On 3/27/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Folks,
I tried to find the answer to this question in the policy sections of WP, but couldn't:
After you have placed a "citation needed" flag into an Article, is there a specific length of time you wait for either the citation to be added, or the statement in question to be removed by the person who wrote it, before deleting it yourself? The Article in question, BTW, is the one on [[Franz Kafka]].
Thanks,
Marc Riddell
It all depends on the statement. If the statement is correct, but needs citation, then the tag merely says that it needs to be cited. If you have reason to doubt the information, then you can remove it after a reasonable amount of time - if you have reason to suspect that the original author didn't get a chance to see it, drop them a note.
Wikipedia is full of uncited information. All of it needs to be cited eventually, but the mere fact that something is uncited isn't enough of a reason to remove it.
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