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You have been trouted for: Mistaking an edit as nonconstructive (no worries though!) Shoverly (talk) 23:14, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting vs Citation needed

Hello! On this page, i've seen the previous change by the IP. I wanted to keep it like that, and insert at the end of the text: ^{[citation needed]} (I do the same thing on Romanian Wikipedia). When i wanted to do this, i've seen that you reverted it completely.

My question is: what is better? To keep the previous change and insert ^{[citation needed]} at the end of the text, or to revert it?

I would really appreciate if you answer to my question :)

Thanks in advance and Best regards, Dimitrie569 (talk) 19:03, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It all depends on the context of the article.

Turtle is a Featured Article (FA) and a Level-4 Vital Article for a reason — it meets and exceeds the expectations of en-wiki. False or unsourced information can harm the credibility of such an article.

In my view, FAs are extremely important and should be held to a strict standard. They’re vital to the writing quality on Wikipedia and should be a place any editor can look to and say, “I want to write like this.” or “This is how my article should look.”

Of course, for Start-class articles, it’s more common to see fewer citations, and those can be handled with more leniency — unless BLP or libel is involved, where policy must be enforced strictly.

According to the Featured Article criteria, an FA should be:

c. well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature; claims are verifiable against high-quality reliable sources and are supported by inline citations where appropriate…

I interpret this as a discouragement of simply adding ^{[citation needed]} in place of either sourcing or removing unsupported material.

If you’d like, you’re welcome to revert my decision — I just wanted to explain my reasoning.

Thanks for the question — please continue asking, and happy editing! twisted. (user | talk | contribs) 19:35, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response! I will not revert it. I asked just for learning :)

Dimitrie569 (talk) 19:40, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]