Template:Unreferenced/doc
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Usage
This template should not be substituted (subst:
).
There are three optional parameters:
- Description field
- The optional description field is used to indicate more specifically what should be referenced. An example of its usage is
{{Unreferenced|article's section called "Childhood"}}
. The description field is commonly omitted, which is acceptable, and the information box displayed in an article would then read "This article does not cite any references or sources." If a description is supplied, the word article in the information box is replaced with the description; for the example just given, the information box would read "This article's section called 'Childhood' does not cite any references or sources." - Date parameter
- The date parameter is (generally[1]) used to indicate when the template was added to a page. An example of its usage is
{{Unreferenced|date=September 2024}}
. Adding this parameter sorts the article into monthly subcategories of Category:Articles lacking sources, rather than adding it to Category:Articles lacking sources itself, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. If the date parameter is omitted, a bot will add it later. - Auto parameter
- The auto parameter is used to suppress visibility of the template when added by a bot. This parameter was added for compatibility with {{Unreferenced stub}}, which was merged into this template. Bots that added {{Unreferenced stub}} to stub articles included "auto=yes" by default.
The optional fields can be used together, and placed in any order. For example, both {{Unreferenced|article's section called "Childhood"|date=September 2024}}
and {{Unreferenced|date=September 2024|article's section called "Childhood"}}
have the same effect:
General information
This template can either be placed at the bottom of the article page (in an empty "References" or "Notes" section—usually just before a {{reflist}} template), or at the top of an article, or on the article's talk page.
Categorization
This template adds articles to Category:Articles lacking sources, a hidden category.
One difference between the {{Unreferenced}}
template and the similar templates {{Refimprove}}
and {{Unreferencedsection}}
is that {{Unreferenced}}
adds an article to
Category:Articles lacking sources, while {{Refimprove}}
and {{Unreferencedsection}}
add an article to Category:Articles needing additional references.
A common practice is to supply a description of "section", as in {{Unreferenced|section}}
, which results in an information box reading "This section does not cite any references or sources." This is the same message that is displayed when using {{Unreferenced section}}
, but the two templates place an article in different categories, as noted above.
Note: when adding {{Unreferenced|section}}
to a section of an article, the date parameter must be included. Otherwise, SmackBot will change the template to {{Unreferencedsection}}
when it adds the date parameter.
Redirects
The following templates redirect to {{Unreferenced}}
, meaning that they are synonyms that work exactly as {{Unreferenced}}
works:
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The following templates previously redirected to {{Unreferenced}}
, but have been changed:
- ({{Nosources}} and {{No source}} (both now redirect to {{Di-no source}})
See also
The following templates are useful in cases where there are some sources, but these are inadequate or insufficient:
- {{unreferenced section}} — Variant of this template for a specific section
- {{citation needed}} — For marking a particular claim as needing a source
- {{refimprove}} — Has some sources, but would benefit from more
- {{primary sources}} — Dependence on primary sources without reliable published interpretation
- {{unreliable sources}} — Dependence on unreliable sources
- {{one source}} — Dependence on a single source
- Citation method and style
- {{Citation style}}
- {{No footnotes}}
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
Footnotes
- ↑ Because of the nature of the workflow using the current date makes sense, it is simpler to add, especially for the WP:bots it means that older dated categories do not have to be constantly created and deleted, and it enables some measure of progress. moreover it is "good enough" to get the articles into the workflow and the intention is to ensure they are cleaned up eventually. Occasionally however it may be useful to bulk add items, to older categories, for example when the system was initially set up, when merging two schemes or when adding to the current month would swamp it disproportionately.