article or a Wikipedia policy, as it has not been reviewed by the community. Shortcuts WP:CITEKILLWP:CITEKILL WP:OVERCITEWP:OVERCITE WP:OVERKILLWP:OVERKILL...

just 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...

number of articles about women): Darthvader2 - $30 due to an unintended overcite from the Spanish Wikipedia jury, most of the articles from this user were...

issue, 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)...

and 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...

performances 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...

with pull quotes before the subject is introduced in prose; a degree of overcite, other citation needed, and a number of overly short subsections (also...

images · 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...

reliable 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...

service.[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...

Taking 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...

(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...

provides little information that is non-promotional, and engages in WP:OVERCITE to link to promotional sources. Bakazaka (talk) 21:11, 5 September 2018...

citation 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...

(books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) WP:OVERCITE. References to blogs, lyric websites and primary sources. Nothing to suggest...

history." Although you overcite the lead, you leave this assertion which needs desperate backing from sources uncited. About the overciting issue, have in mind...

2008 (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...

images · 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...

the advertising slogan[24] "Not flash, just Gordon".[25][26][27][28]: WP:OVERCITE WP:EARWIG shows no copyright violations. User:Headbomb/unreliable marks...

it'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...

10 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...

row? 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...

because 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...

FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Winner and nominee of non-notable music awards. WP:OVERCITE with interviews, blogs and other non-reliable secondary sources. Nearlyevil665...

August 2016 (UTC) Delete -- a micro-stub of an article with a case of WP:Overcite: "American telecommunications executive. At Nokia, she oversaw new product...

they 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...

August 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...

some 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...

and 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"...

now, the article itself fails WP:NOTHOWTO as essentially a recipe with overcite from some non-RSes and passing mentions. This article probably counts as...

(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...

citated/referenced the page "Raymond Sandover" Hi Mabbs001 - No you haven't overcited. Usually two citations will suffice as a max (unless the assertion in...

coverage. 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...

(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...

there 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...

Rock") 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...

FENS · 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...

tweet. 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...

a 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...

it'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...

why 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...

(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...

improvements & new sourcing. However, the last sentences has a bad case of overcite. Perhaps it could be corrected, by moving some refs into Further reading...

19:22, 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...

him 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...

to 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....

Comment/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...

that 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...

good.[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)...

of his career.". Ironically, however, for the most part the article is overcited, with a sea of distracting blue footnotes! I believe this reassessment...

but 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...

"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...

match its proportion in the total literature, with some exceptions (we overcite molecular biology and epidemics papers relative to their proportion in...

of 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...

famous 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...

references, 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...

Tools [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...

Maile (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...

WP: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...

references 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...

prose 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...

20:28, 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...

~~‭~~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...

advertising. 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...

national 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...

their 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...

the 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...

references 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...

"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...

WP: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?----...

this 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...

as 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...

sums that up. .[47][56][65][66][67] I'm just a little concerned with WP:OVERCITE, but I suppose that's to support the sentence that many critics did appreciate...

now 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...

cover 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...

per 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 ]...

18:25, 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...

have been removed. It appears the article's main issues was actually overciting. Many recipients of awards had two or three references when they only...

that 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...

images · 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...

interest. 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...

48, 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...

same 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...

will encounter a lot of resistance. I would recommend expanding out the overcites from the lead into the body and writing the statements more ambiguously...

TonyTheTiger (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...

I 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...

state). -- 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...

quick 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...

and 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)...

having 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...

for 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...

moved 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...

aircraft.[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...

14:44, 12 January 2020 (UTC) Commment has the hallmarks of paid editing: overciting, promotional tone and the 37 references cited in an earlier version collapsed...

excellent filmographies one could are argue that they are ridiculously overcited.--Kmhkmh (talk) 14:49, 18 January 2015 (UTC) Well, that was a joke. Hafspajen...

under 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...

column. 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...

reliable 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...

not 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...

a living person must strictly abide by this guideline. Be mindful of overciting and balancing redundant citations in lead sections or infoboxes. For a...

WP: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...

don'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...

references 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...

Finance 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...

add 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...

have 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...

column. 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...

WP: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...

review. 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...

definition of WP:GNG with significant indepth coverage. It violates WP:OVERCITE but at least the article shows the sources. Cleanup after keep could involve...

self - COME BACK TO THIS Chidgk1 (talk) 08:11, 2 September 2020 (UTC) overcite: In 2019 ratification of the Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol...

