Forum:Citation policy

You know what's been ticking me off lately? A lack of citations on the Mainspace. I've been searching for articles that need citations and although it's been stated at the top of most pages, it's still not being done and all the facts cannot be proven; even more awkward is that people aren't deleting them. Underground is an ace example, I posted a fact about trains to my home town, for example because trains operate from Middleton station. Now facts that would not need citation is the fact that the station is named after Kate Middleton (don't even ask, it feels obvious). But I never got round to citing a picture of the departure board where Preston is featured. This has applied for many articles and as a result I have lost nearly all trust in this wiki. What are your thoughts on this, do we think we need a policy which is my proposal; this would make the wiki more trustable over time and as such a much better place as we try to improve quality of standard here. CoD4 mentioned the MLP and RS wikis being good wikis, I believe we should strive to be more like them (inb4 COD:NOT) and a good way to start is to make facts more reliable by proving them, otherwise they are most likely lies. Thanks for taking your time to read this and I hope we can make the wiki better through reliable sources and citations! 21:00, December 19, 2011 (UTC)