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Sabtu, 2026-04-25 08:04:47article or a Wikipedia policy, as it has not been reviewed by the community. Shortcuts WP:CITEKILLWP:CITEKILL WP:OVERCITEWP:OVERCITE WP:OVERKILLWP:OVERKILL...
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Jumat, 2014-05-16 06:51:08just use ref#24 once at the end of the second paragraph per WP:OVERCITE More WP:OVERCITE in "composition" section- after ref#31, just use ref#29 once at...
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Sabtu, 2020-10-31 07:19:25number of articles about women): Darthvader2 - $30 due to an unintended overcite from the Spanish Wikipedia jury, most of the articles from this user were...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 10:51:49issue, at least. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:19, 20 June 2015 (UTC) Fixed overcite issue, took out IMDB link, italicization issue wasn't there. A21sauce (talk)...
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Kamis, 2025-08-21 16:58:50and add nothing of value for readers seeking information and not masses of evidence to show good or evil in their required light. WP:OVERCITE WP:PIECE...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:39:55performances More WP:OVERCITE, just use ref#80 at the end of the "'Don't Stop the Music' and 'Umbrella'" bit. Re-issue and remix album More WP:OVERCITE, ref#124 should...
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Jumat, 2022-07-15 23:25:50with pull quotes before the subject is introduced in prose; a degree of overcite, other citation needed, and a number of overly short subsections (also...
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Senin, 2022-05-16 21:45:29Taking a quick look through the article, I think some parts suffer from WP:OVERCITE, such as the "gameplay" section. Like, does the fact that it's a 2D platformer...
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Selasa, 2021-08-24 18:53:11service.[54][55][56][57][58]" Is five citations really necessary? While WP:OVERCITE is an essay, many reviewers wil question five citations in a row. Views...
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Sabtu, 2025-12-13 22:42:10images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Non-notable musician with a WP:OVERCITE for references. Fail of WP:GNG and WP:NSINGER. nearlyevil665 06:13, 1 May...
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Minggu, 2025-11-30 21:51:58reliable sources that confer notability and appears to be a case of WP:OVERCITE. DrStrauss talk 14:04, 16 October 2017 (UTC) Note: This debate has been...
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Sabtu, 2007-04-21 11:02:32(UTC) Support An engaging read, and an excellent example of how not to overcite an article. I liked your use of boxes for LG citations when I read it a...
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Selasa, 2025-12-09 14:54:46provides little information that is non-promotional, and engages in WP:OVERCITE to link to promotional sources. Bakazaka (talk) 21:11, 5 September 2018...
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Sabtu, 2008-02-16 17:47:00citation I would like to know where because I think that I do tend to overcite and err on the side of caution, I don't want claims that should have citations...
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Sabtu, 2025-12-13 20:48:39(books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) WP:OVERCITE. References to blogs, lyric websites and primary sources. Nothing to suggest...
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Jumat, 2022-05-20 01:31:17history." Although you overcite the lead, you leave this assertion which needs desperate backing from sources uncited. About the overciting issue, have in mind...
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Senin, 2008-04-28 19:31:072008 (UTC) As I said in Tenacious D's review above, you do not have to overcite in the lead. Especially obvious facts (is a Japanese singer-songwriter...
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Sabtu, 2025-12-13 22:47:04images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Non-notable medical professional, WP:OVERCITE with no apparent pass of WP:GNG. H-index on Google Scholar far from impressive...
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Senin, 2022-12-19 05:51:21the advertising slogan[24] "Not flash, just Gordon".[25][26][27][28]: WP:OVERCITE WP:EARWIG shows no copyright violations. User:Headbomb/unreliable marks...
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Sabtu, 2021-09-25 19:05:20row? Consider removing the extra footnotes in the spirit of WP:OVERCITE (although OVERCITE is an essay so this change will not influence my support) I tend...
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Minggu, 2021-07-18 14:46:17it's possible to remove some/all of them. There are some instances of WP:OVERCITE throughout the article. See if its possible to trim the excessive citations...
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Rabu, 2025-12-10 13:51:2910 more citations doesn't change the article or its notability. See WP:OVERCITE. "... thought to be an autobiography of Henry Avery ..." — If it's an autobiography...
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Sabtu, 2023-05-20 19:15:33because of citation issues, specifically unsourced content, page needed, and overcite issues. (t · c) buidhe 16:25, 8 April 2023 (UTC) Move to FARC no significant...
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Minggu, 2025-11-23 16:46:32August 2016 (UTC) Delete -- a micro-stub of an article with a case of WP:Overcite: "American telecommunications executive. At Nokia, she oversaw new product...
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Minggu, 2025-12-14 01:38:23now, the article itself fails WP:NOTHOWTO as essentially a recipe with overcite from some non-RSes and passing mentions. This article probably counts as...
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Sabtu, 2025-12-13 19:47:41FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Winner and nominee of non-notable music awards. WP:OVERCITE with interviews, blogs and other non-reliable secondary sources. Nearlyevil665...
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Rabu, 2024-04-03 06:54:16August 2007 (UTC) Support I still think it is overcited; however given the option between an overcited article and an undercited one, I suppose this is...
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Senin, 2025-10-13 21:50:12they are lumped in with other more reliable sources which points to WP:OVERCITE and WP:INTEGRITY issues. Vladimir.copic (talk) 04:00, 8 September 2025...
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Selasa, 2024-04-23 16:09:25some that seems to have too many citations, such as Sally Sitou (see WP:OVERCITE). As a general rule, more than 3 citations is usually too many In my personal...
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Rabu, 2025-12-10 06:13:35(talk) 05:17, 7 December 2019 (UTC) Definitely less promotional. Has WP:OVERCITE issues now, however. This doesn't change what appears to be a lack of notability...
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Selasa, 2014-02-11 17:30:11and take some ideas on board. The 'Early life' section falls foul of WP:OVERCITE. Why is "He is of Irish descent" and "was brought up as a Roman Catholic"...
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Kamis, 2023-07-27 21:38:18Rock") should only be used at the end of the second paragraph per WP:OVERCITE. WP:OVERCITE also says to have an inline citation for "all direct quotations...
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Rabu, 2021-06-23 07:05:49(I have to imagine people disputed its level of acclaim?) While WP:OVERCITE is "just an essay", it's a fairly accepted one, and WP:CITEBUNDLE strongly...
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Jumat, 2022-03-18 17:16:20citated/referenced the page "Raymond Sandover" Hi Mabbs001 - No you haven't overcited. Usually two citations will suffice as a max (unless the assertion in...
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Minggu, 2023-04-02 00:20:24why every sentence would need a citation. That would seem to be more WP:OVERCITE at this point. Thanks for your input. Neovu79 (talk) 00:41, 24 February...
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Minggu, 2007-02-25 01:41:15there in 1928, when Kneale was six years old.[6]" An advice: Try not to overcite your sentences. Place inline citations at the end of the sentences, and...
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Sabtu, 2022-05-21 07:05:49tweet. I will not oppose based on Overciting, but I do recommend that another look is taken for this. WP:OVERCITE is a good essay to read on this topic...
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Rabu, 2025-09-03 21:55:15FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Not notable per WP:CREATIVE and the article is WP:OVERCITE for a WP:BLP1E that too not a notable work. Its more of a WP:PROMOTION...
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Kamis, 2011-08-18 03:41:44a duet with Selena. I'll remove if its still trivia There's a lot of overciting throughout the article. Take the first paragraph of the Early 1994-1995...
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Minggu, 2025-11-23 21:33:23Comment/Question, how can a 300 word article have over 50 references, a case of WP:OVERCITE? Coolabahapple (talk) 15:09, 21 February 2016 (UTC) You are correct, but...
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Jumat, 2025-12-12 17:45:39to pick which ones to include in the article without introducing a WP:OVERCITE problem -- not a normal issue for a WP:BLP that doesn't meet WP:BASIC....
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Selasa, 2025-12-09 05:56:53(talk) 22:43, 31 July 2018 (UTC) Keep per CBL's cites, two of which (WP:OVERCITE) are now added to the article; Seems sufficient per WP:GNG's "significant...
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Minggu, 2025-11-23 01:47:18improvements & new sourcing. However, the last sentences has a bad case of overcite. Perhaps it could be corrected, by moving some refs into Further reading...
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Selasa, 2019-04-09 21:49:06that two sentences in a row have the same citation. It will be WP:OVERCITE. Overcite does not apply to quotations. Each quotation needs a citation at the...
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Senin, 2025-12-01 08:56:39him in RS. Also given it is a work of WP:SPA the deliberate attempt of overciting is clearly attempt to create fake WP:SIGCOV, example citing baseball-reference...
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Sabtu, 2024-01-06 07:49:58good.[6] A balancing statement to the effect that it's quite possible to overcite might be added to this advice.[7] Tony (talk) 11:26, 23 February 2008 (UTC)...
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Senin, 2025-11-24 04:48:02it's possible that this is notable, but it's more likely that it's being overcited by fans. Jergling (talk) 21:42, 15 November 2016 (UTC) Delete since this...
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Jumat, 2025-12-19 02:20:44but needs an ambitious editor to cleanup the machine gun prose. See WP:OVERCITE Lightburst (talk) 00:41, 22 September 2023 (UTC) The above discussion is...
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Senin, 2025-12-01 08:00:08coverage. This should be a selective merge, with regard to WP:UNDUE and WP:OVERCITE. There's a suggestion here to skip the normal redirect after the merge...
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Senin, 2025-12-01 12:00:1519:22, 4 March 2017 (UTC) Delete - no credible claim of notability, and WP:OVERCITE applies; if you look at the citations, most of them turn out to be cruft...
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Senin, 2010-08-16 07:41:15of his career.". Ironically, however, for the most part the article is overcited, with a sea of distracting blue footnotes! I believe this reassessment...
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Selasa, 2025-12-23 04:31:03of the issues raised included confusing prose, strange phrasing, and overciting. I'd like help with fixing these and seeing what other things I can do...
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Minggu, 2020-08-02 03:34:19match its proportion in the total literature, with some exceptions (we overcite molecular biology and epidemics papers relative to their proportion in...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 06:32:25references, but they are in total 156, should I put them? I do not want to overcite. Jaespinoza (talk) 17:54, 16 December 2008 (UTC) You might provide a general...
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Senin, 2018-05-21 07:31:28references per entry really necessary for the Manned Apollo missions table? (WP:OVERCITE) Names in the Cancelled missions table need to sort by last name per WP:NAMESORT...
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Senin, 2023-02-27 22:44:29WP:OVERCITE, just use ref#57 (E!) at the end of the second-to-last sentence. There are only two sources there, and that does not violate WP:OVERCITE. Gloss • talk...
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Kamis, 2013-12-12 10:19:54Maile (talk) 00:47, 1 December 2013 (UTC) There also seem to a slight overcite for the MoH and the DSC do they really need three cites each? Jim Sweeney...
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Jumat, 2023-12-29 05:41:49"Scotland's universities are complemented" is not supported by the ref. There is overcite in some cases, see cleanup tags on the article. The coverage in some areas...
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Rabu, 2022-03-23 20:16:27prose issues, very poor image layout, and MoS cleanup needed. The lead is overcited and images may need review. The bottom of the article has taken on some...
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Selasa, 2018-11-13 03:52:36famous gospel musician and artist in Africa. WP:FANPAGE or WP:COI Lots of overciting, from what appears to mostly be store pages. Ethanpet113 (talk) 10:39...
