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74,999! Boleyn (talk) 15:42, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

73,996! Boleyn (talk) 18:30, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

70,085! Catfurball (talk) 19:51, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

A tasteful 69,589! Kazamzam (talk) 20:37, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

68,992! Kazamzam (talk) 16:39, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

67,924! Turtlecrown (talk) 08:50, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

67,065 -- approaching 67,000 Mrfoogles (talk) 22:04, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

66,994! Mrfoogles (talk) 20:37, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

65,993! Turtlecrown (talk) 23:28, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

64,921! Cielquiparle (talk) 13:35, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

63,942! Cielquiparle (talk) 18:23, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

62,987! SunloungerFrog (talk) 04:50, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

61,903! Someonefighter (talk) 22:43, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

60,929! Silverseren^C 19:35, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

59,992! Silverseren^C 02:43, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

59,090! TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 20:09, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

58,814! Catfurball (talk) 18:59, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

57,954! Catfurball (talk) 15:54, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

56,795! Catfurball (talk) 22:21, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

55,456! Catfurball (talk) 16:58, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

54,932! Catfurball (talk) 15:24, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

53,557! Catfurball (talk) 20:45, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

52,896! Catfurball (talk) 15:40, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

51,967! Catfurball (talk) 21:22, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

50,983! Catfurball (talk) 17:00, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

49,997 - well done everyone! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 07:44, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

48,979! Keep going. Cielquiparle (talk) 09:57, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

47,956! Cielquiparle (talk) 18:40, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

46,981! Cielquiparle (talk) 04:39, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

46,367! Boleyn (talk) 13:50, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

47,036! The backlog has increased. Catfurball (talk) 15:21, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

47,423! The number of unreferenced articles are going way up. Catfurball (talk) 18:30, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

They actually aren't. We should probably change how we count these, Catfurball, now that we know about the "probably unreferenced" group that is untagged. If you look at the new chart on the main page, you can see from a month ago that while the unreferenced amount has gone up by 1,000, the probably unreferenced group has gone down by 5,000. So massive progress is still being made, it's just that some of the latter are being tagged and thus being added into the former, even while the total amount is going down a whole bunch. Silverseren^C 21:29, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

44,940! Cielquiparle (talk) 12:47, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

43,994! Cielquiparle (talk) 12:42, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

42,802! Catfurball (talk) 20:51, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

41,651! Cielquiparle (talk) 03:32, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

40,694! Catfurball (talk) 21:22, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

40,332! It's so close to going under 40k. It's a year and a week ago since I started this thread, to celebrate it going under 75k! 35k less in a year is amazing. Boleyn (talk) 10:15, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

39,970! Catfurball (talk) 00:29, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

38,999! Catfurball (talk) 17:07, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

37,283! Catfurball (talk) 17:17, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

35,328! Catfurball (talk) 16:27, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

34,554! Catfurball (talk) 16:43, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

33,179! SunloungerFrog (talk) 06:25, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

32,648! Catfurball (talk) 15:23, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

31,916! Catfurball (talk) 15:18, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

32,270! Catfurball (talk) 15:33, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

33,515! Catfurball (talk) 15:53, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

35,185! Catfurball (talk) 15:25, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

38,126! Catfurball (talk) 19:20, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

39,663! Catfurball (talk) 15:27, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

40,072! Catfurball (talk) 15:13, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

41,250! Catfurball (talk) 15:35, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

42,355! Catfurball (talk) 15:41, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

43,127! Catfurball (talk) 15:30, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

43,066! Catfurball (talk) 15:14, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

44,004! Catfurball (talk) 18:55, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

44,603! Catfurball (talk) 16:47, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

44,453! Catfurball (talk) 15:44, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Counting totals

I would like to propose that under Progress, we include three numbers: 1) the total number of articles tagged as unreferenced (including BLPs and lists) as we do now; 2) the total number of articles that are "probably" unreferenced (including lists); and 3) the total of those two numbers. By tracking all 3 instead of just 1, it eases some of the anxiety around the number in category 1 going up, while providing an overall view of actual progress. @SunloungerFrog @ARandomName123 Cielquiparle (talk) 17:04, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Makes sense to me. Silverseren^C 17:08, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. Because really the grand total should only go down now provided we keep it refreshed, and I think ARandomName123's refreshing script does a great job in that regard. Certainly the graph's trajectory is very encouraging. I will have a think about automatically gathering those numbers. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 17:27, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Sure, sounds good to me. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 21:22, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

