User:The Wordsmith/BLP sourcing

A common misconception being spread now is that nobody is willing to help source the tens of thousands of unsourced BLPs. So, this page is for those who do want to help to sign their name and actually make the commitment to help solve this problem. In the future, editors who sign this list may be notified about efforts to make it happen, or BLP-related proposals, if people choose to use this list. I request that editors do not sign this list if they cannot commit to checking for sources for at least 500 articles over the coming weeks and months.


 * 1) The Wordsmith Communicate 03:59, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Camw (talk) 04:09, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 04:44, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) Milowent (talk) 05:11, 22 January 2010 (UTC) (stop the book burning)
 * 5) Hut 8.5 09:17, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 6) Bradjamesbrown (talk) 10:10, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 7) Jogurney (talk) 12:32, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps this'll help? Category:Unsourced BLP Rescuers '' ▒ Wirεłεşş ▒ Fidεłitұ ▒ Ćłâşş ▒ Θnε ▒ ―Œ  ♣Łεâvε Ξ мεşşâgε♣  16:10, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) 500 is, uh, ambitious, but I will try. Fences  &amp;  Windows  21:14, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Michig (talk) 07:50, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) I'm keen. Can you point me to the list of unsourced BLPs? Gonzonoir (talk) 09:10, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Unreferenced BLPs by date Camw (talk) 09:37, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Cheers Camw. Gonzonoir (talk) 09:43, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Five a day meets the 3 month timeframe that has been mooted (factoring in the time it will take to reach a decision). I can commit to that. WFCforLife (talk) 05:32, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Moral support. I think 500 in a short time frame is unrealistic for just about everybody signing up here, but I for one am now prioritizing this work.--Father Goose (talk) 08:05, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) Not sure I will get to 500, but am working through our NHL player lists and adding, at the very least, references to their Hockey Hall of Fame biography. The work I log below will not necessarily be tagged as BLP-unsourced, but will be unsourced articles fixed none the less. Resolute 17:24, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) Count me in. I've done quite a few so far and will continue in that vein. Argyle 4 Life (talk) 19:58, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) You know 500 sounds daunting but at five-a-day it does seem do-able. -- Banj e  b oi   07:33, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 6) 500 articles sounds too much but will try to start with 3 to 10 articles per day. Arteyu ?  Blame it on me ! 23:03, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 7) Nice to know I'm no alone! HJ Mitchell  |  fancy a chat?   00:24, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 8) I am in, I cannot promise 500, in fact I can promise I will not be able to do 500 in the time alotted, but less is better than nothing ;)  MPJ  -DK 12:47, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 9) Already been doing this. More constructive than the endless debates about exactly when to unleash the deletionist hordes. Sam Blacketer (talk) 13:02, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 10) I really cannot commit to 500 articles (if anything I'll likely be less active in the weeks ahead), but I'm already working on this and thus will sign on here. I started my own log of my activities which I'll link to below. --Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 18:52, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 11) I will try to finish the task in 2nd place behind Jogurney's inspirational effort. King of the  North   East  21:17, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 12) I have been working on it already, but didn't see this page. 500 is a lot for one person, but I will try. I will not have time to list the articles I source on this page though. --Apoc2400 (talk) 16:49, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 13) Hey guys, I started sourcing articles inmediately when the issue came up. I even receved a award for the effort, but it was some weeks from now. I did quite nice, grabed the lists by countries, and done a few of them, leaving only the ones that wasn´t notable. If it wasn´t for King of the North East, I wouldn´t even know about this. You were all affraid of me, come on guys, recognise it! (I´m joking), hey, can someone explain to me how can I make a list of all articles I sourced recently? FkpCascais (talk) 00:45, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 14) Pohick2 (talk) 20:03, 12 February 2010 (UTC) this will distract from new article creation, but, c'est la vie.  i would like to add that the quality of wiki is not to be measured by pseudo-numerics like unreferenced BLP's.  the huge backlog is more a measure of the tendentious many who tag away oblivious to the few who actually improve articles.  i continue to be disappointed by the mismanagement, by constant thrashing of management by numbers, which violate the sound principles of Edwards Deming.  a superior method would be making article improvement more fun, engendering an improvement spiral (a minority view).
 * 15) Okip   04:16, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I, too have been sourcing BLPs for a while in the Project I'm working with and have only just picked up the reference to this page. 500 is a lot. I might get there but truthfully, I'm not going to spend time counting or making tallies. I'm just plodding steadily though various lists of BLPs in our project sourcing and improving as I go. --Plad2 (talk) 23:14, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) I have been working on this all along, though not at this rate. Nor do I intend to waste my time either counting or listing. I think I know how to go about things like this, but 5 a day is the highest speed  I can handle properly, not the average speed.   Doing a rushed and inadequate  job to other people's over-short deadlines is not a good way to deal with a problem.  I am cynical enough to wonder what unrealistic expectation will be raised next by those who want to make Wikipedia smaller.     DGG ( talk ) 04:44, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Great to have this pledge drive going on. I've done a couple hundred, somewhat painstakingly, since March, and I have also been correcting mis-stated BLP unreferenced tags for many articles having IMDB as a reference.  Record of that effort is at User:Doncram/IMDBzap, will pass 1,000 soon, may reach 2,000 or more before june 1. --doncram (talk) 20:14, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Fences and windows

