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.
Parameters
- Date (required)
|date=(current month and year, as in December 2024)- Some
|some=yesis the default and begins the template with "Some of this article's listed sources..."|some=nobegins the template with "Some or all of this article's listed sources..."- Unnamed
|1=sectionchanges "article" to "section" in the text.- Imdb
|imdb=yesadds the text "It includes attribution to IMDb, which may not be a reliable source for information."- Small
|small=leftmakes the template box small and aligned to the left.
Redirects
The following templates redirect here:
- {{unrel}}
- {{Unreliable}}
- {{Badsources}}
- {{Reliable sources}}
- {{Reliable-sources}}
- {{Reliablesources}}
- {{Unreliablesources}}
TemplateData
TemplateData for Unreliable sources
<templatedata> { "description": "Use this template to indicate that some of an article's listed sources may not be reliable.", "format": "inline", "params": { "date": { "label": "Month and year", "description": "The month and year that the template was placed (in full). \"{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}\" inserts the current month and year automatically.", "type": "line", "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}", "example": "January 2013", "suggested": true }, "some": { "label": "Some or all?", "description": "Enter \"n\", \"no\", \"false\", \"off\" or \"0\" to change \"Some\" to \"Some or all\".", "type": "line", "autovalue": "n", "example": "n" }, "1": { "label": "Affected area", "description": "Text to replace the word \"article\", usually \"section\"", "type": "line", "autovalue": "section", "example": "section" }, "imdb": { "label": "Includes IMDb?", "description": "Adds the text \"It includes attribution to IMDb, which may not be a reliable source for information.\"", "type": "line", "autovalue": "y", "example": "y" }, "small": { "label": "Make template small", "description": "Enter \"left\" here to make the template box small and aligned to the left.", "type": "line", "autovalue": "left", "example": "left" } }, "paramOrder": [ "date", "some", "1", "imdb", "small" ] } </templatedata>
See also
- {{Unreliable source inline}} (redirects to {{Unreliable source?}})
- {{Better source}}
- {{No reliable sources}}
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles