memes

Seems to me that an article with 200 citations and 10 citation requests is a pretty well sourced article. I don't use wikipedia that often so my points of reference may not be very accurate.

I guess we just have different feelings then, because I've looked at lots of Wikipedia articles and that's an unusual volume of missing citations. Normally if no citation can be produced for a claim, the thing to do is remove it, because you don't need to make a claim about anything and the supposed point of Wikipedia is to have an assemblage of knowledge that has proper citations.

Could you share what some of the articles are? Another relevant factor for the judgement is the weight of the citations, by which I don't mean the legitimacy of the sources but the importance of the claims that they are or aren't substantiating (like the kidnapping example).

Valid point, I think the people placing the [citation needed] are doing a good job to clarify something is not yet based on a verifiable source and this only proves that

I agree that they are doing a good thing by including the request, but this relates to my last point that I think the meme belies the deeper problem that lots of claims are allowed to get by using frivolous sources or slanted framing.