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must be able to support the material. All quotations, any material whose verifiability has been challenged or is likely to be challenged, and contentious material (whether negative, positive, or neutral) about
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to add sourcing information along with it. Material provided without a source is significantly more likely to be removed from an article. Sometimes it will be tagged first with a
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This tutorial will show you how to add inline citations to articles, and also briefly explain what Knowledge considers to be a reliable source.
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template to give editors a chance to find and add sources, but some editors will simply remove it because they question its veracity.
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to a source that directly supports the material. This also means that Knowledge is not the place for
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One of the key policies of Knowledge is that all article content has to be
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Help:Introduction to referencing with VisualEditor

Verifiability
Adding references
Editing existing ones
Reusing references
Reliable sources
Summary
<< Back to tutorials menu
A cartoon of a political rally, with someone in the crowd holding up a banner reading ""
Randall Munroe
xkcd
citations for claims
Shortcut
WP:INTREFVE
verifiable
reliable sources
living persons
original work
your responsibility
"citation needed"
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