Template:No_sources
When to use
You may add this template only to articles that contain no sources of any kind.
- Do not add this template
- In articles that have some citations, but not enough, the {more sources} template should be used instead as a general template, or the {nosources section} template for specific unsourced sections.
- In articles containing a list of sources at the end, but no inline citations, 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 ==Other websites==. If the link leads to a reliable source that supports some article content, then that website is a reference, not an external link.
- Other templates, listed below, should be used when the sources are inadequate for other reasons.
- Alternatives
- Be bold! Consider searching for references and adding them to the article, instead of this template.
- See Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons 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.
How to use
{nosources | date = {CURRENTMONTHNAME} {CURRENTYEAR} }
Categories
This template puts pages into Category:All articles lacking sources. If a date is given, it also puts the page into a category such as Category:Articles lacking sources from March 2025.
If the first unnamed parameter is set to section, the template instead adds the page to Category:Articles needing additional references.
Related pages
- {BLP unsourced} — Variant of this template for biographies of living people
- {Nosources section} — Variant of this template for a specific section
- {Fact} — For marking a particular claim as needing a source
- {More sources} — Has some sources (or at least one source), but would benefit from more
- {Primary sources} — Dependence on primary sources without reliable published interpretation
- {Unreliable sources} — Dependence on unreliable sources
- {One source} — Dependence on a single source
- {No footnotes} — to indicate article has references (perhaps wrongly listed as external links or further reading), but not inline citations
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