User:Blaise170/sandbox

Inline templates

 * Cite quote: for "actual quotations" which need citations to make them proper.
 * Clarify: request clarification of wording or interpretation.
 * Examples: request examples for clarification.
 * Nonspecific: flag a general, yet factual statement as needing to be made more specific before it can be verified.
 * Page needed: request a page number for an existing citation.

Highlighting some text that needs a citation

 * Citation needed span: similar, except that the text needing the citation is changed to a dark slate-gray color while being encapsulated in an off-white box with a pale pink outline. For example:


 * Beetles constitute the largest order of insects, with

Incomplete citations

 * Full: in-line request for full citation, for example when only author, year are given.
 * Incomplete short citation: in-line warning and request for enough information to allow the short citation to uniquely identify a long citation.
 * Page needed: in-line request for the page number or page numbers in a work such as journal for an existing citation.
 * Season needed, similar to page needed: for missing TV season & episode number.
 * Volume needed, similar to page needed: for missing journal, newspaper, comic, volume and issue numbers, etc.

Verification

 * Better source: flags a statement as requiring a better source.
 * Dead link: request a fix for a dead external link within a paragraph or a reference citation.
 * Failed verification: source was checked, and did not contain the cited material.
 * Request quotation: request a direct quote from an inaccessible source, for verification purposes.
 * Self-published inline or Self-published source : flag a source that cites the author.
 * Verify credibility: flag a source as possibly being unreliable or unverifiable.
 * Verify source: request that someone verify the cited source backs up the material in the passage.

Content

 * According to whom
 * Definition: flag a definition as being ambiguous / confusing
 * Dubious: flag something as suspected of being incorrect
 * Or: flag something as possibly containing original research
 * Peacock term: Avoid peacock terms too
 * POV-statement: dispute the neutrality of a passage
 * Quantify: flag a statement as being vague regarding the amount of something
 * Technical-statement: ...flag a word or phrase Make technical articles understandable
 * Time fact/Chronology citation needed: request a source confirming or providing the chronology or timeline of a statement
 * Undue-inline: show that a statement does not ascribe appropriate weight to its sources, according to their prominence; use in preference to...
 * Vague: flag a statement that is too vague to be unambiguously verifiable
 * Weasel-inline: flag for weasel word cleanup
 * When: flags a particular time period as being vague or ambiguous
 * Who: for placement after descriptions of a group of persons
 * Whom/By whom: placement after mention of a vague third party claim that is not sourced

Timeliness

 * Update after: a template that only shows itself after a specified time, indicating an exceptional statement that will date quickly.

Article message box templates

 * Cite check, article / section may have inappropriate or misinterpreted citations.
 * Refimprove, article / section has weak or incomplete sources / references / citations.
 * Unreferenced, article / section has no sources / references / citations given at all.
 * Citation method and style
 * Citation style
 * No footnotes