Citation needed

To ensure that all the SL Wiki content is , SL Wiki provides a means for anyone to question an . If your work has been tagged, please provide a for the statement, and if needed.
You can add a citation by selecting from the drop-down menu at the top of the . In , you can add a citation manually using . There are also .
In , you can question an uncited claim by inserting a simple tag, or a more comprehensive . Alternatively, and will produce the same result. These all display as: 
For information on adding citations in articles, see . For information on when to remove this template messages, see .
==When to use this tag==
A "citation needed" tag is a request for another editor to supply a source for the tagged fact: a form of communication between members of a collaborative editing community. It is never, in itself, an "improvement" of an article. Though readers may be alerted by a "citation needed" that a particular statement is not supported, and even doubted by some, many readers don't fully understand the community's processes. Not all tags get addressed in a timely manner, staying in place for months or years, forming an ever-—this itself can be a problem. Best practice recommends the following: 
*Tag thoughtfully. . Try to be courteous and consider the hypothetical fellow-editor who will, we hope, notice your tag and try to find the citation you have requested. When adding a tag, ask yourself: Is it clear just what information you want cited? Is the information probably factual? (If it is not, then it needs deletion or correction rather than citation!) Is the knowledge so that it really does not need to be cited at all? (Some things do not.) 
* Some tags are inserted by people well-placed to find a suitable citation themselves. If this is the case, consider adding these articles to or a worklist so that you can revisit the article when you have the opportunity to fix any yourself.
==When not to use this tag==
Before adding a tag, at least consider the following alternatives, one of which may prove much more constructive:
*Do not use this tag because you , or feel that . Use , , , , or , as appropriate, instead.
*If the content is nonsense or is unlikely to be true, !
*Do not tag controversial material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced. 
*Per , do not tag excessively trivial claims. Remove them.
*If you are sure the statement you want to tag is not factual, even if it does not come under either of the preceding headings, it may be more appropriate to simply remove the text (delete it!). Be sure to add a suitable edit summary, such as "Very doubtful – please add a citation if you return the content". If the original statement was accurate after all, this gives someone the chance to put it back, hopefully with a proper citation this time.
*If a statement sounds plausible, and is consistent with other statements in the article, but you doubt that it is totally accurate, then consider making a reasonable effort to find a reference yourself. In the process, you may end up confirming that the statement needs to be edited or deleted to better reflect the best knowledge about the topic.
*If an article, or a section within an article, is under-referenced, then consider adding an , , or tag to the article or section concerned – these tags allow you to indicate more systemic problems to the page.
*A reference at the end of a paragraph typically refers to the whole paragraph, and similarly a reference at the end of a sentence may almost always be taken as referring to the whole sentence. If a particular part of a sentence or paragraph seems to require a separate citation, or looks as if it may have been inserted into the text at a sentence or paragraph level, try to check the original reference rather than adding tags to text that may already be well referenced. The extra parameters available in the template may allow you to indicate which section you want to refer to.
*Do not insert a "Citation needed" tag to .
==If your work has been tagged==
*If you can provide a for the claim, then please add it! If you are not sure how to do this, then and the "Citation needed" template with enough information to locate the source. You may leave the or to someone else, or learn more about . provides a brief introduction on how to reference Wikipedia articles.
*If someone tagged your contributions with a "Citation needed" tag or tags, and you disagree, discuss the matter on the article's . The most constructive thing to do in most cases is probably to supply the reference(s) requested, even if you feel the tags are "overdone" or unnecessary.
==How to help reduce the backlog==
Currently, there are articles with "Citation needed" statements. You can browse the whole list of these articles at :Category:All articles with unsourced statements.
Frequently the authors of statements do not return to Wikipedia to support the statement with citations, so other Wikipedia editors have to do work checking those statements. With statements that need , sometimes it's hard to choose which article to work on. The tool Citation Hunt makes that easier by suggesting random articles, which you can sort by topical category membership.
I can help! Give me a random citation to find!
==See also==
* Template:Citation needed
* Template:Citation needed span
* Template:Verify source
* Template:Unreferenced for an article (rather than an individual statement) which does not cite any references or sources.
* Template:More citations needed for an article (rather than an individual statement) that has some citations, but not enough.
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* – listing examples of the most common ways that citations are used in Wikipedia articles
* – showing comparative edit mode representations for different citation methods and techniques.
* – a full listing of various styles for citing all sorts of materials
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* :Category:All articles with unsourced statements – list of all pages with 
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