User talk:Penguinato23

Citation-needed tags and other such tags in articles

I answered the comment you made at Talk:Erotic plasticity.[1] Like I stated there, you really need to read up on WP:Verfiability. Such tags are added because almost all information in Wikipedia articles should be sourced, WP:Reliably sourced. See Wikipedia:Citation needed; these tags alert readers that whatever tagged statement needs a source (a WP:Reliable one); not only do they let readers know that they probably shouldn't trust the unsourced statement(s), but it prompts readers to source the statement(s). We can't "mention in the article that there is some disagreement" without a WP:Reliable source stating so. I understand what you mean about too many of these tags being in articles, but that is why it is better to place Template:Unreferenced or Template:Refimprove at the top of the article and leave it at that. For other tags that are used on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup. 2001:648:2FFC:1112:A80C:EAFF:FE22:B990 (talk) 19:27, 1 November 2012 (UTC)