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Template talk:Excessive citations

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Disreputable sources should be directly tagged as such or removed with a suitable edit summary. It is not reasonable to project one's vague doubts or personal opinions by casting suspicion on all the references and the work of other editors in this arbitrary and opinion-based manner. Without adequate
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Who decides which are the excessive references? How does an editor identify which references the tagger was referring to? If this is not specified on the talk page, do we summarily delete the tag as unactionable? Several years later, how does one know if the situation has materially changed? Please
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Almost everything on Knowledge (XXG) must be based on reliable sources. There is nothing wrong with a lot of citations in a Knowledge (XXG) article, in fact, it’s actually a good thing. It means that the information is verifiable and can be trusted. It means that the article is reliable. If the
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and they all seemed to work as expected (with the exception that 'small' doesn't work unless you specifically provide the value 'left'). I'm not that familiar with TemplateData and the visual editor, but I tried inserting the template in the visual editor and everything seemed to work okay.
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additional information the tempplate is unactioable, and may be offensive, passive-aggressive, and disruptive. If no-one can produce a rational rebuttal I intend to add instructions to the documentation to this effect, or change the template accordingly. · · ·
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sources are unreliable than that’s a different story. But all in all I don’t see the problem with a lot of citations in Knowledge (XXG) articles. I have seen articles that have hundreds of citations. How does it ruin the article’s quality in any way?
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No, this template should not be deleted. As the template says, "a large number of citations can be aesthetically unappealing and may make the article unreadable or may lead to confusion about what exactly each citation is used in support of."
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A bit ironic. This is the same sort of effect that this template often has on editors trying to improve articles where it has been used without sufficient explanation. · · ·
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I see you tagged this template as having 'Massive parameter errors'. Could you explain what you meant by that? I created some
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About the above discussion: "The result of the move request was: moved as proposed.... 18 May 2017 (UTC)." —
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which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —
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So apparently appearance matters more than verifability.
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Template talk:Overcite
RMCD bot
07:01, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Geekdiva
talk
05:12, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
Mr. Guye
test cases
Colin M
talk
16:19, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Peter Southwood

07:30, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
GenZenny💖
talk
20:43, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
Meters
talk
22:01, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
Lina211
Follow your dreams
03:27, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
Peter Southwood

07:23, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Peter Southwood

07:23, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

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