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The {{Citation needed}} template aims to promote accountable discourse. To ensure that all Wikipedia content is verifiable , Wikipedia provides a means for anyone to question an uncited claim . If your work has been tagged, please provide a reliable source for the statement, and discuss if needed.
Below are some example citations (using the examples outlined above) and a sample reference list below, except this time, they will display like they would in an article. If you look at the reference list, next to reference 1, it says a b. Click on one of those letters next to the citation. a will take you to the first place reference 1 is cited.
There are <ref group=$1> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=$1}} template (see the help page). A list-defined reference has a conflicting group attribute "$1" (see the help page). A list-defined reference named "$1" is not used in the content (see the help page).
The podcast "Citations Needed" is a Webby nominated [10] media criticism podcast, hosted by journalists Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson to explore the intersection of media, PR, and power. [11] Youtuber Tom Scott and The Technical Difficulties used "[citation needed]" as the title for a Wikipedia-based gameshow that ran from 2014 to 2018. [12]
When you are satisfied with the information in the citation form, clicking the Insert button will close the form and add the code for your citation to the edit window at the location you had selected prior to choosing a citation type. This information will show up as a superscript numbered link when you preview or save your edit.
Inline citations are usually small, numbered footnotes like this. [1] They are generally added either directly following the fact that they support, or at the end of the sentence that they support, following any punctuation. When clicked, they take the reader to a citation in a reference section near the bottom of the article.
A bare URL is a URL cited as a reference for some information in an article without any accompanying information about the linked page. In other words, it is just the text out of the URL bar of a web browser copied and pasted into the Wiki text, inserted between <ref></ref> tags or simply provided as an external link, without title, author, date, or any of the usual information necessary for a ...
"Citation Needed" templates are used as a request for editors to add a citation to an existing uncited claim; when such a request isn't met within a reasonable amount of time, such claims will usually become subject to removal. These templates do not give a user free rein to make whatever claims they want without citing a source.