Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Backlog drives/test backlog drive

Note: The main aim of this backlog drive is to gain experience for organizing a much larger backlog drive in the future. Therefore, this backlog drive would target on Category:Articles lacking sources from December 2007‎, which by the time the backlog drive is launch has only 102 articles.
 * Discuss about this drive at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Unreferenced articles

There is a very simple way to improve Wikipedia: add one inline citation to a reliable source to any article in the category above or if that is not possible, PROD or AFD it.

Fewer unsourced articles means the quality of Wikipedia as a whole increases. We need a lot of people to help with this monumental task. So leave your marks today!

If you needs tips or guides, you can take a look at or ask at the Wikiproject's talk page.

Detailed instructions
If one reliable source is found that verify a statement in the article:
 * Find an article in Category:Articles lacking sources from December 2007‎.
 * Look for reliable sources using your favorite web search engine, Google Scholar, Google Books, etc.
 * Tips: As a rule of thumb, blogs, editorials, tabloids, self-published books, e-commerce websites, and aggregated databases aren't reliable sources.


 * Cite it inline. Please add all the needed metadata. For recent books, ISBN are strongly recommended.
 * Be careful about the citation's position in text. Use page numbers to be specific and cn to mark surrounding unsourced statements if needed.
 * (optional) Find more citations and cite them, too.
 * (recommended) Add More citations needed if large parts of the article is not cited OR add cn to short uncited text.
 * (optional, for web) Run IABot to archive the web citations, just in case the website is lost forever in the future.

If no reliable source can found with the best of your effort, there are a few options:

Remember to tag your edit summary with Add references during WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Test backlog drive, both to advertise the event and tally the points later.
 * (preferred) Make a new thread and notify other fellow editors at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Unreferenced articles.
 * PROD the article if it is immediately obvious that the article should be deleted.
 * AFD the article if it is not immediately obvious that the article should be deleted.

And of course, don't try to repeatedly doing anything stupid. Be careful with your edits and being receptive to others will help you to avoid these awkward situations. Repeated violations of the rules will disqualify the editor from the drive.

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Members

 * 1) User:Example (always watching...)
 * 2) CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 14:37, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
 * 3) ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me!  17:30, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Tally

 * CactiStaccingCrane – 1

Some tricks

 * Use "" (double quotes) to search for the term exactly. This means that "pinnochio" will only show up articles with words matched with "pinnochio", not pinocchio.
 * Use machine translation, either at a website or as built in to your web browser, for reading foreign article texts.
 * For foreign texts on Google Books that their texts cannot be copied, take a screenshot, go to Google Translate and click on the "Images" button.
 * Twinkle might be helpful for cleaning up article banners.
 * While you're there, you could expand the article or clean up any other problems you see with it.
 * more?

General tips

 * See WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Resources for a list of potentially reliable sources.
 * Check Reliable sources/Perennial sources for some more reliable sources.