User:Chewings72/sandbox

Inline templates
[this quote needs a citation]: for "actual quotations" which need citations to make them proper. [clarification needed]: request clarification of wording or interpretation. [examples needed]: request examples for clarification. [not specific enough to verify]: 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
(also /, /, or  )

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 by far[citation needed] the largest order of insects, with 350,000–400,000 species in four suborders.[citation needed]

This template can be used within a sentence or at the end. Notice that punctuation should be inside the questioned text.

Incomplete citations
[full citation needed]: in-line request for full citation, for example when only (Author, YEAR) is 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 & episode needed], similar to : for missing TV season & episode number. [volume & issue needed], similar to : for missing journal, newspaper, comic, etc., volume and issue numbers).

6.1.3 Verification

[better source needed]: 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. [not in citation given]: source was checked, and did not contain the cited material. [need quotation to verify]: request a direct quote from an inaccessible source, for verification purposes. [self-published source?] or [self-published source]: flag a source that cites the author. [source needs translation]: Self explanatory. See WP:NONENG for policy requirements. [unreliable source?]: flag a source as possibly being unreliable and/or unverifiable. [verification needed]: request that someone verify the cited source backs up the material in the passage.

Content
[when defined as?]: flag a definition as being ambiguous/confusing [dubious – discuss]: flag something as suspected of being incorrect [jargon]: ...flag a word or phrase Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable [original research?]: flag something as possibly containing original research [peacock term]: Avoid peacock terms too [neutrality is disputed]: dispute the neutrality of a passage [quantify]: flag a statement as being vague regarding the amount of something / [chronology citation needed]: request a source confirming or providing the chronology or timeline of a statement [undue weight? – discuss]: 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 words]: 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 / [by whom?]: placement after mention of a vague third party claim that is not sourced [according to whom?] : request for the article to be copy edited.

Timeliness
[dated info]: a template that only shows itself after a specified time, indicating an exceptional statement that will date quickly.

Article message box templates
, article/section may have inappropriate or misinterpreted citations. , article/section has weak or incomplete sources/references/citations. , article/section has no sources/references/citations given at all. Citation method and style

Warning Templates
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Henry II of England. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism. Thank you. satellizer (talk -  contributions) 10:15, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Henry II of England, you may be blocked from editing. satellizer (talk -  contributions) 10:19, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
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