Wikipedia:RESCUE

The project works toward improving as a whole by cooperating together to improve deficient articles through editing to provide necessary sources, correcting inappropriate style or tone, cleaning up grammatical and layout problems, etcetera, with the overall goal of improving the encyclopedia.

ARS members may also be interested in rescuing articles listed at . These articles often cover notable topics. Evaluating the extent of such problems can be difficult, but thoroughly rewriting articles with problems identified as foundational has the additional benefit of helping .

A list of content for rescue consideration is located at this project's content rescue list.

No. The project is not about making policy to ensure that nothing is deleted or casting keep votes in AfD discussions. The project ensures that articles that can be written to follow do not get deleted when they can be rescued through normal editing, which per WP:AFD means that it was not a good candidate for deletion. The {{}} and {{}} templates are sometimes all that's required for a rescue.

This makes Articles for Deletion (AfD) a very important place; one that deserves everyone's attention.

Here's a quick checklist of 10 steps anyone can take for articles that need rescue:

Many articles have been deleted as Biographies that had been flagged for years as unsourced. The administrators who deleted them have stated that the restoration of these articles is acceptable, provided that any restored articles are then properly sourced and made fully compliant with WP:BLP (Biographies of living persons). For some background information, see here. BLP articles that are properly sourced will simply be restored, along with their talk pages.

To volunteer to reference one or more of the articles that have recently been deleted as unreferenced BLPs, see ARS BLP volunteers.

To join, simply add your name to our membership list; feel free to add your ideas to as well.

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