Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Unreferenced articles

Hope everyone is doing well. Many of us have probably seen the banners for WikiConference North America 2025, which is going to be held in New York in October. Since this project seems to be bucking the trend of declining WikiProject activity and has made substantial progress on our target goals (overall backlog clearing, unreferenced BLPs in particular) and some high-visibility successes (turning unreferenced stubs into DYKs), would anyone be interested in pitching some kind of discussion/talk to the WCNA organizers? I've never been to a conference but I think I'll be able to make this one and if we continue at the good clip we've been maintaining, I think it would be cool to spotlight our successes, discuss challenges (paywalls, language barriers), and maybe get some new members. If anyone has either the interest or the experience to get involved, I would much rather do this with someone else than fly solo. And if anyone has been to one of these events before, please share your vast wisdom. Cheers, Kazamzam (talk) 15:02, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mind helping with prep work, but I'll probably be busy during October. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 21:32, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Top 10 URA leaderboard for Apr 2025

Wow. What a month. Well done to all who added citations to articles in April. Your contributions helped us get the total number of Wikipedia articles tagged as Unreferenced under 64k.


Rank	User	Total articles in April 2025
1	Silver seren	514
2	Someonefighter	438
3	LastJabberwocky	165
4	Cakelot1	155
5	Cielquiparle	139
6	JoeNMLC	127
7	Coldupnorth	125
8	Thefallguy2025	71
9	A.Deira.born	67
10	Turtlecrown	57
11	GünniX	56

Why are there 11 editors listed in the Top 10, you ask? First of all, it was nearly a tie for 10th place. Secondly, for anyone following the competition in April, it was hard to ignore that things got a little...spicy.

There were a whopping 7 editors with 100+ points. Those were fighting words indeed from Someonefighter, who topped the leaderboard several times but just could not hold onto the lead for very long, as the mighty Silver seren kept clawing back and finally blew past everyone at 500+, a monthly URA record for 2025. Between these two editors with the initial "S", they logged 952 points in April. Simply staggering. (The next best first-initial cohort, the three editors whose names start with "C", including Cakelot1 in fourth place, Coldupnorth in seventh place, and yours truly, delivered an aggregated 419 points.)

New joiner LastJabberwocky worked all the way up to an impressive third place finish, while Thefallguy2025 who joined the action in March jumped to eighth place in April. Also pleased to see many familiar editor names up and down the board, including JoeNMLC who placed sixth for the month, but remains in fourth place overall for the year.

What's next? There is a lot going on in May. Lots of ways to get involved, and lots of opportunity to climb the leaderboard while other editors are doing other things. :) Remember, you need at least 5 points for May for your results to be displayed in the main yearly leaderboard (but you can track everyone's progress in detail if you click on "May").

A few insider tips for URA fans:

Log at least 61 points total for April and May 2025 and you'll receive a barnstar (as that's the equivalent of 1 citation a day in Q2 minus the backlog drive).
Sign up for the June 2025 URA backlog drive here.
Follow this Talk page to discuss how to make the June 2025 URA backlog drive our best one yet...and get involved with planning and coordination if you'd like to help out ARandomName123, Kazamzam, SunloungerFrog, DreamRimmer, and everyone else who helped in November.

Thanks everyone and happy referencing! Cielquiparle (talk) 06:09, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

...I get competitive, okay. >_>; Silver seren^C 06:13, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Haha for real! Good game. Someonefighter (talk) 08:04, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's been a great deal of fun working on this project, I went far and hit a little bit of a roadblock: I've been through the entire books category, and have added citation to every book that exists in https://isbndb.com/ , the self proclaimed "biggest book database in the world"

@Cielquiparle I don't know if you have trackers for specific categories, but I've managed to get the books category from around 680+ articles to about 230+ articles. The remaining are going to be more time consuming, as some only exist in WorldCat, and some don't even exist there. I don't know if the books that aren't listed there are ever going to get citations. Additionally, I've stumbled upon many articles that are misplaced (for example, articles about authors, TV shows and other unrelated stuff). If anyone knows how to fix this, please tell me and I'll go over the category again and fix categorization. My goal in the project was to get the books category to 0, since I love reading books.