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Sabtu, 2026-01-24 21:39:15Tools [17] and [18] are the same edits and a clearcut case of Khoa's overciting on rivalry articles. [19] from earlier this year also shows a similar...
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Rabu, 2025-12-10 06:05:05national campaigns? I just deleted a lot of inline references, on the WP:OVERCITE principle. There seemed to be an element of WP:MASK given the number of...
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Senin, 2025-12-01 05:02:47WP:OVERCITE suggests possible WP:COI. DrStrauss talk 12:57, 4 March 2017 (UTC) DrStrauss can you advise on the new editing addressing the WP:OVERCITE?----...
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Senin, 2022-03-07 13:39:2520:28, 22 September 2016 (UTC) Comment: This appears to be a case of wp:overcite: could the citations be consolidated, or at least put to the end of the...
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Sabtu, 2025-04-26 21:30:43"significant published secondary sources". WP:OVERCITE is an essay, not a policy or guideline. Also, WP:OVERCITE does not apply, as each performance has only...
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Selasa, 2025-12-09 14:14:51the majority of sources seem to have COI themselves. There are a lot (overciting?), but the fact that everything I have checked does not pass muster makes...
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Selasa, 2025-12-09 14:30:34~~~~10Eleventeen 20:25, 6 July 2018 (UTC) Weak keep - I'm not thrilled with the WP:OVERCITE, but the two films he has directed have media coverage, and so he barely...
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Minggu, 2017-03-19 01:43:53their activity as a single purpose account. This follows a pattern of overciting WP:TOOSOON that was also echoed by SPAs in the original AfD [1] that also...
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Rabu, 2025-12-10 12:39:23this topic. jps (talk) 20:17, 27 December 2019 (UTC) You need to read wp:overcite, its quality not quantity that matters, and blogs are not RS.Slatersteven...
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Jumat, 2025-11-28 04:00:54references in print and blogs. There's a lot of rather unattractive WP:OVERCITE going on in the article, and the article was evidently written by Duncan...
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Senin, 2025-12-01 14:30:29as a Gentoo package) which are egregiously trivial in nature. Note WP:OVERCITE Power~enwiki (talk) 06:55, 24 May 2017 (UTC) I'm not sure the pure number...
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Sabtu, 2024-09-14 13:03:06advertising. Moved to mainspace too early without review. Also suffers from WP:OVERCITE and WP:SOLUTION - RichT|C|E-Mail 00:15, 5 September 2024 (UTC) Note: This...
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Selasa, 2025-12-23 06:05:21aircraft.[9][12][13] You've got three citations for a single sentence (WP:OVERCITE). The last one covers everything so the first two are just clutter. Why...
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Selasa, 2023-03-14 05:22:34per sentence now. I have a bad sense about overciting, so I'll be happy to remove any other cases of overciting in the lead. ZeaLitY [ Talk - Activity ]...
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Senin, 2010-02-22 12:14:12now I'd recommend citing every cite-able bit of text, even if it means overciting (excessive cites can be removed at a later stage). For example, the last...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 17:02:09quick look because this popped up on my watchlist, and I noticed a lot of overciting. If a source is used for more than one sentence in a row, only add the...
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Senin, 2025-12-15 03:07:11have been removed. It appears the article's main issues was actually overciting. Many recipients of awards had two or three references when they only...
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Sabtu, 2023-04-01 02:33:47that match is the only thing that does pattern matching. Done Bit of WP:OVERCITE here. You don't need two references for the fact that // marks a comment...
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Rabu, 2025-12-17 22:57:4218:25, 8 February 2023 (UTC) Delete I concur with the nominator; it is overcited with sources that are difficult to verify, has no assumed notability per...
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Jumat, 2025-04-11 16:09:27cover 1 week each. I can place 150 refs in the merged list, but is that overciting? Jaespinoza (talk) 22:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC) The above discussion is...
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Jumat, 2025-11-28 00:25:28interest. Msnicki (talk) 00:36, 10 July 2013 (UTC) Delete Overwritten/overcited and UNDUE on a minor and only proposed massage parlour is not what this...
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Senin, 2026-03-02 07:45:10images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) There are various sources but the overciting and writing style look promotional. And I am not sure if the sources are...
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Kamis, 2007-09-06 10:20:3148, 51. This article relies heavily on a few sources. In places it is overcited. Getting the ref name upto cu is some sort of record. In some paragraphs...
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Rabu, 2026-01-21 06:48:18state). -- Tavix (talk) 18:19, 18 January 2017 (UTC) Retarget to Template:Overcite. -- Tavix (talk) 18:21, 18 January 2017 (UTC) Oh, guess we do have a CITEKILL...
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Selasa, 2022-05-31 00:42:51will encounter a lot of resistance. I would recommend expanding out the overcites from the lead into the body and writing the statements more ambiguously...
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Rabu, 2023-03-15 21:58:59TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 18:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC) Pop art section seems overcited. Are these facts so controversial and likely to be disputed that every...
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Selasa, 2021-11-23 11:18:45same thing, so in this case, quantity isn't better than quality. See WP:OVERCITE and WP:GNG. TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 20:46, 2 August 2021 (UTC) Ok thanks...
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Selasa, 2022-05-03 07:25:49moved to be placed after the sentence that it is verifying, to avoid WP:OVERCITE. "To expand his horizons as an actor," expand his horizons feels a little...
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Selasa, 2018-05-15 07:32:10references per entry really necessary for the Manned Apollo missions table? (WP:OVERCITE) Names in the Cancelled missions table need to sort by last name per WP:NAMESORT...
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Rabu, 2024-04-03 06:25:04for a POV fight?Trevdna (talk) 19:30, 21 August 2013 (UTC) Actually, the overcite is a result of the POV wars.. Those have died down significantly, and I'd...
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Rabu, 2025-12-03 06:47:13WP:LINKSPAM to Wikipedia articles, in most cases adding it as gratuitous WP:OVERCITING to articles that already had proper RS cites to support Jewish heritage...
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Senin, 2025-12-22 10:43:15reliable sources (almost 40). You don't necessarily need to have 40 (avoid OVERCITE), but you should have enough that indicate notability. I should also note...
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Selasa, 2025-12-16 03:34:27and should have been sourced by a single ref. Instead it has a 9 ref WP:OVERCITE, solely to pack in worthless redundant refs. (1)2021 NTC FM Stations" (PDF)...
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Senin, 2025-12-01 07:56:35Finance link [[2]] which is dead may have been PR. I deleted it per WP:OVERCITE. Much easier to fix than nominating and deleting. You can see from time...
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Jumat, 2025-12-12 15:58:4414:44, 12 January 2020 (UTC) Commment has the hallmarks of paid editing: overciting, promotional tone and the 37 references cited in an earlier version collapsed...
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Minggu, 2023-01-29 01:16:30I didn't tag everything. While not every sentence needs a citation (WP:OVERCITE), every paragraph does need at least one reference except for lead sections...
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Minggu, 2024-07-28 02:50:39having more than 15 sources or are you sure you are not reaching towards overciting here? In the case of the reception having a theme, how does the level...
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Minggu, 2022-04-10 07:24:21don't demonstrate notability, and clutter up the source section, per WP:OVERCITE. You need to include what others write about him. Has anyone written about...
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Sabtu, 2024-01-06 09:12:56excellent filmographies one could are argue that they are ridiculously overcited.--Kmhkmh (talk) 14:49, 18 January 2015 (UTC) Well, that was a joke. Hafspajen...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 05:41:16column. Why? Every match result is provided in ref #3; I see no need to WP:OVERCITE?? Harrias talk 10:06, 2 February 2017 (UTC) Well, we usually reference...
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Senin, 2026-06-01 18:59:08a living person must strictly abide by this guideline. Be mindful of overciting and balancing redundant citations in lead sections or infoboxes. For a...
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Jumat, 2023-04-14 20:43:39have fixed some instances, not sure that I fixed all) and some of the overcite instances, I believe I addressed nearly all the concerns you listed (and...
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Rabu, 2021-11-10 14:08:56add it at the end of the sentence block instead. I do have a tendency to overcite, but if you don't mind, I'd rather wait until I'm a bit more comfortable...
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Senin, 2016-07-18 22:21:15not just what the band's members say of themselves would be fine. The overciting, as I mentioned above, gets a bit tiring sometimes, and the prose is obviously...
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Kamis, 2025-12-18 01:34:42under WP:SINGER specifically and WP:BIO more broadly. Article is also overcited to make an appearance of being well-sourced. There are no English-language...
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Sabtu, 2020-09-19 06:43:48self - COME BACK TO THIS Chidgk1 (talk) 08:11, 2 September 2020 (UTC) overcite: In 2019 ratification of the Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol...
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Minggu, 2018-12-16 22:53:06review. Thanks, Sa Ga Vaj 08:50, 30 November 2018 (UTC) Please fix the WP:OVERCITE problem in the Deccan_Chargers_in_2009#Awards section. --DBigXrayᗙ 08:39...
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Selasa, 2024-10-01 19:02:43thumb over there of at least one citation per paragraph. It is better to overcite than undercite - then you don't get into any tiffs with the reviewers....
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Kamis, 2025-07-31 19:25:28present throughout the article, these need to be taken care of. Ton of WP:OVERCITE throughout, some of these claims have 5-6 citations after (peaking at 8)...
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Rabu, 2022-05-18 08:13:11over-long semi-guideline to make the point. Wikipedia has become insanely overcited. Nowhere else in scholarship, or the internet generally, is the little...
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Sabtu, 2010-07-31 02:07:42together. By the way, this advice is coming from someone with a tendency to overcite, so I can understand the compulsion to make sure that everything is verifiable...
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Kamis, 2021-12-16 11:07:07WP:OVERCITE. By developing and launching a bot that would show a warning notice for editors trying to submit a draft article triggering WP:OVERCITE filters...
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Kamis, 2023-09-14 12:58:18(or vandals). If it is really felt that all five are necessary, then WP:OVERCITE would encourage bundling them: there's a big readability trade-off to having...
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Jumat, 2017-03-31 06:30:46column. Why? Every match result is provided in ref #3; I see no need to WP:OVERCITE?? Harrias talk 10:06, 2 February 2017 (UTC) Well, we usually reference...
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Kamis, 2025-11-13 04:33:00than one source given for them. I can give more sources but don't want to overcite it. Anyway, if any content dispute we can discuss it at talk page of article...
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Selasa, 2020-10-20 15:25:10email) 01:57, 27 January 2020 (UTC) @John M Wolfson:, yes, the lead is overcited, but more importantly, it is choppy and unpleasant to read. Here is the...
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Selasa, 2021-07-06 07:08:15in the prose makes the material hard to read. I suggest consulting WP:OVERCITE (specifically WP:REPCITE) which, although is an essay, explains my concerns...
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Jumat, 2025-11-28 01:11:04[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]" in relationship to WP:BOMBARDMENT and WP:OVERCITE as a means of masking notability through run-of-the-mill and routine coverage...
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Jumat, 2025-12-12 19:48:54January 2020 (UTC) Weak Delete Lots of sourcing, but looks like classic overcite.Slatersteven (talk) 19:22, 12 January 2020 (UTC) The above discussion is...
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Jumat, 2019-03-15 00:25:28having done any cleanup, [28] and removing {{unreliable source}} and {{overcite}} without fixing either.[29] Any posting of a user warning template or...
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Kamis, 2022-05-26 03:13:4714:07, 14 September 2012 (UTC) Leads are summaries and as such this is overcited. Some refs need format work, prose weak, sentences/paragraphs choppy....
