Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Progress
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Progress
There are
185
months of unreferenced articles in the backlog (Category:Articles lacking sources) with a count of 34,336
articles.
To view the progress of the backlog:
- Category:Articles lacking sources from March 2026—This category holds the latest unreferenced articles. There are 1,241new articles so far this month.
- Category:Articles lacking sources from February 2026—This category also holds the previous month articles marked as unreferenced. There are 1,867articles tagged.
- Category:Articles lacking sources from December 2009—This category contains the earliest articles marked as unreferenced. There are 11articles tagged.
- Category:Articles lacking sources from July 2010—The next earliest articles marked as unreferenced. There are 3articles tagged here.
- Category:Articles lacking sources from August 2010—More early articles marked as unreferenced. There are 3articles tagged here.
- More large categories:
- Category:Articles lacking sources from June 2019 —There are 2,019articles.
- Category:Articles lacking sources from October 2025 —There are 1,920articles.
- Category:Articles lacking sources from December 2025 —There are 943articles.
- Category:Articles lacking sources from June 2019 —There are
Statistics
The chart below shows the recent history of the backlog. It includes articles not undergoing a deletion process that are tagged as {{unreferenced}} or a variant and articles that are likely to be unreferenced: for more information on the latter set, see this discussion.
- 34,327 tagged unreferenced articles, a change of −206 since the day before
- 26,687 probably unreferenced articles, a change of −1 since the day before
- That is, a total backlog of 61,014 articles still to deal with, a change of −207 since the day before
At the current average rate of 152 articles per day, it will take 402 days to clear the backlog, finishing on 27 April 2027. (raw data)