Honestly, I joined this project when I was a very new editor, and it taught me a lot about the essence of wikipedia. Specifically: verifiability and what sources are considered good. This helped me by a great deal now that I'm transitioning into editing articles in topics I am more knowledgeable about. But fear not! As long as I edit wikipedia, I will be a major participant in this project

p.s: I planned to make about 150 citations from worldcat and win the competition. But due to recent events, I'm locked to a VPN network, which worldcat blocks. I hope someone can continue my mission and finish the books category! Please contact me if you know about other big reliable databases Someonefighter (talk) 08:50, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Cielquiparle - one thing that does irk me about the leaderboard is that it is, as far as I'm aware, based on the removal of existing tags from article; this excludes when editors add articles to untagged, unreferenced articles which I have found quite a few of (biographical articles of medieval Japanese women are plagued by this, for some reason). Not quibbling over points - frankly I am thrilled to see this project stand on its own without me being the only person posting on the talk page - but just noting that it's an area that is overlooked. We've discussed the issue of getting an "accurate" count of unreferenced articles but it is quite a challenge.

Cheers to the competition this month and the upcoming drive! The next update will be on 4 May. See you soon! Kazamzam (talk) 13:44, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

At least as someone that's a part of this effort, you could purposefully add the unreferenced tag in one edit and then remove it in the next (while adding the reference you were planning to add in the removal edit). That should make it be counted properly. Doesn't help for those not a part of this group though, unfortunately. Silver seren^C 16:05, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I honestly didn’t expect to end up in the Top 10, but I’m really grateful to be part of this project. Working on unreferenced articles has taught me a lot about sourcing and the importance of verifiability, and it’s been surprisingly rewarding to see the difference even small edits can make. Huge respect to everyone who contributed this month — especially Silver seren and Someonefighter, your work was incredible. I’m looking forward to continuing in May and doing my bit to help chip away at the backlog. — Thefallguy2025

Thanks for the update! Absolutely incredible work by Silverseren and Somonefighter. That's a combined nearly 1000 tags between just you two! ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 16:54, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

May 2025 update

Happy spring, fellow editors in arms! I hope everyone is doing well and May the Fourth be with you.

Headline: We cleared 5,733 articles and are now hovering just over 63,000 (63,303 to be exact)! My predictions for clearing 50,000 by the end of the year seem increasingly likely. For yourself and your fellow editors, please clap.
Minutiae: For anyone interested in a more detailed breakdown of the numbers - average was 69.1 articles; median 23; mode 20. This is a significant jump from last month (average 35.3; median 12; mode 11), so really well done! Of the categories being tracked, all but ONE had a decline of at least 10 articles and over 3% of their starting number compared to previous update (I consider this a growth metric that we're being comprehensive in clearing categories across the board), so this is fantastic. The smallest decrease was December 2019, which only decreased by 9 articles.

Highlights: May and June 2009 are in dustbin of history! The leaderboard also seems to be bringing out the competitive spirit in people, which is perfect as we get ready for our June 2025 drive.

Low-hanging fruit: The infamous September 2019 is a runty 81 articles, dangling precariously like a sinner in the hands of an angry God. If you're not a fan of square numbers, June 2024 is a bite-sized 94. Food for thought.

High-hanging fruit: Everyone's favourite BFC (Big Friendly Category), December 2009, is a mouth-watering 8,278 articles as of this writing, after a decrease of 830. The other high-hanging fruit are, still, the Frustrating Five (name open for revision): January 2013 (924), May 2019 (1,639), June 2019 (3,604), September 2020 (961), and March 2024 (854). Eagle-eyed readers may have caught that previous squad member April 2019 has been ousted from the hall of infamy, so well done there. Once again, September 2020 had the lowest percentage of change between updates (1.43%). Godspeed to anyone working on these.
New challenge: We're back with the ties! December 2015 and January 2016 are in a dead heat of 248. If you strongly prefer one year over another, pick a side and hold the line.
Announcements: June 2025 is right around the corner! We seem to have found the rhythm of how the drives work, which is great, and additional organizational help would be much appreciated by new members. As always, I think the goals are a) clearing 10,000 articles and b) clearing the entire backlog (whatever we have) of unreferenced BLPs, but happy to have secret, member-specific goals. All the best, Kazamzam (talk) 00:08, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Everyone making great progress, well done all! It looks like User:Someonefighter may have been banned unfortunately so we may all have to work that bit harder to reference those articles this month! Coldupnorth (talk) 08:49, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am here again! I will continue to contribute Someonefighter (talk) 13:37, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to see you're back :) ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 17:16, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am glad to return! and hopefully win first spot this time haha Someonefighter (talk) 21:27, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back! Happy referencing! Coldupnorth (talk) 11:51, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why are almost all Indian villages spelled incorrectly?

Someonefighter and I are struggling through this area of unreferenced articles right now and it is a pain. The issue is that nearly every Indian village article on Wikipedia is named incorrectly. Often by just a letter or two or phonetically (rather than -u, it's -oo), but I still just don't understand why so many of them are wrong. Do these places not have actual proper spellings? The census I'm working from definitely has a spelling they could have used.