14:07, 14 September 2012 (UTC) Leads are summaries and as such this is overcited. Some refs need format work, prose weak, sentences/paragraphs choppy....

together. 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...

over-long semi-guideline to make the point. Wikipedia has become insanely overcited. Nowhere else in scholarship, or the internet generally, is the little...

15 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...

coauthors it, is useless for notability. You have unsourced claims, an overcited claim, and two sources which evidently don't verify the sentence they're...

than 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...

(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...

thumb 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....

present 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)...

[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...

This 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...

email) 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...

defences. 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...

January 2020 (UTC) Weak Delete Lots of sourcing, but looks like classic overcite.Slatersteven (talk) 19:22, 12 January 2020 (UTC) The above discussion is...

18:51, 3 November 2022 User WP:OWN reverting others' attempts to reduce WP:OVERCITE or otherwise helpfully improve article (while calling it all "vandalism"):...

Frank 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...

although 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...

they'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...

having done any cleanup, [28] and removing {{unreliable source}} and {{overcite}} without fixing either.[29] Any posting of a user warning template or...

in the prose makes the material hard to read. I suggest consulting WP:OVERCITE (specifically WP:REPCITE) which, although is an essay, explains my concerns...

statement 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...

as an overcited article. In this case, when put under expert review by people who know good articles the article was not considered overcited. However...

government 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...

present 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...

front, 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...

then 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...

part 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)...

usually 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...

songcraft.[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...

the 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...

up 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...

Having citations after every single sentence is cumbersome and is WP:OVERCITE. -- ◅PRODUCER (TALK) 12:16, 14 July 2012 (UTC) "Some historians" - weasel...

contained 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...

be 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...

places where the opposite it true - there are a couple of instances of overcite/refbombs. Those should be cleaned up, either removing sources that are...

The 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...

doing 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...

section 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...

page 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...

accomplishments: 11:26, 29 September 2022 Talk page section where consensus about WP:OVERCITE was established: see here Diffs of the user reverting against consensus:...

a 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...

citations attached to them, respectively. This seems like a case of WP:OVERCITE honestly. Too add yet another citation seem only to make the situation...

article 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...

Frank 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...

process. 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...

a 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...

sums that up. .[47][56][65][66][67] I'm just a little concerned with WP:OVERCITE, but I suppose that's to support the sentence that many critics did appreciate...

technology */ removed weasel words. update, wording, sorting, wikilinks, WP:OVERCITE" 07:36, 30 January 2017 (UTC) "Undid revision 762702985 by Debresser (talk)...

misunderstanding regarding references' convention, also bringing in Wikipolicy (overciting). The link being added doesn't provide any support to the text and is...

2006 (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...

cover 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...

(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...

added 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...

battles and exploits." Please see Casemate's blog. Separately, please see WP:Overcite and Extraordinary claims sections for additional discussion on sources...

instrumentals" 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...

User: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...

2015 (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...

shows 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...

at many of the citations - in part because the article is suspiciously overcited. The National Law Journal and Law360 coverage falls squarely within WP:ROUTINE:...

the 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...

(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...

an 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...

article 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...

everyone 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...

Gerard (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...

the same content Valjean had removed, while adding 10 more citations, OVERCITE) "it's important to include how detached from reality her opinions are...

deletion/Rape jihad (2nd nomination) I mentioned the Rotherham words as overcite (but was thinking is it necessary?), intro could be rewritten "Rape Jihad...

edit 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...

more 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]...

edit 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...

frequently 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...

requirements, how uncited content should be handled and what constitutes overcite. These diffs do not show me referring to anyone as “dishonest, ignorant...

sure 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...

the 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...

workers 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...

trying 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...

actual content. The article as it stands still has multiple issues of WP:OVERCITE, source misrepresentation, biased content etc. My contributions at the...

future, 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...

moved 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...

WP:NOTMEMORIAL, WP:NPOV, repeated use of deprecated sources and reckless overcite that is tantamount to WP:BLUDGEON. It appears that this article has been...

what 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...

include 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...

(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...

Heartfox above, who thought that the footnotes and chart listings were overcited. The first instance of each chart-listing mention has a citation. So they...

rhetoric. 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...

one 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...

emails, 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...

each 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...

span}} {{Citekill}}, {{Ck}}, {{Overref}}, {{Overcited}}, {{Citation overkill}}, {{Over-cite}}, {{Overcite}}, {{Over-citation}}, {{Over cite}}, {{Refbomb}}...

(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...

me unbalanced. I'll speak just about the citations: Some sections are overcited, while others have no citations. And there are far too many [citation...

secondary 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...

