Template:No sources/sandbox

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When to use

You may add this template only to articles that contain no sources of any kind.

Do not add this template

• In articles that have some citations, but not enough, the {{more sources}} template should be used instead as a general template, or the {{nosources section}} template for specific unsourced sections.
• In articles containing a list of sources at the end, but no inline citations, consider {{no footnotes}} when the article would be significantly improved by detailed attribution of sources to specific claims.
• Watch out for lists of general references that someone has incorrectly listed under ==Other websites==. If the link leads to a reliable source that supports some article content, then that website is a reference, not an external link.
• Other templates, listed below, should be used when the sources are inadequate for other reasons.

Alternatives

• Be bold! Consider searching for references and adding them to the article, instead of this template.
• See Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons 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.

How to use

{{nosources | date = {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} }}

Categories

This template puts pages into Category:All articles lacking sources. If a date is given, it also puts the page into a category such as Category:Articles lacking sources from December 2024.

If the first unnamed parameter is set to <syntaxhighlight lang="text" enclose="none">section</syntaxhighlight>, the template instead adds the page to Category:Articles needing additional references.

Related pages

• {{BLP unsourced}} — Variant of this template for biographies of living people
• {{Nosources section}} — Variant of this template for a specific section
• {{Fact}} — For marking a particular claim as needing a source
• {{More sources}} — Has some sources (or at least one source), but would benefit from more
• {{Primary sources}} — Dependence on primary sources without reliable published interpretation
• {{Unreliable sources}} — Dependence on unreliable sources
• {{One source}} — Dependence on a single source
• {{No footnotes}} — to indicate article has references (perhaps wrongly listed as external links or further reading), but not inline citations

Redirects

{{Citesource}} {{Citesources}} {{Cite source}} {{Cite sources}} {{Noref}} {{Noreference}} {{Noreferences}} {{Norefs}} {{Nosource}}

{{No ref}} {{No reference}} {{No references}} {{No refs}} {{No source}} {{Source}} {{Sources}} {{Unref}} {{Unreferenced}} {{Unsourced}}