This feels like when I try and work on a biographical article from 1800s America and there's no consistent spelling of the person's last name, likely because the person was illiterate and just told the census takers and journalists over the years their name and each of those people just assumed the spelling in different ways based on what they heard.

Is that what's going on here? Indian villages just didn't have consistent spelling until recently? Or is it just that the many different editors that made these articles are terrible at spelling (or at least terrible at looking up how to spell these villages properly)? Silver seren^C 01:39, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Silver seren: Hunterian transliteration is my best guess. From that article: 'Opponents of the grapheme transliteration model continued to mount unsuccessful attempts at reversing government policy until the turn of the century, with one critic calling appealing to "the Indian Government to give up the whole attempt at scientific (i.e. Hunterian) transliteration, and decide once and for all in favour of a return to the old phonetic spelling."'. I don't envy that part of the unreferenced queue. --Engineerchange (talk) 03:08, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the two of us are definitely making progress. Though I'm skipping any of the villages that I can't find anything in the census for even under reasonable alternative spellings. So we're not getting rid of all of them. It really feels like that the longer the village name (and some of these are super long), the more incorrect the spelling is. Silver seren^C 03:13, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I use AI to determine if they are there Someonefighter (talk) 04:37, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

To help search for them? By looking at spelling probability? Silver seren^C 04:42, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

yes, I use algorithms like fuzzy matching and soundex sentence transformers as well as RTX chatbot (it was made for these things, unlike chatGPT)

Usually RTX chatbot finds it without the half-baked script I wrote for the algorithms Someonefighter (talk) 05:16, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Silver seren I think it is likely that Indian villages are often not spelled consistently in English. It is also true that people who wrote completely unreferenced articles are likely to have been terrible at looking stuff up by current Wikipedia standards. I found an interesting book on Google books Mapping Place Names of India (Anu Kapur, 2019) which says The purpose [of transliteration] was clearly to serve the English speaker and reader. Independent India has not been able to put forward an 'Indianized' system of transliteration for 70 years! and goes on to discuss the issues of Standardization the Anglicized way.

It is useful to try and find sources and standardise spellings, but not surprising that the original editors did not do so.

As an example, Someonefighter has recently moved Osiyan, Unnao to Aosiyan. I can find Google book hits for Osiyan, Unnao, but not Aosiyan, Unnao. The article mentions J.D.V.M. Inter College, where a Google search for the college finds Instagram and Facebook accounts saying osiyan and Yayschool saying Aosiyan. Villages may have different local spellings in Hindi and other local languages: according to file:Languages of Uttar Pradesh State.png Unnao is in the area where it is difficult to say whether it is Awadhi or Kannauji. TSventon (talk) 09:02, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Update: it took me a while but I eliminated almost all villages/towns in India, as well as almost all in Pakistan and some of Sri Lanka (all villages of Sri Lanka). Back in April (when I first looked it at) south Asia category was about 2.5k articles. Now it is 615. I am currently looking for a list of towns in Sri Lanka that isn't behind a paywall (I have found the villages one used it, but it does not contain towns)

Despite challenges, this is some impressive work we did Someonefighter (talk) 18:55, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I assume you're running a script for edits, Someonefighter? Since it looks like you did several hundred in just a few minutes and did the template removals in a batch afterwards. Be careful with that, since you don't want to run afoul of WP:MEATBOT related policies. Silver seren^C 23:09, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your concerns, @Silver seren. I prepare all pages in a lengthy process (in the case of citation), then submit them all at the same time (alt+tab -> alt+shift+s many times). For this reason my edits are mostly fractured, since it is more convenient to split them into multiple actions. I do not use scripts to directly edit or submit the articles, only to determine if they're in the lists as I've said earlier. Someonefighter (talk) 08:54, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

June 2025 Backlog Drive

OK informal backlog drive planning committee, I know everyone is busy but we have a backlog drive to run in June. What do we need to do to get the page out of "Planning" mode, @ARandomName123? A little concerned that only one other person has signed up for the backlog drive so far. (Could we maybe mimic what the NPP Backlog Drive folks do...banner at the top of the backlog drive page asking for signups?) I also kind of like their registration box but whatever, we just need people to sign up at this point. @DreamRimmer At what point is it optimal to run a Watchlist page notice thing? Pinging @Kazamzam @SunloungerFrog. Any other volunteers who more or less know the drill...? (I actually don't want to stop the goodness that is the marathon so please don't stop running, as we still need to add references in May as well.) Cielquiparle (talk) 02:20, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What is the backlog? Someonefighter (talk) 06:32, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

All the unreferenced articles in Category:All articles lacking sources. We run a backlog drive about twice a year. The last one was in November 2024. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 07:20, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you,

I still dont understand what's going to happen in june Someonefighter (talk) 07:44, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We just have a particular focus/push to reference as many articles as we can. You probably don't need to change anything you're doing, @Someonefighter, given your position on the leaderboard :) apart from include #JUN25 in your edit summaries so that they get counted. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 07:51, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't worry too much about the current amount of sign ups yet. I don't believe we've done any advertising whatsoever, and I'm pretty sure most comes from the watchlist notice anyways.

