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 | This page in a nutshell: Although avoiding original research and is an important part of making Wikipedia a better and more verifiable place, already obvious information can get away with original research or absent citations. See notes for explanations. |
Verifiability is undoubtedly an important part of Wikipedia, but sometimes original research is fine. Usually, statements like "Discrimination can be divided into sex, race, language, age and more.[ original research?]" [1] should be understood by readers. A few other examples include "The Pope is the current leader of the Holy See.[ original research?]" [2], "Most people have five fingers and toes on their hands and foot.[ original research?]" [3] or "Paris is the capital of France.[ original research?]" [4] Usually they are understood, but in some cases (for example, the sky is blue) could be misunderstood or even unable to understand by some. [5] However, remember, someone will always not understand something - in that case, be nice and assume good faith.
Wikipedia:You don't need to cite that the sky is blue
Wikipedia:Citation overkill
- ^ If it wasn't like that, those wikipedia pages would not even exist.
- ^ Everyone should know that christianity exists - it is the largest religion in the world anyway. Due to that, practically everyone also knows that the pope has some form of control.
- ^ Look at your hands, and your feet. What do you see? Five fingers and five toes on each hand and foot, right?
- ^ While Paris may be an ambiguous word, usually people are referring to the capital of France. Not to mention everyone should know Paris is the capital of France.
- ^ Just to explain, some people might think that that statement means that the sky is always blue - however, that should be obvious. Some people are also colorblind or blind, in which case they can't see that the sky is in fact blue during the day; however, I'm guessing they would still know that, not to mention they're a minority - only about 339 million people are colorblind or blind worldwide. And that's including colorblindness where you can see blue.