Also, 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...

(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...

that'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...

each 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...

encyclopedia article with – adding all of them would make for a refbomb/overcite more than something usefully well-sourced. This never became anything besides...

refer to the long, and mostly irrational, discussion at Talk:Chicago#WP:OVERCITE / unreferenced additions, where you attempted to justify the removal of...

row and col scopes per MOS:ACCESS. Confirmed by Teahouse response. WP:OVERCITE, why seven references for Reagan, for example? Unless controversial, just...

for 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...

references, 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...

(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...

I think in such controversial (potential BLP) issues, it's better to overcite than to undercite. Multiple independent sources make it even better. The...

style. 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...

This 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...

controversial? Probably not completely necessary, but I would rather that be overcited than have somebody say there isn't enough evidence to call it controversial...

it 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...

"Fool," respectively). - Babel41 (talk) 07:21, 31 October 2011 (UTC) Overciting going on also ... Generally there should only be one citation for most...

discontinued. 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...

and 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...

first 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...

willing 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...

to 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...

understand the concerns, but I think WP suffers more from under citing than overciting. Since we are only a tertiary source, containing no original research...

Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 01:56, 27 March 2011 (UTC) MOS work needed, and overciting-- this is not a controversial statement, hopefully: School leagues and...

Origin and early life add regnal dates of the various rulers Some WP:OVERCITE instances; unless something is really contentious, more than three references...

(｡◕‿◕｡) 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...

sources 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...

appears to be common in accounting and economics. I have slightly WP:OVERCITEd to show that. Pinging (TheGreatWikiLord—Spinningspark—SwisterTwister)...

primary 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...

bundle 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...

the 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...

article looks comprehensive and generally well-structured, but it is overcited in many sections; multiple citations should be considerably trimmed (improved...

at 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...

anti-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...

leaning 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...

the 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...

few inline citations, but they are spotty - some parts are if anything overcited, while other parts are lacking. A Wikipedia article should be a neutral...

Finance 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...

removed. 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...

two references moved, back up the entire paragraph anyway. No need to overcite. Brad (talk) 06:12, 6 May 2011 (UTC) "Chesapeake went into ordinary..."...

Although 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...

start. The article still has issues with section imbalance, updating, overcite that are flagged with cleanup tags. The issues raised by Sandy above (eg...

that 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...

times 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...

Support - some technical stuff, mostly nitpicking: This article has some WP:Overcite issues - you don't need citations to the exact same reference for consecutive...

protagonist ... " 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...

was 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...

Justice" (ed. Gary Craig, 2018). They are, taken all together, greatly overciting on these articles since they're not using named references, just adding...

seems 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...

(books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) WP:OVERCITE. References to blogs, lyric websites and primary sources. Nothing to suggest...

jet 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...

Theft 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...

in 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...

Theleftorium 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...

large 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...

February 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...

...) 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...

haven'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...

WP: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?----...

(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)...

quotes. 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...

sourced *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...

etc. - 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...

criminal 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...

references 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...

one 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...

added 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...

19:28, 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...

for 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...

August 2016 (UTC) Delete -- a micro-stub of an article with a case of WP:Overcite: "American telecommunications executive. At Nokia, she oversaw new product...

although 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...

Ceoil? 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...

sentences?Northwesterner1 (talk)` I would generally say it's better to overcite. It does lead to a "cluttered" look, which is unfortunate, but with evolving...

described 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...

concerns 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...

improvements & new sourcing. However, the last sentences has a bad case of overcite. Perhaps it could be corrected, by moving some refs into Further reading...

then 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...

(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...

Approaches 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...

FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Winner and nominee of non-notable music awards. WP:OVERCITE with interviews, blogs and other non-reliable secondary sources. Nearlyevil665...

on..." --> "armed reconnaissance patrol over the sea south of Crete..." OVERCITE: I'm generally not too concerned by this, but some sentences have three...

April 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...

part 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)...

reliable 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...

refer to the long, and mostly irrational, discussion at Talk:Chicago#WP:OVERCITE / unreferenced additions, where you attempted to justify the removal of...

national 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...

19:22, 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...

quality 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...

coverage. 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...

is 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...

and 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)...

in 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...

appears to be common in accounting and economics. I have slightly WP:OVERCITEd to show that. Pinging (TheGreatWikiLord—Spinningspark—SwisterTwister)...

That 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...

refbombing 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...

Comment/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...

images · 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...

than 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...

the high-value ones. Just as overlinking reduces the value of links, overciting reduces the value of citations. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:16, 19 January...

