in that case you have a few options from most preferable to least when you see that citations are needed be bold and add proper citations don't do anything complain instead the door is thattaway don't let it hit you on the way out the reason for the verifiability policy and the necessity for citations is that any user ought in a perfect world to be able to check the source him or herself in order to ascertain the veracity of the article with over two million articles and who knows how many tens of millions of page views per day do you really think it's reasonable to expect people all over the world to field calls yes i'm a geneticist yes that's what i said can i please go back to unravelling the dna of cancer you're my th