So, I'm assuming we're extending this requirement to information pages, right? If so, then
the gravitational binding energy page needs citations - not only for its planetary formula, but for its stellar formula as well. The first one should be trivial since we can just pluck it off of Wikipedia, but as for the other one, I can't find any citations for it on the Internet despite intensive searching. The fact that this allegedly more accurate method for calculating the GBE of a star isn't already widespread makes our values for
High 5-A and upwards questionable due to the lack of a reference that our members can use.
What makes this even worse is that based on what I
could find, nobody can agree on what the GBE of the Sun is: we give one value (5.693×10^41 J),
Wikipedia presents another value (2.276×10^41 J), and a few scientific papers (don't have them on me RN) end with yet another value (3.8×10^41 J). While these values aren't dramatically different from one another, it still demonstrates a potentially major issue: namely, that the lack of a provided citation for our GBE formula for stars, combined with other sources coming up with multiple different values for the GBE of the Sun (whereas the GBE of Earth and Mercury are well-known), makes it look like we just pulled the formula out of thin air.
To top it all off, if it turns out that we are wrong about star GBE after all, we will have to revise tier 4 and tier 3 yet again, in which case we run the risk of putting stress on the calculation group as they scramble to update all of the relevant calculations
and on other users (staff or not) as they find themselves having to search potentially thousands of pages for updates that need to be done. Plus, seeing as people are going back to school around this time of year, it would be unfortunate timing for such sweeping changes, to say the least.
I'm hopeful that it doesn't come to this and we can successfully cite where we got the formula for star GBE from without having to overhaul a sizable portion of the tiering system, but I didn't want this issue to be overlooked, either - it's something that I've noticed a while ago, and this seems like a good opportunity to bring it to the staff team's attention. I'd also like to apologize if I'm sounding dramatic, as that is not my intention and it certainly isn't the end of the world if we have to move stuff around because of a simple mistake.
On a more on-topic note, I can help out with adding references to the Cthulhu Mythos pages, though we do still have some more revisions lined up for the verse, so it depends on how the other people working on the verse (Ultima, Kira, etc.) are feeling, I guess.
