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Enter this tag in the body of an article as a request for other editors to find citations when:
Enter this tag in the body of an article as a request for other editors to find citations when:
* A passage is incomplete without a cited source of information.
* A passage is incomplete without a cited source of information.
* A passage includes information form a ''particularly'' obscure source alongside or intermixed with a less obscure one.
* A passage includes information from a ''particularly'' obscure source alongside or intermixed with a less obscure one.


Adding this template will also place the parent article in [[:Category:Articles needing citations]].
Adding this template will also place the parent article in [[:Category:Articles needing citations]].

Latest revision as of 01:55, 20 January 2023

Description

Enter this tag in the body of an article as a request for other editors to find citations when:

  • A passage is incomplete without a cited source of information.
  • A passage includes information from a particularly obscure source alongside or intermixed with a less obscure one.

Adding this template will also place the parent article in Category:Articles needing citations.

Do not use this tag in order to label text which appears doubtful or false.

Usage

Parameters

Optional

This templates takes one optional anonymous parameter that can be used to set the text of the link if you want to be more specific. The default text is "citation needed".

Code

{{Fact
|Source needed from issue 7
}}

Examples

Code

{{fact
|source needed
}}

Result

[source needed]