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{{Selfref|This article describes the history and effects of "citation needed". Please read [[Wikipedia:Citation needed]] if you want to know how to use the template "citation needed".|hat}}
[[File:Citation-needed.svg|thumb|The display effect of the [[Template:Citation needed|Citation needed]] template in English Wikipedia]]
"'''Citation needed'''" is a term used by [[Editing|editors]] of [[Wikipedia]]. It is also the name of a Wikipedia template, added into articles to request [[citation]]s. "Citation needed" is a characteristic of the policy of ''verifiability'' in Wikipedia; it has also become a general [[internet meme]].<ref name="meme">{{Cite web|url=https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/citation-needed|title=[citation needed]|last=knowyourmeme contributors|website=Know Your Meme|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618093104/http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/citation-needed|archive-date=2018-06-18|dead-url=no|access-date=2018-07-27}}</ref>
==Usage in Wikipedia==
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|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|journal=奈良女子大学社会学論集|language=ja|publisher=奈良女子大学社会学研究会|issue=17|pages=133–151|issn=1340-4032}}</ref> In 2006, Chris Sherlock, a Wikipedia editor with the [[username]] ''Ta bu shi da yu'', created the "citation needed" template, to be added to statements without a citation that needed verification.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stackoverflow.com/users/1349828/chris-sherlock|title=User Chris Sherlock|author1=Chris Sherlock|website=Stack Overflow|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510180743/https://stackoverflow.com/users/1349828/chris-sherlock|archive-date=2018-05-10|dead-url=no|accessdate=2018-07-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Fact&oldid=17662960|title=Template:Citation needed|author1=Wikipedia contributors|date=2005-06-15|website=Wikipedia|language=en|accessdate=2018-07-27}}</ref> The template is used frequently—{{as of|2018|07|28}}, over 300,000 articles in the English Wikipedia are marked with the template.
==Usage outside Wikipedia==
[[File:Webcomic_xkcd_-_Wikipedian_protester.png|right|thumb|An [[xkcd]] comic featuring a protester with a "<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>" placard.]]
In 2007, [[xkcd]] published a comic called "Wikipedian Protester". In the comic, a group of people are listening to a politician's speech, and a protester raises a placard with "<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>" written on it.<ref name="explain xkcd">{{Cite web|url=https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/285:_Wikipedian_Protester|title=285: Wikipedian Protester - explain xkcd|last=Explainxkcd contributors|website=www.explainxkcd.com|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010014624/http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/285:_Wikipedian_Protester|archive-date=2017-10-10|dead-url=no|access-date=2018-07-27}}</ref> It is the first known use of the terms outside Wikipedia.<ref name="meme"/> This also spawned a meme on the explain xkcd wiki of placing a citation needed tag after obvious statements.<ref name="explain xkcd"></ref>
In 2008, Matt Mechtley created stickers with "<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>", encouraging people to stick them on [[advertisement]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2008/01/citation_needed.html|title=[citation needed]|last=Joshua Glenn|date=2008-01-02|website=Boston.com|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727132135/http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2008/01/citation_needed.html|archive-date=2018-07-27|dead-url=no|access-date=2018-07-27}}</ref> These kind of graffiti has been called "wikiffiti".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://boingboing.net/2008/01/02/wikiffiti-stickers-t.html|title=Wikiffiti -- stickers that read [citation needed] / Boing Boing|website=boingboing.net|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114235904/http://boingboing.net/2008/01/02/wikiffiti-stickers-t.html|archive-date=2017-01-14|dead-url=no|access-date=2018-07-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wikiffiti|title=Urban Dictionary: wikiffiti|last=Urban Dictionary contributors|website=Urban Dictionary|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409104021/http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wikiffiti|archive-date=2016-04-09|dead-url=no|access-date=2018-07-27}}</ref> Quickly becoming a [[Internet meme|meme]] "<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>" appeared not only on billboards, but also some internet [[kuso]] pictures. For example, someone doctored a photograph of [[George W. Bush]]'s [[Mission Accomplished speech]] to place a "<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>" label under the "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/40120-citation-needed|title=[Image - 40120] {{!}} [citation needed]|website=Know Your Meme|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326230145/http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/40120-citation-needed|archive-date=2016-03-26|dead-url=no|access-date=2018-07-27}}</ref>
