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: 54,653
Needs references (BLP): 3
Needs more references: 492,782
Needs more references (BLP): 40,374
Needs in-text citations: 106,950
Needs reliable references: 93,569
Has unsourced quotes: 1,274
Has unsourced statements: 549,757
Fix one!
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- Accuracy
Uses broken or outdated citations: 260
Needs factual verification: 11,506
Needs references list: 19
Needs references clean up: 3,508
Accuracy disputes: 15,830
Needs updating: 41,312
Has original research: 16,623
Self-contradictory: 809
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Help now: Solve Citations Needed!
At the moment, there are over 549,757 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 549,757 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.