Anonymous authorities is an oxymoron (contradiction in terms), but template:weasel was created to highlight research and polling operations that are either a fabricated claim of wide-ranging support, or original research. In other words, if someone refers to "The International Community", they probably did not poll six or seven billion people and achieve unanimity. Other examples are "many people", "authorities", or "several authorities" (without citations). In wikipedia, such phrases can call for a {{fact}} check, a strikout, or outright deletion, depending on the degree of offense. It can be common knowledge, in which case, since most common knowledge is obscure to someone, George Orwell's rule to cut a word out if you can do it without changing meaning, means that deleting anonymous sup