Manual:Pywikibot/noreferences.py

noreferences.py is a script used to add a missing references section to pages.

It goes over multiple pages, searches for pages where  is missing although a  tag is present, and in that case adds a new references section.

Syntax
The syntax is:

These command line parameters can be used to specify which pages to work on:

Furthermore, the following command line parameters are supported:

If neither a page title nor a page generator is given, it takes all pages from the default maintenance category.

It is strongly recommended not to run this script over the entire article namespace (using the -start) parameter, as that would consume too much bandwidth. Instead, use the -xml parameter, or use another way to generate a list of affected articles.