Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup

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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.

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[edit] Goals

  • Standardising the use of citations by making all citations within the same article consistent with each other
  • Ensuring that no citations are broken at any time

[edit] Scope

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup: edit · history · watch · refresh

[edit] Guidelines

  • If you see a link that shows up as [1], try to convert it to show up with text (e.g. Google).
  • If you see a reference to a news article, it is helpful to link to an online-version of this article (typing the title of the article in the search engine is often sufficient).

[edit] Tagging articles

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.

[edit] See also

Help:Citations quick reference

[edit] Examples

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. bdesham (talk · contribs) 18:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
  2. Wtmitchell (talk · contribs) 04:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
  3. Rifleman_82 (talk · contribs)
  4. Wildhartlivie (talk · contribs) 06:47, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
  5. Softtest123 (talk · contribs) (I am adding citations to computer oriented articles with no citations) 13:56, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
  6. Biochemza (talk · contribs) 20:38, 1 November 2007 (UTC). Fixing citation style consistency.
  7. Jw21 (talk · contribs) 01:37, 2 December 2007 (UTC) (I have been adding and checking citations before this WikiProject came into light, and I'd be happy to be affiliated with it.)
  8. Superm401 (talk · contribs) 12:55, 31 December 2007 (UTC) As with Jw21, I've been doing this often, and I'm glad to join up. Superm401 - Talk 12:55, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
  9. Sparkygravity (talk · contribs) I'm interested in working on citation style consistency, and increasing reliable sources 17:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
  10. Altairisfar (talk · contribs) 02:20, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
  11. Rosiestep (talk · contribs) 21:50, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
  12. Brenont (talk · contribs) 03:30, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
  13. EraserGirl (talk · contribs) 03:46, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Please note that it is "User|" not "User:" and five tildes to add the date, not four.

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[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week
Peer review
Assessment

[edit] Templates

[edit] Citation templates

See also: Wikipedia:Citation templates

[edit] Article tagging templates


[edit] Categories

[edit] Resources

[edit] Tools

  • Wikipedia Citation Assistant for journal article citations
  • WebCite — tool to archive webpages to allow stable citation links.
  • Template builder — given an ISBN, a PubMed ID, etc., output a citation which can be pasted into a Wikipedia article.
  • Reference generator — generates wikicode for journals, webpages, and other commonly cited sources.
  • User:CitationTool — tool for finding citation errors and fixing them.
  • 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
  • Verisimilus's Cite generation page lets you find articles using built-in Google Scholar interface and automatically produce an appropriate cite template. It also features a BibTeX to {{cite}} converter.

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