Board Thread:Policies/@comment-18172179-20160613080015/@comment-18172179-20160613182558

Hatebunny wrote: What if the Citation Needed template had an optional variable that would trigger a particular category. Like "Category:Citation Needed/Powers & Abilities" or "Category:Citation Needed/History" -

It might be worthwhile to make a single "This article is in need of sources for its claims" type box at the top of the page.

Maybe combine those ideas. If the template is just typed without any indication, a general message shows up. If you type something like "History" or "Powers", it would create the wanted category. Similar to the Delete template.

I just think it would be more useful for particular articles like the ones I mentioned, where it is quite clear where are no citations and we shouldn't go tagging the article with Cn after every paragraph or item in a list. We want that info sourced, but as Kyle pointed out, most of times it just sits there, despite the Cn.

Those articles are there already and the Cn tags are going to be there as well, but those aren't particularly noticed and the main purpose of this message box would be to let people know the article lack sources in general. (Also, this shouldn't be used on articles with very few unsourced info)