[WikiEN-l] Citation needed flags

[Guettarda]

On 3/27/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at 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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