Wikipedia:Unreferenced BLP Rescue/November 2008

This page documents the Unreferenced BLP Rescue Project's work on eliminating unreferenced BLPs from November 2008

Project #5 - November 2008 edit

Unreferenced BLPs from
November 2008	0

The current project is Category:Unreferenced BLPs from November 2008:
Initial #: 298
Current #: 0

298 - Project #5 (November 2008) is underway!--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 11:52, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
271 - O has been cleared. -- Whpq (talk) 19:05, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
246 - Zs also gone (an easy one).--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 12:55, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
241 - E is cleared. -- Hydroxonium (talk) 16:24, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
235 - V (another easy letter) Real life work still crushing me, but I had to get a few sourcings in. :) --j⚛e decker ^talk 05:52, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
226 - A done. --j⚛e decker ^talk 19:19, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
204 - Can't take credit for most of the difference, some of you are out there working. :) --j⚛e decker ^talk 04:35, 9 October 2010 (UTC)--j⚛e decker ^talk 18:15, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
200 - J is cleared except for 1. Can't find any references for David Jones (Guernsey politician). --TiMike • ^talkblp-r 17:18, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Try Gnews searches on Dave Jones Gurnsey rather than David, I found a couple, but it's not clear much of the article we have can be sourced, and some of that text might be problematic. Sorry I'm crushed with work or I'd follow through on this more myself. --j⚛e decker ^talk 18:15, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
195 - R is cleared. --TiMike • ^talkblp-r 01:18, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
132 - It continually boggles my mind how comprehensive wikipedia is, even when the quality is imperfect. Among my recent sourcings for this month, I did Jónas Kristjánsson, a scholar of icelandic sagas. I found a long bio in an Icelandic newspaper and some English references too. He is big in his field, but I would surely have died never having heard of him without doing this project.--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 13:52, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That is awesome. I'm impressed, too, despite the weakness of machine translation in many ways, just how far it's come, that I can press a button in Google Chrome and say "autotranslate that page from Icelandic, thank you very much". It boggles my mind! --j⚛e decker ^talk 18:08, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Google translate is an amazing tool now. I also find it intriguing to decipher foreign language idioms that it will return. E.g., "the seventh art" for cinema in French (came up this week in sourcing Audrey Marnay), which I guess a lot of people probably know. And that tabloid newspapers are called "Boulevardzeitung" (boulevard newspaper) in German, because gossipy newspapers were sold on the street and did not offer subscriptions.--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 01:04, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

127 - N is down. --j⚛e decker ^talk 18:08, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
116 - D is clear (apart from Rick Duff which has a copyvio tag slapped all over it).--Plad2 (talk) 07:31, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
100 unsourced BLPs in the cat, 100 unsourced BLPS, you take one down, source it around, 99 unsourced BLPs in the cat.... --j⚛e decker ^talk 20:40, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
89 - Sub-90! --TiMike • ^talkblp-r 03:27, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
80 - Finding "C" hard going.--Plad2 (talk) 21:36, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
70 - Only the last few were my doing. I've done what I can with "C"--Plad2 (talk) 21:38, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
52 - "H" is clear apart from one Chinese director I can't source.--Plad2 (talk) 10:10, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
46 - and "G" is clear--Plad2 (talk) 13:48, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
42 - Took on a couple toughies... time for coffee! --j⚛e decker ^talk 16:24, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
29 - Sub-30! P is cleared, save for 1 pending delete --TiMike • ^talkblp-r 02:37, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
20 - and "S" is clear.--Plad2 (talk) 09:09, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(Only 16 when you discount the PRODs, copyvios, and AfD candidates) --Jezebel'sPonyo ^{bons mots} 15:54, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just wondering.... Who decides when this effort is closed, and a new month/year combo is started? --TiMike • ^talkblp-r 19:04, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
TiMike: Welcome! We usually kinda throw out some ideas and see what gets the most interest. As it turns out, you have great timing, someone was just asking which month we should tackle next on the Talk page to this one, head on over and let us know what you think! --j⚛e decker ^talk 19:11, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
1 - I Prod'ed Takeshi Tominaga and sent Steven L. Thorsen to AfD. The only remaining article for this month is Nadir Ali Khan. --Jezebel'sPonyo ^{bons mots} 17:05, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
0. - I found at least something for Dr. Khan, who appears to have at least written one notable work.--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 18:08, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]