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Rabu, 2022-03-23 16:28:00defences. I agree with the above, just a couple of times facts appear to be overcited - though could you find a cite or two for the last two paragraphs in Would...
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Selasa, 2019-10-29 14:20:39statement had already been properly sourced so this may very well be WP:OVERCITE too. Action 3: Then, the user removed the first two reliable sources (A...
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Selasa, 2021-08-24 07:11:37coauthors it, is useless for notability. You have unsourced claims, an overcited claim, and two sources which evidently don't verify the sentence they're...
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Rabu, 2026-02-11 15:33:0015 August 2007 (UTC) The first paragraph of the main body is clearly overcited. If any of the general references listed at the bottom of the article...
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Jumat, 2026-01-02 22:55:43then the article should be longer. Otherwise, looks like a case of an overcite and makes the company look non-notable." K.e.coffman (talk) 04:54, 7 August...
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Rabu, 2025-12-03 06:00:32although these were removed by the AfD nominator as he reported them as overciting (which was a new concept to me, anyway). That's all I want to say. I am...
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Rabu, 2025-09-24 00:59:2818:51, 3 November 2022 User WP:OWN reverting others' attempts to reduce WP:OVERCITE or otherwise helpfully improve article (while calling it all "vandalism"):...
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Senin, 2015-06-01 04:05:39Frank Oz, which is supported by ref17. I did it this way to prevent WP:OVERCITE. If you like, I could include citations after each entry. The empty spaces...
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Sabtu, 2023-01-28 22:18:35government sources aren't even required to satisfy WP:V, but I preferred to overcite as opposed to not having enough sources. In short, I wrote most of the...
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Sabtu, 2025-11-29 22:33:23doing a WP:BEFORE check; given their minimal coverage, this smacks of WP:OVERCITE.Yunshui 雲水 09:04, 19 March 2012 (UTC) Many sources (whether citeable or...
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Jumat, 2016-09-02 03:39:45present company] are going to remove the obvious if it isn't cited, I'll overcite while I've got the source in front of me" and went on to say his real beef...
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Rabu, 2022-10-12 09:26:37they're published in. The reviewers are also noting that this draft is overcited in spots. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v a little blue Bori 20:51, 6 October 2022...
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Sabtu, 2023-05-06 01:58:52This is a really good article! One advice I would give is to avoid WP:OVERCITING and distill down the amount of citations made to uncontroversial statements...
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Selasa, 2025-12-16 03:24:12part of a proper source review. I don't like having to ref stuff and WP:OVERCITE, but will add more if that's what it takes to close this. TechnoTalk (talk)...
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Minggu, 2026-02-08 07:50:12as an overcited article. In this case, when put under expert review by people who know good articles the article was not considered overcited. However...
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Senin, 2025-01-27 23:07:11the topic say it's overcited, I defer to them. I don't know what is common knowledge vs. not in the field. When I think of overcited, I think of those...
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Senin, 2008-02-18 21:46:28usually curative." All too often, this is not true.) The article may appear overcited, but moving Controversy to its own article will leave a much more manageably...
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Minggu, 2023-01-29 01:31:14Frank Oz, which is supported by ref17. I did it this way to prevent WP:OVERCITE. If you like, I could include citations after each entry. The empty spaces...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:29:05songcraft.[120]" Suggest you review WP:BUNDLING and read the essay WP:OVERCITE, and then work on reducing problem areas like this (13 citations in two...
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Minggu, 2022-05-22 03:45:43process. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 23:14, 11 April 2010 (UTC) Bad case of Overcite. Please learn (and tell all your friends): One cite per statement – find...
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Sabtu, 2022-03-26 13:48:52Having citations after every single sentence is cumbersome and is WP:OVERCITE. -- ◅PRODUCER (TALK) 12:16, 14 July 2012 (UTC) "Some historians" - weasel...
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Kamis, 2025-08-28 22:20:11front, just the first sentence has seventeen citations. That is extreme WP:OVERCITE and a perfect example of in-article conflict. If you have five reliable...
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Kamis, 2023-03-16 07:56:16be ok in this case, dat's fine. I am concerned about this element of "overciting," which goes on to create a size problem. But its not something which...
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Senin, 2025-06-02 23:52:38up in the recent changes list. You removed refs and cited WP:Overcite; But WP:Overcite states that you have to discuss certain removals on the article's...
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Sabtu, 2021-07-31 20:03:29(UTC) Comments -SidewinderX (talk) I see a lot of source-vomit. See WP:OVERCITE. In general, you don't need to use multiple sources to cite a non-controversial...
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Selasa, 2025-09-23 18:55:57instrumentals" Rephrased. J Milburn (talk) 14:54, 8 June 2014 (UTC) Per WP:OVERCITE, a ref shouldn't be used more than once in a row per paragraph (refs#1...
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Kamis, 2025-06-19 17:37:40encyclopedia article with – adding all of them would make for a refbomb/overcite more than something usefully well-sourced. This never became anything besides...
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Rabu, 2026-06-03 23:24:25times in eleven sentences in the Description section. This is ridiclous WP:OVERCITE and goes against Wikipedia:When to cite#Text–source relationship ("If you...
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Selasa, 2026-02-24 13:51:12section on the IP's talk page, consisting only of "Here is what I mean about OVERCITE," plus a signature. That is obviously not a warning for edit warring, and...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 08:55:31contained below 4)As I have previously stated, these three authors are overcited. Nearly 38% of the article is based on them. New accounts of SRA, such...
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Kamis, 2025-07-17 08:09:19WP:NOTMEMORIAL, WP:NPOV, repeated use of deprecated sources and reckless overcite that is tantamount to WP:BLUDGEON. It appears that this article has been...
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Selasa, 2025-03-11 04:42:50battles and exploits." Please see Casemate's blog. Separately, please see WP:Overcite and Extraordinary claims sections for additional discussion on sources...
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Sabtu, 2023-02-25 03:06:29places where the opposite it true - there are a couple of instances of overcite/refbombs. Those should be cleaned up, either removing sources that are...
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Senin, 2023-02-27 22:50:04the 3rd paragraph. Personally, I think that citing both statements is WP:OVERCITE, but I can do it you want. Thanks, I appreciate the helpful feedback, as...
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Senin, 2023-01-02 22:55:42a member of class 42-G). I could see an argument that the sentence is overcited, but it's not totally obvious - e.g. if the first three (web) sources...
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Senin, 2024-02-12 14:33:04accomplishments: 11:26, 29 September 2022 Talk page section where consensus about WP:OVERCITE was established: see here Diffs of the user reverting against consensus:...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-09 19:37:50page details exactly why it is a poor source, and redundant also per WP:OVERCITE, WP:BOMBARD" 00:40, 21 December 2016 (UTC) "poor source by non-notable...
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Rabu, 2026-04-15 06:08:02The quality of Wikipedia improves when each statement is cited; our material is required to be verifiable with reliable sources as is covered in the W...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:22:59Also, the "actual event" section contains spoilers too. Some things seem overcited... you don't need to cite the cast list. Night Gyr 02:59, 2 June 2006...
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Selasa, 2024-11-26 15:25:44article measurably worse - the article lede, for example, is a mess of WP:OVERCITE now, because Magoo has taken an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach...
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Senin, 2022-05-16 10:12:46citations attached to them, respectively. This seems like a case of WP:OVERCITE honestly. Too add yet another citation seem only to make the situation...
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Rabu, 2008-12-31 07:34:10cover 1 week each. I can place 150 refs in the merged list, but is that overciting? Jaespinoza (talk) 22:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC) The above discussion is...
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Sabtu, 2025-08-02 09:04:21a place name and "plural Birgstuz'n" introduced here, resulting in WP:OVERCITE x 5. The Tatzelwurm is about some dragon of legend. I did not really bother...
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Minggu, 2023-02-05 03:20:24technology */ removed weasel words. update, wording, sorting, wikilinks, WP:OVERCITE" 07:36, 30 January 2017 (UTC) "Undid revision 762702985 by Debresser (talk)...
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Selasa, 2025-09-23 20:10:15future, please be aware of footnote placement per WP:FN. The article is overcited to the point that it violates WP:NOT and looks like a blog or webpage...
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Selasa, 2012-08-28 22:26:10added to the article if there is demand, but I'd recommend to avoid WP:OVERCITE. I remain convinced 20-20-20 is notable. Are there any reasonable concerns...
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Minggu, 2023-03-26 02:30:232006 (UTC) Right now all the user is doing is aggravting other users by overciting policy. --Deskana talk 19:52, 22 November 2006 (UTC) I would tend to think...
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Senin, 2023-02-20 05:15:56misunderstanding regarding references' convention, also bringing in Wikipolicy (overciting). The link being added doesn't provide any support to the text and is...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-09 19:58:242015 (UTC) @Weegeerunner:: Isn't this kind of edits a POV-pushing? WP:OVERCITE doesn't make sth. NPOV, am I wrong? Actually, aren't all M.Bitton's edits...
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Jumat, 2025-12-26 17:03:06trying to disprove Zaptain United (talk) 19:57, 5 December 2025 (UTC) WP:OVERCITE#Reprints. 11WB (talk) 19:19, 9 December 2025 (UTC) Keep, what Blox said...
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Rabu, 2022-04-20 07:57:21User:PoWaiFung has been continuously overciting on List of Running Man episodes (2021). I have previously informed user to not overcite in March 2021, April 2021...
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Kamis, 2012-06-28 09:48:41include a citation only at the end of the last sentence so as to avoid overciting, so some sentences may appear unsourced but in fact that is not the case...
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Selasa, 2025-12-09 08:43:57one dubious source and a lot of primary sources. I also see a degree of overcite here as well. I suggest nuking and starting from scratch, leaving out all...
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Sabtu, 2026-03-07 20:02:46shows how much work it was to try to convince Loves_Woolf1882 about WP:OVERCITE and WP:SYNTH. The current compromise on one issue is that we have: "Awol...
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Kamis, 2019-11-28 07:25:41(talk) 15:31, 22 October 2019 (UTC) This list definitely suffers from WP:OVERCITE as references 1 and 6 are used more than four times, which is more times...
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Rabu, 2025-12-03 08:22:49at many of the citations - in part because the article is suspiciously overcited. The National Law Journal and Law360 coverage falls squarely within WP:ROUTINE:...
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Selasa, 2025-10-14 21:39:56an edit conflict. Once he sees where I'm going, that I am not overciting for overciting's sake, that I am addressing the deletion, he lets it stand. So...
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Sabtu, 2018-12-29 07:06:06(Czech) I just added a single citation on a one-source sentence to avoid WP:OVERCITE (this is kind of a subject matter extraction of his visual history so is...
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Senin, 2026-05-04 20:11:58article measurably worse - the article lede, for example, is a mess of WP:OVERCITE now, because Magoo has taken an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach...
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Kamis, 2026-04-02 21:34:31everyone else to see for themselves and weigh in (i.e. I did not revert WP:OVERCITE, though that is in my opinion a good reason to revert). — Shibbolethink...
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Minggu, 2026-02-22 08:25:23Gerard (talk) 18:03, 14 January 2020 (UTC) There is even a tactic called wp:overcite which partially relies on this, the idea if its sourced it must be OK.Slatersteven...
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Kamis, 2025-11-13 11:44:41rhetoric. Thus the large number of citations are really examples of WP:OVERCITE yet they fail to support the lead in showing that it is relevant to have...
