Useful box
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Inline templates
edit{{Cite quote}}[this quote needs a citation]: for "actual quotations" which need citations to make them proper.
{{Clarify}}[clarification needed]: request clarification of wording or interpretation. {{Examples}}[examples needed]: request examples for clarification. {{Nonspecific}}[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}}[page needed]: request a page number for an existing citation.
Highlighting some text that needs a citation
edit{{Citation needed span}}
(also {{Cn span}}/{{Cn-span}}, {{Fact span}}/{{Fact-span}}, or {{Reference necessary}})
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
edit{{Full}}[full citation needed]: in-line request for full citation, for example when only (Author, YEAR) is given. {{Incomplete short citation}}[incomplete short citation]: in-line warning and request for enough information to allow the short citation to uniquely identify a long citation. {{Page needed}}[page needed]: in-line request for the page number or page numbers in a work such as journal for an existing citation. {{Season needed}}[season & episode needed], similar to {{page needed}}: for missing TV season & episode number. {{Volume needed}}[volume & issue needed], similar to {{page needed}}: for missing journal, newspaper, comic, etc., volume and issue numbers).
6.1.3 Verification
{{Better source}}[better source needed]: flags a statement as requiring a better source. {{Dead link}}[dead link]: request a fix for a dead external link within a paragraph or a reference citation. {{Failed verification}}[not in citation given]: source was checked, and did not contain the cited material. {{Request quotation}}[need quotation to verify]: request a direct quote from an inaccessible source, for verification purposes. {{Self-published inline}}[self-published source?] or {{Self-published source}} [self-published source]: flag a source that cites the author. {{Source need translation}}[source needs translation]: Self explanatory. See WP:NONENG for policy requirements. {{Verify credibility}}[unreliable source?]: flag a source as possibly being unreliable and/or unverifiable. {{Verify source}}[verification needed]: request that someone verify the cited source backs up the material in the passage.
Content
edit{{Definition}}[when defined as?]: flag a definition as being ambiguous/confusing {{Dubious}}[dubious – discuss]: flag something as suspected of being incorrect {{Technical-statement}}[jargon]: ...flag a word or phrase Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable {{Or}}[original research?]: flag something as possibly containing original research {{Peacock term}}[peacock term]: Avoid peacock terms too {{POV-statement}}[neutrality is disputed]: dispute the neutrality of a passage {{Quantify}}[quantify]: flag a statement as being vague regarding the amount of something {{Time fact}}/{{Chronology citation needed}}[chronology citation needed]: request a source confirming or providing the chronology or timeline of a statement {{Undue-inline}}[undue weight? – discuss]: show that a statement does not ascribe appropriate weight to its sources, according to their prominence; use in preference to... {{Vague}}[vague]: flag a statement that is too vague to be unambiguously verifiable. {{Weasel-inline}}[weasel words]: flag for weasel word cleanup {{When}}[when?]: flags a particular time period as being vague or ambiguous {{Who}}[who?]: for placement after descriptions of a group of persons {{Whom}}/{{By whom}}[by whom?]: placement after mention of a vague third party claim that is not sourced {{Whom?}}[according to whom?] {{copyedit|date=November 2013}}: request for the article to be copy edited.
Timeliness
edit{{Update after}}[dated info]: a template that only shows itself after a specified time, indicating an exceptional statement that will date quickly.
Article message box templates
edit{{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}}
Warning Templates
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