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Bhagat Singh review!

It has been suggested to close Bhagat Singh GA review. Can you join the discussion please? Here is the discussion Talk:Bhagat_Singh/GA3#Proposal_to_close_review --Tito Dutta ^Message 01:16, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Good articles (Participant Clean-Up)

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Update for: WikiProject Good articles (Participant Clean-Up)

Sorry for having to send out a second message but a user has brought to my attention that a point mentioned in the first message should be clarified. If user's don't sign on this page, they will be moved to an "Inactive Participants" list rather then be being removed from the entire WikiProject. Sorry for any confusion.--Dom497 (talk)15:18, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter - October 2012

The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter
Volume III, No. 1 – October 2012

September-December 2008, 2009, 2010, January-April 2011 | November 2012

Project News^[1]

There are currently 15,862 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.

The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 345 unreviewed articles. Out of 439 total nominations, 24 are on hold, 66 are under review, and 4 are seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article! Even just reviewing one will help!

The oldest unreviewed articles are: General sejm, Prime Minister of Vietnam, Tanisha Thomas, Kosta Pećanac, and Jilly Kitzinger.

The categories with the largest backlogs are: Social sciences and society (80 articles), Sports and recreation (70 articles), Music (63 articles), Theatre, film and drama (52 articles), and History (41 articles). Please consider reviewing articles within these sections.

There are currently 13 articles up for reassessment at Good Article Reassessment. Please help out and go to WP:GAR and review an article! Remember that anyone can review articles that are listed under "Community Reassessment" even if another user has already listed their opinion...the more opinions, the better!

Member News

There are currently 222 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to all the new members that joined during the past 17 months! If you aren't yet part of WikiProject Good Articles and interested in joining WikiProject Good Articles, go here and add you name. Everyone is welcomed!

This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

If you haven't done so already, please remember to add your name to this list if you are still interested/active with this WikiProject. If you are no longer interested/active you don't need to add your name anywhere, you're name will be moved into a "inactive participant" list at the beginning of November. Inactive users will not receive future newsletters from this WikiProject via their talk page.

GA Task forces

There is currently not much going on at this time but there is a very large backlog. Until the next backlog elimination drive, please help reduce the number of nominations by reviewing articles and helping other reviewers that may need second opinions.

Thanks to everyone who committed some time to help reduce the nominations backlog during the June-July 2012 backlog elimination drive. Most barnstars have been given out but there are still a few left. Participants that haven't gotten a barnstar yet should get it soon.

Possible Fall/Winter 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive

A discussion is currently being held on the WikiProject's talk page on weather another eliminations drive should take place within the next few months as the last one proved to be extremely successful. Please take the time to go to the the talk page and include your opinion on if you would be interested in taking part in a Fall/Winter 2012 elimination drive.

Good Articles of the Month

Each month, 5 random good articles will be choose to be featured here as the good articles of the month.

Some Tips About References/Sources

Having references included in articles is one of the most important aspects to a good article, let alone Wikipedia! Without them, no one would ever know what is true and what is false and Wikipedia probably wouldn't be where it is today. So this month, I will talk about how to check for references, how reliable they are, and so on and so forth.

The first thing to do when reviewing an nominee is to do a quick scan of the article. One of the things to look for is if the article has references! If you don't see a list at the bottom of the article page, quick-fail it.^[2] For newcomers, quick-failing is failing an article when you spot a problem before actually conducting a full review. If you do find a list of references (and in most cases you will) make sure to look through each and every one. If you want to save some time, use this tool as it will tell you if there are any problematic references in the article you are reviewing.

Next, check the reliability and type of the references/sources. In terms of the type of reference, check to see how many primary and/or secondary sources are included. Primary sources are the ones published by the subject of the article. For example, if the subject of the article has to do with the iPhone 4s and the source is published by Apple, it is considered a primary source. Secondary sources are those not published by the subject of the article (or in close relation to it). Newspapers are examples of secondary sources and considered one of the better types to include in the article (not saying primary sources are bad). If you find that most/all of the references are primary sources, notify the nominator about this issue(s) and place the article on hold once you have completed the review. Only in the event that a secondary source can't be found as a replacement, then the primary source can remain. If there is a good mix of primary and secondary sources, that is perfect and no references need to be changed.