[[File:Wpisavalidsource_+_citation_needed.jpg|thumb|Words written on the placards of protesters:<br />"Wikipedia is a valid source"<br />"<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>"]]
In 2010, American television hosts [[Jon Stewart]] and [[Stephen Colbert]] led the [[Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]. Some "protesters" held placards with "<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/article/VR1118026656|title=Satirical rally calls for sanity and/or fear|last=TED JOHNSON|date=2010-11-01|work=Variety|access-date=2018-07-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116073656/https://variety.com/article/VR1118026656|archive-date=2010-11-04|language=en}}</ref>
In 2011, German defence minister [[Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg]] was facing accusations that he [[plagiarism|plagiarized]] his [[Doctorate|doctoral]] [[thesis]]. Protesters with "<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>" placards called attention to the many contexts in his thesis where his sources were not labeled.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/academics-attack-german-minister-in-plagiarism-row/a-14876451|title=Academics attack German minister in plagiarism row {{!}} DW {{!}} 26.02.2011|last=Natalia Dannenberg|website=DW.COM|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727132135/https://www.dw.com/en/academics-attack-german-minister-in-plagiarism-row/a-14876451|archive-date=2018-07-27|dead-url=no|access-date=2018-07-27}}</ref></font>
In 2014, [[United Kingdom|British]] entertainer [[Tom Scott (entertainer)|Tom Scott]] began a web-based [[panel show]] called Citation Needed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIYcbJKSLxQ|title=The Big Lobster and Drive-through Booze: Citation Needed 1x01}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist|30em}}
{{Wikipedia}}
[[Category:Internet memes introduced in the 2000s]]
[[Category:Wikipedia]]
{{AfDM|page=Citation needed (2nd nomination)|year=2018|month=October|day=28|substed=yes|origtag=afdx|help=off}}
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{{unreliable sources|date=August 2018}}
{{Selfref|This article describes the history and effects of "citation needed". Please read [[Wikipedia:Citation needed]] if you want to know how to use the template "citation needed".|hat}}
[[File:Citation-needed.svg|thumb|The display effect of the [[Template:Citation needed|Citation needed]] template in English Wikipedia]]
"'''Citation needed'''" is a term used by [[Editing|editors]] of [[Wikipedia]]. It is also the name of a Wikipedia template, added into articles to request [[citation]]s. "Citation needed" is a characteristic of the policy of ''verifiability'' in Wikipedia; it has also become a general [[internet meme]].<ref name="meme">{{Cite web|url=https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/citation-needed|title=[citation needed]|last=knowyourmeme contributors|website=Know Your Meme|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618093104/http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/citation-needed|archive-date=2018-06-18|dead-url=no|access-date=2018-07-27}}</ref>
==Usage in Wikipedia==
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|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|journal=奈良女子大学社会学論集|language=ja|publisher=奈良女子大学社会学研究会|issue=17|pages=133–151|issn=1340-4032}}</ref> In 2006, Chris Sherlock, a Wikipedia editor with the [[username]] ''Ta bu shi da yu'', created the "citation needed" template, to be added to statements without a citation that needed verification.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stackoverflow.com/users/1349828/chris-sherlock|title=User Chris Sherlock|author1=Chris Sherlock|website=Stack Overflow|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510180743/https://stackoverflow.com/users/1349828/chris-sherlock|archive-date=2018-05-10|dead-url=no|accessdate=2018-07-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Fact&oldid=17662960|title=Template:Citation needed|author1=Wikipedia contributors|date=2005-06-15|website=Wikipedia|language=en|accessdate=2018-07-27}}</ref> The template is used frequently—{{as of|2018|07|28}}, over 300,000 articles in the English Wikipedia are marked with the template.
==Usage outside Wikipedia==
[[File:Webcomic_xkcd_-_Wikipedian_protester.png|right|thumb|An [[xkcd]] comic featuring a protester with a "<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>" placard.]]