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Jumat, 2024-03-01 21:40:13edit by Meng that condensed several citations to the same source, per WP:OVERCITE. Then, they mentioned out of the blue that they reverted one of your edits...
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Selasa, 2023-08-22 07:45:44the same content Valjean had removed, while adding 10 more citations, OVERCITE) "it's important to include how detached from reality her opinions are...
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Selasa, 2024-05-07 17:58:27more time... nah I'm not gonna be childish :-) That was an unnecessary overcite in the lead that I removed. I stand by that edit. Levivich [dubious – discuss]...
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Minggu, 2023-04-09 00:56:33each statement in the notes column, but was unsure whether this would be overciting since all of them are one click away from the link in the home run count...
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Kamis, 2025-09-25 00:53:55deletion/Rape jihad (2nd nomination) I mentioned the Rotherham words as overcite (but was thinking is it necessary?), intro could be rewritten "Rape Jihad...
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Minggu, 2023-01-29 01:42:50(UTC) ——— Background In the first paragraph, the repetition of FN2 is overciting. Removed. Dan56 (talk) 00:11, 20 May 2014 (UTC) "their style of rock and...
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Rabu, 2025-09-24 03:57:12edit by Meng that condensed several citations to the same source, per WP:OVERCITE. Then, they mentioned out of the blue that they reverted one of your edits...
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Kamis, 2025-09-25 00:44:13frequently disputing reliable sources on talk page, some people resort to overciting and it happened here as well. What kind of resolution do you have in your...
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Jumat, 2026-03-20 04:46:16requirements, how uncited content should be handled and what constitutes overcite. These diffs do not show me referring to anyone as “dishonest, ignorant...
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Sabtu, 2022-11-05 05:53:33the lead that seem to be an improvement, including the removal of those overcites as well as small pieces of other redundant information. This is how WP:BRD...
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Selasa, 2023-04-18 11:41:46sure how much to restore or how best to do it. Maybe it was somewhat overcited before but the references seem valid and the removal seems overdone. Maybe...
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Kamis, 2022-02-24 14:12:37workers commute." For this example in particular, this is a case of WP:OVERCITE, given that the town is geographically close to the Ben Gurion airport...
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Sabtu, 2022-03-05 18:08:59me unbalanced. I'll speak just about the citations: Some sections are overcited, while others have no citations. And there are far too many [citation...
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Selasa, 2023-03-21 01:33:28actual content. The article as it stands still has multiple issues of WP:OVERCITE, source misrepresentation, biased content etc. My contributions at the...
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Sabtu, 2024-08-03 19:06:31that's worded weirdly, I just woke up). Some quite basic statements seem overcited: do we really need four different sources to say that there are two players...
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Rabu, 2022-06-01 07:25:59moved to be placed after the sentence that it is verifying, to avoid WP:OVERCITE. "To expand his horizons as an actor," expand his horizons feels a little...
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Kamis, 2020-10-29 07:26:51Heartfox above, who thought that the footnotes and chart listings were overcited. The first instance of each chart-listing mention has a citation. So they...
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Sabtu, 2024-10-26 02:46:05what do other people say about him? Additionally I noticed you are WP:OVERCITING in your draft random words, that link to WP:DISAMBIGUATION articles instead...
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Senin, 2022-07-04 23:03:49emails, maybe, but then there's fair use to consider... copyright is so overcited on this website). "Option 5" is right on: public communications are public...
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Sabtu, 2010-12-18 06:16:59each statement in the notes column, but was unsure whether this would be overciting since all of them are one click away from the link in the home run count...
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Minggu, 2023-02-19 08:28:29to use the same ref more than once in a row within a paragraph per WP:OVERCITE. When using different articles from the same source, just link the work...
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Senin, 2021-08-02 20:22:23This should be fixed by using appropriate line-breaks Reference 6 is overcited. Cite it once or twice in a paragraph is OK - just place it at the ends...
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Senin, 2026-01-19 17:48:19(talk) 04:02, 12 December 2016 (UTC) No, especially because in a case of WP:OVERCITE, an editor who is not an expert in the topic is liable to remove the second...
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Selasa, 2024-12-31 03:03:53it is better for stability reasons. Also, it's better to undercite than overcite, and it helps readers locate the reference source more easily. The third...
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Minggu, 2011-11-06 17:00:26"Fool," respectively). - Babel41 (talk) 07:21, 31 October 2011 (UTC) Overciting going on also ... Generally there should only be one citation for most...
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Rabu, 2022-05-04 12:53:14first sentence of Discovery by Francis Dixon seems a classic case of WP:OVERCITE. Why does The Reverend need citing, for instance? There, Dixon hoped to...
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Senin, 2026-05-11 06:06:12and life imprisonment for murder.[8][23][24][25]" this seems to be WP:OVERCITE. I've removed two of the citations that affirmed the same thing so there's...
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Jumat, 2024-10-18 00:29:51style. I reject that. It is comprehensive. There are some instances of overcite, such as: Wounded four times, he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class...
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Senin, 2022-12-05 11:07:53secondary reliable source, a poor quality source like this is NOT needed. WP:OVERCITE - when you only need one good source, use only that. Emails from random...
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Sabtu, 2025-11-22 13:47:55refer to the long, and mostly irrational, discussion at Talk:Chicago#WP:OVERCITE / unreferenced additions, where you attempted to justify the removal of...
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Kamis, 2025-05-29 07:49:25anti-capitalist when it's already been cited. This is an example of WP:OVERCITE and suggests a lack of notability as you're chucking in repeated sources...
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Rabu, 2022-04-20 09:52:59Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 01:56, 27 March 2011 (UTC) MOS work needed, and overciting-- this is not a controversial statement, hopefully: School leagues and...
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Jumat, 2025-04-04 19:36:52discontinued. Maybe see if the sources say anything about that. There's a bit of overciting. It's not strictly necessary to cite each sentence if the next is from...
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Senin, 2023-04-03 12:07:41for someone come in and say "man those wrestling articles are seriously overcited" to keep this infinity loop of logic going ad nauseum. Count me out, I'm...
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Sabtu, 2018-03-31 06:33:01row and col scopes per MOS:ACCESS. Confirmed by Teahouse response. WP:OVERCITE, why seven references for Reagan, for example? Unless controversial, just...
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Kamis, 2009-07-09 03:29:29references, but they are in total 156, should I put them? I do not want to overcite. Jaespinoza (talk) 17:54, 16 December 2008 (UTC) You might provide a general...
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Jumat, 2025-11-14 22:23:19appears to be common in accounting and economics. I have slightly WP:OVERCITEd to show that. Pinging (TheGreatWikiLord—Spinningspark—SwisterTwister)...
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Senin, 2023-03-20 09:59:00at GoCE. -talk- the_ed17 -contribs- 17:59, 18 September 2008 (UTC) PS Overciting: I see refs 4, 4, 4, 4 at the end of four successive sentences: this is...
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Minggu, 2023-12-17 01:01:39(124.30.94.10 (talk) 05:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)) Oh and it's massively overcited in this article - that needs some major clean-up. I don't see the issue...
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Rabu, 2022-03-30 06:19:10the same as the first one) were removed because of problems involving overciting. I checked the edit history and it seems that you added citations to almost...
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Jumat, 2011-01-28 06:51:05I think in such controversial (potential BLP) issues, it's better to overcite than to undercite. Multiple independent sources make it even better. The...
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Jumat, 2022-05-20 16:08:36the influence of forro? When fixed, will "also" be required? WAY too overcited. Every sentence has a number-clutter at the end. Please ration by removing...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 14:46:01removed. J947 23:27, 10 March 2017 (UTC) The next big issue to address is WP:OVERCITE and especially WP:REPCITE. You do not have to cite every single line. I...
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Jumat, 2025-11-28 04:16:26(。◕‿◕。) 14:39, 3 June 2013 (UTC) Delete: Whew. That's a prime example of WP:OVERCITE if I've ever seen one. Long story short, none of the sources are usable...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 04:43:12article looks comprehensive and generally well-structured, but it is overcited in many sections; multiple citations should be considerably trimmed (improved...
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Jumat, 2025-12-05 00:02:53primary is also in a non-MEDLINE-indexed journal. This seems like an WP:OVERCITE or else orginal research; we are meant to be citing reviews not writing...
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Selasa, 2009-06-30 22:25:14controversial? Probably not completely necessary, but I would rather that be overcited than have somebody say there isn't enough evidence to call it controversial...
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Minggu, 2023-03-26 14:24:51leaning too far towards the former IMO at present. There's a tendency to overcite throughout the article. Where a fact is uncontroversial, just use one citation...
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Minggu, 2022-05-08 22:21:54that all say the same thing. That kind of reference stuffing is called WP:OVERCITE, and it's not only a form of trying to influence the approval, but it makes...
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Sabtu, 2024-02-17 10:19:59jet stream above and the warm waters below." This needs a citation WP:OVERCITE is an essay, but I think it raises legitimate concerns. Why does the second...
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Senin, 2025-09-01 19:40:16understand the concerns, but I think WP suffers more from under citing than overciting. Since we are only a tertiary source, containing no original research...
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Selasa, 2020-08-25 20:21:16Origin and early life add regnal dates of the various rulers Some WP:OVERCITE instances; unless something is really contentious, more than three references...
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Jumat, 2011-05-27 13:46:16two references moved, back up the entire paragraph anyway. No need to overcite. Brad (talk) 06:12, 6 May 2011 (UTC) "Chesapeake went into ordinary..."...
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Kamis, 2026-03-26 14:09:52willing to do that, I would appreciate it at {{User:Technical 13/Templates/Overcite}} Now that I'm aware a similar template was deleted, I'll happily start...
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Rabu, 2026-05-06 12:52:19Although I did not include every source that mentioned it to avoid WP:OVERCITE, Apple's initial release of its supplier list was broadly covered. Would...
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Minggu, 2022-06-26 07:15:46start. The article still has issues with section imbalance, updating, overcite that are flagged with cleanup tags. The issues raised by Sandy above (eg...
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Kamis, 2024-11-14 05:14:04bundle the refs? If they are all saying the same thing then that is WP:OVERCITE. There's also a question of style, the rest of the article doesn't use...
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Sabtu, 2026-01-03 10:57:35Justice" (ed. Gary Craig, 2018). They are, taken all together, greatly overciting on these articles since they're not using named references, just adding...
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Minggu, 2018-11-18 23:00:31sources which clause in any given sentence, and its way past the point of WP:OVERCITE. — GabeMc (talk) 03:36, 6 May 2012 (UTC) I have now gone through the article...
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Jumat, 2026-02-20 11:58:45few inline citations, but they are spotty - some parts are if anything overcited, while other parts are lacking. A Wikipedia article should be a neutral...
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Minggu, 2023-03-26 17:34:53Theleftorium 19:19, 22 November 2009 (UTC) On first glance, the article appears overcited, and it's unclear if WP:MEDRS has been taken into account (the popular...
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Jumat, 2025-12-12 20:12:40times already ... I don't know. An extra citation would feel a bit like overciting to me, for various reasons. - Dank (push to talk) Added a note; see below...
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Rabu, 2026-01-07 21:31:56February 2009 (UTC) The article is quite clearly encyclopedic per the overcited WP:NOT#DIR. --Mr Accountable (talk) 03:25, 4 February 2009 (UTC) The total...
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Minggu, 2023-01-29 01:52:40Theft Auto V's development" → "Early in the game's development" Per WP:OVERCITE, a ref should not be used more than once in a row per paragraph (i.e. don't...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 09:45:04Support - some technical stuff, mostly nitpicking: This article has some WP:Overcite issues - you don't need citations to the exact same reference for consecutive...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:51:09Finance link [[21]] which is dead may have been PR. I deleted it per WP:OVERCITE. Much easier to fix than nominating and deleting. You can see from time...
