"Citation needed"

    Perhaps a protest against politics and media increasingly detached from reality.

    Usable with attribution and link to: www.futureatlas.com

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      Ben Ward added this photo to his favorites. (31 months ago)

    2. the i don't care girl (31 months ago | reply)

      great capture! I think that definitely reflects a lot of people's frustration with the media of late.

    3. C.E. Kent (29 months ago | reply)

      Hilariously, I think the sign is a printout from Wikipedia, which of course has a reputation for ungrounded statements.

    4. adf8500 (28 months ago | reply)

      @cekrypton2 Actually wikipedia tends to be quite accurate, in some cases MORE accurate than Britannica. That comes from the policy, Verifiability (shortcut WP:V), which requires all statements which are contentious or likely to be challenged to be cited with a inline citation from a reliable source, (guideline on reliable sources shortcut: WP:RS). This template is basically a notice to say "this statement needs to be fact checked or removed" and adds the page to the backlog of pages to be handled, (which for this particular template goes all the way back to December 2006 at the time of this posting, the backlog being so long mainly due to lack of people to work on it, if your feeling up on it check out WP:BACKLOG to help).

      This specific sign is more likely than not a reference to XKCD #285 (http://xkcd.com/285). XKCD is a fairly popular webcomic which occasionally mentions wikipedia.

    5. itcomext (27 months ago | reply)

      Nice and very conceptual.

      I used it in my blog: www.comunicacionextendida.com/blogosfera-albo roto/

      many thanks.

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      Sam Eneman, maxheld, Cecilia Gudín, sunrader2000, and abcgail added this photo to their favorites.

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