 * 1) José González (wrestler) (restored after stubified)
 * 2) Dave Cooke
 * 3) Bow Sim Mark (deprodded)
 * 4) David Yelland (journalist)
 * 5) Donogh Rees (had been deprodded without sources being added)
 * 6) Patrick Reynolds (actor) (picked up the baton after User:SilkTork started sourcing)
 * 7) Greg Landau (had been deleted as an old unsourced BLP)
 * 8) Frederik Lauesen (deprodded)
 * 9) Lou D'Angeli (my second wrestler, I know much more about professional wrestling now!)
 * 10) Lung Ying-tai
 * 11) Alexander Samwer
 * 12) Scott Bond
 * 13) Mike Granatt (I'd heard of him!)

Resolute

 * 1–10: Dan Bouchard, Fred Brathwaite, Marc D'Amour, Doug Dadswell, Tyrone Garner, Trevor Kidd, Réjean Lemelin, Tyler Moss, Jason Muzzatti, Jeff Reese
 * 11-20: Matt Beleskey
 * User:Resolute/BLPs began with 371 articles in need of references. Will be depopulating it as I progress. Resolute 00:30, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Argyle 4 Life

 * 1) Carsten Ramelow
 * 2) Arkadiusz Bąk
 * 3) Cezary Kucharski
 * 4) Daniel Šarić
 * 5) Federico Magallanes
 * 6) Goran Sankovič
 * 7) Luis Gómez
 * 8) Marcin Żewłakow
 * 9) Nicolás Olivera
 * 10) Rajko Tavčar
 * 11) Teboho Mokoena
 * 12) Thabo Mngomeni
 * 13) Adrian Ilie
 * 14) Carlos Germano
 * 15) Carlos Tejas
 * 16) César Sampaio
 * 17) David Batty
 * 18) Doriva
 * 19) Durrant Brown
 * 20) Hamzah Saleh
 * 21) Ilie Dumitrescu
 * 22) Jamal Sellami
 * 23) Lucian Marinescu
 * 24) Léider Preciado
 * 25) Ovidiu Stîngă
 * 26) Ricardo Peláez
 * 27) Sandro Cois
 * 28) Tim Flowers
 * 29) Vidar Riseth
 * 30) Warren Barrett
 * 31) William Okpara
 * 32) Branco (footballer)
 * 33) Igor Korneev
 * 34) Iulian Chiriţă
 * 35) Lars Eriksson
 * 36) Lorenzo Minotti
 * 37) Martin Brunner
 * 38) Mohamed Al-Jawad
 * 39) Müller (footballer)
 * 40) Nikolay Iliev
 * 41) René Llense
 * 42) Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa
 * 43) Horst Eckel
 * 44) Carlo Galli
 * 45) Alfredo Ramos de Oliveira
 * 46) Paul Dalton
 * 47) Billy Rafferty
 * 48) Fred Binney
 * 49) Barrie Vassallo
 * 50) Allan Harris
 * 51) Dave Sutton
 * 52) Graham Shaw (footballer born 1967)
 * 53) Tom Baker (footballer)
 * 54) John Matthews (footballer)
 * 55) Pontus Kåmark
 * 56) Thomas Bickel
 * 57) Zinho (footballer)
 * 58) Bismarck Barreto Faria
 * 59) Chris Woods
 * 60) Gheorghe Liliac
 * 61) Hassan Mohamed
 * 62) Mark Wright (footballer born 1963)
 * 63) Oleh Kuznetsov
 * 64) Salvatore Schillaci
 * 65) Atanas Pashev
 * 66) Bernard McNally
 * 67) Billy Hamilton (footballer)
 * 68) Bruno Conti
 * 69) Colin Clarke
 * 70) Dariusz Kubicki
 * 71) Darío Pereyra
 * 72) Fernando Quirarte
 * 73) Gary Bailey