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Sabtu, 2023-02-11 08:29:56seems to me that this article is, on the whole, an extreme case of WP:OVERCITE. For one particular example, take the section Charities and clubs. One...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 04:26:53protagonist ... " twists my tongue-- could be just me. I see what looks like overciting in several places, sample: The idea was partially inspired by the portrayal...
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Minggu, 2025-12-14 11:21:13was another independent third party source for the info cited, so per WP:OVERCITE, I simply removed the press release. There are a few passing mentions such...
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Jumat, 2011-06-17 20:19:27etc. - See WP:REFB. Chzz ► 05:19, 27 May 2011 (UTC) Although avoid overciting the same source.... if all of the information in a paragraph comes from...
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Jumat, 2025-09-05 01:40:34haven't read the entire article but at first glance see problems with overciting and overlinking. Why are there 17 citiations for 8 sentences in the "Early...
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Kamis, 2021-05-13 06:21:15(books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) WP:OVERCITE. References to blogs, lyric websites and primary sources. Nothing to suggest...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 03:43:03sentences?Northwesterner1 (talk)` I would generally say it's better to overcite. It does lead to a "cluttered" look, which is unfortunate, but with evolving...
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Rabu, 2025-09-24 04:02:18...) Doesn't hurt ;-) PumpkinSky talk 23:34, 3 June 2012 (UTC) Per WP:OVERCITE to cut down on the blue in the page. Truthkeeper (talk) 00:35, 4 June 2012...
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Sabtu, 2023-02-18 05:18:17added to the article if there is demand, but I'd recommend to avoid WP:OVERCITE. I remain convinced 20-20-20 is notable. Are there any reasonable concerns...
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Kamis, 2022-11-24 06:12:48Approaches last doesn't need that many refs, even in that context; also an overcite at the end of the Oceania section Terminology and periodization missing...
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Minggu, 2023-03-05 22:02:02in the list it is creating belongs there. Once cite per entry is not overciting. And yes, you do need to cite that the sky is blue.—Kww(talk) 02:30, 17...
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Jumat, 2025-11-21 07:00:36large number of references to support the same simple statement and a WP:OVERCITE type of situation existed, then it might make sense to pick out the best...
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Senin, 2025-12-01 14:15:26criminal charges, so we can safely trim references to 2 or 3 sources per WP:OVERCITE. Piling up 10 references for one fact tends to give readers the impression...
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Minggu, 2025-12-14 04:40:3719:28, 9 June 2021 (UTC) Delete. The article seems a classic case of WP:OVERCITE, is much longer than reliable sources allow, and generally comes close...
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Minggu, 2020-03-29 07:07:40for pointing that out, but I don't agree on either point. The lead is overcited (does it not properly summarize the article?) and WP:NOT should be respected...
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Sabtu, 2023-03-25 23:06:09quotes. Some clauses are double and triple cited; there seems to be some overciting, but a content expert would need to evaluate. I found missing named refs...
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Jumat, 2020-08-28 12:28:44sourced *Each* stmt, and suspect that the article has now ventured into WP:OVERCITE territory. In regards to your notes regarding "is married", I must agree...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:46:53WP:OVERCITE suggests possible WP:COI. DrStrauss talk 12:57, 4 March 2017 (UTC) DrStrauss can you advise on the new editing addressing the WP:OVERCITE?----...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:16:55references in print and blogs. There's a lot of rather unattractive WP:OVERCITE going on in the article, and the article was evidently written by Duncan...
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Jumat, 2022-03-25 04:50:43(UTC) Hi Fadedmax. You may find these links helpful: WP:CITEDENSE and WP:OVERCITE. A fairly decent overview is at Wikipedia:Citing sources. -- zzuuzz (talk)...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:23:29August 2016 (UTC) Delete -- a micro-stub of an article with a case of WP:Overcite: "American telecommunications executive. At Nokia, she oversaw new product...
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Senin, 2013-04-29 17:01:02April 2013 (UTC) Sources review I think that this article suffers from WP:OVERCITE. Remember, as per WP:PAIC, sources should be placed at the end of a passage...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 04:23:21one citation of it at the end of the final sentence is sufficient." (WP:OVERCITE) Dan56 (talk) 00:46, 24 July 2014 (UTC) Per WP:EXCEPTIONAL, this claim...
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Minggu, 2021-06-27 07:15:31Ceoil? Nikkimaria (talk) 01:26, 19 June 2021 (UTC) In the spirit of WP:OVERCITE, specifically WP:REPCITE (which, although it is an essay, I think it brings...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:19:26although these were removed by the AfD nominator as he reported them as overciting (which was a new concept to me, anyway). That's all I want to say. I am...
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Senin, 2022-05-30 07:05:28in the body. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 22:06, 1 May 2022 (UTC) I didn't want to overcite it, so there's 3 citations in the first sentence under "Legacy," but that's...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 10:54:26concerns over a few things: the addition of a lot of citations (considered overciting; only 1–3 reliable sources are needed); ensuring that the sources are...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:22:19then the article should be longer. Otherwise, looks like a case of an overcite and makes the company look non-notable." K.e.coffman (talk) 04:54, 7 August...
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Selasa, 2022-05-31 01:02:59on..." --> "armed reconnaissance patrol over the sea south of Crete..." OVERCITE: I'm generally not too concerned by this, but some sentences have three...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:56:08improvements & new sourcing. However, the last sentences has a bad case of overcite. Perhaps it could be corrected, by moving some refs into Further reading...
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Minggu, 2021-10-31 10:31:30of the article passed met that requirement (the plot info is actually overcited in my opinion), every single statement was cited except for a few completely...
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Rabu, 2021-04-28 09:17:05FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Winner and nominee of non-notable music awards. WP:OVERCITE with interviews, blogs and other non-reliable secondary sources. Nearlyevil665...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:52:17coverage. This should be a selective merge, with regard to WP:UNDUE and WP:OVERCITE. There's a suggestion here to skip the normal redirect after the merge...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:00:02(talk) 05:17, 7 December 2019 (UTC) Definitely less promotional. Has WP:OVERCITE issues now, however. This doesn't change what appears to be a lack of notability...
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Minggu, 2025-11-02 21:14:04described in the popular media as a polarizing figure" seems excessive per WP:OVERCITE There was a whole hoorah about including her being polarizing this in the...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:32:14reliable sources that confer notability and appears to be a case of WP:OVERCITE. DrStrauss talk 14:04, 16 October 2017 (UTC) Note: This debate has been...
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Senin, 2022-07-11 21:22:03part of a proper source review. I don't like having to ref stuff and WP:OVERCITE, but will add more if that's what it takes to close this. TechnoTalk (talk)...
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Minggu, 2020-05-10 16:20:30OCLC as it is duplicative, but either way, be consistent.) You also have overcited the statement, "Menzies cabled his approval of the tests on 20 June 1955"...
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Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:11:02refer to the long, and mostly irrational, discussion at Talk:Chicago#WP:OVERCITE / unreferenced additions, where you attempted to justify the removal of...
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Minggu, 2026-02-22 13:46:53complete game shutout to tie the all-time record.[48][49][50] Perhaps some WP:OVERCITE-ing? Thanks. chopped 3.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD)...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:18:39refbombing issues. Most of the time references concern content, but WP:OVERCITE can be an issue of masking. Otr500 (talk) 16:53, 9 January 2018 (UTC) The...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 18:49:23national campaigns? I just deleted a lot of inline references, on the WP:OVERCITE principle. There seemed to be an element of WP:MASK given the number of...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:38:1519:22, 4 March 2017 (UTC) Delete - no credible claim of notability, and WP:OVERCITE applies; if you look at the citations, most of them turn out to be cruft...
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Sabtu, 2022-10-15 20:21:25and should have been sourced by a single ref. Instead it has a 9 ref WP:OVERCITE, solely to pack in worthless redundant refs. (1)2021 NTC FM Stations" (PDF)...
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Jumat, 2026-02-27 16:46:48technical article understandable do not usually require a source (see also WP:OVERCITE). It is acceptable to present information entirely in own words, including...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:29:56appears to be common in accounting and economics. I have slightly WP:OVERCITEd to show that. Pinging (TheGreatWikiLord—Spinningspark—SwisterTwister)...
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Rabu, 2023-03-22 04:55:59war was lost) has a separate footnote. Good writing also involves not overciting. -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 20:53, 23 August 2007 (UTC) Most readers cannot...
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Kamis, 2026-05-28 00:32:21is the opening sentence of the lead section. I even referred you to WP:OVERCITE. Please stop with the snide attacks. - Sitush (talk) 17:58, 22 February...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:16:29Comment/Question, how can a 300 word article have over 50 references, a case of WP:OVERCITE? Coolabahapple (talk) 15:09, 21 February 2016 (UTC) You are correct, but...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:29:20than one source given for them. I can give more sources but don't want to overcite it. Anyway, if any content dispute we can discuss it at talk page of article...
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Senin, 2023-02-27 16:46:46there is no reason to use it. I also feel that where 6 to 15 sources ("overciting") are used for a single claim that removal f the excess sources is not...
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Jumat, 2010-05-21 06:44:14tell you which statements they think needs citing. I would agree that an overcited article is preferable to an undercited article, however BOTH are inferior...
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Sabtu, 2025-09-06 01:42:48the high-value ones. Just as overlinking reduces the value of links, overciting reduces the value of citations. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:16, 19 January...
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Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:25:04this topic. jps (talk) 20:17, 27 December 2019 (UTC) You need to read wp:overcite, its quality not quantity that matters, and blogs are not RS.Slatersteven...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:50:13That said, the article appears to meet WP:GNG, however some parts are WP:OVERCITE (eg. 7 refs, and some repeated, for a 2 line sentence about the Rotherham...
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Jumat, 2021-04-16 03:27:00images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Non-notable medical professional, WP:OVERCITE with no apparent pass of WP:GNG. H-index on Google Scholar far from impressive...
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Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:03:43[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]" in relationship to WP:BOMBARDMENT and WP:OVERCITE as a means of masking notability through run-of-the-mill and routine coverage...
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Jumat, 2022-03-25 20:52:26(talk) 15:31, 22 October 2019 (UTC) This list definitely suffers from WP:OVERCITE as references 1 and 6 are used more than four times, which is more times...
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Sabtu, 2023-02-18 20:42:48on with it. In previous reviews the article was criticized for being overcited, so in many cases the practice has been (rightly or wrongly) to rely on...
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Jumat, 2021-06-11 00:21:0619:28, 9 June 2021 (UTC) Delete. The article seems a classic case of WP:OVERCITE, is much longer than reliable sources allow, and generally comes close...
