User:Taxman/Featured articles with possible references problems

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The following articles in the first section are currently featured articles but no longer meet the featured article criteria because they do not cite their sources with properly formatted references. The articles in the second section do, but each article only has one or two references. Some of these articles may have used the links or further resources listed as actual references, but didn't explicitly state that so we don't know. Those could be easily fixed, so asking the page authors is necessary. I have moved the list of articles with other issues, such as ambiguous naming of the references section or improper formatting to featured articles with misc. references problems

Currently 3 featured articles have no references at all to back up the material they contain. From a critic's point of view they could be entirely made up. For further information see the Fact and Reference Check WikiProject and the Forum for Encyclopedic Standards. Both projects are working on implementing the Wikipedia:Verifiability policy. When I first collated this list the number was as high as 193 (42% at the time), so significant progress is being made.

Please don't remove an article from this list once it has references, just add a note that you have added references and to what degree you have used them to verify or add material to the article.

Contents 1 Those with none 1.1 History 1.2 Sport and games 1.3 Technology 2 References added (and confirmed if noted) 3 Those with only inline references 4 Very few references

[edit] Those with none

[edit] History

• Franks – one further reading, may or may not have been used as a reference

[edit] Sport and games

• Bullfighting – only external links

[edit] Technology

• Spacecraft propulsion – only external links {No longer an FA}

[edit] References added (and confirmed if noted)

• Newark, New Jersey – none at all!

I added citations to Newark. 11/29/04. dinopup

Thank you thank you thank you. But did you use them to actually verify the material in the article? Thats a real reference. Anything less is intellectually dishonest. - Taxman 18:53, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)

User did confirm that on the talk page. - Taxman 16:09, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

• Helicobacter pylori - only external links.

Yesterday, the article had three external links (more now), two of which were to extremely proper and reputable web sources. I've formatted them and turned them into a references section. I have used them to verify the article (I'm not one of the authors). Neutrality removed the article from WP:FARC soon after I reported there that it now has references.--[[User:Bishonen|Bishonen (talk)]] 19:44, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you. I read a bit of the NIH consensus statement and adjusted the article for that in one spot. I will try to continue with that, please do also if you can. - Taxman 23:30, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

• Great Mosque of Djenné - Only external links
  • Three external links from one site, which were the original main references, now categorised as such. Mark¹ 07:57, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• London Congestion Charge - Only external links
  • Actually this article does have at least one paper reference, not bad considering that the topic is sufficiently new that no books have been written on the charge. Also the external links (18 of them) are quite comprehensive as resources for verifying the facts in the article.
    • The print reference is noted once I see, but as noted above I did not read the text of every article. Ideally references would be included in a dedicated section at the end to make it easier for the fact checker and reader. If the links sufficiently confirm the material in the article and are reliable themselves, then they could certainly be formatted as references as per Wikipedia:Cite sources. Also as noted above, that would make this one of the easy ones to clear up. So if you are inclined, please do so. - Taxman 21:56, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)
      • A book reference was added. Not sure to what extent it was properly used. - Taxman 15:15, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
• Helium - very well referenced and cited by Mav. - Taxman 23:31, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
• Not the Nine O'Clock News – its BBC website was used and formatted as a reference, one reference. - Taxman 15:30, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
• Oxyrhynchus - See it's talk page. One reference- Taxman 15:30, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
• Peerage - Taxman 15:30, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
• England expects that every man will do his duty - Not properly formatted. - Taxman 15:30, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
• Chuck Palahniuk – Taxman 15:30, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
• Parthenon – Now has a sources and further reading which is ambiguous, but at least there are some. - Taxman 20:20, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
• Marshall, Texas - Has 3 now
• Aryan invasion theory - Has several references, oddly interspersed in the middle
• Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 – lots now
• Mandarin – now has at least 3
• Thou – now has 3
• Isaac Asimov – has at least some, but ambiguous as to which are which
  • I've split the section to tell them apart. There are also a couple inline citations which somebody should do something about. Anville 06:04, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Quatermass and the Pit – has 1 now
• The Beatles – has lots now
• Miles Davis – has lots now
• Heavy metal umlaut – has some, but ambiguous
• Dmitri Shostakovich – now has lots
• Galileo Galilei – has one, and some inline citations
• Plate tectonics – has 2 now
• Margaret Thatcher – lots now
• LEGO – has 1 now
• Rock, Paper, Scissors – has 3 now
• Floppy disk – several now
• Saxophone – One now
• Weather lore – some now
• Barack Obama – many now
• Crash test dummy – some now
• History of computing hardware – many now
• Portuguese language – 4 now
• James Bulger murder case – some now
• Cladistics - has 5 now
• DNA repair - has one now
• Gene - has 1
• Noam Chomsky – has lots of inline citations, but not collected at the bottom
• Comet – has 4 now
• Carl Sagan – has 1 now
• Super Mario 64 – has 3 now
• Java programming language – only external links
• Vowel
• Calvin and Hobbes
• Humphrey Bogart
• Louis Armstrong
• Ferdinand Magellan – has a reference of unknown quality
• Eureka Stockade - One now
• Batman – two added
• Gramophone record – has one now
• Black hole – lots now
• Linus Pauling - 2 now
• Aztalan State Park - at least one baked into the text. - at least a couple now, no longer featured.
• Mixed-breed dog - has some now.
• British East India Company – a couple inline citations
• Alliterative verse – several now
• Crime fiction – One source in quoted in the text. There are several further reading, may or may not have been used as references.
• H. P. Lovecraft – The further readings listed are discussed so extensively that it would be hard to believe they don't serve as references
• Superman – many external links listed as references now, though not many are very high quality.
• Bob Dylan – further reading and a couple external links have been cited in line, but overall largely unreferenced.
• Frankfurt School – 3 now
• Free will - a few now
• Richard Feynman – the listed works have now been extensively cited inline.
• Irish Houses of Parliament – 2 now
• Abraham Lincoln – tons, if they're listed properly.
• John Major – his own autobiography is cited and now several external links are cited inline.
• U.S. Electoral College – a couple now.
• Mordechai Vanunu - many now
• Father Damien – some now
• Greek mythology – appears to be lots now
• Hebrew calendar – lots now
• Chess – several now
• Go (board game) – some books listed, but only one is cited inline and there is one inline external link. Overall, largely unreferenced
• Monopoly (game) – many inline cites, not all of very high quality
• ASCII – several now
• CPU cache – a couple external links inline cites, but overall largely unreferenced.
• Phonograph cylinder – 3 now
• Radar – many now
• World Wide Web – not featured anymore, has some
• London Underground – many now
• Zeppelin - several now
• Attack on Pearl Harbor – several inline citations now
• Battle of Normandy - many now
• Charles Ives – Some inline cites to two websites and lots of further reading
• Rudyard Kipling – One footnote now. Nowhere near coverage of the whole article
• PaX – PaX documentation listed generically as a reference
• Speech synthesis – 2 footnotes and 2 external links cited inline
• Typewriter – 3 footnotes now
• Wigwag – 1 general website reference, 1 footnote
• Telephone exchange – a couple references weaved into the text now