71,984! Cielquiparle (talk) 04:57, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

71,214! Cielquiparle (talk) 05:13, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

70,752! Cielquiparle (talk) 14:14, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

70,342! Cielquiparle (talk) 10:30, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

69,925! Cielquiparle (talk) 05:31, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

68,970! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 00:35, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

67,766! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 05:07, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

66,666! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 04:08, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

65,802! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 06:28, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

64,795! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 00:12, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

63,977! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 05:41, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

60,801! Cheers, 00:11, 22 March 2026 (UTC) SunloungerFrog (talk) 00:11, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

59,971! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 05:19, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

58,889! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 04:19, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

56,904! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 05:58, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

55,264! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 08:23, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

54,962! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 06:55, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

53,992! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 08:38, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

52,955! Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 07:34, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Update

The Progress box now reports, below the graph, these three numbers, the change with respect to the day before, and a prediction about when the backlog might disappear. The progress report will automatically update once a day. I'd like to thank ARandomName123 for sterling help behind the scenes to ensure that the chunk of "probably unreferenced articles" is refreshed every day. Any questions, give me a shout. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 09:18, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks @SunloungerFrog and @ARandomName123. Looks great. Liking the prediction of when the backlog might finally be eliminated and that it is all automated. Cielquiparle (talk) 05:36, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

False positives

Starting a list of false positives from the "Probably unreferenced" set:

• 1600s_(decade) <- has refs though could use more
• 1700s_(decade), 1000s (decade)
• 2006_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(CAF)
• 1750s, 1760s
• 2024 Indian general election in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Pinging @ARandomName123 Cielquiparle (talk) 19:32, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

@Cielquiparle: Thanks for listing those. Dealt with the decade articles by adding {{Events by year for decade}} to the filter. The 2024 Indian election article is now filtered through #section-h, and the FIFA one is filtered through {{2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CAF Group 1}} (this isn't the ideal solution but it seems each one has a different template). ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 03:55, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks @ARandomName123! Listing a couple more:

• Cabinet of Libya
• Here is a new variation of "unreferenced" to filter out: "unrf" (!)
• Canadian federal election results on Vancouver Island <- there seem to be multiple articles like this

Cielquiparle (talk) 05:32, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, {{excerpt}} added for Libya, unrf added (never seen that before!), and added {{2015 Canadian federal election/ ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 05:58, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

And more:

• Canada at the FIFA Women's World Cup
• ISO 639:c

Cielquiparle (talk) 12:48, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Added {{2003 FIFA Women's World Cup group tables}} for the first (probably only works for this specific article, as there's many templates on that page). Added {{ISO 639-3 footer}} for the ISO page. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 22:25, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

@ARandomName123 @SunloungerFrog How did we end up *adding* 145 "probably unreferenced" articles to unref8? Cielquiparle (talk) 11:25, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

@Cielquiparle, in an effort to keep abreast of any new "probably unreferenced" articles - for example, if an editor goes on a spree removing unreliable sources from articles but subsequently fails to tag the articles if they happen to end up unreferenced - @ARandomName123's bot now scans all articles that were last edited by a non-bot the day before yesterday, in addition to the existing task of refreshing those already in the "probably unreferenced" blob. We thought that this gradual approach was better than an infrequent scan across all mainspace articles, which would almost certainly have the undesirable effect of a big disheartening spike in "probably unreferenced" articles. The conversation ARandomName123 and I had about this is here: User talk:ARandomName123 § URA scripts, continuously check for probably unref articles. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 11:55, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

(And actually it was only 24 additional articles as you can see from the diff - the other 121 articles were already in the "probably unreferenced" blob). Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 11:59, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks @SunloungerFrog for the update and link. Cielquiparle (talk) 18:09, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

More false positives:

• Manshiyet Zabda
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Alabama
• National Register of Historic Places listings in New Mexico
• Electoral history of Mark Carney

