Wikipedia:Featured articles with citation problems

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The following is a list of articles which do not feature inline citations, or which feature only a few. Featured article criteria have changed since 2005, and inline citations are now required for new featured articles; ideally, all older FAs will add inline citations where appropriate. Generally, articles are included here if they have less than 10 footnotes. This is partly arbitrary, but the standard article passing FAC typically has a minimum of 20 or so. This list is not canonical, a policy, a "punishment" for articles, or a proxy for the regular Featured article review; it is meant to aid people in tracking featured articles that may have citation issues, and not more than that.

As FAs with citations problems lose status through the Featured article review process, they are to be struck through (~~example~~) on this list. See the statistics below for the total number with problems at the initial drafting of this list and subsequently.

It is presumed that most of these articles are well-researched, and references (though not in-line citations) should exist in all of them. There is reason to trust the factual accuracy of these articles, but the lack of in-line citations makes true verification difficult.

As not every article has been read in compiling this list, it is possible that some articles featured Harvard-style inline citations rather than footnotes. If so they may be removed when the inconsistency is discovered. Additionally, many articles may use the Inote template, which hides the references in the editable text. It is likely that several entries on this list should not be here for this reason; if you spot any that use the Inote template, leave a note on the talk page and someone will investigate.

The initial list was helpfully compiled by User:The Disco King, with sub-lists created by User:SandyGeorgia.

1 Stats
2 No inline citations
3 Few inline citations
4 FA status removed
5 Brought to standard
6 By WikiProject or noticeboard
7 By author/editor/nominator

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Reduction in number of articles with little or no in-line citations:

Date (end of month)*	# with insufficient citations	total # with status removed	total # brought to standard	total # of Featured Articles	% of FA with citation problems
November 2006	399	91	33	1175	34%
October 2006	423	70	30	1140	37%
September 2006	454	51	18	1117	41%
August 2006	488	30	5	1094	45%
July 2006	507	14	2	1065	48%
Initial (June 12 2006)	523	0	0	1004	52%

* Additions for a given month will approximately correspond to the previous month's FAR archive, as reviews nominated in one month are typically closed the next. However, some may be nominated and closed in the same month and a few nominated late in one month may be closed early in a third. Those "brought to standard" may not necessarily have done so through the review process, though this is often the case.

Wikipedia:Featured articles with citation problems

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