User:Jorgenev/Citation needed

Citation needed is a phrase used disparagingly towards. It arose in internet culture from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia which had a tag in superscript bearing the phrase that could be inserted after statements editors thought required verification.

Its use outside of Wikipedia has said to have been at times used as a silencing tactic, Sebastian Marshall has written "Some people don’t seem to get that the entire world isn’t an encyclopedia. When you’re having a discussion somewhere online, replying to something you dislike with “Citation Needed” is usually counterproductive to good discussion."

Andrew Schlafly: "I looked at your contributions today, and found a serious of insertions of the form Citation needed or more obnoxious banners." (Aug 10th, 2007)

"But start going backward along the gaming timeline and the information starts to thin. Gold-standard, content-filled pages slowly become stubs, and the phrase “citation needed” appears with increasing regularity. Thousands of games don’t have pages at all."

"There's a cute art project using the Wikipedia "citation needed" notation. There are some people in New York who are going around on billboards putting on "citation needed" stickers. Consumers can talk back now. You have to think twice about making some outrageous hyperbolic claim. Maybe it never worked, but it really doesn't work now."