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Often, tags such as citation needed or dubious are added to an article text, or ones such as advert to its header, with no explanation in the article talk page.
This is sometimes constructive, in that other editors pick up and resolve these issues.
But often, these tags just sit there for years with no action taken. As these tags represent no more than one editor's opinion, and are themselves completely unsourced, it's debatable whether they do more harm than good.
Examples
editWatch this space, and feel free to add them. This page (like all others) belongs to the project, not to me.
See also
editSome or all of these appear in the running text above