Cielquiparle (talk) 15:11, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Added {{NRHP date for lists}} for the two NRHP ones, added {{2025 Canadian federal election/Nepean}} for Carney, and added {{Israel populations}} for Manshiyet Zadba. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 21:35, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

More false positives:

• Secure Hash Algorithms
• Tufino

Cielquiparle (talk) 05:44, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Added {{Comparison of SHA functions}}. Added {{Infobox Italian comune}}. I'm not too sure about the last one, since it doesn't directly link to the source, and it seems to be the same URL regardless of what place it is. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 05:56, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Also added {{NRHP row}} and {{NRHP header}} for the NRHP ones. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 06:00, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Another false positive:

• On Air (Queen album)
• Detroit Mercy Titans track and field

Cielquiparle (talk) 10:57, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Added {{albumchart}} for On Air. Added {{Infobox college track and field team}} as well, though I'm not sure if there's any false negatives ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 05:06, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

@ARandomName123 When you get a chance, could we filter out Main Page (sitting at unref6)? Cielquiparle (talk) 19:42, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Ah yea that shouldn't be there. Added to the filter. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 00:24, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

False positive:

• Jetten cabinet

Cielquiparle (talk) 04:59, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Added {{Jetten cabinet table}}. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 08:39, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Just noticed that unref8 is turning up a couple of soft redirects as "probably unreferenced", so maybe we could filter those out. Examples: Rosearik Rikki Simons and John Bachtell. Cielquiparle (talk) 06:06, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

Added {{Soft redirect}} ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 06:19, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

Admiralteysky Municipal Okrug seems to be a false positive. Seems to be {{ru-census2002}} and {{ru-census2010}} generating the refs here. Presumably the same would go for {{Ru-census2021}}. Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 16:45, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

More false positives:

• Air Force Falcons men's cross country & Air Force Falcons women's cross country, where {{Infobox college cross country team}} generates refs
• Aisymi, and other Greek village's with {{Infobox Greek Dimos}}
• Aizkraukle Parish & Aizpute Parish

Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 18:57, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, added the census templates and infobox templates. The village and parish templates ({{Infobox settlement/Wikidata}} and {{Infobox Greek Dimos}}) were just added yesterday, so should now be out already. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 23:31, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

There's also Australian National Road Cycling Championships, but I'm a bit confused about this pages structure in general. Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 22:19, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Looks like its transcluding multiple pages with {{#section:}}. Should be filtered out on the next run. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 05:22, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Ferapontovo looks to be a false positive due to {{RKN base}} Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 16:39, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

Wonder whether we should add anything in Category:Attribution templates to the false positive list? Based on various sightings of {{SmithDGRBM}} (e.g. Echecratides) and {{McS}} (e.g. August Kayser), and on the basis that anything that says "this article has content from ABC" generally implies a de facto source of ABC. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 13:43, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

HLA-Cw7 and HLA-Cw4 are false positive, with the refs (and seemingly all the content) generated by {{SerotypeC normall}} Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 19:35, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, added. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 23:43, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

The non redirect versions of those templates are already included in the filter ({{DGRBM}} and {{PD-McClintock-and-Strong}}), and I believe I included Category:Attribution templates when I first made the list of templates. However, the categories do not contain the redirects, hence why the two examples you provided are not detected. I have since added those two to the list. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 23:33, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

User:ARandomName123/templatelist contains most of the templates that are being filtered for (a couple are hardcoded). It is not case sensitive. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 23:49, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Highway 77 (Israel) and Highway 42 (Israel) due to {{ISRinttop}} Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 11:20, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Added, thanks. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 02:29, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

1838 in paleontology, 1894 in paleontology, 1865 in paleontology, etc. that use {{Year in paleontology header}} Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 17:00, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

Also, all the templates in Category:Big 12 Conference men's basketball standings templates (until 2019–20) include refs that are causing quite a lot of false positives (e.g. 2007–08 Baylor Bears basketball team, 2009–10 Big 12 Conference men's basketball season, 2007–08 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team) Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 21:44, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

Added Year in paleontology header, and the string "Big 12 men's basketball standings" ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 01:30, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

@Cakelot1: Also, please give me a ping once you finish going through everything in a page. Pinging @Lollipoplollipoplollipop as well, though I noticed you already do that on the corresponding talk pages. Thanks! ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 03:23, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

