Template:More citations needed section

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This template is intended to be placed at the top of sections of articles which need additional references. Many editors understand this template to be redundant when it is used on articles clearly marked as stubs.

Usage

This template also includes support for using the <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|date= parameter. Adding this parameter sorts the article into subcategories of Category:Articles needing additional references and out of the parent category, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. A bot will add this parameter if it is omitted. Be careful not to abbreviate the date, because then it will automatically add a redlinked category instead of the correct category. The simplest way to use this parameter manually is {{More citations needed section|{{subst:DATE}}}} but it can be done more explicitly as {{More citations needed section|date=October 2026}} (both result in the same output).

{{More citations needed section}}

{{More citations needed section|date=October 2026}}

{{More citations needed section|{{subst:DATE}}}}

{{More citations needed section|{{subst:DATE}}|talk=Talk page section name|small=y}}

{{More citations needed section|find=some search keywords}}

Find parameters

There are two 'find' parameters available to control the presentation and operation of the {{find sources}} links optionally displayed by the template. By default, the template displays {{find sources}} with a quoted search query equivalent to the exact article title. Sometimes, especially if the article has a long, descriptive title, or if it includes parenthetical disambiguation terms, this may not give useful results. In addition, the default search does not include the section title, and may not give targeted results. The find parameters can be used to provide the search keywords of your choice to the {{find sources}} links. Use:

• <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|find= to specify keywords for an exact search (double-quoted query); this corresponds to {{find sources}} positional param |1.
• <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|find2= to specify keywords for an unquoted search; this corresponds to {{find sources}} param |2. The alias <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|unquoted= may be used instead.

The second param is especially useful with the 'section' version of the template. Try setting |find=Article title​|find2=Section title}} for improved search results in this case.

The value "none" may be passed to 'find' (<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|find=none) to suppress display of find sources links. (Note that specifying <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|find=none and a nonempty value for <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|find2= is not a valid combination.)

Differences from related templates

General advantages

• The naming scheme of {{More citations needed section}} parallels that used for {{Refbegin}}, {{Refend}}, and {{Reflist}}, thereby reducing confusion in compliance with the KISS principle.

• {{More citations needed section}} is easy to use.

Differences from {{Primary sources}} and {{Unreferenced}}

• {{More citations needed section}} uses simple, general wording so that the template can be used any time referencing in an article section needs improvement.

Differences from {{Citation needed}}

• {{More citations needed section}} works for general and specific references whereas {{Citation needed}} can only be used in place of specific references.

• Unlike {{Citation needed}}, {{More citations needed section}} places a very conspicuous banner at the top of the article section.

Note that {{Citation needed}} was formerly called {{fact}}.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:More citations needed section in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for More citations needed section

<templatedata> { "params": { "date": { "label": "Month and year", "description": "Provides the month and year of the refimprove request; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'", "type": "string", "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}", "suggested": true }, "talk": { "label": "Talk page section", "description": "Title of talk page section where discussion can be found. This will be wikilinked in the template.", "type": "string" }, "small": { "label": "Small", "description": "Set to \"y\" or \"yes\" to make the box appear smaller.", "type": "string", "autovalue": "y" }, "find": {} }, "description": "This template is intended to be placed at the top of sections of articles which need additional references." } </templatedata>

Redirects

1. {{More references section}}
2. {{Cite-section}}
3. {{Refimprovesect}}
4. {{Refimprovesection}}
5. {{Refimprove-sect}}
6. {{Refimprove-section}}
7. {{Refimprove section}}
8. {{Verify section}}
9. {{More sources needed section}}
10. {{More references needed section}}

See also

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup

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