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[[File:Webcomic xkcd - Wikipedian protester.png|thumb|300px|right|"Wikipedian protestor" by Randall Munroe. Wikipedians are famous for demanding citations for facts!]]

One of the key policies of Wikipedia is that all article content has to be '''verifiable''' i.e. supported by a '''reliable source'''. All quotations and any material whose verifiability has been challenged or is likely to be challenged must include an ''inline citation'' of a source that directly supports the material.

'''[[help:Tables|Tables]]''' are a common way of displaying data. This tutorial provides a guide to making new tables and editing existing ones. For guidelines on when and how to use tables, see the [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables|Manual&nbsp;of&nbsp;Style]].

If you are adding such new content, it is your responsibility to add source information along with it. Material provided without a source may be removed from an article. Sometimes such material will be tagged first with a {{tl|citation needed}} template to give editors time to find and add sources.

The easiest way to insert a new table is to use the editing toolbar that appears when you edit a page (see image above). Clicking the [[File:OOjs UI icon table.svg|20px|class=skin-invert|link=|alt=Table icon]] button will open a dialog where you define what you want in your new table. Once you've chosen the number of rows and columns, the wiki markup text for the table is inserted into the article. Then you can replace the "Example" text with the data you want to be displayed.

This tutorial will show you how to add inline citations to your articles, and also briefly explain what counts as a reliable source.

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Tables in Wikipedia, particularly large ones, can look intimidating to edit, but the way they work is simple.

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