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Welcome to WikiProject Citation cleanup. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving the quality and consistency of citations and footnotes 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 join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
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.
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WikiProject Citation cleanup. Collaboration and review edit
- Peer review
- Assessment
- Hair Peace Salon an article about a Belarusian band has over 300 references and is currently being edited by one particular user who is not aware of WP:REFBOMB. A relevant cleanup issue was raised at WP:CLEAN by Doomsdayer520 (talk · contribs), I am duplicating it here to raise the awareness about this article. -- Bbarmadillo (talk) 09:45, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- I will assist if this team decides to take action. Note that the article's creator may react unfavorably. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 12:27, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- I've rewritten the 2002-06 section and listed the references for them (from 600 words to 250). I'm not comfortable editing the actual page as I'd likely break the references as I kept just nine (but only their URL). Any recommendation for a next step? ogenstein (talk) 15:27, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
- Good grief. This is far and away the worst case of WP:REFBOMB I've ever seen. I'm not even kidding when I say it might be worth it to just completely undo all of Pr12402's edits to the article. For crying out loud, the article on the American Civil War has fewer references. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 07:36, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Templates edit
Citation templates edit
- {{citation style}}
- {{nofootnotes}}
- {{Citation}}
- {{cite book}}
- {{cite court}} (Court Case)
- {{cite encyclopedia}}
- {{cite episode}} (Television or radio episode)
- {{cite journal}}
- {{cite conference}}
- {{cite mailing list}}
- {{cite map}}
- {{cite news}}
- {{cite newsgroup}}
- {{cite paper}} (Papers, theses, dissertations)
- {{cite press release}}
- {{cite video}}
- {{cite web}}
Article tagging templates edit
- {{citations broken}} or {{dead link}}
- {{nofootnote}}
- {{Citation style}}
- {{Fact}}
- {{Cleanup-bare URLs}}
- {{page number}}
- {{specify}}
- {{Primarysources}}
- {{rs}}
- {{Refimprove}}
- {{Refimprovesect}}
- {{Unreferencedsection}}
Categories edit
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- List of all subpages of this page
Resources edit
Tools edit
Editor tools Editing aids
- Alt text
- Copyvio detector
- Peer review
- Dab solver
- Disambig links
- Redirect check
Citation tools
- Citer
- Biomedical cite
- Citation bot
- Dup detector
- NYtimes cite
- DOI cite
- MakeRef
- PubMed cite
- Refill
- WayBack
- Web2Cit
Things to review
- Copyvios
- New pages
- New files
- Recent changes
- IP edits
- Discussions
Customisation
- mw:Citoid – use in the visual editor to quickly "Convert" a bare URL into a citation template.
- refill - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references.
- Google book tool Converts bare url into {{cite book}} format.
- RefScript[dead link]
- Universal reference formatter for journal article citations.
- WebCite — tool to archive webpages to allow stable citation links.
- Wikipedia template filling (was Diberri template builder) — given an ISBN, a PubMed PMID or PMCID, etc., output a citation which can be pasted into a Wikipedia article. Uses vauthors rather than first, last pairs.
- Reference generator — generates wikicode for journals, webpages, and other commonly cited sources.
- Citation bot — for finding and fixing citation errors, and adding missing data.
- User:CitationTool — finds a different set of errors. Not currently working.
- Wikicite — a free program that helps editors to properly reference their Wikipedia contributions using citation templates. It is written in Visual Basic .NET, making it suitable only for users with the .NET Framework installed on Windows, or, for other platforms, the Mono alternative framework.
- OttoBib.com — a free tool to generate an alphabetized bibliography for books, using an input list of International Standard Book Number (ISBN) numbers, with output in MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, BibTeX, or Wikipedia format (also generates a permalink).
- Cite.php — a MediaWiki extension that enables the use of <ref>.
- Zotero allows you to find articles in Mozilla Firefox and easily paste them into Wikipedia as citation templates using Ctrl-Alt-C
- Smith609's Google Scholar interface lets you search for articles in Google Scholar and automatically produce an appropriate cite template.
- User:Richiez tools to handle citations for a whole article at a time. Converts occurrences of {{pmid XXXX}} or {{isbn XXXX}} to properly formatted footnote or Harvard style references. Written in Ruby and requires a working installation with basic libraries.
- WikiProject Check Wikipedia produces a series of daily reports with checks on various wiki syntax elements. The reports on broken template syntax frequently list {{citation}} templates.
- Automatic Referencing Assistant — The Automatic Referencing Assistant (ARA) is a script which aids users in correcting referencing errors. It notifies the user when the article being edited is missing the
{{Reflist}}
template, has invalid or broken<ref></ref>
tags, and many other small functions. Clicking a fix link will automatically add the necessary template or information to the correct location in the article.- WikiBlame - To find first entry of incorrect formating with broken reference names.
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