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Further information: Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles

If you wish to appeal a antecedent for an unsourced statement, accede tagging a book with the {{citation needed}} arrangement by autograph {{cn}} or {{fact}}. Added templates are accessible actuality for tagging sections or absolute articles. Alternatively, leave a agenda on the allocution page requesting a source, or move the actual to the allocution page and ask for a antecedent there. To appeal analysis that a advertence supports the text, tag it with {{verification needed}}. Actual that fails analysis may be tagged with {{failed verification}} or removed. If application templates to tag material, it is accessible to added editors if you explain your account in the template, adapt summary, or on the allocution page.

Special affliction should be acclimated in attention to actual about active people. Unsourced or ailing sourced advancing actual about active humans should be removed immediately, not tagged or confused to the allocution page.

Exceptional claims crave aberrant sources

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See also: Wikipedia:Fringe theories

Any aberrant affirmation requires assorted high-quality sources.8 Red flags that should alert added attention include:

hasty or allegedly important claims not covered by assorted boilerplate sources;

challenged claims that are accurate absolutely by primary or self-published sources or those with an credible battle of interest;5

letters of a account by anyone that seems out of character, or adjoin an absorption they had ahead defended;

claims that are contradicted by the prevailing appearance aural the accordant community, or that would decidedly adapt boilerplate assumptions, abnormally in science, medicine, history, politics, and biographies of active people. This is abnormally accurate if proponents say there is a cabal to blackout them.


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