Now, reliability. Forums are generally not considered reliable and some blog's may not be reliable either. Newspapers, most sources published by the subject, some blogs, etc. are considered reliable. If you don't know wether the source is reliable, ask for a second opinion. For more info about how to identify wether a reference is reliable or not, visit this article.

Finally, one of the more basic things to look for is that every statement in the article has at least one reference! The only case that a statement doesn't need a reference is when it is common sense that the statement is defiantly true and/or in the case where the statement can't be challenged, as per what Wikipedia says, "All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable published source using an inline citation."

From the Editor

After a long 18 month hiatus, the third volume of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter is here! Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue of the newsletter here or on the editors talk page.

Also, Happy Halloween...in advance!!!

PLEASE READ: If you do not wish to receive future WikiProject Good Articles newsletter's on your talk page, please remove your self from this list. If you are viewing this newsletter from the WikiProject Good Articles page or on someone else's talk page and want to receive future newsletters on your talk page, please add your name to the list linked above.

Contributors to this Issue

Dom497 (Editor of this Issue)

Did You Know...

... that 2,100 articles have been reviewed during all backlog elimination drives combined?
... that out of 4,055,039 articles on Wikipedia, only 15,846 are good articles?
... that there are currently over 400 video game good articles?

Notes

^ As of October 2, 2012 at 19:05 (UTC).
^ Before quick-failing the article, verify that one of the several referencing templates is correctly placed at the bottom of the article. If the template is not placed, try to place it to see if references are displayed. If this proof returns no references, then proceed to quick-failing.

Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!

WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
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 Sorry for having to send out a second message but a user has brought to my attention that a point mentioned in the first message should be clarified. If user's don't sign on [[User:Dom497/Active Good Article Participants|this page]], they will be moved to an "Inactive Participants" list rather then be being removed from the entire WikiProject. Sorry for any confusion.--[[User:Dom497|Dom497]] ([[User talk:Dom497|talk]])15:18, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
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+; Project News<ref name=asof>As of October 2, 2012 at 19:05 (UTC).</ref>
+* There are currently 15,862 Good Articles listed at [[WP:GA]].
+* The backlog at [[WP:GAN|Good Article Nominations]] is 345 unreviewed articles. Out of 439 total nominations, 24 are '''on hold''', 66 are '''under review''', and 4 are seeking a '''second opinion'''. Please go to [[WP:GAN]] and review an article! Even just reviewing one will help!
+::The oldest unreviewed articles are: [[General sejm]], [[Prime Minister of Vietnam]], [[Tanisha Thomas]], [[Kosta Pećanac]], and [[Jilly Kitzinger]].
+::The categories with the largest backlogs are: Social sciences and society (80 articles), Sports and recreation (70 articles), Music (63 articles), Theatre, film and drama (52 articles), and History (41 articles). Please consider reviewing articles within these sections.
+::There are currently 13 articles up for reassessment at [[WP:GAR|Good Article Reassessment]]. Please help out and go to [[WP:GAR]] and review an article! Remember that anyone can review articles that are listed under "Community Reassessment" even if another user has already listed their opinion...the more opinions, the better!
+; Member News
+*There are currently 222 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to all the new members that joined during the past 17 months! If you aren't yet part of WikiProject Good Articles and interested in joining WikiProject Good Articles, go [[Wikipedia:WGA#Participants|here]] and add you name. Everyone is welcomed!
+*This WikiProject, and the [[WP:GA|Good Article program]] as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
+*If you haven't done so already, please remember to add your name to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Active WP Good Article Participants|this list]] if you are still interested/active with this WikiProject. If you are no longer interested/active you don't need to add your name anywhere, you're name will be moved into a "inactive participant" list at the beginning of November. Inactive users will not receive future newsletters from this WikiProject via their talk page.
+; GA Task forces
+* There is currently not much going on at this time but there is a very large backlog. Until the next backlog elimination drive, please help reduce the number of nominations by reviewing articles and helping other reviewers that may need second opinions.
+*Thanks to everyone who committed some time to help reduce the nominations backlog during the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/GAN backlog elimination drives/June-July 2012|June-July 2012 backlog elimination drive]]. Most barnstars have been given out but there are still a few left. Participants that haven't gotten a barnstar yet should get it soon.
+;Possible Fall/Winter 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive
+*A discussion is currently being held on the WikiProject's [[Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations#October/November Backlog Elimination Drive?|talk page]] on weather another eliminations drive should take place within the next few months as the last one proved to be extremely successful. Please take the time to go to the the talk page and include your opinion on if you would be interested in taking part in a Fall/Winter 2012 elimination drive.
+; Good Articles of the Month
+Each month, 5 random good articles will be choose to be featured here as the good articles of the month.
+*[[Barry (dog)]]
+*[[I Love Bees]]
+*[[Miles Copeland (Home and Away)]]
+*[[London Country North East]]
+*[[The Daily Show]]
+| valign="http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User:Dom497/GA_Newsletter_Fall_2012" style="border: 2px #30B060 solid; padding: 1em; width: 45%; background-color: #F0FFEA;" |
+; Some Tips About References/Sources
+Having references included in articles is one of the most important aspects to a good article, let alone Wikipedia! Without them, no one would ever know what is true and what is false and Wikipedia probably wouldn't be where it is today. So this month, I will talk about how to check for references, how reliable they are, and so on and so forth.
+The first thing to do when reviewing an nominee is to do a quick scan of the article. One of the things to look for is if the article has references! If you don't see a list at the bottom of the article page, quick-fail it.<ref>Before quick-failing the article, verify that one of the several referencing templates is correctly placed at the bottom of the article. If the template is not placed, try to place it to see if references are displayed. If this proof returns no references, then proceed to quick-failing.</ref> For newcomers, quick-failing is failing an article when you spot a problem before actually conducting a full review. If you do find a list of references (and in most cases you will) make sure to look through each and every one. If you want to save some time, use [http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/view/Checklinks this tool] as it will tell you if there are any problematic references in the article you are reviewing.
+Next, check the reliability and type of the references/sources. In terms of the type of reference, check to see how many primary and/or secondary sources are included. Primary sources are the ones published by the subject of the article. For example, if the subject of the article has to do with the [[iPhone 4s]] and the source is published by [[Apple]], it is considered a primary source. Secondary sources are those ''not'' published by the subject of the article (or in close relation to it). Newspapers are examples of secondary sources and considered one of the better types to include in the article (not saying primary sources are bad). If you find that most/all of the references are primary sources, notify the nominator about this issue(s) and place the article on hold once you have completed the review. Only in the event that a secondary source can't be found as a replacement, then the primary source can remain. If there is a good mix of primary and secondary sources, that is perfect and no references need to be changed.
+Now, reliability. Forums are generally not considered reliable and some blog's may not be reliable either. Newspapers, most sources published by the subject, some blogs, etc. are considered reliable. If you don't know wether the source is reliable, ask for a second opinion. For more info about how to identify wether a reference is reliable or not, visit [[Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources|this article]].
+Finally, one of the more basic things to look for is that every statement in the article has at least one reference! The only case that a statement doesn't need a reference is when it is common sense that the statement is defiantly true and/or in the case where the statement can't be challenged, as per what Wikipedia says, "All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable published source using an inline citation."
+; From the Editor
+After a long 18 month hiatus, the third volume of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter is here! Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue of the newsletter [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Good articles/Newsletter|here]] or on the editors [[User talk:Dom497|talk page]].
+Also, Happy Halloween...in advance!!!
+'' '''PLEASE READ:''' '' If you do not wish to receive future WikiProject Good Articles newsletter's on your talk page, please remove your self from [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/newsletter participants|this list]]. If you are viewing this newsletter from the WikiProject Good Articles page or on someone else's talk page and want to receive future newsletters on your talk page, please add your name to the list linked above.
+; Contributors to this Issue
+* [[User:Dom497|Dom497]] (Editor of this Issue)
+; Did You Know...
+* ... that 2,100 articles have been reviewed during all backlog elimination drives combined?
+* ... that out of 4,055,039 articles on Wikipedia, only 15,846 are good articles?[[File:Jack-o-lantern.svg|200px|right]]
+* ... that there are currently over 400 [[Wikipedia:Good articles/Video games|video game]] good articles?
+;Notes
+{{reflist}}
+|-
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+'''Improving [[Wikipedia]] one article at a time since 2005!'''
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+→ Please direct all enquiries regarding this newsletter to the WikiProject talk page.<br />→ Newsletter delivered by '''[[User:ENewsBot|ENewsBot]]''' ([[User:ENewsBot/Requests|info]]) ·  05:38, 3 October 2012 (UTC)