Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Good articles/Unreferenced GA task force

message: If anybody's willing to maintain it, there could also be a category for articles that are not well-written yet, but already severely lacking in references. It is usually easier to add references as you go along rather than add them after the fact.
I know that there are a lot of science articles that could be improved in this way. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 12:35, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like that somebody might be me.  Have you taken a look at my Citation Tool? What it does now is quite a bit different from that, but it still seems like a logical added (optional) feature to add on.  Wanna put in a "feature request", and I'll try to get to working on that. LotLE×talk 21:05, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further suggestions 

message: Try searching the category :Category:Former good article nominees most if not all of the articles that fail the GA nominees show up in this category. Since many articles are rejected for a lack of references you might find alot of worthwhile articles to work on. Perhaps one of the objectives of this wikiproject could be to bring articles in this category to GA status? Tarret 22:29, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks... Only just saw your comment. Exactly what I was thinking! Thanks again! - Samsara (talk • contribs) 17:57, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreferenced rejections suggestion

message: I've just finished going through Category:Former good article nominees, including all of letter A (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced GA/Nominations), and have the following observations to offer:
*We will have to focus on those articles where lack of references is the only or overriding main reason for not reaching GA status, otherwise our efforts will get tied up in cleanup operations of small-time articles.
*We must take care to check the assessment made on the talk page by the GA reviewer, because sometimes people will simply give "lack of references" as a reason and reject the article without further review, when there are actually other problems with the article. We should take heart from this because it means that the GA reviewers take references quite seriously.
Please feel free to review and comment on my assessment of letter A and the numbers section. We should then probably give these pages some basic classification on a separate page, similar to the way it is being done on WP:GA.
Samsara (talk • contribs) 17:55, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Going through [[Category:Former good article nominees]] and lessons learned 

message: Template:Gan-fail has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. TheJC TalkContributions 22:35, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  TfD nomination of Template:Gan-fail 

message: Please support bug 4288 which is an enhancement that allows general tagging of revisions. This will allow user and group defined tags which can then be used for things like this project and possibly other stuff in the future. Thanks. --Gbleem 23:22, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  4288 

message: Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory.  This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.   B2T2 14:26, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: I propose spelling out the title of this article. See http://www.answers.com/topic/ga-abbreviation. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis 14:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I moved it, but it can be moved back if anyone disagrees. Armedblowfish (talk|mail) 16:01, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title of this project 

message: The above article is a current featured article whose continuing status as such is currently being challenged on the basis of its lack of references. Given it's quality and status, I think the help of any members of this project to provide references would be more than welcome. Badbilltucker 23:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[James Joyce]] 

message: Created :Category:Good articles needing attention as an administrative cat. Actually, articles I place in there in the near future are those that may be delisted because they have been warned already, but the category will exist for other purposes as well. --Ling.Nut 13:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The category appears to have been deleted. : ( Armed Blowfish (talk|mail) 02:53, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  created [[:Category:Good articles needing attention]] 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention.  Badbilltucker 19:44, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: So where can such articles be found? I know the arguments about the Cleanup and Expand lists - but unless there is a way of readily finding articles in this category, (even a "look for [unreferenced article stub]" command) not much will be done. Jackiespeel 16:10, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Listing articles

message: Is this project active? It appears to be moribund. Geometry guy 19:49, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've tagged it as historical. Geometry guy 23:58, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Active?