Misplaced Pages

The tag "" is added by Misplaced Pages editors to unsourced statements in articles requesting citations to be added. The phrase is reflective of the policies of verifiability and original research on Misplaced Pages and has become a general Internet meme.

Usage on Misplaced Pages

The tag was first used on Misplaced Pages in 2006, and its template created by user Ta bu shi da yu. According to Misplaced Pages's policy, editors should add citations for content, to ensure accuracy and neutrality, and to avoid original research. The citation needed tag is used to mark statements that lack such citations. As of June 2023, there were more than 539,000 pages on Misplaced Pages (or roughly 1% of all pages) containing at least one instance of the tag. Users who click the tag will be directed to pages about Misplaced Pages's verifiability policy and its application using the tag.

Usage outside Misplaced Pages

In 2008, Matt Mechtley created stickers with "", encouraging people to stick them on advertisements.

In 2010, American television hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert led the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., where some participants held placards with "".

Randall Munroe has frequently used "" tags for humorous commentary in his writings, including in his 2014 book What If?.

The podcast "Citations Needed" is a Webby nominated media criticism podcast, hosted by journalists Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson to explore the intersection of media, PR, and power.

Youtuber Tom Scott and The Technical Difficulties used "" as the title for a Misplaced Pages-based gameshow that ran from 2014 to 2018.

References

1. ^ Redi, Miriam; Fetahu, Besnik; Morgan, Jonathan; Taraborelli, Dario (May 13, 2019). "Citation Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Misplaced Pages's Verifiability". The World Wide Web Conference. WWW '19. San Francisco, CA, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1567–1578. doi:10.1145/3308558.3313618. ISBN 978-1-4503-6674-8. S2CID 67856117.
2. ^ McDowell, Zachary J.; Vetter, Matthew A. (2022). "What Counts as Information: The Construction of Reliability and Verifability". Misplaced Pages and the Representation of Reality. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. p. 34. doi:10.4324/9781003094081. hdl:20.500.12657/50520. ISBN 978-1-000-47427-5.
3. 栗岡 幹英 (March 1, 2010). "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" [Can the Internet be the Public Sphere of Discourse? : Contents Analysis of Blog and Misplaced Pages]. 奈良女子大学社会学論集 (in Japanese) (17). 奈良女子大学社会学研究会 : 133–151. ISSN 1340-4032.
4. McDowell, Zachary J.; Vetter, Matthew A. (July 2020). "It Takes a Village to Combat a Fake News Army: Misplaced Pages's Community and Policies for Information Literacy". Social Media + Society. 6 (3). doi:10.1177/2056305120937309. ISSN 2056-3051. S2CID 222110748.
5. Glenn, Joshua (January 2, 2008). "[citation needed]". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on July 27, 2018. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
6. Johnson, Ted (November 1, 2010). "Satirical rally calls for sanity and/or fear". Variety. Archived from the original on November 16, 2010. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
7. Munroe, Randall (2014). What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Hachette UK. ISBN 9780544272644. Retrieved June 15, 2021.
8. Hill, Kyle (September 2, 2014). "Review: XKCD's What If?". Nerdist. Archived from the original on July 13, 2021. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
9. Poole, Steven (September 19, 2019). "Book Review: 'What If' by Randall Munroe". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on May 8, 2024. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
10. "Podcast | Citations Needed". Nima Shirazi. Retrieved November 8, 2024.
11. Groundwater, Colin (April 29, 2020). "The Best Podcasts to Listen to in Self-Isolation". GQ. Archived from the original on April 30, 2020. Retrieved November 8, 2024.
12. Citation Needed, from the Technical Difficulties (Comedy, Game-Show, Talk-Show), Tom Scott, Gary Brannan, Chris Joel, The Technical Difficulties, March 19, 2014, archived from the original on March 8, 2021, retrieved August 19, 2024{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

External links

• [REDACTED] The dictionary definition of citation needed at Wiktionary
• Citation needed entry at Know Your Meme

• 2005 introductions
• Internet memes introduced in 2006
• Misplaced Pages