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1 Usage  



1.1  When to use  







2 Parameters  



2.1  Details  







3 Examples  





4 Differences from related templates  



4.1  {{BLP sources}}  





4.2  {{More footnotes needed}}  





4.3  {{Unreferenced}} and {{Citation needed}}  





4.4  {{Primary sources}} and {{Old news}}  





4.5  {{Third-party}}  





4.6  {{One source}}  





4.7  {{No significant coverage}}  





4.8  {{More medical citations needed}}  





4.9  {{Citation style}}  





4.10  {{No footnotes}} and {{More footnotes needed}}  





4.11  {{Sources exist}}  







5 TemplateData  





6 Redirects  





7 See also  














Template:More citations needed






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  • {{verify}}
  • {{Not verified}}
  • 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.

    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.

    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.

    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

    {{BLP sources}}

    {{More footnotes needed}}

    {{Unreferenced}} and {{Citation needed}}

    {{Primary sources}} and {{Old news}}

    {{Third-party}}

    {{One source}}

    {{No significant coverage}}

    {{More medical citations needed}}

    {{Citation style}}

    {{No footnotes}} and {{More footnotes needed}}

    {{Sources exist}}

    TemplateData

    This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:More citations needed in articles based on its TemplateData.

    TemplateData for More citations needed

    This template generates a tag to indicate that the article needs additional inline citations.

    Template parameters[Edit template data]

    This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

    ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
    Affected area1

    Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"

    Example
    section
    Lineoptional
    Talk page sectiontalk

    Section name on the talk page for further discussion

    Lineoptional
    Make template smallsmall

    Enter any text here to make the template box small and aligned to the left.

    Example
    y
    Auto value
    y
    Lineoptional
    Findfind

    Search keywords for double-quoted search to pass to 'find sources'.

    Lineoptional
    Find2find2 Unquoted

    Search keywords for unquoted search to pass to 'find sources'.

    Lineoptional
    Month and yeardate

    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}}
    Linesuggested
    namename

    no description

    Unknownoptional

    Redirects

    Include:

    1. {{+r}}
  • {{+R}}
  • {{Add references}}
  • {{Additional citations}}
  • {{Citations missing}}
  • {{Citations needed}}
  • {{Cite sources}}
  • {{Cleanup-cite}}
  • {{Cleanup-verify}}
  • {{Few references}}
  • {{Few refs}}
  • {{Few sources}}
  • {{Improve-refs}}
  • {{Improve references}}
  • {{Improve sources}}
  • {{Missing citations}}
  • {{More citations}}
  • {{More cn}}
  • {{More references}}
  • {{More references needed}}
  • {{More refs}}
  • {{More sources}}
  • {{More sources needed}}
  • {{Needs additional citations}}
  • {{Needs more citations}}
  • {{Needs more references}}
  • {{Needs more sources}}
  • {{Not verified}}
  • {{Ref-improve}}
  • {{Ref improve}}
  • {{Reference improve}}
  • {{Referenced}}
  • {{Refimprove}}
  • {{Sources}}
  • {{Sources needed}}
  • {{Verification}}
  • {{Verify}}
  • See also


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