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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No. There are plenty of articles with the "needs citations" tag.

But even of the ones that are? A LOT of people never actually read the sources and you have plenty of wild claims that are not at all supported by their citation. Plenty of "celebrities" have even talked about how it was a huge hassle to get something changed because the lie was cited... with something unrelated.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"a huge hassle"

Step 1. Remove the unfounded claim

Step 2. Go to the talk page explaining why you removed it

Step 3. If someone puts it back, edit war them, tag needs citation, call them out in the talk page, get the article locked by an admin, etc etc etc. These things happen all the time, and 95% of the time it gets corrected as long as someone gives a damn

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

plenty of wild claims not at all supported by their citation

Can you show some examples of this?

[–] null@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Lol this guy is getting ready to edit some articles.