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Usage
When to use
This
template
indicates that the article needs additional inline citations. This template should be used only for articles where there are some, but insufficient, inline citations to support the material currently in the article. Don't use this tag for articles that contain no unreferenced material, even if all the material is supported by a single citation.
Some editors understand this template to be redundant when it is used on articles clearly marked as
stubs
, since by definition stubs are unlikely to be well referenced.
For articles that have no inline citations at all, but contain some sources, use
Template:No footnotes
. Only use
Template:Unreferenced
for articles that have no references at all.
- For articles about living persons, the more specific template
{{
BLP sources
}}
should be used instead.
- For articles containing biomedical information, the more specific template
{{
More medical citations needed
}}
should be used instead.
- Please consider marking individual unreferenced statements with the
{{
Citation needed
}}
inline template, instead of placing this template.
- If most of an article is supported by inline citations and a few of those use unreliable sources, use
{{
Unreliable source?
|date=June 2024}}
and if you are certain, then add the parameters
{{
Unreliable source
|certain=y|reason=
your WP:RS-based reason here.
|date=June 2024}}
Placement
- According to
MOS:LAYOUT
, maintenance templates, such as this one, should (except when section-specific) be placed after hatnotes, at the start of the article. That placement is supported by consensus obtained in an RfC at
Template talk:More citations needed/Archive 4 § RfC: Location of Tag
.
User warning
- A user warning template,
{{
uw-refimprove
}}
, is available to notify contributors that an article they created needs its referencing improved.
Auto-categorization
- This template adds the article to
Category:Articles needing additional references from June 2024
, and
Category:All articles needing additional references
, both
hidden categories
.
Parameters
There are six parameters, one positional, and five named parameters. All parameters are optional.
|1=
– scope of notification (e.g., 'section', 'article') default: 'article'.
|date=
– month name and year; e.g. 'June 2024' (no default)
|find=
– search keywords for
{{
find sources
}}
param 1 (double-quoted search); default: page title. See details
below
.
|find2=
– search keywords for
{{
find sources
}}
param 2 (unquoted search). Alias:
unquoted
. See
below
.
|small=
– set to
left
or
no
; see details at
Ambox
. Default: standard-width banner.
|talk=
– title of talk page section where discussion can be found
Details
Talk parameter
- A
|talk=
parameter is allowed; setting this to any value will result in the message "See talk page for details." being included in the tag. If the value is a valid anchor on the talk page (e.g., the title of a section or subsection heading), then the talk page link will go directly to that anchor; if not, then to the top of the page.
Date parameter
- This template also includes support for using the
|date=
parameter. Adding this parameter sorts the article into subcategories of
Category:Articles needing additional references
and out of the parent category, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. A
bot
will add this parameter, if it is omitted. Be careful
not
to abbreviate the date, because then it will automatically add a redlinked category instead of the correct category. The simplest way to use this parameter manually is
{{More citations needed|{{subst:DATE}}}}
, but it can be done more explicitly as
{{More citations needed|date=June 2024}}
(both result in the same output). Do
not
use
{{More citations needed|date={{subst:DATE}}}}
because
{{subst:DATE}}
already includes the leading
date=
code.
Find parameters:
- There are two 'find' parameters available to control the presentation and operation of the
{{
find sources
}}
links optionally displayed by the
{{
Unreferenced
}}
template. By default, the template displays
{{
find sources
}}
with a quoted search query equivalent to the exact article title. Sometimes, especially if the article has a long,
descriptive title
, or if it includes
parenthetical disambiguation terms
, this may not give useful results. The find parameters can be used to provide the search keywords of your choice to the
{{
find sources
}}
links. Use:
|find=
to specify keywords for an exact search (double-quoted query); this corresponds to
{{
find sources
}}
positional param
|1
.
|find2=
to specify keywords for an unquoted search; this corresponds to
{{
find sources
}}
param
|2
. The alias
|unquoted=
may be used instead.
The value "none" may be passed to 'find' (
|find=none
) to suppress display of
find sources
links. (Note that specifying
|find=none
and a nonempty value for
|find2=
is not a valid combination.)