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Minggu, 2021-03-21 07:06:29quality. Here are my concerns: Note 'A' cites six sources at the end (WP:OVERCITE?). I see that ref 2, 8, and 12 are used throughout the article so maybe...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:35:21as a Gentoo package) which are egregiously trivial in nature. Note WP:OVERCITE Power~enwiki (talk) 06:55, 24 May 2017 (UTC) I'm not sure the pure number...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:28:42interest. Msnicki (talk) 00:36, 10 July 2013 (UTC) Delete Overwritten/overcited and UNDUE on a minor and only proposed massage parlour is not what this...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:25:36rhetoric. Thus the large number of citations are really examples of WP:OVERCITE yet they fail to support the lead in showing that it is relevant to have...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 18:43:50January 2020 (UTC) Weak Delete Lots of sourcing, but looks like classic overcite.Slatersteven (talk) 19:22, 12 January 2020 (UTC) The above discussion is...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:16:43(talk) 22:43, 31 July 2018 (UTC) Keep per CBL's cites, two of which (WP:OVERCITE) are now added to the article; Seems sufficient per WP:GNG's "significant...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:16:01the majority of sources seem to have COI themselves. There are a lot (overciting?), but the fact that everything I have checked does not pass muster makes...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:47:02is the opening sentence of the lead section. I even referred you to WP:OVERCITE. Please stop with the snide attacks. - Sitush (talk) 17:58, 22 February...
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Rabu, 2022-03-23 18:30:51standard" much less care about it. As mentioned in earlier comments, overciting is a problem. For example, "HDMI began to appear on consumer HDTV camcorders...
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Jumat, 2021-05-07 09:53:29now, the article itself fails WP:NOTHOWTO as essentially a recipe with overcite from some non-RSes and passing mentions. This article probably counts as...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:12:56at many of the citations - in part because the article is suspiciously overcited. The National Law Journal and Law360 coverage falls squarely within WP:ROUTINE:...
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Selasa, 2025-09-23 19:36:04delegate, it is my opinion (and that of many others, according to LEAD) that overciting a lead can and does constrain writing, impeding the clearest possible...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 18:58:52notability.) Levivich 04:09, 6 February 2019 (UTC) Seems to be a lot of overciting (five sources to verify she has a chemistry degree!) and lot of use of...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 18:43:4114:44, 12 January 2020 (UTC) Commment has the hallmarks of paid editing: overciting, promotional tone and the 37 references cited in an earlier version collapsed...
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Sabtu, 2024-01-06 10:06:11quality article emerge. A quick browse only shows minor issues, such as overcite to a long list of academic sources at the end of the lead. A good challenge...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:31:18him in RS. Also given it is a work of WP:SPA the deliberate attempt of overciting is clearly attempt to create fake WP:SIGCOV, example citing baseball-reference...
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Rabu, 2025-12-10 04:20:22that needs some judicious editing as it appears to be suffering with WP:OVERCITE ie. sentences with 6 or 7 references), agree with above editors that this...
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Jumat, 2020-02-28 23:52:13to pick which ones to include in the article without introducing a WP:OVERCITE problem -- not a normal issue for a WP:BLP that doesn't meet WP:BASIC....
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 23:09:32February 2009 (UTC) The article is quite clearly encyclopedic per the overcited WP:NOT#DIR. --Mr Accountable (talk) 03:25, 4 February 2009 (UTC) The total...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 20:02:31it's possible that this is notable, but it's more likely that it's being overcited by fans. Jergling (talk) 21:42, 15 November 2016 (UTC) Delete since this...
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Sabtu, 2024-03-09 09:11:02March 2024 (UTC) I'm going to force it to have fewer references. See WP:OVERCITE. Remsense诉 01:48, 5 March 2024 (UTC) Wow, that was fast! I suspected it...
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Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:21:3610 more citations doesn't change the article or its notability. See WP:OVERCITE. "... thought to be an autobiography of Henry Avery ..." — If it's an autobiography...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:14:54~~~~10Eleventeen 20:25, 6 July 2018 (UTC) Weak keep - I'm not thrilled with the WP:OVERCITE, but the two films he has directed have media coverage, and so he barely...
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Sabtu, 2021-12-25 07:16:39has four references, one of which is this footnote, which seems like WP:OVERCITE. "Writings by foreign travelers during the late medieval era, combined...
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Senin, 2023-02-13 19:05:27duplicate wikilinks There are no unreferenced paragraphs. Some cases of WP:OVERCITE: The "Hymn to Nikkal" (pictured) is considered to be the oldest surviving...
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Senin, 2023-02-27 22:48:57- editors have to watch how cited an article is. If the articles gets overcited there's been a new tendency to oppose due to "excessive citations", so...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:49:40doesn't make every group he belongs to notable by osmosis. And see also WP:OVERCITE. Stacking up a total of 12 citations for the fact that Peterson created...
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Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:18:12one dubious source and a lot of primary sources. I also see a degree of overcite here as well. I suggest nuking and starting from scratch, leaving out all...
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Sabtu, 2021-07-03 07:06:24the sentence, I do not think you need a footnote here, as it might be WP:OVERCITE. You could also move [67] to the end of the sentence if it doesn't verify...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:31:14film, so perhaps this is WP:TOOSOON. The article also suffers from WP:OVERCITE, which I suppose is an unfortunate side effect of trying to pad the reference...
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Senin, 2025-12-01 05:09:26film, so perhaps this is WP:TOOSOON. The article also suffers from WP:OVERCITE, which I suppose is an unfortunate side effect of trying to pad the reference...
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Rabu, 2025-12-10 04:03:47notability.) Levivich 04:09, 6 February 2019 (UTC) Seems to be a lot of overciting (five sources to verify she has a chemistry degree!) and lot of use of...
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Selasa, 2022-02-08 14:55:26have been removed. It appears the article's main issues was actually overciting. Many recipients of awards had two or three references when they only...
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Rabu, 2023-03-01 12:19:24that needs some judicious editing as it appears to be suffering with WP:OVERCITE ie. sentences with 6 or 7 references), agree with above editors that this...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:27:24(。◕‿◕。) 14:39, 3 June 2013 (UTC) Delete: Whew. That's a prime example of WP:OVERCITE if I've ever seen one. Long story short, none of the sources are usable...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:05:07provides little information that is non-promotional, and engages in WP:OVERCITE to link to promotional sources. Bakazaka (talk) 21:11, 5 September 2018...
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Sabtu, 2022-04-30 19:42:01WaltonOne 19:58, 14 November 2007 (UTC) Besides thinking that WP:ATA is overcited and overrated, I think many of its arguments apply best to the mainspace...
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Kamis, 2021-09-02 20:17:47was another independent third party source for the info cited, so per WP:OVERCITE, I simply removed the press release. There are a few passing mentions such...
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Minggu, 2023-04-30 23:45:34article is loaded with box scores, it is possible for an article to be OVERcited. You're the only one who thinks box scores are necessary for FA status...
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Minggu, 2025-11-16 11:55:11That said, the article appears to meet WP:GNG, however some parts are WP:OVERCITE (eg. 7 refs, and some repeated, for a 2 line sentence about the Rotherham...
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Selasa, 2020-07-28 07:06:03essay) Sentence ending with "... sold 11 million units worldwide" is overcited, I would suggest moving the citations closer to content per WP:Integrity...
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Sabtu, 2024-06-15 11:40:49edit, more than five years ago, and nobody since has worried about WP:OVERCITE makes me wonder what other flaws the article has that aren't immediately...
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Minggu, 2024-12-08 02:58:11info from the body to the infobox; 5) copy edits; and 6) cutting an WP:OVERCITE. I copy edited an article that was linked on 2024 Republican Party presidential...
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Jumat, 2021-06-25 19:05:41in "Format", why is reference [14] used three times in a row? Is it WP:OVERCITE or perhaps we can separate the page numbers and identify on which specific...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 21:51:44doing a WP:BEFORE check; given their minimal coverage, this smacks of WP:OVERCITE.Yunshui 雲水 09:04, 19 March 2012 (UTC) Many sources (whether citeable or...
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Rabu, 2022-05-04 12:48:08Sasata (talk) 16:49, 14 September 2011 (UTC) In general, the article is overcited. There is no need to cite consecutive sentence if they all come from the...
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Kamis, 2025-08-28 20:34:00really put a lot of work into this, and it shows. I still think it's overcited, but that's no reason not to support. -- grm_wnr Esc 10:46, 27 June 2006...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:11:44Jytdog (talk) 22:07, 18 May 2018 (UTC) Jytdog I will agree that Evans is overcited in the current version. I have no need to be told that academic promotion...
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Senin, 2023-02-27 22:39:47of thoughts needs a source from Lupton. Ok. I tend to both (1) avoid overciting, and (2) go to the other extreme. Personally, I believe that references...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 05:23:27many problems. Without reading in detail, the first thing I saw is its overciting, which makes it difficult for anybody to read it. And there are many other...
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Sabtu, 2023-04-15 22:06:192007 (UTC) Reply Thanks for striking the oppose. I have tried to avoid overciting university websites, but they do at least meet WP:RS. As Wikipedia is...
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Kamis, 2025-05-01 07:25:52and the citation in the description column cover it, making this a WP:OVERCITE. Done Reywas92Talk 17:50, 15 April 2025 (UTC) @Reywas92: I addressed all...
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Selasa, 2022-05-24 14:52:43and sure enough - more hits, and I added one. I don't want to violate WP:OVERCITE but in this case I'm sure I'll get some leeway. The WSJ article is behind...
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Sabtu, 2023-12-30 14:34:33website, saying that he's given interviews, as otherwise you're courting WP:OVERCITE (he's given a fair few interviews, from what I could see). Bromley86 (talk)...
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Selasa, 2025-07-08 12:06:21several, and not just two or three references, and mainly to avoid WP:OVERCITE formatting problems that may make articles difficult to read, especially...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 19:36:09criminal charges, so we can safely trim references to 2 or 3 sources per WP:OVERCITE. Piling up 10 references for one fact tends to give readers the impression...
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Selasa, 2024-12-31 03:08:02already have refs there and don't appear to provide much except hint at WP:OVERCITE Have removed shop references and reworded to suit verifiability. I don't...
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Rabu, 2021-09-22 06:36:34to encourage collaboration among medical editors, but I was forced to overcite the lead, which then made it a dreadful read with choppy prose, that would...
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Selasa, 2025-12-09 09:52:29Jytdog (talk) 22:07, 18 May 2018 (UTC) Jytdog I will agree that Evans is overcited in the current version. I have no need to be told that academic promotion...
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Jumat, 2022-03-25 21:30:53think it's fine in this context (mostly based on it's WP-article), but WP:OVERCITE may be an issue. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 21:27, 18 February 2022 (UTC)...
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Sabtu, 2022-09-24 12:24:22separate namespace. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 17:06, 15 August 2022 (UTC) See WP:OVERCITE (which I have seen used to "declutter" articles of sources) and {{Excessive...
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Jumat, 2026-06-05 02:28:38times in eleven sentences in the Description section. This is ridiclous WP:OVERCITE and goes against Wikipedia:When to cite#Text–source relationship ("If you...
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Kamis, 2023-03-09 05:09:54(in a string of 4 citations of copies of the same piece of writing - WP:OVERCITE in restrospect) which shouldn't have been used. However, I actually did...
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Minggu, 2023-02-05 06:01:24aggressive, finger-wagging pedantry (alphabet souping, template slapping, overciting, etc.). What is your favorite color? :) Why? :) :) Puce, mauve and fuchsia...
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Minggu, 2022-11-20 07:05:35I go pls let me know any concerns there. Comments: I wonder if we're overciting in places, it seems some must be duplicating information -- these are...
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Jumat, 2021-10-01 05:53:42row? Consider removing the extra footnotes in the spirit of WP:OVERCITE (although OVERCITE is an essay so this change will not influence my support) I tend...
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Kamis, 2010-04-29 00:00:49that Peter should refuse to support an article because he feels it is overcited. He should also note that the sources at Roman-Spartan War come from academic...