[edit] Those with only inline references

These are articles that are referenced by at least some inline citations or mention another source. If you see any articles in the above list that do have inline references, please let me know and I'll move it here. These can be very easily turned into properly formatted references and will help remove many (hopefully) from the above list. This section has not been updated for the most part since early 2005 at the latest.

• Yesterday – external links, and 6 inline citations.
• Split infinitive – has citations weaved into the prose, but no resources listed as general references. - Taxman ^Talk
• Common scold – there are a few legal citations and stuff weaved into the text.
• LSD - There are now lots of inline bare html citations
  • Looks to me like they have all been changed to cite.php. -- Jmabel | Talk 16:28, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Yep, that one looks pretty good now. - Taxman ^Talk 19:16, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Economics - has several weaved into the text now, but not clear collection of them.
• Kashrut - now a few footnotes, some inline html cites and many refrences baked into the text, though not gathered at the end.
• City status in the United Kingdom - a couple inline html and reference to 1911 Britannica. Too much list. Really not many references.

[edit] Very few references

• In this case I arbitrarily considered one or two references to be too few. These numbers have not been checked since 2004.

• The Adventures of Tintin – one (documentary film)
• Margin of error – one reference
• Ian McKellen - one, an Interview not properly formatted.
  • Now no longer an FA, but it has been improved (6 references, all using cite.php)
• Heavy metal music – Only external links and one “source”
• Mor lam - 2 references
  • Has been improved considerably in this regard, I think. Tuf-Kat
• Punk rock – One reference and some external links
• Hinduism – only 2 references for a very large topic, and both are other encyclopedia’s
• Holy Prepuce 2 references
• Shakers – 2
• Anne of Great Britain – 2
• George I of Great Britain – 2, one of which is an improperly formatted external link
• George II of Great Britain – 2, one of which is an improperly formatted external link
• George IV of the United Kingdom - 2
• Mary II of England – 2, one of which is an improperly formatted external link
• William IV of the United Kingdom – 2
• Blackjack – 2
• Bodyline – 1
• Cricket – 1
• Goomba - 3
• Fanny Blankers-Koen –2
• Olympic Flame – one
• Seabiscuit -2
• Suzanne Lenglen – 2
• Domestic AC power plugs & sockets – 1, an external link not properly formatted
• Electronic amplifier - 1
• Markup language – 1, an external link not properly formatted
• ROT13 - 2
• Ford Mustang – 2
• Battle of Aljubarrota – 2, in Portugese
• Battle of Leyte Gulf –2
• First Battle of the Stronghold –2 with 2 more further reading
• Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson – 2
• Siege – 1, the rest are “further reading”
• Trench warfare – 1, called “resources”
• World War I – 2, called resources
• Battle of Hampton Roads - 1 plus 1911 Britannica

Notes:

• Some article could have slipped through my check by having a section called references that were not used as actual references. I’m guessing this is fairly unlikely.