Template:Unreferenced/doc

Usage

• {{Unreferenced|date=May 2024}}
• {{Unreferenced|find=World War II|find2=Mediterranean|date=May 2024}}

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. 'May 2024' (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:All articles possibly lacking sources

Examples

{{Unreferenced|date=May 2024}}

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=May 2024}}

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=May 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.

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.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools.

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 (0)
• Category:Articles needing additional references (348)

See also

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