@ARandomName123, I've pretty much been through User:ARandomName123/unref1, User:ARandomName123/unref2, User:ARandomName123/unref3 (up to the point where it looked like Jacob Nielsen, Count of Halland where it looked like Lollipoplollipoplollipop had got up to coming the other way). Since then Lollipoplollipoplollipop also seems to have gone through and tagged some of those that I was unsure about, so I'm pretty sure those three should be pretty much complete. Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 12:52, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Yea I went through backwards from unref8 and have now checked all the non-list articles. I've left a lot of the lists unchecked in unref4 and unref5. Going through them now. Very difficult to determine what to do with some lists that are just a few blue links (and aren't obviously a set index article or list of lists). //Lollipoplollipoplollipop::talk 14:20, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Sounds good, thanks you two for doing the tagging. I will make my way through the false positives. As for the lists, we should probably get some clarification on the sourcing requirements (ie. if the linked article supports it, is that enough?) at WP:V or someplace similar in the future. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 15:32, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Marathon update for March 2026

While #TeamBacklogDrive is busy reviewing articles through 7 April, let's take a moment to look at the Top 22 finishers in the marathon for March 2026.

(The marathon runs year-round and you can track the ongoing leaderboard here. Points are counted when {{unreferenced}} tags are removed. So whether you are relatively new or an experienced backlog drive participant who just wants to keep on going with adding citations, you can enjoy the camaraderie and a bit of competition in April, May, June, July...until the next backlog drive in August.)

In March 2026, we have a total of 22 editors with 100+ points, 13 of whom had 200+ points, which is incredible. Another 32 editors had between 31–99 points, or between 1–3 points a day.

Rank	User	Mar 2026 Marathon
1	JTtheOG	1167
2	Flurrious	565
3	Bearian	534
4	Davidindia	480
5	Omegarightarrow	424
6	JoeNMLC	382
7	Sleepytimecat	364
8	WindBorneListener	290
9	Loibird90	271
10	Dumelow	255
11	Silver seren	245
12	Oh-Fortuna!	239
13	Apollo468	201
14	The joy of all things	186
15	GreatStellatedDodecahedron	147
16	Let'srun	145
17	Itzcuauhtli11	141
18	Cielquiparle	136
19	Local Internet User	134
20	Vegantics	131
21	SunloungerFrog	107
22	Penny Richards	101

What are the differences with the (preliminary) leaderboard for the March 2026 backlog drive? Unsurprisingly, first place on both leaderboards is @JTtheOG, towering in 1000+ territory. @Flurrious looks to be in second place on both leaderboards, looking at the References column only. The surprise is finding @Bearian in 3rd place on the marathon leaderboard in March, likely from his work in reviewing mistagged articles. @Davidindia is in 4th with a staggering 480 points.

(Adding citations to reliable sources is highly appreciated but you can also accumulate points in the marathon by correcting mistagged articles, which is important work because you will also uncover vandalism in the edit histories, encounter new editors who need help and guidance, and often find dodgy citations that need to be fixed...in addition to simply replacing tags for editors who added a valid citation but forgot to remove the tag.)

Speaking of which: Comparing leaderboards suggests that @Omegarightarrow in 5th place with an impressive 424 points may have forgotten to replace tags on ~39 articles, and that @Sleepytimecat in 7th place at 364 points may have forgotten on ~32 occasions. (Understandable considering the speed at which you were going, which is amazing.)

A special shout out to @JoeNMLC in 6th place in the March 2026 marathon with 382 points. JoeNMLC – who incidentally is currently 3rd in the year-to-date rankings – has been one of the many editors who persevered in chipping away at the gargantuan category "Articles lacking sources from December 2009" for a very long time. Well done and congratulations to you and everyone who contributed to this monumental achievement.

