Wikipedia:Unreferenced BLP Rescue/June 2009

This page documents the Unreferenced BLP Rescue Project's work on eliminating unreferenced BLPs from June 2009 (Project #16)

Project #16 - June 2009

Category:Unreferenced BLPs from June 2009 (Category does not exist or has been deleted due to completion of task.)
Started at February 12, 2011 with 1,295 articles. 0 left.

1,295 / 1,295 (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 1295 articles, useful for tracking progress using the related changes function.
Random page from this month's effort

Progress by letter

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

1295 - Kicking off Project #16! The-Pope (talk) 09:45, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
1224 - all by others, but a very good start. The-Pope (talk) 16:14, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
1216 - Randomness here and there. TiMike (talk) 17:20, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
1206 - A is done, save for a PROD. Wow, what a big bucket! --j⚛e decker ^{talk to me} 23:05, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
1184 - --Milowent • ^talkblp-r 15:03, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
1182 - Q is done. And it had 2 hurlers in it! -- Whpq (talk) 15:18, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
1147 - Plowed through the Members of the European Parliament --j⚛e decker ^{talk to me} 20:23, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
1115 - bit by bit.--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 00:21, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
1099. Albanian pageant winners, elected officials from the 90s, the same old same old.--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 16:01, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
1077 - B done, save for 2 at PROD. --j⚛e decker ^{talk to me} 05:13, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
1045 - just knocked out about 5 random ones.--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 02:49, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
2¹⁰-1 - Poking around at C and some randoms, I enjoy adding refs to articles recently edited by editors uninvolved in our project for other reasons, perhaps that can add to our visibility. --j⚛e decker ^{talk to me} 20:47, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
10³-1 - More puttering at C and a couple randoms, gotten to mark two copyvios so far today, w00t. --j⚛e decker ^{talk to me} 19:24, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
971 - C done save for 2 PRODs and 2 copyvios, I expect the PRODs to take but I'll probably eventually have to clean up whatever's left of the CVs. --j⚛e decker ^{talk to me} 19:41, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
948 - Pluggin' away at D and a few randoms. Off for a hike now. --j⚛e decker ^{talk to me} 18:58, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
918 - D is done save for the usual coupla deletion-headed articles. --j⚛e decker ^{talk to me} 07:17, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
900 - Whittlin' E --j⚛e decker ^{talk to me} 03:54, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
890 - E is gone but I don't claim the credit, j04n cleaned up the remaining fraction of that letter, save for a single article, while I was out today. Yay! --j⚛e decker ^{talk to me} 03:07, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
845 - F inished off the few bits j04n left in the letter F, save for 4 at deletion. --j⚛e decker ^{talk to me} 21:24, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
797 - working through H from the bottom. Also finally polished off Mexican actors, British baseball players and British television producers by way of a couple of Buddhist monks.--CharlieDelta (talk) 09:18, 27 February 2011 (UTC) formerly known as Plad2[reply]
750 - G and H appear done save for the usual deletion-headed few, now peeking at I. Last night, I got to source a bio of a winner of the Kassel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor, which just demonstrates the critical importance of our work here! *grin* --joe decker ^{talk to me} 17:12, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
735 - Now working on M from the bottom. Today's haul included a Russian water polo player.--CharlieDelta (talk) 23:19, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
703 - I looks done and I just took out the last couple Js. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 07:26, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
669 - And the red button count reaches precisely 10,000. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 17:26, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
647 - Halfway home! --joe decker ^{talk to me} 01:32, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
592 - K is done save for 3 at deletion. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 07:21, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
568 - L is done save for a few at deletion. Anyone fluent in Korean want to take a second look at Lim Ki-Han‎ (currently at AFD?)? I've poked WikiProj Korea, too. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 06:38, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
524 - Poking at M, thought we were due for an update here. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 06:15, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
2⁹, and Lim Ki-Han just got saved at AfD by someone with Korean literacy... --joe decker ^{talk to me} 05:57, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
472 - M done save for a couple at deletion processes. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 07:25, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
445 - nibbling away at S.--CharlieDelta (talk) 09:33, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
429 - N done save for three at PROD.... --joe decker ^{talk to me} 18:48, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
416 - O done --joe decker ^{talk to me} 19:29, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
387 - Astronomers this morning, Canadian and Mexican politicians tonight.--CharlieDelta (talk) 22:33, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
360 - P done except for one prodded page. J04n(talk page) 02:24, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
310 - Just been pressing the "gimme a random one left" button, that's kind fun. A writer for Mad magazine, a soul singer who passed in 1986, a Bangledeshi freedom fighter... --joe decker ^{talk to me} 02:12, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
273 - Evening count update --joe decker ^{talk to me} 04:15, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
2⁸ - Now pinging away at some Rs. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 22:06, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
237, R is done, with one needing a copyright-related stubbin' (but a sourced stub, now) and the other now at AfD. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 20:46, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
229, and mark Y/Z done. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 19:11, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
2⁷ - Getting closer to knocking off this long month! --joe decker ^{talk to me} 00:15, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
96, U is done... and the red button count breaks 9K. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 04:28, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am sure I speak for us all when I say Joe Decker is a legend. :-) I can't believe we're down to 9K overall.--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 06:42, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Awww, shucks. :-) --joe decker ^{talk to me} 16:32, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

80, thought I'd jump in at the end for the glory! Sportspeople all done - anyone disagree that Dimitar Stratev is a 4 year old hoax? The-Pope (talk) 16:56, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- 6 Gold medals alpine skiing and no coverage about it. Bullpiffle for sure! -- Whpq (talk) 17:13, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
65 - still nibbling away slowly at S--CharlieDelta (talk) 21:33, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
24 - Only a few left that aren't at some sort of deletion process, but I have to run for today. What next? ;-) --joe decker ^{talk to me} 21:16, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
13 S/T/W, ... And we're out. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 04:47, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
wow. what shall we do now? its no secret some of us have lost some drive, but others seem to be still hacking away, awesomely.--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 05:02, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe more of a sorbet month than a 7-course meal? ;-) --joe decker ^{talk to me} 05:19, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]