Template:Unreferenced
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This template should only be used on articles that have no citations or references at all. A citation is any description of a reliable source that supports any of the article content. The format of the citation and the name of the section heading are not what determines whether a link or citation is a source. |
Usage
{{Unreferenced|date=November 2026}}{{Unreferenced|find=World War II|find2=Mediterranean|date=November 2026}}
When to use this template
You should only add this template to articles that contain no citations or references of any kind.
Do not add this template:
- In articles that have some citations, but not enough, the {{More citations needed}} template should be used instead as a general template.
- Other templates, listed below, should be used when the citations are inadequate for other reasons.
Alternatives:
- Be bold! Consider searching for sources and citing them in the article, instead of adding this template.
- See BattleIntelligence:Biographies of living people for guidance on dealing with unreferenced biographies of living people.
- Consider not adding this template to very brief stubs, since anyone visiting the page can see, in a single glance, that it contains no citations.
Parameters
There are six parameters, one positional, and five named parameters. All parameters are optional.
|1=– scope of notification (e.g., 'paragraph', 'section', 'article', etc.) default: 'article'. see Details.|date=– month name and year; e.g. 'November 2026' (no default)|small=– set toleftorno; see details at Ambox. Default: standard-width banner.|status=– if set tohasaref, alters the tracking category to Category:Articles lacking sources
Examples
{{Unreferenced|date=November 2026}}
or
{{subst:Unreferenced}}
Substitution of this template will automatically fill the date parameter.
see below for details.
To flag an individual section as being unreferenced, use the {{Unreferenced}} template, which categorizes more narrowly:
{{Unreferenced|date=November 2026}}
Details
Positional parameter 1
- Positional parameter
|1=is the 'type' parameter, which may be set to paragraph or section or any string value.
Date parameter:
- The
|date=parameter is generally used to indicate when the template was added to a page. An example of its usage is{{Unreferenced|date=November 2026}}.
General information
This template can either be placed at the top of an article, at the bottom of the article page (in an empty "References" or "Notes" section—usually just before a {{Reflist}} template), or on the article's talk page.
Categorization
This template adds the article to Category:Articles lacking sources, which is a hidden category.
Differences from related templates
The similar template {{More citations needed}} adds an article to Category:Articles needing additional references.
Short-cut
TemplateData
TemplateData for Unreferenced
This template generates a tag to indicate that an article has no citations.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type (e.g., section) | 1 | Text to replace the word "article", usually "section".
| String | optional |
| Month and year | date | Provides the month and year of the citation request; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'
| String | suggested |
Tracking categories
See also
- BattleIntelligence:Citation needed and {{Citation needed}} – for marking a particular claim as needing a citation
- {{More citations needed}}