Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Wikipedia rudiments/Citing your sources

Wikipedia is a crowd-sourced encyclopedia where the only people verifying submissions are other editors. They rely on either information they know already, or on any provided citations. Thus to increase the chances that changes you make aren't reverted by other editors, you should include citations to reliable sources that support your changes. See Help:Introduction to referencing with VisualEditor for more details on adding citations. If you are using the wikitext editor, see Help:Introduction to referencing with Wiki Markup.