Template:Unreferenced/doc

Usage
This template should not be substituted.

There are three optional parameters:


 * Description field: The optional description field is used to indicate more specifically what should be referenced. An example of its usage is . The description field is commonly omitted, which is acceptable, and the information box displayed in an article would then read "This article does not cite any references or sources." If a description is supplied, the word article in the information box is replaced with the description; for the example just given, the information box would read "This article's section called 'Childhood' does not cite any references or sources."
 * Date parameter: The date parameter is (generally ) used to indicate when the template was added to a page. An example of its usage is . Adding this parameter sorts the article into monthly subcategories of Category:Articles lacking sources, rather than adding it to Category:Articles lacking sources itself, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. If the date parameter is omitted, a bot will add it later.
 * Auto parameter: The auto parameter is used to suppress visibility of the template when added by a bot. This parameter was added for compatibility with, which was merged into this template. Bots that added to stub articles included "auto=yes" by default.

The optional fields can be used together, and placed in any order. For example, both  and   have the same effect:

General information
This template can either be placed at the bottom of the article page (in an empty "References" or "Notes" section—usually just before a reflist template), or at the top of an article, or on the article's talk page.

Categorization
This template adds articles to Category:Articles lacking sources, a hidden category.

Differences from related templates
One difference between the  template and the similar templates   and   is that   adds an article to Category:Articles lacking sources, while   and   add an article to Category:Articles needing additional references.

A common practice is to supply a description of "section", as in, which results in an information box reading "This section does not cite any references or sources." This is the same message that is displayed when using, but the two templates place an article in different categories, as noted above.

Note: when adding  to a section of an article, the date parameter must be included. Otherwise, SmackBot will change the template to  when it adds the date parameter.

Redirects
The following templates redirect to, meaning that they are synonyms that work exactly as   works:


 * Citesources
 * No references
 * No refs
 * Noref
 * Noreferences
 * Norefs
 * Nr
 * References


 * References needed
 * Uncited-article
 * Unref
 * Unrefarticle
 * Unreferenced article
 * Unreferenced stub
 * Unsourced
 * Unverified

The following templates previously redirected to, but have been changed:


 * (Nosources and No source (both now redirect to Di-no source)