The {{citation needed}} template aims to promote accountable discourse.

To ensure that all Wikipedia content is verifiable, anyone may question an uncited claim by inserting {{citation needed}} or a similar inline template.

Example: Most people believe in ghosts.^{citation needed}

This tag signals you to do the following:

• Exercise caution when relying upon unsourced claims.
• If you have reason to think that the claim is inaccurate, you may remove the claim altogether. Optionally, paste it into the article's talk page and explain your reasoning.
• If you can locate a reliable source for the claim: Please be bold and replace the template with <ref>some footnote</ref>, replacing some footnote with enough information to locate the source. Leave the copyediting to someone else, or learn more at http://wiki.w2n.net/wikipedia/Citing sources.
• Controversial, poorly sourced claims in biographies of living persons should be deleted immediately.

See also

• http://wiki.w2n.net/users/Shimgray/Citation needed
• Template:Verify source/doc

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