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By Wikipedia policy, editors should add citations for content, to ensure accuracy and neutrality, and to avoid original research.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=栗岡 幹英 [Masahide Kurioka]|date=2010-03-01|title=インターネットは言論の公共圏たりうるか：ブログとウィキペディアの内容分析|trans-title=Can the Internet be the Public Sphere of Discourse? : Contents Analysis of Blog and Wikipedia|url=https://opac2.lib.nara-wu.ac.jp/webopac/TD00001512|journal=奈良女子大学社会学論集 [<nowiki />Nara Women's University Sociological Studies]|language=ja|publisher=奈良女子大学社会学研究会 [Nara Women's University Sociological Study Group]|issue=17|pages=133–151|issn=1340-4032}}</ref> The ''citation needed'' tag is used to mark statements that lack such citations.<ref name="Redi" /> {{asof|February 2019}}, there were more than 350,000 pages on Wikipedia containing the tag.<ref name="Redi" /> |
By Wikipedia policy, editors should add citations for content, to ensure accuracy and neutrality, and to avoid original research.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=栗岡 幹英 [Masahide Kurioka]|date=2010-03-01|title=インターネットは言論の公共圏たりうるか：ブログとウィキペディアの内容分析|trans-title=Can the Internet be the Public Sphere of Discourse? : Contents Analysis of Blog and Wikipedia|url=https://opac2.lib.nara-wu.ac.jp/webopac/TD00001512|journal=奈良女子大学社会学論集 [<nowiki />Nara Women's University Sociological Studies]|language=ja|publisher=奈良女子大学社会学研究会 [Nara Women's University Sociological Study Group]|issue=17|pages=133–151|issn=1340-4032}}</ref> The ''citation needed'' tag is used to mark statements that lack such citations.<ref name="Redi" /> {{asof|February 2019}}, there were more than 350,000 pages on Wikipedia containing the tag.<ref name="Redi" /> |
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The template was created by a Wikipedia editor with the [[username]] ''Ta bu shi da yu''.<ref>{{cite web|author=Ta bu shi da yu|date=15 June 2005|title=Template:Citation needed|website=Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia|access-date=19 June 2021|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Citation_needed&oldid=17662960}}</ref>{{primary source inline}} |
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==Usage outside Wikipedia== |
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Revision as of 02:00, 13 July 2021
"[Citation needed]" is a tag added by Wikipedia editors to unsourced statements in articles requesting citations to be added.[1] The phrase is reflective of the policies of verifiability and no original research in Wikipedia and has become a general Internet meme. On the English Wikipedia, the display effect looks like this: [citation needed]
Usage in Wikipedia
By Wikipedia policy, editors should add citations for content, to ensure accuracy and neutrality, and to avoid original research.[2] The citation needed tag is used to mark statements that lack such citations.[1] As of February 2019[update], there were more than 350,000 pages on Wikipedia containing the tag.[1]
Usage outside Wikipedia
In 2008, Matt Mechtley created stickers with "[citation needed]", encouraging people to stick them on advertisements.[3]
In 2010, American television hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert led the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Some participants held placards with "[citation needed]".[4]
Randall Munroe has frequently used "[citation needed]" tags for humorous commentary in his writings, including in his 2014 book, What If?.[5][6][7]
References
- ^ a b c Redi, Miriam; Fetahu, Besnik; Morgan, Jonathan; Taraborelli, Dario (13 May 2019). "Citation Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's Verifiability". WWW '19. San Francisco, CA, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 1567–1578. doi:10.1145/3308558.3313618. ISBN 978-1-4503-6674-8.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ 栗岡 幹英 [Masahide Kurioka] (2010-03-01). "インターネットは言論の公共圏たりうるか：ブログとウィキペディアの内容分析" [Can the Internet be the Public Sphere of Discourse? : Contents Analysis of Blog and Wikipedia]. 奈良女子大学社会学論集 [Nara Women's University Sociological Studies] (in Japanese) (17). 奈良女子大学社会学研究会 [Nara Women's University Sociological Study Group]: 133–151. ISSN 1340-4032.
- ^ Joshua Glenn (2008-01-02). "[citation needed]". Boston.com. Archived from the original on 2018-07-27. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
- ^ Ted Johnson (2010-11-01). "Satirical rally calls for sanity and/or fear". Variety. Archived from the original on 2010-11-16. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
- ^ Munroe, Randall (2014). What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Hachette UK. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
- ^ Hill, Kyle (2014-09-02). "REVIEW: XKCD'S WHAT IF?". Nerdist. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ Poole, Steven (2019-09-19). "Book Review: 'What If' by Randall Munroe". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
