Template:Unreliable sources

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For tagging sections, see Template:Unreliable sources section. For inline tagging of unreliable sources, see Template:Unreliable source?

Usage

Add {{Unreliable sources|date=October 2026}} to the top of the article, below any hatnotes.

Consider tagging any specific statements with potentially unreliable sources with {{Verify credibility|date=October 2026}} before tagging the whole article with this template.

Parameters

Date (required‍)

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|date=(current month and year, as in October 2026)

Some

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|some=yes is the default and begins the template with "Some of this article's listed sources..."

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|some=no begins the template with "Some or all of this article's listed sources..."

Unnamed

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|1=section changes "article" to "section" in the text.

Imdb

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|imdb=yes adds the text "It includes attribution to IMDb, which may not be a reliable source for information."

Small

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|small=left makes the template box small and aligned to the left.

Redirects

The following templates redirect here:

• {{unrel}}
• {{Unreliable}}
• {{Badsources}}
• {{Reliable sources}}
• {{Reliable-sources}}
• {{Reliablesources}}
• {{Unreliablesources}}
• {{Better sources needed}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Unreliable sources in articles based on its 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 needed}}
• {{No reliable sources}}
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles

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