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Many volunteers get stuck trying to find references to articles that pass notability guidelines or are unsure whether an article is worthy of inclusion on WP.


 * Finding references

Music albums
 * Easiest sources to use
 * Allmusic Music artist biographies and music reviews.
 * Popmatters Music reviews.
 * Wikipedia:Goodcharts A list of links to verify music chart positions and certifications

Many articles on albums were created in the days of Wikipedia when policies such as verifiability and reliable sources were in their infancy. Many obscure albums are just track listings and if you're lucky an album cover; many have been abandoned with only minor and bot edits since creation. The sources above are an indication of an albums' suitability for inclusion on WP. Allmusic's album review and artist database is extensive, for album's with a common name it might be easier to search for the artist first and find the required album under the discography tab. If Allmusic haven't reviewed the album then that is the first indication that maybe the album isn't suitable for having it's own page. To pass notability guidelines the album must have a least two reviews to declare it as having received significant coverage. If Allmusic haven't reviewed it then there is a good chance that no other publication has either. If when searching for the album a Popmatters review is not in the first few pages try using site:popmatters.com at the beginning of your search string.

The article may state unsourced chart positions and maybe certifications. To add references for these check the Goodcharts list for suitable sources.

Google
 * Google web search
 * Google books search
 * Google news search
 * Google scholar

General
 * List of free online resources
 * List of online newspaper archives
 * Free English newspaper sources
 * Geographic references
 * Wayback Machine (link here)
 * WebCite - Archives a cited web page, providing a view of the page as it was at the time of citation.

Entertainment


 * Academy Awards database


 * BMI repertoire search and ASCAP search. Lookup song titles, publishers and songwriters/composers.
 * Billboard magazine archives Click on an edition then tick Search all issues box.
 * Emmy Awards database


 * Grammy Awards archive
 * Japanese Anime and manga WikiProject's list of sources.

Politicians and Heads of State


 * Rulers.org
 * Pan-African Parliament
 * List of Members pap (Africa-Union.org)
 * East Africa @ UPenn
 * Africa Review


 * BBC Country Profiles
 * Countries of the World
 * China Vitae
 * East Asian Library
 * Chinese Military reference (RAND)
 * Ontario politicians

Science
 * PubMed Biomedical and life sciences archive.
 * Paperity Open access journals and papers, all disciplines.

Sports


 * Hoganstand.com Irish Hurlers
 * Soccerway, Playerhistory.com. Soccer players and teams
 * Wikiproject Football's list of sources
 * Libya Football Clubs from Libya online
 * Phillipine Basketball Association online
 * The Star (Malaysia) online sports section
 * Sports Reference Olympic athletes, MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL, College Football & Basketball
 * The Saudi: Sports Saudi Arabian sports


 * Arab News: Sports Middle Eastern sports
 * racing-reference.info Motorsports archive
 * Polish volleyball
 * Formula One official site Formula One results archive from 1950 onwards
 * Siamsport Primary news source covering Thai football. If the player's article on wikipedia includes its Thai spelling try this site.
 * Official Thai Premier League site
 * Sports Illustrated Vault
 * Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
 * Horse racing results archive


 * Project resources

Project templates


 * User Unreferenced Articles
 * URA Invite
 * Wikipedia Unreferenced articles improved
 * URA task

Wikipedia's policies and guidelines


 * Identifying reliable sources
 * Notability
 * No original research
 * Verifiability


 * Wikipedia:Before nominating an article for deletion
 * Criteria for speedy deletion
 * Citing sources
 * Referencing for beginners

Cite tools and templates


 * List of request references template messages
 * Category:Citation and verifiability maintenance templates
 * Category:Inline citation and verifiability dispute templates
 * Category:Citation templates


 * Reftool
 * Reftools
 * Universal Reference Formatter
 * Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books
 * New York Times Wikipedia reference generator
 * Zotero

Historical project pages
 * WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Deletion review

Related projects
 * WikiProject Stubsensor
 * WikiProject Citation cleanup
 * WikiProject Reliability
 * WikiProject Resource Exchange
 * Unreferenced BLP Rescue