Template:Excessive citations inline/doc

Usage

{{Excessive citations inline|date=November 2024}}

This template is used to address excessive "piling on" of citations for the same claim, per Wikipedia:Citing sources § Bundling citations (and Wikipedia:Citation overkill).

Parameters

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TemplateData for Excessive citations inline

<templatedata> { "params": { "reason": { "label": "Reason", "suggested": true, "description": "A short explanation of why the claim has excessive citations.", "type": "string" }, "date": { "label": "Month and year", "type": "string", "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}", "suggested": true, "description": "Provides the month and year of the citation request; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'" } }, "description": "This inline template is used to mark places in an article where there are excessive citations.", "format": "inline" } </templatedata>

See also

• Template:Excessive citations