Template:Unreliable sources

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Usage

Add {{Unreliable sources|date=December 2024}} to the top of the article, below any hatnotes.

Consider tagging any specific statements with potentially unreliable sources with {{Verify credibility|date=December 2024}} before tagging the whole article with this template.

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TemplateData for Unreliable sources

<templatedata> { "params": { "1": { "label": "Type (section)", "description": "Something to replace the word \"article\", normally \"section\".", "example": "section", "type": "string", "default": "article" }, "small": { "label": "Small", "description": "Makes the template produce a smaller box", "example": "left", "type": "string", "default": "" }, "some": { "label": "Some sources unreliable", "description": "Changes the text to say that some (rather than all) of the article's sources are unreliable", "type": "boolean", "default": "false" }, "imdb": { "label": "IMDb", "description": "Indicates that IMDb (not a reliable source, per WP:IMDB) is one of the article's sources", "example": "yes", "type": "string", "default": "false" }, "date": { "label": "Month and year", "description": "Provides the month and year this was tagged; e.g., 'January 2018', but not 'jan18'", "type": "date",

                       "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}",

"suggested": true } }, "description": "Marks an article as having unreliable sources and adds it to." } </templatedata>

Redirects

The following templates redirect here:

{{unrel}}
{{Unreliable}}
{{Badsources}}
{{Reliable sources}}
{{Reliable-sources}}
{{Reliablesources}}
{{Unreliablesources}}

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Template:Unreliable sources

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