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Selasa, 2023-08-01 01:00:45subscription, and some are only about the E. Coli outbreak, which is overcited. LOL Intothewoods29 (talk) 14:27, 9 September 2008 (UTC) I can access...
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Rabu, 2022-03-23 20:20:48citations is still in use by WP:MILHIST - who generally prefer not to overcite articles (except for claims of numbers killed in battles, and the performance...
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Senin, 2026-03-16 09:38:15different from generally considered to be reliable for the green box and the overcited NEWSORG. I also agree with Goldenshimmer assessment that Fox is closer...
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Minggu, 2021-08-15 19:05:44(UTC) I don't think martyr is a technical term, so in the interest of WP:OVERCITE I don't think it should be cited. I think the term is indeed obscure enough...
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Selasa, 2023-07-18 05:31:09Jgtrevor Yes - a single source is all you need for any single fact. See WP:OVERCITE. If you are creating an article, then you'd need more sources to demonstrate...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 12:45:33the same source can accurately be reflected to be one source, as per WP:Overcite? CollinsBK (talk) 08:09, 15 September 2015 (UTC) Sources: Poughkeepsie...
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Minggu, 2024-10-20 07:38:39article talk: Talk:ExxonMobil_climate_change_controversy#February_2016_OVERCITE_issues Additional related primary source: Kheshgi, Haroon (October 13,...
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Rabu, 2024-07-17 21:37:20Both were critically acclaimed but sold poorly.[1][2][3] - once again overcited. Rather than linking to three press articles, can you find a book source...
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Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:56:41to internally comply with Wikipedia's policy on citation overkill (WP:OVERCITE).--NØ 19:48, 1 May 2026 (UTC) Personally, I don't think it's overkill to...
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Rabu, 2025-12-03 05:36:05refbombing issues. Most of the time references concern content, but WP:OVERCITE can be an issue of masking. Otr500 (talk) 16:53, 9 January 2018 (UTC) The...
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Senin, 2020-10-12 07:25:37Heartfox above, who thought that the footnotes and chart listings were overcited. The first instance of each chart-listing mention has a citation. So they...
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Kamis, 2024-06-27 07:05:53with MusicRadar. Fixed Skyshiftertalk 09:02, 21 June 2024 (UTC) Giant overcite with note b. 7 citations is not needed; pick your best three and remove...
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Jumat, 2025-09-05 22:39:06added to get an article past NPP, and some lazy writers will violate WP:OVERCITE to fill up the references section while not bothering to extract new info...
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Rabu, 2023-02-15 12:00:34(UTC) @Cullen328: I removed my citation since it feels like a bit of WP:OVERCITE and now that I think about it, it's possibly WP:SYNTH since the source...
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Sabtu, 2023-02-18 23:56:21highways are like that - it's part of a standard template and we risk overciting here. --Rschen7754 04:51, 28 March 2013 (UTC) In the table, under the...
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Selasa, 2023-03-14 19:31:27one thing I still remember from my research days is that is better to overcite claim then to undercite but in this section there is nothing. So where...
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Rabu, 2022-03-23 20:22:002006 (UTC) There's a much simpler solution: many of the paragraphs are overcited - see my comments below. Also, the correct form for named refs isn't employed...
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Jumat, 2023-01-20 19:12:28overlap previous articles but does overlap gun politics. Like HughD, overcites and includes quotes in the references. Springee (talk) 01:36, 7 March...
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Minggu, 2024-04-21 08:15:46331dot (talk) 09:59, 15 April 2024 (UTC) @TaraLemming: please read WP:OVERCITE. We surely don't need 11 citations to support a fairly non-contentious...
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Jumat, 2024-08-23 22:47:04than a stack of decent or sub-par sources. WP:CITEKILL WP:CITECLUTTER WP:OVERCITE WP:OVERREF High Don't teach the controversy (That doesn't mean what you...
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Rabu, 2022-03-23 16:35:462011 (UTC) Johnbod (talk) 05:09, 19 March 2011 (UTC) Comment/Suggestion: Overciting, e.g.: "All species are listed either as "Vulnerable" or "Endangered"...
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Senin, 2020-06-01 07:06:33that it meets the high quality sources bar Robbins 2016 feels like an overcite to me. The CNN article and Williams 2016 seem to do the job "Nocturnal...
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Rabu, 2023-11-22 10:08:56or The Stationary Office. You can fix it yourself. Please also read WP:OVERCITE. RudolfRed (talk) 22:38, 18 November 2023 (UTC) Actually, that is the current...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 11:12:20Auto-generated every hour. Editor interaction utility Same type of Godwinizing, overcited contributions as previous socks. Same general geolocation. - MrX 18:46...
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Senin, 2025-12-01 06:08:26doesn't make every group he belongs to notable by osmosis. And see also WP:OVERCITE. Stacking up a total of 12 citations for the fact that Peterson created...
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Senin, 2022-05-16 12:54:22logs | views) Are sources in this article reliable? I see one statement overcited. --George Ho (talk) 09:07, 3 January 2012 (UTC) Which ones do you find...
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Selasa, 2021-06-29 05:16:00in "Format", why is reference [14] used three times in a row? Is it WP:OVERCITE or perhaps we can separate the page numbers and identify on which specific...
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Sabtu, 2022-04-30 07:00:32good idea to read the article on that (as well as the main article on overciting) before moving forward so we don't make the same mistakes with the new...
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Selasa, 2025-09-23 19:32:04don't doubt that the material is entirely verifiable, I suspect that overciting may be a problem here. Some paragraphs contain two or three (sometimes...
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Sabtu, 2014-04-26 21:55:23performances More WP:OVERCITE, just use ref#80 at the end of the "'Don't Stop the Music' and 'Umbrella'" bit. Re-issue and remix album More WP:OVERCITE, ref#124 should...
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Minggu, 2022-03-27 01:57:31Hey yo!I didn't do it! 15:07, 22 June 2018 (UTC) It's an essay, but WP:OVERCITE seems applicable here. --tronvillain (talk) 16:32, 22 June 2018 (UTC) Yes...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 04:10:02used at the end of a sentence where a quote is made, irregardless of WP:OVERCITE, a sentence which has a quote always needs to be cited after the full stop...
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Rabu, 2022-03-16 13:48:40dollars" linked? Is it exotic, like the Tibetan razu? Parts of it are overcited. Here's a doozler: "The attendance boundaries of Benavidez Elementary...
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Selasa, 2025-12-09 06:06:23support what appears to be a simple uncontroversial statement? See WP:OVERCITE. Cut down to three. ~ Pbritti In general, I'm a minimalist when it comes...
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Sabtu, 2026-04-04 06:05:32can be challenging in places. The sentence with the ice cap size seems overcited. Is the 1992 the only source that say it's 70 m2? Globally, ice caps have...
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Minggu, 2023-02-19 14:20:43and the candidate himself presents it as an example of a good edit. WP:overcite aside, I am sorry but I don't think any editor that uses Metro and some...
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Selasa, 2021-06-22 15:23:27Most editors want a higher density of citations in articles about medical conditions and drugs than is typical for articles about less technical subjects...
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Selasa, 2022-05-31 01:54:53The consensus seems to be to err on the side of underciting rather than overciting. GaryColemanFan (talk) 01:03, 19 June 2008 (UTC) This particular fact...
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Selasa, 2026-01-27 06:07:09punctuation (see WP:MOS#Captions). Also, the article appears seriously overcited-- numerous seemingly simple statements have three, four, five even six...
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Selasa, 2022-05-31 22:45:51tweet. I will not oppose based on Overciting, but I do recommend that another look is taken for this. WP:OVERCITE is a good essay to read on this topic...
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Minggu, 2021-10-31 07:00:59accordingly. I'm no proponent of WP:THREE and I actually think that a little bit OVERCITE on stub and start type articles can facilitate further expansion, but because...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 04:03:27the info box; and this is an example of an article which is burdened by overciting of trivial facts and poor placement of inline citations. Attention to...
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Sabtu, 2026-04-18 14:52:10out additional sources for potentially controversial items, and simply overcite. TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 01:32, 22 March 2022 (UTC) 1. Forgotten Yesterdays...
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Senin, 2023-03-27 08:48:58If we do not properly cite interesting facts and err on the side of overciting this is not likely to happen.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowt...
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Jumat, 2020-06-12 15:38:23probably post on thursday or friday. To warn, I'm still concerned re overciting, you have 682 inlines at the moment, but need to think through again given...
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Senin, 2026-03-23 04:58:42one thing I still remember from my research days is that is better to overcite claim then to undercite but in this section there is nothing. So where...
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Senin, 2022-10-31 03:34:21edits of earlier blocked sock [56] and [57], and carrying on habitual WP:OVERCITE.[58][59] Raymond3023 (talk) 03:12, 27 July 2021 (UTC) Accused parties may...
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Jumat, 2022-05-06 00:55:35It's all from one single long quote on the same page so prefer not to overcite here. Plus this section might not stay, so have left for now. Victoria...
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Rabu, 2024-05-15 11:09:33is a waste of everybody's time to add another citation for it. See WP:OVERCITE. Meanwhile, in a BLP, if there is information which is not supported by...
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Jumat, 2024-12-20 23:13:38policies like WP:USER are reasonably flexible. You've already had an ANI for overciting policy. Sure, the page is in the wrong place, but that doesn't mean it...
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Senin, 2021-10-11 09:19:06to the sockmaster's to be a coincidence. See also their propensity for overciting ([28], [29], [30], [31]) and the lack of spaces in their edit summaries...
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Senin, 2024-01-22 22:06:55requirement of a "professional standard" of formatting. Like overlinking, overciting can make the reading harder. I think the prose is generally quite good...
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Jumat, 2024-12-13 23:18:01currently undercited, an equal number of editors [Elonka] find the article overcited.) I will be happy, as I said, to provide citations.—DCGeist 09:52, 2 March...
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Selasa, 2021-09-21 11:07:45article as sources. Skarz (talk) 18:00, 9 September 2021 (UTC) See wp:overcite.Slatersteven (talk) 18:01, 9 September 2021 (UTC) See also, WP:PROVEIT...
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Kamis, 2025-01-09 04:05:55paragraph – although I'm sure you don't need all of them. The comments about overciting probably refer to your tendency, here and elsewhere, to multi-cite simple...
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Senin, 2023-01-30 17:34:43have likely commented on the MOS:LEADCITE which was, in my assessment, WP:OVERCITE. The citations which have been removed did not show anything beyond some...
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Minggu, 2023-03-19 05:44:3405:31, 4 April 2016 (UTC) Of course this is overciting. Of course the one source was enough. But this overciting is a direct effect of FreeKnowledgeCreators...
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Kamis, 2026-01-01 06:21:30aircraft.[9][12][13] You've got three citations for a single sentence (WP:OVERCITE). The last one covers everything so the first two are just clutter. Why...
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Selasa, 2023-12-26 07:05:35December 2023 (UTC) I'm wondering if some of the smaller phrases are not overcited-- for instance, why do you need three for " It was installed by Ravenna...
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Sabtu, 2022-01-15 10:15:57the main topic. When to add the sources? Well we have to deal with WP:OVERCITE, which an essay but a useful one. Basically, we don't want to cram in 9...
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Rabu, 2026-01-21 15:44:15agree with you. ~ GabeMc (talk|contribs) 01:28, 28 September 2012 (UTC) WP:OVERCITE - The first graph has 14 cites for five sentences. This came up during...
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Kamis, 2025-07-31 19:25:29present throughout the article, these need to be taken care of. Ton of WP:OVERCITE throughout, some of these claims have 5-6 citations after (peaking at 8)...
