Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Unreferenced Article Cleanup

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[edit] Duplicate projects?

Hi Qarnos, could you maybe check if the goals of this project don’t overlap too much with the already existing WikiProject: Fact and Reference Check? Thanks. --Van helsing 10:54, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

I had already investigated that project. It seems more gears to verifying references in articles which already have them, rather than researching and finding references from scratch. This is more about clearing the massive backlog in Category:All articles lacking sources. I don't consider there to be much overlap, but thanks for the concern. -- Qarnos 11:00, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
All right. I like your focus on stubs in the hope that expanders will follow up on it. --Van helsing 11:07, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tackle the problem sooner rather than later

I would argue that the reason why a lot of information goes unreferenced is because not enough effort has been put into making the referencing arrangements intelligible to new wiki contributors. Clearing up after the proverbial horse has bolted is a not a good use of time.

There is a LOT that could be done to improve WHY citing sources is important and HOW to do this quickly and easily. 83.217.168.45 03:16, 20 March 2007 (UTC) (Sorry that was me I'd forgotten I'd signed out! Cosmopolitancats 03:17, 20 March 2007 (UTC))

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