User:Taxman/Featured articles with possible references problems
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in the first section are currently featured articles but no longer meet the featured article criteria because they do not cite their sources with properly formatted references.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 as many as 72 featured articles have no references at all. That means 8.5% of our best articles may have no references 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, so significant progress is being made.
A number of these do have inline citations to external links, but I did not see them when checking through. Others may quote a source in the text, but not list it in a reference section. Please let me know about these and I will move them to the section denoting that they do at least have some form of referencing, even if not ideal. Then those can be properly formatted and other sources can hopefully be added too.
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.
A recent (Apr, 2005) review of those that were on this list found well over 20 that had been referenced at least some since my last check, and some that had been referenced very well. So it is working, and eventually we will get them all.
Those with none
Biology and medicine
- Mixed-breed dog - Only external links
Chemistry
- LSD - Only external links, but some that easily seem to be able to be turned into references.
- Linus Pauling - Only external links
Culture and society
- Bathing machine - Only external links
- Mail - Only external links
Economics
- Economics - Only external links, many good ones
- Euro - Only external links and “articles”
- Labour economics - none at all!
Food and drink
- Kashrut - Only external links and further reading, that may have been used as references.
Geography and places
- Aztalan State Park - Only external links
- Carlsbad Caverns National Park - Only external links
- City status in the United Kingdom - Only external links
- Traditional counties of England - Only external links
History
- British East India Company – none!
- Franks – one further reading, may have been used as a reference
- History of Scotland – one further reading
Language
- Leet – only external links
Literature
- Alliterative verse – Only external links
- Crime fiction – Further reading, may or may not have been used as references
- Foundation Series – Only external links
- Rudyard Kipling – Only external links
- H. P. Lovecraft – Only external links
- Medieval literature – Only external links
Media
- Blackadder – Only external links
- Jim Henson – external links and “further reading”, may have been used as reference
- Superman – Only external links
- Western movie – Only external links
Music
- Bob Dylan – Only external links and further reading
- Charles Ives – Only external links and further reading
- Jazz – Only external links
- Simon and Garfunkel – Only external links
- Smile – Only external links and further reading
- A lot of this could be cited to the album notes
Philosophy
- Frankfurt School – Only external links
- Free will - none
Physics, astrophysics and geophysics
- Richard Feynman – only external links. Some of the works listed could have been used.
Politics and government
- 2004 Democratic National Convention – only external links
- Irish Houses of Parliament – none. It’s “footnotes” are entirely self referential
- Abraham Lincoln – only external links and further reading
- John Major – only an external link
- U.S. Electoral College – only external links
- Mordechai Vanunu only “books about the case” and external links
- Gough Whitlam – only external links and further reading
Religion and beliefs
- Buddhism – only external links
- Father Damien – only external links and further reading
- Greek mythology – only external links
- Hebrew calendar – only external links and no lead section
Sport and games
- Bullfighting – only external links
- Chess – only external links
- Go (board game) – only external links
- Golden age of arcade games – only external links and further reading
- Monopoly (game) – only external links and further reading
- Summer Olympic Games – only external links
Technology
- ASCII – only external links
- CPU cache – only external links
- Fountain pen – only external links
- PaX – only external links
- Phonograph cylinder – only external links
- Quantum computer – extensive further reading, but none listed as references
- Radar – only external links and further reading
- Spacecraft propulsion – only external links
- Speech synthesis – only external links
- Typewriter – only external links
- Telephone exchange – only external links, also disambig message at the top is huge and the lead section is awful
- World Wide Web – only external links
- Zuiderzee Works – only external links
Transport
- Auto rickshaw – only external links
- London Underground – only external links
- VW Type 2 – only external links
- Wigwag – only external links
- Zeppelin – only external links
War
- Attack on Pearl Harbor – extensive further reading, but none listed as references.
- Battle of Normandy - several, called a”bibliography”. Were they used as references or are they just there for further reading?
References added and confirmed
- Newark, New Jersey – none at all!
- I added citations to Newark. 11/29/04. dinopup
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
- 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
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.
- 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 leagl citations and stuff weaved into the text.
Very few references
- In this case I arbitrarily considered one or two references to be too few.
- The Adventures of Tintin – one (documentary film)
- Margin of error – one reference
- Ian McKellen - one, an Interview not properly formatted.
- Heavy metal music – Only external links and one “source”
- Mor lam - 2 references
- 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 - 2
- 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.
- possibly create a new page in Wikipedia: called Referencing in Wikipedia to cover only the reasons why references are so important and collect links to info about referencing. See Wikipedia:Verifiability for that. It seems an uphill battle to convince people so we need to make sure the message gets out that articles need to be researched and cited.