 * 74) József Csuhay
 * 75) József Nagy (footballer born 1960)
 * 76) Walter Casagrande
 * 77) Eduardo Hernández
 * 78) Franco Causio
 * 79) Franco Selvaggi
 * 80) Giampiero Marini
 * 81) Giuseppe Dossena
 * 82) Ivano Bordon
 * 83) Jim Cleary (Northern Ireland footballer)
 * 84) João Batista da Silva
 * 85) Ado (footballer)
 * 86) Alexander Vencel (footballer born 1944)
 * 87) Allan Clarke (footballer)
 * 88) Marco Antônio
 * 89) Mario Bertini
 * 90) Jan Jongbloed
 * 91) Kiril Milanov
 * 92) Luciano Castellini
 * 93) Luciano Spinosi
 * 94) József Tóth (footballer born 1951)
 * 95) Luiz Carlos Ferreira
 * 96) Lázár Szentes
 * 97) Manfred Kaltz
 * 98) Marek Dziuba
 * 99) Mario Soto (footballer)
 * 100) Mick Mills
 * 101) Paulo Isidoro
 * 102) Petr Janečka
 * 103) Přemysl Bičovský
 * 104) Sammy Nelson
 * 105) Stephan Engels
 * 106) Aldo Maldera
 * 107) András Tóth (footballer born 1949)
 * 108) Claudio Sala
 * 109) Don Masson
 * 110) Eraldo Pecci
 * 111) Ferenc Fülöp
 * 112) Francisco Jezuíno Avanzi
 * 113) Lionello Manfredonia
 * 114) Paolo Conti
 * 115) Rasoul Korbekandi
 * 116) Giuseppe Sabadini
 * 117) George Cohen
 * 118) Lee Dixon
 * 119) Martin Peters
 * 120) Micky Quinn
 * 121) Paul Bracewell
 * 122) Russell Osman
 * 123) Carlos Miguel da Silva Júnior
 * 124) Heiko Gerber
 * 125) Karel Rada
 * 126) Luboš Kozel
 * 127) Martin Frýdek
 * 128) Petr Vlček
 * 129) Ricardo Soares Florêncio
 * 130) Marius Popa
 * 131) Johan Wiland
 * 132) Oğuz Çetin
 * 133) Pavel Novotný (footballer)
 * 134) Vasile Iordache
 * 135) Rui Jordão
 * 136) Roberto Pruzzo
 * 137) Francesco Romano
 * 138) Martijn Reuser
 * 139) Mel Sterland
 * 140) Michel Vonk
 * 141) Pål Lydersen
 * 142) Seth Johnson
 * 143) Kingsley Black
 * 144) Orlando Trustfull
 * 145) Antonio Martínez
 * 146) Ashley Grimes (Irish footballer)
 * 147) Paco Flores
 * 148) Ramón Ros Badía
 * 149) David Price (footballer)
 * 150) Jimmy McGill
 * 151) Jimmy Rimmer
 * 152) John Matthews (footballer)
 * 153) John Woodward (footballer)
 * 154) Keith Edelman
 * 155) Roger Gibbs
 * 156) Sammy Nelson
 * 157) Steve Williams (footballer born 1958)
 * 158) Stuart Young
 * 159) Jonas Ogandaga
 * 160) Mohammed Ali El Khider
 * 161) Segun Odegbami
 * 162) Tumelo Nhlapo
 * 163) András Simon
 * 164) Paco Herrera
 * 165) José Segura
 * 166) Thabet El-Batal
 * 167) Adolfo Meléndez
 * 168) Alberto Heredia Ceballos
 * 169) Fernando Serena
 * 170) Julián Palacios
 * 171) Juan Padrós
 * 172) Carlos Padrós
 * 173) Pedro Parages
 * 174) Luis de Urquijo
 * 175) Luis Usera Bugallal
 * 176) Rafael Sánchez Guerra
 * 177) Antonio Santos Peralba
 * 178) Santiago Bernabéu Yeste
 * 179) Onismor Bhasera