[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...

interest. 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...

the 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...

there 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...

19:28, 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...

this 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...

is 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...

war was lost) has a separate footnote. Good writing also involves not overciting. -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 20:53, 23 August 2007 (UTC) Most readers cannot...

rhetoric. 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...

January 2020 (UTC) Weak Delete Lots of sourcing, but looks like classic overcite.Slatersteven (talk) 19:22, 12 January 2020 (UTC) The above discussion is...

at many of the citations - in part because the article is suspiciously overcited. The National Law Journal and Law360 coverage falls squarely within WP:ROUTINE:...

complete 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)...

as 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...

14:44, 12 January 2020 (UTC) Commment has the hallmarks of paid editing: overciting, promotional tone and the 37 references cited in an earlier version collapsed...

now, the article itself fails WP:NOTHOWTO as essentially a recipe with overcite from some non-RSes and passing mentions. This article probably counts as...

notability.) 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...

(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...

February 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...

him 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...

OCLC 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"...

to 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....

it'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...

of 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...

~~‭~~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...

has four references, one of which is this footnote, which seems like WP:OVERCITE. "Writings by foreign travelers during the late medieval era, combined...

film, 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...

10 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...

doesn'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...

quality. 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...

that 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...

(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...

one 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...

have been removed. It appears the article's main issues was actually overciting. Many recipients of awards had two or three references when they only...

(｡◕‿◕｡) 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...

on 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...

that 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...

delegate, 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...

tell you which statements they think needs citing. I would agree that an overcited article is preferable to an undercited article, however BOTH are inferior...

notability.) 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...

- 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...

was 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...

technical article understandable do not usually require a source (see also WP:OVERCITE). It is acceptable to present information entirely in own words, including...

essay) Sentence ending with "... sold 11 million units worldwide" is overcited, I would suggest moving the citations closer to content per WP:Integrity...

doing 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...

Sasata (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...

provides little information that is non-promotional, and engages in WP:OVERCITE to link to promotional sources. Bakazaka (talk) 21:11, 5 September 2018...

article 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...

in "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...

standard" much less care about it. As mentioned in earlier comments, overciting is a problem. For example, "HDMI began to appear on consumer HDTV camcorders...

Jytdog (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...

criminal 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...

the 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...

film, 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...

That 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...

edit, 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...

WaltonOne 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...

website, 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)...

2007 (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...

think 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)...

to 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...

really 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...

duplicate wikilinks There are no unreferenced paragraphs. Some cases of WP:OVERCITE: The "Hymn to Nikkal" (pictured) is considered to be the oldest surviving...

March 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...

separate namespace. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 17:06, 15 August 2022 (UTC) See WP:OVERCITE (which I have seen used to "declutter" articles of sources) and {{Excessive...

Jytdog (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...

I 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...

info 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...

(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...

already 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...

different from generally considered to be reliable for the green box and the overcited NEWSORG. I also agree with Goldenshimmer assessment that Fox is closer...

many 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...

row? 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...

article talk: Talk:ExxonMobil_climate_change_controversy#February_2016_OVERCITE_issues Additional related primary source: Kheshgi, Haroon (October 13,...

(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...

Jgtrevor 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...

of 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...

aggressive, finger-wagging pedantry (alphabet souping, template slapping, overciting, etc.). What is your favorite color? :) Why? :) :) Puce, mauve and fuchsia...

several, and not just two or three references, and mainly to avoid WP:OVERCITE formatting problems that may make articles difficult to read, especially...

the same source can accurately be reflected to be one source, as per WP:Overcite? CollinsBK (talk) 08:09, 15 September 2015 (UTC) Sources: Poughkeepsie...

one 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...

than 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...

refbombing 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...

and 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...

and 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...

that 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...

subscription, and some are only about the E. Coli outbreak, which is overcited. LOL Intothewoods29 (talk) 14:27, 9 September 2008 (UTC) I can access...

highways 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...

overlap previous articles but does overlap gun politics. Like HughD, overcites and includes quotes in the references. Springee (talk) 01:36, 7 March...

Heartfox above, who thought that the footnotes and chart listings were overcited. The first instance of each chart-listing mention has a citation. So they...

logs | 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...

times in eleven sentences in the Description section. This is ridiclous WP:OVERCITE and goes against Wikipedia:When to cite#Text–source relationship ("If you...

good 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...

in "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...

2011 (UTC) Johnbod (talk) 05:09, 19 March 2011 (UTC) Comment/Suggestion: Overciting, e.g.: "All species are listed either as "Vulnerable" or "Endangered"...

that 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...

added 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...

doesn'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...

