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Basically Wikipedia's way of saying "I don't habeeb it, prove it." When a Wikipedophile adds this tag: ^{[citation needed]} it means that they mean serious business.

Contents 1 Citation Needed and its many forms 2 When to use Citation Needed 3 Ultimate Insult 4 Trolling TOW 5 TrOWling: 2.0 6 See also

Citation Needed and its many forms

Wikipedia, being a Encyclopedia for real, needs to be accurate. Wikipedia has more than one way of saying citation needed, including: ^{[verification needed]}, ^[specify], ^{[Holy shit, would you stop vandalizing Wikipedia?  Get a life, man!]} and [CITE?]. Although they may look different, they basically mean the same thing: that an assertion needs to be backed up with sources that meet Wikipedia's so-called policies.

Usage of the tags can sometimes lead to an edit war between the Wikipedophile who originally added the information to the article and the Bureaucratic Fuck who doesn't believe him. The resulting reverts and "discussion" (AKA flame war) on the article's talk page can sometimes be the source of good quality lulz.

When to use Citation Needed

Anytime a statement or piece of information, no matter how true, logical or plain common sense it may be, is not verified with a source linking from the article, no matter how doubtful the source is. Use of the "verification needed" tag can take place when a source other than The Guardian is cited.

To be used especially when the information might be original research because this is totally against TOW's rules.

Examples:

• The sky is blue. ^{[citation needed]}
• The opposite of black is white. ^{[citation needed]}
• Wikipedia is serious fucking business. ^{[no citation needed (we all know wikipedia is serious business.)]}

Ultimate Insult

When a Bureaucratic Fuck uses enough "citation" needed tags, he or she will inevitably add the "Needs Additional References" template to the top of the article.^{[citation needed]}

Adding this tag basically establishes the article as a likely lie from the start and confirms to the rest of the Wikipedophiles that, if they hadn't guessed by now, the person who added the tag really does mean serious business.

Trolling TOW

Use ^{[citation needed]} of ^{[citation needed]} the ^{[citation needed]} citation ^{[citation needed]} needed ^{[citation needed]} tag ^{[citation needed]} excessively ^{[citation needed]} on ^{[citation needed]} wikipedia ^{[citation needed]} will ^{[citation needed]} seldom ^{[citation needed]} be ^{[citation needed]} reverted ^{[citation needed]} as ^{[citation needed]} such, ^{[citation needed]} , ^{[citation needed]} it ^{[citation needed]} can ^{[citation needed]} be ^{[citation needed]} used ^{[citation needed]} for ^{[citation needed]} many ^{[citation needed]} lulz.^{[citation needed]}

Other ways of trolling with the tag include adding it to unverifiable but blatantly obvious material (example)

TrOWling: 2.0

Tags go HERE. ^{[citation needed]}

1. Add tags
2. Add moar
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!!

PROTIP: BE BOLD!

See also

• WikiFUD

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