Wikipedia:Unreferenced BLP Rescue/January 2009

Project #13 - January 2009 edit

Category:Unreferenced BLPs from January 2009 (Category does not exist or has been deleted due to completion of task.)
Started at December 26, 2010 with 770 articles. 0 left.

770 / 770 (100%)

See also

The list of articles, updated daily at about 05:30 UTC
List of articles proposed to be deleted from this month's UBLP list, using the WP:CATSCAN tool.
The starting list of 770 articles, useful for tracking progress using the related changes function.

Progress by letter edit

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

770 - Okay folks, this is a big one, let's see if we can get this done by Wikipedia's 10th birthday! --j⚛e decker ^talk 03:55, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
746 - Randomness TiMike (talk) 04:55, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
742 - X is done, Z is done save for three members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering or Chinese Academy of Engineering, and there's nothing to source any of the three in English. Eyes are getting too bleary to work through the Chinese sources, so I'm heading to bed for the night. Also, three cheers for China Vitae! --j⚛e decker ^talk 05:15, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
734 - Working on L and finding several Chinese politicians. And a Thai footballer...--Plad2 (talk) 09:18, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
728 - V is done apart from one Prod. Hallucegenia (talk) 13:05, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
705 - Z is done. TiMike (talk) 20:48, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
695 - Largely random Chinese politicians. --j⚛e decker ^talk 21:09, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Joe, unfortunately there seems to be a ton of those in this month. Hard to find refs at times. :/ TiMike (talk)

Actually, once you know the trick, many are fast. I'm fairly convinced that "China Vitae" [1] is a reliable source for many of these, and in fact may have been the original source for whoever wrote many of the original articles. It's a foundation-supported database, and appears to be reliably edited based. Here's a larger list of on-line resources on China and East Asia from Princeton: [2], but most of the resources there require academic access apparently, sadly. --j⚛e decker ^talk 22:16, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

662 - Man, several folks must be out there working! --j⚛e decker ^talk 01:16, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
651 - Hacking away between U-Z. TiMike (talk) 04:27, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
632 - Done a batch of Chinese politicians, some of them from Jan 2009.--Plad2 (talk) 09:59, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
608 - 'A' is nearly done :) Andy4226uk (talk) 17:17, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
592 - Done a batch of Chinese professional Go players thanks to info at WikiProject Go (which I will now add to the Resources page).--Plad2 (talk) 18:29, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Brilliant, thanks for sharing that, that's awesome! I also just sent a quick thank you note to the person who wrote that section of resources with a thank you. --j⚛e decker ^talk 22:20, 28 December 2010 (UTC) [reply]

563 - still working on L. Mostly Philippino, Hong Kong, Korean and Chinese musicians and sports people left.--Plad2 (talk) 00:28, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
560 - Nabbed the last Q, there were two already PRODed. --j⚛e decker ^talk 02:04, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
544 - Nibbling on random articles and a few more Go players. Here's a list of the remaining Go players this month: [3]. Off to bed, and away-from-keyboard tomorrow, have fun without me! --j⚛e decker ^talk 07:03, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
534 - still plugging away at L--Plad2 (talk) 11:16, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
515 - Completed all the Go players for January. Andy4226uk (talk) 12:57, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
473 - Sub 500! woot TiMike (talk) 04:56, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
466 - A few down, including four Hong Kong fencers, plus three additional bios at AfD. --j⚛e decker ^talk 07:24, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
435 - All of the Ps are done save for Jorge Pescara, because it frightens me. --Jezebel'sPonyo ^{bons mots} 20:13, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like a copyvio from his myspace page. :) --j⚛e decker ^talk 20:38, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Aha! I checked his official website as the wiki article was screaming copyvio, but his website is so convoluted I couldn't make any sense of it. --Jezebel'sPonyo ^{bons mots} 21:07, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I googled a sentence from the middle of that, which is one of my little bag o' tricks. :) I ... umm, yeah, find his web site hard on the eyes. --j⚛e decker ^talk 22:41, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
419 - More randomness. I'm being a wuss and taking the 'english names' first TiMike (talk) 21:35, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
405 - In which our intrepid sourcer learns about the Sheriff of Mumbai. --j⚛e decker ^talk 07:12, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
400- L finally done with the five remaining tagged for deletion. Phew! That was like wading through porridge.--Plad2 (talk) 10:35, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
394- D done! Andy4226uk (talk) 12:33, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
378 - but more importantly the total backlog is now under 15,000! J04n(talk page) 18:48, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
362 - Sniped the last U, a few more randomly selected cases. --j⚛e decker ^talk 23:05, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
354 - Did a batch of Japanese animators (thanks to the custom search at Wikiproject Anime and Manga - now added to our Resources page).--Plad2 (talk) 10:06, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
345 - Astronomers, for the new year. --j⚛e decker ^talk 11:54, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
338 - I PROD'd the last A, not to mention several other articles, but I wasn't very happy about it. --j⚛e decker ^talk 21:53, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ahhh, Florenz Regalado, that's better. :) --j⚛e decker ^talk 02:09, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
325 - plugging away at K now. More Japanese than Chinese in this group.--Plad2 (talk) 08:44, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
304 - And with the backlog under 14K, I'm starting to wonder where they're all going.... --j⚛e decker ^talk 19:09, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
279 - Hacking away... TiMike (talk) 03:55, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
270 - still working through K--Plad2 (talk) 09:36, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
217 - ...nabbed a few here and there, but someone else is busy! --j⚛e decker ^talk 00:52, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
182 - A definite Japanese theme to the rest of K--Plad2 (talk) 07:40, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
164 - Bit by bit ....--j⚛e decker ^talk 15:57, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
150 - Step by step... --j⚛e decker ^talk 05:53, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
145 - apart from Shingo Kobayashi (request for help posted at the Manga and Anime Project) and 7 on their way to deletion, K is almost done.--Plad2 (talk) 20:10, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
128 - now working on M--Plad2 (talk) 09:28, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

M done apart from 3 on a path to deletion--Plad2 (talk) 08:36, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

100 - about to enter double-digits.... --j⚛e decker ^talk 03:32, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
91 - under 100, the rest are going to be tough. J04n(talk page) 18:39, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
57 - Finished R & Y. I am now the foremost expert in the world of J-pop! TiMike (talk) 15:45, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
44 - Half a piano keyboard's worth left! --j⚛e decker ^talk 01:04, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
41 - C and H. --j⚛e decker ^talk 18:52, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
13 - apart from Tharani Rao, I think we are done.--Plad2 (talk) 09:09, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
12 - and I've prodded Mr Rao so we are done. --The-Pope (talk) 11:35, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]