Template:Unreferenced/doc

When to use
You should only add this template to articles that contain no citations or references of any kind.

Do not add this template:
 * In articles that have some citations, but not enough, the More citations needed template should be used instead as a general template, or the Unreferenced section template for individual sections that have no citations.
 * In articles containing a list of sources at the end, but no inline citations, including parenthetical references or in-text attributions, consider no footnotes when the article would be significantly improved by detailed attribution of sources to specific claims.
 * Watch out for lists of general references that someone has incorrectly listed under . If the link leads to a reliable source that supports some article content, then that website is a reference, not just an external link.
 * Other templates, listed below, should be used when the citations are inadequate for other reasons.

Alternatives:
 * Be bold! Consider searching for sources and citing them in the article, instead of adding this template.
 * In articles about people and businesses, consider using the more specific template, to encourage citation of WP:Independent sources rather than the subject's own website.
 * See Biographies of living people for guidance on dealing with unreferenced biographies of living people.
 * Consider not adding this template to very brief stubs, since anyone visiting the page can see, in a single glance, that it contains no citations.

Parameters
There are six parameters, one positional, and five named parameters. All parameters are optional.


 * 1 – scope of notification (e.g., 'paragraph', 'section', 'article', etc.) default: 'article'. see Details.
 * date – month name and year; e.g. 'July 2024' (no default)
 * find – search keywords for find sources param 1 (double-quoted search); default: page title. See details below.
 * find2 – search keywords for find sources param 2 (unquoted search). Alias: . See below.
 * small – set to  or  ; see details at Ambox. Default: standard-width banner.
 * status – if set to , alters the tracking category to Category:All articles possibly lacking sources

Examples
or

Substitution of this template will automatically fill the date parameter.

The optional find parameter is available, for modifying the operation of the find sources links displayed by the template:

see below for details.

To flag an individual section as being unreferenced, use the template, which categorizes more narrowly:

Details
Positional parameter 1
 * Positional parameter 1 is the 'type' parameter, which may be set to paragraph or section or any string value. To mark an unreferenced section of an article, please use Unreferenced section instead.

Date parameter:
 * The date parameter is (generally ) used to indicate when the template was added to a page. An example of its usage is . Adding this parameter sorts the article into monthly subcategories of Category:Articles lacking sources, rather than adding it to Category:Articles lacking sources itself, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. If the date parameter is omitted, a bot will add it later.

Find parameters:
 * There are two 'find' parameters available to control the presentation and operation of the find sources links optionally displayed by the Unreferenced 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. The find parameters can be used to provide the search keywords of your choice to the find sources links. Use:
 * find to specify keywords for an exact search (double-quoted query); this corresponds to find sources positional param.
 * find2 to specify keywords for an unquoted search; this corresponds to find sources param . The alias unquoted may be used instead.

The value "none" may be passed to 'find' (none) to suppress display of find sources links. (Note that specifying none and a nonempty value for find2 is not a valid combination.)

General information
This template can either be placed at the top of an article, at the bottom of the article page (in an empty "References" or "Notes" section—usually just before a Reflist template), or on the article's talk page.

Categorization
This template adds the article to Category:Articles lacking sources and a monthly subcategory such as Category:Articles lacking sources from July 2024 (as described above), which are hidden categories.

Differences from related templates
The similar template More citations needed adds an article to Category:Articles needing additional references. More medical citations needed adds the article to Category:Articles needing additional medical references as well as Category:Articles needing additional references.

Short-cut

 * Unref
 * NR
 * No ref
 * No sources
 * Citesources

TemplateData
{	"description": "This template generates a tag to indicate that an article has no citations.", "format": "inline", "params": { "1": {			"label": "Type (e.g., section)", "description": "Text to replace the word \"article\", usually \"section\". This is a legacy feature, and this usage has been replaced with the separate '' template.", "type": "string", "required": false, "autovalue": "section", "example": "section" },		"date": { "label": "Month and year", "description": "Provides the month and year of the citation request; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'", "type": "string", "required": false, "autovalue": " ", "example": "January 2013", "suggested": true },		"find": { "label": "Find sources keywords", "description": "Search string for 'find sources' template. May be one or more words. Set to value 'none' to suppress 'find sources' output.", "type": "string", "required": false, "autovalue": "empty string", "example": "Your keyword list" },		"find2": { "label": "Find2", "description": "Search keywords for 'find sources' unquoted search.", "type": "string", "required": false, "aliases": ["unquoted"] }	},	"paramOrder": [ "1",		"date", "find", "find2" ] }