Template:Unreliable sources/doc

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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}}

v t e Citation and verifiability article maintenance templates
Sourcing	{{Circular}} {{Excessive citations}} {{Expand with relevant sources}} {{Further reading cleanup}} {{More citations needed}} {{More citations needed section}} {{More footnotes needed}} {{No footnotes}} {{One source}} {{One source section}} {{Only primary sources}} {{NRIS-only}} {{Partisan sources}} {{Primary sources}} {{Refexample}} {{Refexample section}} {{Religious text primary}} {{Self-published}} {{Self reference cleanup}} {{Sources exist}} {{Text-source}} {{Third-party}} {{Unreferenced}} {{Unreferenced section}} {{Unreliable sources}} {{Uncited category}} {{User-generated}}
BLP-specific	{{BLP unsourced}} {{BLP unsourced section}} {{BLP primary sources}} {{BLP self-published}} {{BLP sources}} {{BLP sources section}} {{BLP IMDb-only refimprove}} {{BLP IMDb refimprove}} {{BLP no footnotes}} {{BLP more footnotes needed}} {{BLP one source}}
Topic specific	{{Localist}} {{Media IMDb refimprove}} {{More medical citations needed}} {{More science citations needed}} {{Neologism}} {{Science review}} {{Unreferenced-law}} {{Unreferenced-law section}} {{Unreferenced-medical section}}
Dispute-related	{{Cite check}} {{Cite check section}} {{Content}} {{Disputed}} {{Dispute about}} {{Disputed section}} {{Expert needed}} {{Hoax}} {{Original research}} {{Original research section}} {{Speculation}} {{Speculation section}} {{Synthesis}} {{Verifiability}} {{Verify sources}}
Citation improvements	{{Bad linked references}} {{Citation style}} {{Citations broken}} {{Cleanup bare URLs}} {{Format footnotes}} {{Full citations needed}} {{Ibid}} {{Page numbers improve}} {{Page numbers needed}}
General advice	Citing sources Reliable sources Maintenance template removal Citation needed Find sources Combining sources Referencing styles

Template:Unreliable sources/doc

Usage

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