Difference between revisions of "Template:Citation needed"

Revision as of 08:26, 10 August 2006

Enter this tag in the body of an article as a request for other editors to find citations:

Do not use this tag in order to label text which appears doubtful or false

Regarding the unsourced or poorly sourced information:

if it is likely true, but needs specificity, you may use {{specify}}
if it is not doubtful, you may use {{fact}} or {{citequote}} tag to ask for better citation in order to make the article complete.
if it is doubtful but not too harmful to the whole article, you may use {{verify source}} tag to ask for source verification.
If it is doubtful and (quite) highly harmful, you may move it to the talk page and ask for a source.
If it is very doubtful and very harmful, you may remove it directly without the need of moving it to the talk page first.

To find all the articles that use this template, please visit What links here. For articles which lack sources, please visit Category:Articles needing sources.

This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopedic content.

{{Citequote}}, tagging a request for citation, used for quotaions that needs citations to make it complete, but not for seemingly doubtful or false texts
{{Request quote}}, tagging a request for quoting inaccessible source, used for requesting a direct quote from the cited source for verification
{{Verify source}}, tagging a request for source verification, used for information that is doubtful or appears false.
{{Verify credibility}}, tagging a request for source verification, used for information that is doubtful or appears false.

{{Citecheck}}, popping up a box saying an article or section may have inappropriate or misinterpreted citations
{{Not verified}}, popping up a box saying an article or section has not been verified and may not be reliable
{{Unreferenced}}, popping up a box saying an article or section has no citation or reference for its informationals:Vorlage:Beleg

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-Use this tag for information that needs citations to make it complete, or quotations that are used without citations, as per [[Wikipedia:Citing sources]].
+Enter this tag in the body of an article as a request for other editors to find citations:
+# to label a passage which is incomplete without a cited source of information
+# to label a quotation lacks a citation, as per [[Wikipedia:Citing sources]].
-Do not use this tag in order to label text which appears doubtful or false, '''especially''' in the case of [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons|biographies of living people]] (see [[Wikipedia:Three-revert_rule#Reverting_potentially_libellous_material|this section of WP:3RR]] as well). Otherwise please use {{tl|verify source}}.
+'''Do not use this tag in order to label text which appears doubtful or false'''
+For dealing with dubious information, see [[Wikipedia:Citing sources#Text that is, or is likely to be, disputed]]. This is '''especially''' true in the case of [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons|biographies of living people]] (see [[Wikipedia:Three-revert_rule#Reverting_potentially_libellous_material|this section of WP:3RR]] as well). Otherwise please use {{tl|verify source}}.
 Regarding the unsourced or poorly sourced information: