Wikipedia:No cite-by date

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Maintenance tags like {{citation needed}} do not expire. When a statement in an article requires citation, the length of time for which it has been uncited is not a criterion for the statement's removal whatsoever.

With that said, the presence of long-uncited statements is often linked to other problems that do merit a summary deletion, such as the statement being original research, or its being undue within a given article. Clarity of purpose and communication thereof is preferable to simply noting the age of an uncited statement.