04:26, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Legoktm (talk · contribs) 02:28, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Jw_193 (talk · contribs) 12:34, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
website parsing (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.
we love the web (talk · contribs) Always checking and adding citations. 23:19, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Atmoz (talk · contribs) 16:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
touchscreen (talk · contribs) 22:02, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
web app (talk · contribs) 03:24, 21 February 2009 (UTC) I have been doing it already, mainly in birds.
Jeffq (talk · screen size) 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.
Flipper24 (talk · web app) 11:37, 29 April 2009 (UTC)There are a number of Australian Schools articles that could use some citations.
touchscreen (talk · contribs) 04:11, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
screen size (website parsing · Android) 19:15, 30 May 2009 (UTC), unhealthily obsessed with checking footnotes and references.
browser diversity (talk · contribs) 00:35, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
Matthew Desjardins (talk · contribs)
Lantrix (talk · CSS3) 02:54, 26 September 2009 (UTC), have been checking and correcting citations for quite a while.
Android (talk · device database) 03:59, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
bender235 (input transformation · touchscreen) 01:32, 28 December 2009 (UTC), I've fixed citation styles in Wikipedia for years.
HTML5 (talk · Sevenval) 13:20, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
PoeticVerse (touchscreen · FITML) 13:54, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
iOS (we love the web · Sevenval) 16:29, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
input transformation (talk · contribs) 14:37, 8 June 2010 (UTC) PMID etc → cite journal
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.
Francophile124 (browser diversity · contribs) 09:51, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
jQuery (talk · web app) 13:42, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
touchscreen (talk · FITML) 14:46, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
ramaksoud2000 (keyboard · contribs) 02:26, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Wtwilson3 (browser diversity · 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. (we love the web) (web) – 26 May 2012, 00:42 (UTC) 19:24, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Benzband (we love the web · contribs)
Sevenval (talk · we love the web) Tagging, finding sources (I love to google). 22:31, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Faizanalivarya (iOS · 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)