Examples
Listed below are several examples of usage:
{{More citations needed|date=June 2024}}
or the common redirect:
{{Refimprove|date=June 2024}}
{{More citations needed|section|date=June 2024}}
or use the alternative template:
{{
More citations needed section
|date=June 2024}}
- The template can be made smaller with
{{More citations needed|section|small=y}}
or use the alternative template
{{
More citations needed section
|small=y}}
{{More citations needed|section|{{subst:DATE}}|talk=
Talk page section name
|small=y}}
The optional
|find=
parameter is available, for modifying the operation of the
{{
find sources mainspace
}}
links displayed by the template:
{{More citations needed|find=search keyword(s)|date=June 2024}}
Differences from related templates
- Use
BLP sources
in
articles about living persons
that need additional references. If the article needs additional references but is not about a living or recently deceased subject, then use
More citations needed
.
- Use
More footnotes needed
when the article includes a list of sources, perhaps in a "Bibliography" or "Works" appendix, but its sources remain unclear because there are
insufficient inline citations
. The
More citations needed
tag is more specific than
More footnotes needed
, and should be used preferentially to that template.
- Use
Unreferenced
when there are no citations of any kind in an article. If citations have been added to an article, but they are insufficient, then use
More citations needed
.
- Alternatively, if an article has sufficient inline citations, but lacks citations covering specific information (such as
missing a citation on a quotation
), then use the inline citation template
{{
Citation needed
}}
to indicate more precisely where additional citations are needed. Unlike the inline
Citation needed
,
More citations needed
is placed as a general banner at the top of an article.
- The
{{
More citations needed section
}}
and
{{
Unreferenced section
}}
templates are available to use for problems that are not article-wide.
- If you decide to change a tag from
Unreferenced
to
More citations needed
, don't forget to update the date stamp in the tag, if necessary.
- If an article has a sufficient amount of inline citations, but the citations are from primary sources (see
WP:USEPRIMARY
), then use
{{
Primary sources
}}
.
- If an article has a sufficient amount of inline citations, but the citations are from contemporaneous news reporting, then use
{{
Old news
}}
.
- If an article has sufficient inline citations, but the citations are from sources affiliated with the subject (see
WP:INDY
), then use
{{
Third-party
}}
.
- If an article has exactly one source
and
that single source is likely to result in bias or other problems in the article (e.g., it cites one fringe-y book instead of a good textbook), then use
{{
One source
}}
.
- If the article contains biomedical information, sources must meet the standards of
WP:MEDRS
("it is vital that the biomedical information in articles be based on reliable, third-party, published sources and accurately reflect current medical knowledge"). If there are inline citations for biomedical information, but they do not meet the required standards, then use
{{
More medical citations needed
}}
.
- The
More citations needed
template is intended for use in articles that need additional citations, while the
citation style
template is used to request consistency within the citations present in an article (see
WP:CITEVAR
). For example, use
citation style
when there is a mixture of
footnotes
and
parenthetical references
.
- More citations needed
can be used when there are no "References" or "Further reading" sections present in the article.
- Sources exist
is similar to
More citations needed
, because both templates indicate the need for more references. However,
{{
Sources exist
}}
indicates that a user has already checked that reliable sources are available to be cited, but has not yet added them to the article. By using this template, the assertion is made that the article is notable, but needs more citations.
TemplateData
Template parameters
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This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter
| Description
| Type
| Status
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Affected area
| 1
| Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"
- Example
- section
| Line
| optional
|
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Talk page section
| talk
| Section name on the talk page for further discussion
| Line
| optional
|
---|
Make template small
| small
| Enter any text here to make the template box small and aligned to the left.
- Example
- y
- Auto value
y
| Line
| optional
|
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Find
| find
| Search keywords for double-quoted search to pass to 'find sources'.
| Line
| optional
|
---|
Find2
| find2
Unquoted
| Search keywords for unquoted search to pass to 'find sources'.
| Line
| optional
|
---|
Month and year
| date
| The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically.
- Example
- June 2013
- Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
| Line
| suggested
|
---|
name
| name
| no description
| Unknown
| optional
|
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Redirects
Include:
See also
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Sourcing
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BLP
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Dispute-related
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Citation improvements
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General advice
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