(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...

citations 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...

support 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...

2006 (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...

used 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...

Auto-generated every hour. Editor interaction utility Same type of Godwinizing, overcited contributions as previous socks. Same general geolocation. - MrX 18:46...

Hey 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...

Most editors want a higher density of citations in articles about medical conditions and drugs than is typical for articles about less technical subjects...

with 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...

Both 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...

331dot (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...

and 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...

accordingly. 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...

dollars" linked? Is it exotic, like the Tibetan razu? Parts of it are overcited. Here's a doozler: "The attendance boundaries of Benavidez Elementary...

or 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...

out additional sources for potentially controversial items, and simply overcite. TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 01:32, 22 March 2022 (UTC) 1. Forgotten Yesterdays...

punctuation (see WP:MOS#Captions). Also, the article appears seriously overcited-- numerous seemingly simple statements have three, four, five even six...

don't doubt that the material is entirely verifiable, I suspect that overciting may be a problem here. Some paragraphs contain two or three (sometimes...

one 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...

If 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...

It'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...

currently 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...

can 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...

performances 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...

The 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...

have 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...

article 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...

policies 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...

the 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...

paragraph – 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...

probably 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...

edits 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...

requirement of a "professional standard" of formatting. Like overlinking, overciting can make the reading harder. I think the prose is generally quite good...

the 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...

tweet. 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...

agree 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...

for 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...

05:31, 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...

to 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...

minimally pseudo-offensive content pass without mention of the ridiculously overcited and misinterpreted civility and NPA policies? Does no one realise that...

everything 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...

Assessed as C class. It has potential: See WP:NPOV, MOS:FILMPLOT and WP:OVERCITE for ways to improve it. Trotsk6 (talk) 20:11, 9 July 2026 (UTC) Requesting...

row and col scopes per MOS:ACCESS. Confirmed by Teahouse response. WP:OVERCITE, why seven references for Reagan, for example? Unless controversial, just...

is 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...

22 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...

[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...

20:28, 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...

from 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...

aircraft.[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...

present 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)...

thing 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...

enough enough? Barring the ridiculous (ten citations for each sentence) overciting is impossible. What is sufficient? Well, you don't need to place an inline...

like 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...

December 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...

eastern 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...

to 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...

template 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...

new 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...

there 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'...

without adding any additional text that rajtantrtv supports violating WP:OVERCITE. Rajtantrtv.com says in the headline that the court admonished the petitioner...

good review. I removed a couple of unnecessary citations (though some overcite is still there) Demixing (audio), now Draft:Demixing (audio) – TheChunky...

- 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...

email) 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...

be 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...

(talk | contribs) 18:45, 23 February 2025 (UTC) There is considerable overciting which makes it difficult to check whether sources actually support statements...

Wright 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...

defences. 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...

include 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...

want 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)...

places where the opposite it true - there are a couple of instances of overcite/refbombs. Those should be cleaned up, either removing sources that are...

instrumentals" 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...

of 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...

on 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...

I think in such controversial (potential BLP) issues, it's better to overcite than to undercite. Multiple independent sources make it even better. The...

François 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...

that 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...

...) 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...

editing – Disruptive editing by User:Footballsaints. User has engaged in overciting, redundant citing, and now continually readding copyvio material that...

eastern 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...

really 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...

took 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...

14:07, 14 September 2012 (UTC) Leads are summaries and as such this is overcited. Some refs need format work, prose weak, sentences/paragraphs choppy....

Fyddlestix (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...

really 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...

(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...

battles and exploits." Please see Casemate's blog. Separately, please see WP:Overcite and Extraordinary claims sections for additional discussion on sources...

2023 (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...

multiple duplicated redlinks. I can't tell whether it is overcited, but it looks overcited. The "Further reading" section seems to duplicate quite a...

August 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...

I 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...

songcraft.[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...

of 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...

portals 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]...

controversial? Probably not completely necessary, but I would rather that be overcited than have somebody say there isn't enough evidence to call it controversial...

with personal problems, unsourced. But there are good points about WP:OVERCITE. I didn't invent the notion that it's not ideal. InedibleHulk (talk) 16:17...

supports 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...

future, 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...

Rock") 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...

have warned the editor previously on multiple occassion for constantly overciting, however editor doesn't seem to bother and keep adding back unnecessary...

the page loads from dialup for the first time in years. Overlinking, overciting, and excess detail have been identified, a GA review has been initiated...

2007 (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...

fixed 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...