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Citation needed xkcd. This means you re free to copy and share these comics but not to sell them. Citation needed all citation needed links on explain xkcd redirect back here. You can add a citation by selecting from the drop down menu at the top of the editing box in markup you can add a citation manually using ref tags there are also more elaborate ways to cite sources. If you made a beach using grains the proportionate size of the stars in the milky way what would that beach look like.

With these stickers you can append a wikipedia style citation needed to dubious printed statements encountered in real life they re translucent and come in sheets containing a range of sizes so they can be affixed to subway ads product packaging textbooks or free kittens. The upshot is that there are probably more. In 2007 the webcomic xkcd published a comic called wikipedian protester. First let s get a few things out of the way.

In the comic a group of people are listening to a politician s speech and a protester raises a placard which says citation needed in wikipedia s characteristic blue color for internal hyperlinks this is the first known use of the term outside wikipedia. Shoes by ernest hemingway citation needed another reference wikipedia style to the dubious authorship of the original short story. Self referential meta fiction somewhat reminiscent of randall s proposed autobiography of douglas hofstadter in xkcd 917. Semi protection as mentioned in the title text is one of the lowest forms of page protection on wikipedia.

This work is licensed under a creative commons attribution noncommercial 2 5 license. In real life we can t put a metal pole between the earth and the moon 1 for one someone at nasa would probably yell at us. The end of the pole near the moon would be pulled toward the moon by the moon s gravity and the rest of it would be pulled back. Citation needed such statements are considered general knowledge and do not require citations.

This work is licensed under a creative commons attribution noncommercial 2 5 license. This is my greatest short story. Outside of online communities the tag has been also used.