Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Progress

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Progress

There are
160
months of unreferenced articles in the backlog (Category:Articles lacking sources) with a count of
28,678
articles.

To view the progress of the backlog:

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. Number of articles in backlogDate020,00040,00060,00080,000100,0009/30/20252/21/20267/19/2026Unreferenced BLPsUnreferenced articlesUnreferenced listsProbably unreferenced articlesProbably unreferenced listsUnreferenced articles statistics(updates daily) At the beginning of the day (UTC) on 10 November 2026 there were:

  • 28,645 tagged unreferenced articles, a change of −196 since the day before
  • 4,849 probably unreferenced articles, a change of 2 since the day before
  • That is, a total backlog of 33,494 articles still to deal with, a change of −194 since the day before

At the current average rate of 137 articles per day, it will take 245 days to clear the backlog, finishing on 13 July 2027. (raw data)