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Currently, the wording for the citation needed moderator notice is:

This post does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

"Article", to me, sounds wrong. On a Q&A site rather than an encyclopaedia should this not read:

This post does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this post by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

Or even specific for question/answer (though as the notice can be applied to both a little more work would be necessary to implement this).

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Link to the notice applied to a post.

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    Um, is that not Wikipedia's "citation needed" notice? Where on SO is this used?
    – Pekka
    Commented Mar 10, 2012 at 16:15
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    @Pekka that's exactly what I thought. Example Here
    – Rory
    Commented Mar 10, 2012 at 16:18
  • Hey, cool! When did that come up?
    – Pekka
    Commented Mar 10, 2012 at 16:20
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    @Pekka: These tend to show up more on sites other than SO. e.g., Arqade is just fodder for people to make up guesses to questions with nothing to really back it up. It's been around for months AFAIK.
    – Jeff Mercado
    Commented Mar 10, 2012 at 16:20
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    @Pekka, they were requested by Skeptics.SE where answers must be referenced. They are used there frequently.
    – Sam I Am
    Commented Mar 10, 2012 at 17:34
  • Is this something that a mod applies to a post, or is it based on heuristics/voting?
    – user164291
    Commented Mar 10, 2012 at 19:48
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    @Phoenix mods manually apply it :)
    – Rory
    Commented Mar 10, 2012 at 19:53
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    +1 I like your article
    – ajax333221
    Commented Mar 11, 2012 at 2:58
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    @Skliwz what have been fixed that you changed from no-repro to status-completed?
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Mar 2, 2015 at 15:37

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Thanks for bringing this up. I cannot reproduce this wording in the current version of our sites, and so I have resolved this as .

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