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{{Nutshell|Sources are rarely plundered for all they are worth, and articles with "citation needed" tags often already have sufficient sources that simply have been under-utilized. Most new sources added for a detail or two can also be dug into for additional sourcing value.}}
It is very common for Wikipedia editors to add a source, such as a newspaper or magazine article, a book chapter, or other hopefully reliable publication, to source a single fact in an article. Most often the editor has found this source via a search engine, or perhaps even a library visit, seeking a source for a detail in an article, some pesky tidbit without a citation. This common approach, akin stopping at the grocery store for eggs and milk and nothing else, rather that "farming" the store for an hour with a long shopping list, tends to miss many opportunities to improve both the content and the sourcing of articles.
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