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Minggu, 2025-12-14 03:18:45[34][43][47] Channelling my inner RoySmith, we might have a bit of an WP:OVERCITE issue here ;) Yeah, I see what you mean. Ironic since I just commented...
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Minggu, 2023-01-29 01:56:15for the general user. It is heavily over-cited and over-quoted per WP:OVERCITE. GA/FA criteria: 1. well-written: Generally, yes. Major caveats are that...
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Minggu, 2017-01-01 06:15:5620:28, 22 September 2016 (UTC) Comment: This appears to be a case of wp:overcite: could the citations be consolidated, or at least put to the end of the...
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Rabu, 2025-02-26 14:44:11like it might pass NFF but right now this is suffering from a form of WP:OVERCITE. Offhand I'll say that this film will almost certainly release and gain...
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Kamis, 2023-01-05 06:53:57everything about me that's ever been written about me" syndrome. Try WP:OVERCITE as an explanation. I often mention the "less is more" concept. Would she...
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Jumat, 2023-03-03 10:51:50thing to do, but sometimes more is not always better. You might find WP:OVERCITE helpful. It's only an essay, but there's lots of useful information in...
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Senin, 2023-03-27 12:45:23minimally pseudo-offensive content pass without mention of the ridiculously overcited and misinterpreted civility and NPA policies? Does no one realise that...
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Selasa, 2018-03-13 06:32:40row and col scopes per MOS:ACCESS. Confirmed by Teahouse response. WP:OVERCITE, why seven references for Reagan, for example? Unless controversial, just...
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Minggu, 2026-05-31 11:02:12(talk | contribs) 18:45, 23 February 2025 (UTC) There is considerable overciting which makes it difficult to check whether sources actually support statements...
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Selasa, 2024-12-31 03:06:45from the Plain Pat one so I invoked it only once from there onwards per overcite guidelines. Will look at the other sources tomorrow. Sonic Magazine have...
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Senin, 2023-02-27 15:56:3222 July 2017 (UTC) I agree with @Finnusertop: that it is possible to overcite sources. I'm nervous about concluding that one is enough. I have seen situations...
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Senin, 2025-10-27 21:39:06eastern U.S.--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 21:07, 22 April 2010 (UTC) Looks like overciting-- why do simple statements like these require four sources? The bog turtle...
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Sabtu, 2026-03-07 23:09:57there looks like a degree over wp:overcite going on.Slatersteven (talk) 10:40, 28 April 2020 (UTC) The degree of overciting and "referenciness" in the advocates'...
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Minggu, 2023-03-26 02:44:50enough enough? Barring the ridiculous (ten citations for each sentence) overciting is impossible. What is sufficient? Well, you don't need to place an inline...
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Selasa, 2023-03-21 14:18:41new rule? I feel it may be a tad WP:OVERCITE.Zigzig20s (talk) 13:21, 21 December 2016 (UTC) How can it be overciting if no citation for each film...
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Sabtu, 2022-01-15 17:41:20template for "more citations [plural] needed" doesn't make sense. Per WP:OVERCITE, we do not want a stack-up of citations for each point. We only have {{additional...
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Kamis, 2012-07-12 08:29:58include a citation only at the end of the last sentence so as to avoid overciting, so some sentences may appear unsourced but in fact that is not the case...
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Kamis, 2020-06-04 20:56:56instrumentals" Rephrased. J Milburn (talk) 14:54, 8 June 2014 (UTC) Per WP:OVERCITE, a ref shouldn't be used more than once in a row per paragraph (refs#1...
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Rabu, 2025-09-03 09:29:37without adding any additional text that rajtantrtv supports violating WP:OVERCITE. Rajtantrtv.com says in the headline that the court admonished the petitioner...
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Senin, 2023-07-10 07:06:27multiple duplicated redlinks. I can't tell whether it is overcited, but it looks overcited. The "Further reading" section seems to duplicate quite a...
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Jumat, 2024-08-16 22:58:24good review. I removed a couple of unnecessary citations (though some overcite is still there) Demixing (audio), now Draft:Demixing (audio) – TheChunky...
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Selasa, 2020-10-20 19:09:05- editors have to watch how cited an article is. If the articles gets overcited there's been a new tendency to oppose due to "excessive citations", so...
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Sabtu, 2020-04-25 22:28:35email) 01:57, 27 January 2020 (UTC) @John M Wolfson:, yes, the lead is overcited, but more importantly, it is choppy and unpleasant to read. Here is the...
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Jumat, 2023-10-06 02:41:102023 (UTC) added the main category to the deletion. Forgetting it was an overcite on my part. Mason (talk) 01:46, 22 September 2023 (UTC) Delete all per...
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Minggu, 2020-12-20 01:45:55be ok in this case, dat's fine. I am concerned about this element of "overciting," which goes on to create a size problem. But its not something which...
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Selasa, 2020-06-23 08:39:46Wright and Page ;-) Y Absolutely, that article is a gold mine. I probably overcite, but I do it so someone else can come in later and add material to the...
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Jumat, 2020-11-13 00:19:16defences. I agree with the above, just a couple of times facts appear to be overcited - though could you find a cite or two for the last two paragraphs in Would...
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Minggu, 2026-02-08 06:20:33places where the opposite it true - there are a couple of instances of overcite/refbombs. Those should be cleaned up, either removing sources that are...
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Sabtu, 2025-10-18 11:31:02want me to remove detail. Didn't you also complain that the article was overcited, now you want cites added? — GabeMc (talk) 19:51, 4 November 2010 (UTC)...
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Sabtu, 2012-12-29 01:01:3714:07, 14 September 2012 (UTC) Leads are summaries and as such this is overcited. Some refs need format work, prose weak, sentences/paragraphs choppy....
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Senin, 2025-05-05 11:56:08François Robere (talk) 10:34, 15 August 2019 (UTC) See WP:REFBOMB and WP:OVERCITE. Ask for the single best sourcew, and if it doesn't satsify WP:V for our...
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Kamis, 2020-06-04 20:47:21of the article passed met that requirement (the plot info is actually overcited in my opinion), every single statement was cited except for a few completely...
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Kamis, 2022-03-10 06:01:18I eventually decided to clean it up tonight. Despite the puffery and overcites, the guy does appear to be notable. However I also noticed that there...
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Sabtu, 2021-12-25 15:18:54I think in such controversial (potential BLP) issues, it's better to overcite than to undercite. Multiple independent sources make it even better. The...
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Selasa, 2026-01-27 19:05:00that does that?128.214.53.104 (talk) 07:46, 3 March 2017 (UTC) I guess overcite is easier to fix than insufficient refs - just trim the overkills. Brandmeistertalk...
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Rabu, 2022-11-16 00:29:53portals to articles like older socks:[84][85], [86][87], [88] Habit of overciting and adding citations alone like older socks:[89],[90], [91], [92][93]...
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Sabtu, 2012-06-30 15:00:57...) Doesn't hurt ;-) PumpkinSky talk 23:34, 3 June 2012 (UTC) Per WP:OVERCITE to cut down on the blue in the page. Truthkeeper (talk) 00:35, 4 June 2012...
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Minggu, 2025-02-23 22:15:27editing – Disruptive editing by User:Footballsaints. User has engaged in overciting, redundant citing, and now continually readding copyvio material that...
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Jumat, 2010-05-28 20:31:39eastern U.S.--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 21:07, 22 April 2010 (UTC) Looks like overciting-- why do simple statements like these require four sources? The bog turtle...
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Kamis, 2011-09-08 11:33:42really put a lot of work into this, and it shows. I still think it's overcited, but that's no reason not to support. -- grm_wnr Esc 10:46, 27 June 2006...
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Rabu, 2025-09-24 05:37:52But it seems that her primary purpose here is to WP:REFCLUTTER and WP:OVERCITE articles all over the encyclopedia. It does not improve the encyclopedia...
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Senin, 2025-12-15 20:20:24fixed your three-overcite issues, since I have already fixed a good number of them prior with Femke's. Two successive cites isn't overciting. WP:FACRITERIA...
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Sabtu, 2025-09-20 08:17:37on Fire" video. Moisejp (talk) 23:22, 26 July 2025 (UTC) There is some overciting, with several statements followed with four to five references. I've trimmed...
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Kamis, 2023-02-09 17:03:02Fyddlestix (talk) 20:23, 22 November 2017 (UTC) No. You dont need to overcite. The lede is still a summary of the body. If it has multiple cites in the...
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Selasa, 2012-05-29 01:40:00songcraft.[120]" Suggest you review WP:BUNDLING and read the essay WP:OVERCITE, and then work on reducing problem areas like this (13 citations in two...
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Senin, 2025-10-20 20:18:10(UTC) I figured. Both from personal experience in genre wars and per WP:OVERCITE, that's typically why multiple citations are given. If you think it's necessary...
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Kamis, 2023-03-09 21:16:32took out much of the information that was there and left an issue of WP:OVERCITE that has yet to be addressed (which is why it would make more sense to...
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Kamis, 2020-06-18 07:20:23battles and exploits." Please see Casemate's blog. Separately, please see WP:Overcite and Extraordinary claims sections for additional discussion on sources...
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Selasa, 2019-02-12 10:06:55really put a lot of work into this, and it shows. I still think it's overcited, but that's no reason not to support. -- grm_wnr Esc 10:46, 27 June 2006...
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Selasa, 2025-06-17 09:48:11(talk) 13:16, 11 June 2025 (UTC) Legacy/Science: The scurvy seems a bit overcited. Reduced superscript count reduced from 4 to 2 by bundling the cites....
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Jumat, 2020-10-16 03:50:16August 2007 (UTC) Support I still think it is overcited; however given the option between an overcited article and an undercited one, I suppose this is...
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Jumat, 2023-02-10 06:44:50controversial? Probably not completely necessary, but I would rather that be overcited than have somebody say there isn't enough evidence to call it controversial...
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Sabtu, 2026-04-04 21:08:51the page loads from dialup for the first time in years. Overlinking, overciting, and excess detail have been identified, a GA review has been initiated...
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Jumat, 2022-09-16 11:31:15sources that currently appear in the lead. I cite bundled them to not overcite, but I think eight high-quality sources are enough to "prove" a short description...
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Rabu, 2023-12-13 10:17:48of the facts in a sentence, but I feel like in numerous places you've overcited there. Nonetheless, as I said, the overall article is plenty good enough...
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Rabu, 2026-01-21 14:55:53supports the rest. To multi-cite the sentence for each genus would be overciting IMO. Macrophyseter | talk 05:58, 26 June 2021 (UTC) 115: OK. 43: Where...
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Selasa, 2026-03-03 02:50:19have warned the editor previously on multiple occassion for constantly overciting, however editor doesn't seem to bother and keep adding back unnecessary...
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Kamis, 2020-11-05 09:16:28future, please be aware of footnote placement per WP:FN. The article is overcited to the point that it violates WP:NOT and looks like a blog or webpage...
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Selasa, 2023-04-11 23:30:06on WP:ANI regarding a concern I have on another editor pertaining to overciting on multiple occasion despite informing user not to do so. However, no...
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Kamis, 2014-05-29 19:29:47Rock") should only be used at the end of the second paragraph per WP:OVERCITE. WP:OVERCITE also says to have an inline citation for "all direct quotations...
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Minggu, 2020-10-04 02:42:352007 (UTC) Reply Thanks for striking the oppose. I have tried to avoid overciting university websites, but they do at least meet WP:RS. As Wikipedia is...
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