As for getting out of planning mode, I there isn't much left to do on the drive page itself. Maybe spread the word to the usual places, put out a talk page notice, WP:CBB, etc. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 14:23, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Though if you do have any thoughts about the drive page, feel free to share. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 14:23, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I also, wouldn't worry, had no idea signing up was possible at this point. Mrfoogles (talk) 05:59, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Cielquiparle - so sorry for my prolonged absence, this month has been crazy busy. I think the drive planning to increase sign-ups so far (banner, watchlist header, talk page + project page, talk page reminders for individual signups) has been great. I agree with @ARandomName123 that not much more is necessary but it would be cool to get the word out to other WikiProjects that people are active in - I can do WP Japan for example. I think we could be more detailed in the talk page template about why this is important (age of the backlog, for example).

Also, and this is just me, but I think we should have a goal once again of 10,000 articles. Consistency with previous drives is a plus, but I'm open to other arguments. Alternatively, we could switch it to 5,000 articles because we are almost certain to blow through that and it would be a boost to editors to set and meet goals. Cheers, Kazamzam (talk) 14:00, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Kazamzam I went back and checked, and we had a lower target for November 2024 in part based on the number of signups. Personally I like that you set us the 50k goal for end of year, which we seem well on track to achieve, plus it's easy to remember – an epic milestone for URA if we do achieve it by mid-year. Cielquiparle (talk) 16:55, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Cielquiparle - complaining about shifting goalposts when I'm the one shifting them...I will go to atone for my sins under a roaring waterfall like a Shugendo yamabushi (nice catch, thanks!) Kazamzam (talk) 17:27, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Kazamzam@Cielquiparle Have we reached out to project who have a lot of articles in our list? Off the top of my head I have Hinduism (many temples) and songs/music as well as sports. There are certainly many more that we could potentially attract editors from Someonefighter (talk) 18:33, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Kazamzam@Cielquiparle With the help of them, I do not see an issue with a 50k goal or even 45k if we are being bold (see my and silverseren's performance for this month) Someonefighter (talk) 18:35, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Someonefighter Great idea! Please go ahead and reach out. I think we should each reach out where we feel we can advocate why URA and the backlog drive should be of particular interest to whichever WikiProject. Cielquiparle (talk) 21:33, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Cielquiparle I have made this notice (basing it on your one). I will add it tomorrow to relevant pages. feel free to modify it and use it until then.

Please consider signing up for the June 2025 Unreferenced Articles backlog drive.
This project has over (insert number of articles here) recorded unreferenced article. Help us improve your project by adding citations and participating in the June push.

Someonefighter (talk) 22:39, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Public service announcement:

Please consider signing up for the June 2025 Unreferenced Articles backlog drive.
You can sign up for the drive here.

Thanks to everyone who signed up already. Cielquiparle (talk) 12:14, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FYI – I just placed a watchlist message request on MediaWiki Talk. (Went for short and sweet.) Is there something more we should be doing? @ARandomName123 @Kazamzam @SunloungerFrog @DreamRimmer Cielquiparle (talk) 04:19, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Cielquiparle, I'm dusting off my Petscan and Massviews searches for the popular unreferenced articles section. I don't really know about any other way of drumming up support, other than sending a talk page message to those who have subscribed in the past. Is it inappropriate to post on other groups' talk pages if we are part of those groups? For instance, I would happily post a short message on new pages patrol talk provided I won't get tutted at. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 05:30, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@SunloungerFrog That's a great idea. Quite certain others have done so in the past. Might even be helpful to explain to them how to use Petscan to find the Unreferenced articles relevant to their respective topics. Anyone else up for reaching out to other WikiProjects? Cielquiparle (talk) 11:07, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Adding CC: @Turtlecrown for ideas on recruiting for the backlog drive. Cielquiparle (talk) 15:15, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We also need to send out a mass message to the people at Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Mailing list. Thanks for dealing with the watchlist notice. I don't believe there's much else that's necessary. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 15:45, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've updated the message from last time, over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Newsletter. Please feel free to make any adjustments you see fit, and ping DreamRimmer once it's ready (I'll do so tmrw). You can see it below

Extended content

== Unreferenced articles June 2025 backlog drive ==

WikiProject Unreferenced articles | June 2025 Backlog Drive

There is a substantial backlog of unsourced articles on Wikipedia, and we need your help! The purpose of this drive is to add sources to these unsourced articles and make a meaningful impact.

Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles cited.
Remember to tag your edit summary with #JUN25, both to advertise the event and tally the points later using Hashtag Summary Search.
Interested in taking part? Sign up here.

You're receiving this message because you have subscribed to the mailing list. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 16:29, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ARandomName123: Looks great! We are up to 33 participants now. And even if a few of the people who receive the mass message have already signed up, they have Talk page followers who will see the message and sign up that way, probably. Cielquiparle (talk) 03:41, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Now up to 41, I'm hoping we can hit triple digits before the drive begins. @DreamRimmer:, the mass message (Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Newsletter) is ready to be sent. The mailing list is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Mailing list. Thanks for your help with this! ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 16:04, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sent – DreamRimmer ■ 16:16, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do we need to have #JUN25 tagging?

I was just wondering, since I saw some mention above about using this tag for the edits to "count". Is that really necessary since we have the leaderboard now? (And we'll have a June specific page for it when that month starts.) So, any removal of the template during that month will show up on that leaderboard, with diffs even for the removal. Why would tagging your edit with #JUN25 be necessary? You can still include an edit summary mentioning this project, if promotion is the purpose. Silver seren^C 23:45, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Silver seren: The tagging for #JUN25 is intended to also cover articles that have this issue (no citations), but are not tagged yet (with the template). ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 01:35, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Silver seren @ARandomName123 It also prevents editors from claiming points if all they did was remove the tag (e.g. when another editor added a citation but forgot to remove the tag). All #JUN25 tagged edits are subject to review by other editors (who get 0.5 points for reviewing) and points can be deducted if it turns out that the citation added was inappropriate, or if a citation wasn't added in the first place (even if it's for a very good reason). (We do however allow dummy edits after the fact to add #JUN25 if someone forgot to add it in the same step as adding the citation.) The two leaderboards will start to diverge for these reasons in terms of points, but my hypothesis is that they will end up being quite similar in terms of ranking. Cielquiparle (talk) 03:27, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On second thought, the two leaderboards may differ quite a bit because editors can accumulate a large number of points for reviewing, which actually is a key part of the backlog drive. Cielquiparle (talk) 04:12, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Issue with category?

I can't browse based on topics or tags in the list of articles that lack sources. When searching topics, it gives me no results Someonefighter (talk) 15:19, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Think it was just a glitch. Your first two links work for me and return results (1741 and 595 respectively). Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 15:23, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This hasn't been working for hours but now does. Thanks for letting me know Someonefighter (talk) 15:33, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, sometimes clicking on "Purge server cache" & Reload web browser page will work. Cheers, JoeNMLC (talk) 18:02, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fix a random page lacking sources

Hi everyone, can we maybe add a similar button to the lead of this page as the one in the June 2025 drive? GOAT Bones231012 (talk) 06:06, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GOAT Bones231012 do you mean the lead of the talk page or of the project page itself? Kazamzam (talk) 13:55, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Kazamzam The main page. I kind of like the idea of clicking a single button that instantly takes me to a random completely unreferenced page where I can learn about something new and improve the article as well, as opposed to going to a list and choosing a certain topic/page that you are already familiar with. GOAT Bones231012 (talk) 14:44, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@DreamRimmer - what do you think of this? I don't think it should be at the top of the main page but maybe somewhere in the header would be doable and convenient. @GOAT Bones231012, fair warning you will find this to be a LOT of train stations and villages in the Indian subcontinent. Kazamzam (talk) 14:48, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I figured lol. Unseo station was one of the first ones that popped up for me yesterday. The user can always refresh the button and be taken to a different random page, but if that’s what most of the unreferenced pages are, maybe it’s not such a bad thing to take some of the backlog off these topics? GOAT Bones231012 (talk) 15:06, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GOAT Bones231012: No comment on adding this to the main page. If you are interested, you can add the following code to your common.js. It will add a link to your tools menu, and clicking it will take you to a random unsourced page each time.

mw.loader.using(['mediawiki.util'], function () {
    mw.util.addPortletLink(
        'p-cactions',
        '/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/All_articles_lacking_sources',
        'Fix a random page lacking sources',
        't-random-unsourced',
        'Go to a random unsourced article'
    );
});

– DreamRimmer ■ 03:55, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]