Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check/Opentasks
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How can I help now?
There are a number of different Wikipedia Backlog categories that help track the existing backlog of referencing activities. They fall into two major groups, Lacking References and Ensuring Accuracy through existing references: Template:MultiCol
- Lacking references
Needs references: 48,254
Needs references (BLP): 102
Needs more references: 499,783
Needs more references (BLP): 39,686
Needs in-text citations: 107,490
Needs reliable references: 94,649
Has unsourced quotes: 1,270
Has unsourced statements: 554,012
Fix one!
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- Accuracy
Uses broken or outdated citations: 276
Needs factual verification: 11,635
Needs references list: 16
Needs references clean up: 3,845
Accuracy disputes: 15,783
Needs updating: 42,014
Has original research: 16,599
Self-contradictory: 829
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Help now: Solve Citations Needed!
At the moment, there are over 554,012 articles with "Citation needed" statements. They are some of the easiest referencing issues to solve, because you are frequently looking for a targeted and singular reference. You can browse the whole list of these articles at Category:All articles with unsourced statements.
With 554,012 statements that need WP:Verification, sometimes it's hard to choose which article to work on. The tool Citation Hunt makes that easier by suggesting random articles, which you can sort by topical category membership.