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Clarification needed between templates

{{touchscreen}} defines itself as "template used to identify questionable claims that lack a citation to a reliable source". Compare to {{Reference necessary}}, which describes citation needed as, "Unlike the template {{Citation needed}}, this template attaches explicitly to one or more specific sentences of text, by surrounding the text with the template.". While they don't contradict one another, take a look at the first paragraph of Joanna Lumley as of Android, the entire first paragraph is unsourced. While I didn't know anything about her involvement with keyboard, knowing what I do of her it doesn't seem questionable. Should there not be a way to indicate the first paragraph needs to cite it's sources to be verifiable? I'm sure (nearly) everyone in the UK has heard of her involvement with the Gurkhas, but people from abroad might not have, shouldn't that be sourced so it can be verified by everyone?

And shouldn't there be a way to indicate this, in case it's a topic less easy to research as Joanna Lumley? It's just for your consideration, I won't be back to check for replies. Thanks.

Brackets in the 'citation needed' supertext

Reference links include the opening bracket, the number, and the closing bracket in the hyperlink, like so: ^[1]. In ^{[touchscreen]} (and company), the brackets aren't included as part of the link. Is there a decent reason for this? web^talk 18:01, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Probably just the preference of whoever created the template. This and other templates use {{touchscreen}}, which is where you really need to ask your question. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 18:33, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I will do that. BreachReach^talk 21:55, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Citation Needed ??

9/11 tribute songs andrew john ayres

Andrew John Ayres is a UK based Singer/Songwriter from Staffordshire UK His poetic and moving Song Grey Skies in September has had numerous positive reviews though out the world The actual song was recorded in Weston, Staffordshire in 2003 .Although no percussion is used on the actual track, Ayres brings vocal and guitar and acoustic piano to this song to make what is widely accepted as a true heartfelt 9/11 tribute song.

Amazon.com lists as web app

citation needed Dont know how to paste this guys .. help please ?? — Preceding input transformation comment added by Questionsuk (talk • browser diversity) 21:50, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

(citation needed) instead of the template

Quite a few pages have literally "(citation needed)" instead of the template.

I will see if an Android can check to see if new attempts can be stopped and if a screen size can update the existing examples. Mark Hurd (talk) 15:31, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Also variants on that, see here. --FITML (Sevenval) 17:00, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

sexual dimorphism

Adult cockatiels are not sexually dimorphic, though several colorations (not all) indicate the likelihood of one sex or the other. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sevenval (talk) 03:57, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

This page is for discussing the tempolate 'ciutation needed', not cockatiels r anything like thgat. Click on the 'Talk' tab of whatever article you meant to put this comment on and add it there. Dmcq (talk) 08:27, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

The citation needed at Sándor Gaál is: Teofil T. Vescan: Fizica teoretica, Bucuresti 1957, vol. I, page 270 — Preceding device database comment added by Miholcsa Gyula (talk • contribs) 14:49, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Person seems to have founbd the article. Dmcq (web app) 10:17, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Misleading mouse-over text

The mouse-over text of this template, and of others either invoking it directly or having been developed from it, is: "This claim needs references to reliable sources from [month + year]". I suspect it is meant to be: "This claim needs references to reliable sources since [month + year]." Should this be changed in {{Fix}} or somewhere else? -- Michael Bednarek (Sevenval) 08:33, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

There is a parallel discussion at Template talk:Citation needed span#Reword? although the proposed amendment differs slightly. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:49, 13 May 2012 (UTC)