Template:Fact

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Usage

Enter this tag in the body of an article as a request for other editors to find citations:

to label a passage which is incomplete without a cited source of information
to label a quotation which lacks a citation, as per Wikipedia:Citing sources.

Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material about living persons should be removed immediately, not tagged. See this section of WP:BLP.

To find all pages that use this template, see Category:All articles with unsourced statements: a count is maintained by User:Dragons_flight/Category_tracker. The articles will also be categorised by month, by a bot. These categories are subcategories of Category:Articles with unsourced statements. For articles which lack sources, please visit Category:Articles lacking sources.

This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopedic content.

You may use the optional date parameter, e.g. {{Fact|date=July 2008}}. This helps with the categorisation of articles requiring citations. Articles tagged with this template without the parameter will given the parameter by a bot.

The simplest way to add this template to an article is to copy and paste {{Fact|{{subst:DATE}}}} at the appropriate place or use {{subst:Fact-now}}

Related redirects

(They all redirect to template:fact)

{{Clarifyme}}, requesting clarification of a hard-to-understand phrase.
{{Citequote}}, tagging a request for citation, used for quotations that needs citations to make it complete, but not for seemingly doubtful or false texts.
{{Request quote}}, tagging a request for quoting inaccessible source, used for requesting a direct quote from the cited source for verification.
{{Verify source}}, tagging a request for source verification, used for information that is doubtful or appears false.
{{Verify credibility}}, tagging a request for source verification, used for information that is doubtful or appears false.

{{Citecheck}}, popping up a box saying an article or section may have inappropriate or misinterpreted citations.
{{Unreferenced}} and {{Unreferenced section}}, popping up a box saying an article or section has no citation or reference for its information.
{{or}}, to label a passage of text that may be based upon original research.
{{POV-statement}}, to label a passage of text whose neutrality is disputed.
{{page number}}, to request a missing page number to an existing reference.
{{dubious}}
{{list_fact}}, to request supporting material for including a member in a list als:Vorlage:Beleg