User:JoeNMLC/Article cleanup

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 * (A) WikiProject Wikipedia/Assessment, Requesting an assessment   User:JoeNMLC/Article assessment
 * (B) Database reports/Shortest biographies of living people
 * (D) Deletion discussions: User:JPxG/Oracle/2023 and Current month
 * (O) Database reports/Orphans with incoming links
 * (S) WikiProject Stub improvement
 * (U) WikiProject Unreferenced articles

Orphan articles
For any Category, another useful searching option is to click on "Show SDs" button, then do a browser search for values such as: These are just a few phrases to locate articles of interest.
 * 1) "biol" for "biology" or "molecular bio..."
 * 2) "energ" or "power"
 * 3) "footballer"
 * 4) "scien" (for Science topic)

Work list

 * Category:Attempted de-orphan from July 2023 articles 🟢
 * Pass 1, Done; Next "C"


 * Category:Attempted de-orphan from August 2023 articles 🟡
 * Next


 * Category:Attempted de-orphan from December 2023 articles  🔴
 * Cleanup excess, was reduced to 75; Next "K"

Monthly - Orphan articles

 * WikiProject Orphanage
 * Orphan


 * Category:Orphaned articles from August 2014 articles 🟢
 * Pass 1 - Done (c); Pass 2 (t), Next = "F" 🟢


 * Category:Orphaned articles from September 2014 articles 🟡
 * Next - 🟡


 * Category:Orphaned articles from July 2024 articles 🔵
 * Query:  (during month)

Orphan, new Category
There are three parts: Random page button; Orphan notice; Topic filter.

Orphan, Progress

 * Update prior month progress Bar graph at Category:Orphaned articles. 🔵 🟡 🔴

If previous month is a larger (over 1,000) number of articles, add Progress section, after Topic Filter.

Here is a recent wikitable example:

Long stub articles
Long pages in categories that end in "stubs":
 * Database reports/Long stubs


 * Edit Summary:

Popular pages, after Bot Processing

 * Check for WikiProject skipped or not processed. Now difficult as Inactive wikiproject may be mixed in with process ones.


 * Check bot processing (Starts at 2nd of each month) Note – The wikitable includes Inactive WikiProjects, and those are not processed.


 * Bot list of WikiProjects (config)


 * Related:
 * WikiProject banner shell

Reliable sources

 * Newspapers.com ?


 * Geography
 * List of administrative divisions by country
 * Geographic referencetoponavis
 * GeographicNamesSearch, geonames.nga.mil, an official website of the United States government
 * Example: Cerro Amaculla
 * Australia place names
 * Example: Troy Creek
 * India locations
 * Localbodydata
 * Soki.in
 * Example template: "Villages Bareilly District"
 * Irish townlands ?
 * Toponavi ?


 * Sports
 * Pro-Football-Reference.com (American football)
 * englandfootballonline.com
 * mightyleeds.co.uk (Dave Tomlinson)
 * WikiProject Football/Links
 * Barryhugmansfootballers.com, publisher Barry Hugman's Footballers
 * FBRef, publisher Sports Reference LLC
 * Soccerblade.com article lists reliable sources
 * Soccerbase.com ?
 * Soccerway.com, publisher Perform Media Services Limited
 * WikiProject Tennis/Article guidelines
 * worldfootball.net (see Leonel Navarrete article)
 * Example
 * At talk WP Football, asked for create article (September 19, 2023)

This article is on Watchlist, and has Talk discussion section.
 * Melpakkam - September 15, 2023
 * WikiProject Indian cities
 * Category:India-related WikiProjects

Not reliable sources

 * Geographic.org
 * Geolysis.com
 * Geonames.org - user-generated and not reliable
 * Example: Senek
 * Geoview.info
 * Google Maps
 * Places-in-the-world.com


 * And many more...

Stub articles

 * Category:Association football biography stubs
 * Category:Association football players
 * Category:Association football stubs

WP Stub improvement userbox

 * User WikiProject Stub improvement


 * Requested - template

Use
To join this WikiProject, add your username to: If you place   on your user page, this template will display the userbox shown above and will add your user page to: This template is a member of the categories shown below.
 * WikiProject Stub improvement
 * Category:WikiProject Stub improvement participants.

Unreferenced articles

 * Category:Unreferenced BLPs


 * Posted at - Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Unreferenced articles
 * Discussion - criteria Ambox for unref. articles

Greetings, Last week at Category:Articles lacking sources from June 2008, for the first dozen or so articles, I added a "Notice" tag (being Bold). Today, I fine-tuned it a bit into a transcluded "Ambox", just the first 3 articles. With the four criteria more visible, hoping it helps both beginners and a call-to-action for more advanced editors. Asking for feedback and discussion here. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 14:40, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Here is the wikilink Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Criteria
 * JoeNMLC (talk) 14:57, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * JoeNMLC (talk) 14:57, 8 April 2024 (UTC)


 * The four criteria seem to be better suited for articles tagged for notability issues. Citations just have to be reliable. Primary, nonindependent and passing mentions are all usable (within wp:primary).
 * Obviously, sources that satisfy all criteria are preferred, but we don’t want people avoiding adding an otherwise fine reference just because it doesn’t have sigcov or something. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 14:57, 8 April 2024 (UTC)


 * You're conflating notability and verifiability here. Citations in an article are there to verify the content of the article: they have to be to reliable sources, but need not meet your three other criteria. "Significant coverage in independent, secondary reliable sources" is how we judge notability, but that's not something readers need to worry about. If sources showing notability need to be presented somewhere, the talk page is probably best. But in the vast majority of cases that doesn't come up until notability is challenged at WP:AFD.
 * This seems to be a common enough mistake that we ought to have an essay explaining it... –&#8239;Joe (talk) 15:11, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * And just to add, if what you're concerned about is notability, there are already a range of tags for that. GNG is probably the closest to your wording. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 10:20, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Joe - Thanks. The template docs for the GNG has specific guidelines & that is helpful. JoeNMLC (talk) 12:03, 10 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I don't think this addition to the existing maintenance tag is necessary or helpful. The second sentence of the unreferenced tag is 'Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.' with the link to the 'Referencing for Beginners' essay so I think this is a total non-issue that is just creating more work. Why do you feel this is necessary? Also having multiple maintenance tags removes the automatic search links to Google, Books, Scholar, JSTOR, etc. which I find very convenient so as an experienced editor, it is making my work 1% more difficult. Also+also agree with the above notes about notability and verification from Joe and ARN123. Kazamzam (talk) 20:18, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree with Kazamzam. We already have tags that cover these various issues. I understand the desire to have more refined tags that cover more subjects but I think this ultimately is overly confusing for readers and editors. Also consider that we track various types of issues by categories and a tag like this muddies that approach. Stefen Towers among the rest!   Gab • Gruntwerk 16:16, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
 * , everyone! - For clarity & explaining why "not" to do what I attempted. Today, I did "undo self" for those June 2008 unref. articles. Going forward, I'm adding parts of this discussion to my "Article cleanup" notes. So as not to forget. Cheers, JoeNMLC (talk) 12:20, 10 April 2024 (UTC)