Wikipedia:Template index/Sources of articles

This page contains the following:


 * Issues with sources: this is for tagging issues with sources; they are either inline tags, or message boxes for sections or entire pages. You could also leave a note on the talk page asking for a source, or move the material to the talk page and ask for a source there. There are also some templates for search links to find sources. Transcluded from Template messages/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources.
 * Including third-party content: these are templates for referencing content for some specific sources: United States government, public domain and wikis.
 * Citations of specific sources: inline citation templates for a few specific sources.
 * Citations of generic sources: general inline citation templates transcluded from Citation templates

Is the article worth it?
Before placing templates on a page it is worthwhile to consider whether it should in fact be included in Wikipedia according to What Wikipedia is not. Some articles can be tagged for speedy deletion or marked as an article for deletion.

Dates
It is useful to add the date of the request (or sometimes, a bot will assist by doing it automatically) by appending |date= month year to the template code, like this: to produce this:

United States federal government attribution templates
These templates can be added to articles (close to the end of the article, in the References or External links section, for example). Before adding the template to an article, check the details of the usage—some templates require parameters such as a URL. Most of these templates add the articles to the category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government.

United States state government attribution templates
From Category:United States State government attribution templates:

Other
Some of the reference types below use named fields (such as Title=Electric Power Monthly). In these references, you must use the exact field name (capitalization matters). Fields are separated with pipe (|) characters. The order of the fields does not matter.

Wikis
For interwiki translation and other copying, see Copying within Wikipedia.

Citations of specific sources
Notes:
 * See also Template messages/Links for components of online citations such as DOIs.
 * ISBNs are autolinked by the Wikipedia software, though this feature is deprecated; see ISBN.
 * RFC references such as "RFC 2821" are also autolinked, though this feature is deprecated.
 * PMIDs are also autolinked, though this feature is deprecated; see PMID.

Citations of generic sources
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