Template:Unreferenced/doc

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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Unreferenced.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

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=April 2026}}
{{Unreferenced|find=World War II|find2=Mediterranean|date=April 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. 'April 2026' (no default)
|small= – set to left or no; see details at Ambox. Default: standard-width banner.
|status= – if set to hasaref, alters the tracking category to Category:Articles lacking sources

Examples

{{Unreferenced|date=April 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=April 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=April 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.

Template parameters
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Type (e.g., section)	`1`	Text to replace the word "article", usually "section". Example section Auto value `section`	String	optional
Month and year	`date`	Provides the month and year of the citation request; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13' Example January 2013 Auto value `{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}`	String	suggested