Wikipedia talk:School and university projects/Foresight

This project page will be useful independently of Foresight and Futures Studies Project Proposal John b cassel (talk) 18:00, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

==Questions?==

Here is a section for Questions about this project. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RealFuturist (talk • contribs) 21:45, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to be editing the main page Futures Studies as part of my contribution to this project. In looking over the first few paragraphs, I notice that there is lots of content (some of which I disagree with), but not very many citations. There are a bunch of references in the list, but most, I think, are based on the lists, not the text. Is that common? I thought references were required... RealFuturist (talk) 23:37, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You are right: references are required. However, adding notes that references are needed is also done by interested Wikipedians, and doesn't always get done. If you find a section that needs a reference, but you don't have one yourself, you can flag it as needing a citation, like this^{[citation needed]}. Such flags are valuable contributions in themselves, as they prompt others to find citations, and warn current readers that the material may not verified. John b cassel (talk) 15:10, 12 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]