Template:Unreferenced

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Usage

• {{Unreferenced|date=April 2025}}
• {{Unreferenced|find=World War II|find2=Mediterranean|date=April 2025}}

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 BattleTechWiki: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 2025' (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 2025}}

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 2025}}

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 2025}}.

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

Tracking categories

• Category:Articles lacking sources (45)
• Category:Articles needing additional references (410)

See also

• BattleTechWiki:Citation needed and {{Citation needed}} – for marking a particular claim as needing a citation
• {{More citations needed}}

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