MPJ-DK
I do primarily pro-wrestling as that's where I have the most sources available


 * 1) El Angel (wrestler)
 * 2) Lizmark
 * 3) Steve Armstrong
 * 4) Del Wilkes
 * 5) Sean Royal
 * 6) Christopher Ashford-Smith
 * 7) Mikel Scicluna
 * 8) Buddy Roberts
 * 9) Michael Hayes (wrestler)
 * 10) Ron Garvin
 * 11) Bill Eadie
 * 12) Mark Youngblood - saved from BLP prod
 * 13) Newton Tattrie
 * 14) Adnan Al-Kaissie
 * 15) Barney Irwin
 * 16) Mike Jones (wrestler)
 * 17) George Gray (wrestler)
 * 18) Ron Fuller (wrestler)
 * 19) Bunkhouse Buck
 * 20) Héctor Garza
 * 21) Bill Dannenhauer
 * 22) John L. Sullivan (wrestler)
 * 23) Firebreaker Chip
 * 24) Jim Barrell
 * 25) Manuel Ortiz
 * 26) Joe Malenko
 * 27) Mike Miller (wrestler) - Saved from BLP Prod
 * 28) John Nord
 * 29) Jerry Stubbs
 * 30) Salman Hashimikov
 * 31) Karl Anderson
 * 32) Bugsy McGraw
 * 33) Naoki Sano

Father Goose

 * 1) Glen "Frosty" Little (Turned out to be a copyvio, so I rewrote it from scratch.)
 * 2) Brandon DiCamillo
 * 3) Dida Diafat
 * 4) Saeed Farajpouri‎
 * 5) Jason Crabb (This guy just won a Grammy last night. Sheesh.)
 * 6) Winky D
 * 7) Or Aviram
 * 8) Mor Aviram
 * 9) Diya Sonecha (prodded)
 * 10) Harold Robles
 * 11) Derek Fletcher
 * 12) Sahila Chadha
 * 13) Hassan Gawish (prodded)
 * 14) Terry Downes
 * 15) Debbie Combs

+Various others that were already at least partly sourced, so BLP sources -> BLP refimprove.

Camw

 * User:Camw/BLP Work

Sam Blacketer

 * 1) Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb
 * 2) James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn
 * 3) Peter Lawrence (biologist)
 * 4) Johnny Hawksworth although there are rumours he died last year
 * 5) Sheila Faith
 * 6) Tag Taylor
 * 7) Shane Gough, 5th Viscount Gough
 * 8) Sally Powell
 * 9) David Soutter AFD
 * 10) Peter Sain ley Berry AFD
 * 11) Richard Wilson (politician) prod

Bigtimepeace
User:Bigtimepeace/BLP log

King of the North East

 * User:King of the North East/BLP (100) (200)  (300) (400) (500)