In 2007, [[xkcd]] published a comic called "Wikipedian Protester". In the comic, a group of people are listening to a politician's speech, and a protester raises a placard with "<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>" written on it.<ref name="explain xkcd">{{Cite web|url=https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/285:_Wikipedian_Protester|title=285: Wikipedian Protester - explain xkcd|last=Explainxkcd contributors|website=www.explainxkcd.com|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010014624/http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/285:_Wikipedian_Protester|archive-date=2017-10-10|dead-url=no|access-date=2018-07-27}}</ref> It is the first known use of the terms outside Wikipedia.<ref name="meme"/> This also spawned a meme on the explain xkcd wiki of placing a citation needed tag after obvious statements.<ref name="explain xkcd"></ref>
In 2008, Matt Mechtley created stickers with "<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>", encouraging people to stick them on [[advertisement]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2008/01/citation_needed.html|title=[citation needed]|last=Joshua Glenn|date=2008-01-02|website=Boston.com|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727132135/http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2008/01/citation_needed.html|archive-date=2018-07-27|dead-url=no|access-date=2018-07-27}}</ref> These kind of graffiti has been called "wikiffiti".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://boingboing.net/2008/01/02/wikiffiti-stickers-t.html|title=Wikiffiti -- stickers that read [citation needed] / Boing Boing|website=boingboing.net|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114235904/http://boingboing.net/2008/01/02/wikiffiti-stickers-t.html|archive-date=2017-01-14|dead-url=no|access-date=2018-07-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wikiffiti|title=Urban Dictionary: wikiffiti|last=Urban Dictionary contributors|website=Urban Dictionary|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409104021/http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wikiffiti|archive-date=2016-04-09|dead-url=no|access-date=2018-07-27}}</ref> Quickly becoming a [[Internet meme|meme]] "<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>" appeared not only on billboards, but also some internet [[kuso]] pictures. For example, someone doctored a photograph of [[George W. Bush]]'s [[Mission Accomplished speech]] to place a "<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>" label under the "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/40120-citation-needed|title=[Image - 40120] {{!}} [citation needed]|website=Know Your Meme|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326230145/http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/40120-citation-needed|archive-date=2016-03-26|dead-url=no|access-date=2018-07-27}}</ref>
[[File:Wpisavalidsource_+_citation_needed.jpg|thumb|Words written on the placards of protesters:<br />"Wikipedia is a valid source"<br />"<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>"]]
In 2010, American television hosts [[Jon Stewart]] and [[Stephen Colbert]] led the [[Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]. Some "protesters" held placards with "<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/article/VR1118026656|title=Satirical rally calls for sanity and/or fear|last=TED JOHNSON|date=2010-11-01|work=Variety|access-date=2018-07-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116073656/https://variety.com/article/VR1118026656|archive-date=2010-11-04|language=en}}</ref>
In 2011, German defence minister [[Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg]] was facing accusations that he [[plagiarism|plagiarized]] his [[Doctorate|doctoral]] [[thesis]]. Protesters with "<nowiki>[</nowiki>''citation needed''<nowiki>]</nowiki>" placards called attention to the many contexts in his thesis where his sources were not labeled.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/academics-attack-german-minister-in-plagiarism-row/a-14876451|title=Academics attack German minister in plagiarism row {{!}} DW {{!}} 26.02.2011|last=Natalia Dannenberg|website=DW.COM|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727132135/https://www.dw.com/en/academics-attack-german-minister-in-plagiarism-row/a-14876451|archive-date=2018-07-27|dead-url=no|access-date=2018-07-27}}</ref></font>
In 2014, [[United Kingdom|British]] entertainer [[Tom Scott (entertainer)|Tom Scott]] began a web-based [[panel show]] called Citation Needed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIYcbJKSLxQ|title=The Big Lobster and Drive-through Booze: Citation Needed 1x01}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist|30em}}
{{Wikipedia}}
[[Category:Internet memes introduced in the 2000s]]
[[Category:Wikipedia]]