Keep going everyone and happy referencing! Cielquiparle (talk) 06:10, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

It says the tally should now be up to date but I've noticed my last 3 edits haven't been counted. (Doesn't change much for me but I thought I'd flag it just in case.) MmeMaigret (talk) 07:38, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

@ARandomName123 Could you please look into this? Cielquiparle (talk) 06:34, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

I believe this is because the dates for the MAR26 leaderboard bot were accidentally set to March 31, 2026, 23:59 instead of April 1. Pinging @DreamRimmer. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 22:06, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. The leader board has stopped updating temporarily, but should resume soon. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 00:14, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks @ARandomName123 and @DreamRimmer. @Bunnypranav: Could you do the honors in distributing barnstars? Cielquiparle (talk) 21:17, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Sending shortly… – DreamRimmer ■ 00:18, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

@Cielquiparle: I see that the table has still not been updated to adjust the points for review deductions. Please ping me once that is done. – DreamRimmer ■ 00:23, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

@ARandomName123 I can do this if you are busy with exams. Is it just subtraction and manual updates line by line? Cielquiparle (talk) 03:23, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

@Cielquiparle: That would be great, thanks! Yes, I usually just go line by line. Fails for duplicates should be ignored though, as the bot should account for this. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 04:20, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Actually, I can do the point deductions, I have a few days free. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 15:46, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Nevermind, I noticed you got started on them already. If you need any assistance though, just let me know! ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 22:20, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer @ARandomName123 Have finally completed Leaderboard adjustments and essentially ready to send Barnstars. Please do a quick visual scan of the leaderboard rankings for any errors – we ended up manually re-adjusting the rankings and totals in several successive waves (though I think it's correct now). (Will de-brief everyone later about key findings from the re-review of the Reviews.) Cielquiparle (talk) 05:45, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

@Cielquiparle: Looks good to me, thanks for finishing up those adjustments! ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 08:27, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Awards done. – DreamRimmer ■ 16:49, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 16:35, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Cite Unseen

Highly recommend installing the Cite Unseen tool. There is a short description on Wikipedia which points you to detailed Cite Unseen page on Meta-Wiki with instructions on how to enable it. It's worth reading that Meta-Wiki page carefully to understand how the tool is categorizing sources (using WP:RSPS, WP:NPRSG, WikiProject-specific reliable sources guides, as well as other language Wikipedias' perennial sources guides, etc.), and to remember that it's mostly a prompt to consider potential concerns with a source: "You should never justify removing or adding a source solely because of information that Cite Unseen provides; you need to do your own homework as well." Cielquiparle (talk) 05:06, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

I’ve installed it myself but prefer just the reliability and ‘really big issues’ to be shown. With everything it clogs up my ref section. But it is a good help for reliability. Chorchapu (talk | edits) 16:35, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Cleared December 2010

Done with Category:Articles lacking sources from December 2010. Also (maybe) back to this Wikiproject (though I'm pretty busy with other stuff) بادهای شمال ❄️ (talk) 19:48, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Done with Category:Articles lacking sources from March 2011. Cielquiparle (talk) 05:36, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Marathon update for May 2026

The world is different now that most unreferenced articles and lists have been tagged. Thanks to @Cakelot1, @Lollipoplollipoplollipop, and others for your heroic work on this front. And to those who have hung in there during the deluge, massive hats off to you too.

Here is a belated leaderboard with the Top 11 finishers in May 2026. @Silver seren head and shoulders above the rest at 451 points, but @WindBorneListener similarly impressive at 219. Strong performances from @JoeNMLC, @Bearian (in first place for year to date), and @MediaKyle, all over 100 points.

Rank	User	Total articles in May 2026
1	Silver seren	451
2	WindBorneListener	219
3	JoeNMLC	188
4	Bearian	139
5	MediaKyle	101
6	Cakelot1	46
7	Gnisacc	39
8	Suriname0	31
9	Thisiscarmend	28
10	SunloungerFrog	27
11	Jähmefyysikko	27

If you're wondering what this is all about...you can track monthly progress on the 2026 leaderboard here. Add citations to unreferenced articles, and remember to remove the tag. By participating, you are part of a massive effort to improve the reliability of information and quality of articles on Wikipedia. Cielquiparle (talk) 04:45, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Greetings, Within all the unreferenced articles, a tool that helps me find articles of interest is the "Topic filter". First group that I like is "Education", and within those articles listed, I successively browser search "University" then College, School, Institute. The other topic is "Sports", and browser search "Football" (soccer) articles. Cheers and happy Referencing, JoeNMLC (talk) 14:20, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

@JoeNMLC Is "Topic filter" a tool or extension or browser technique? Cielquiparle (talk) 00:20, 19 June 2026 (UTC)