We have nearly 1 million Source pages in the wiki, and most of
them pre-date our new source page titling rules. Because of
this, we need to rename them. Renaming will be done
automatically, but it will require some human help to review the
proposed renamings to ensure they are correct. This is a huge
project, and we need your help to complete it. Renaming the
existing sources will be a big help for new users. Having so
many sources that don't currently follow the titling rules makes
learning how to create new source pages correctly very
difficult. Renaming the sources will also make finding sources
and identifying duplicate sources easier, and helps prepare the
way for automatically generating source citations. New source
page title rules The new rules construct the source page title
from various fields in the source depending upon the source
type: | Source type || Source page title | Books and Articles ||
Author. Title | Government / Church records || Place covered.
Title | Newspapers || Title (Place issued)