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citation needed

The single most pointless addition to Urban Dictionary. On a site where people rant about how gay something is, why is "proof" required? Give me a fucking break. This isn't exactly a website you'd cite on an English essay, stop that shit.
now whenever someone writes about how shitty Lil Wayne is, they get a "citation needed", as if that actually needs more proof
by redillious April 20, 2011
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Citation not needed

Its as good as a fact. Nobody should question this.
"Oh, Zachary is a definite cunt. Citation not needed."
by TheMonkOfWesteros September 25, 2017
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citation oversight

Citation Oversight is weasel wording for admission of plagiarism. It is a cowardly way of admitting plagiarism by professors in top-ranked universities who have purloined ideas from others, but a claim of 'citation oversight' as opposed to an admission of plagiarism protects the professors from being fired from their jobs. Note that this protection mechanism is a privilege which is available only to White Professors and Black professors who plagiarize will be promptly fired from their jobs.
Q: Dude, did you hear about the plagiarism charge against Prof. McD of the ivy league university who lifted ideas from a newspaper? A: Yeah, he was a White guy and so the university officials declared it a case of 'citation oversight' and let him off.
by enviroscientist September 1, 2020
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West Virginia citation style

When a writer attaches footnotes to a footnote (i.e., uses toenotes) but, due to inbreeding, the number of toenotes used is not equal to five.
Rather than opting for Chicago style, MLA, or APA, she defaulted to West Virginia citation style.
by Roger Cooper June 23, 2016
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Citationized

by The Ethanator November 26, 2019
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citation-spelling nightmare

What a member of da "area's finest" --- especially one who never did too well in grammar-school --- finds himself faced with when trying to scribble out a summons-to-appear slip involving people/objects/locales with less-than-common names.
News flash --- Flustered MPs at da local naval-base encountered a major citation-spelling nightmare this evening when trying to write up a PECCARY who had committed da PECCADILLO of illegally entering da ARMORY and engaging in a PECKADILLO with an ARMADILLO dat it met there.
by QuacksO January 8, 2020
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Citation Cycler

Someone who uses AI to generate citations without reading the sources, often recycling the same few references across multiple assignments. This person includes outdated, irrelevant, or misquoted sources just to meet citation requirements.
The same three articles showed up in every paper—Citation Cycler strikes again.
by Briton Phillip September 17, 2025
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