Template:Primary sources section
This section relies excessively on references to primary sources. |
Usage
[edit]{{Primary sources section|date=December 2024}}
Parameters
[edit]There are four parameters, all optional:
|date=
: month and year the section was last checked for references; e.g.,|date=December 2024
|talk=
: discussion section on the talk page.|find=
: search keywords for {{find sources}} param 1 (double-quoted search). This optional parameter adds a set of links produced by the {{find sources}} template to the output. If omitted, no "find sources" links are displayed.|find2=
: search keywords for {{find sources}} param 2 (unquoted search). Alias:unquoted
.
Details
[edit]- Date
- As with most cleanup templates, the
|date=
parameter sorts the article into subcategories of Category:Articles lacking reliable references, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. You do not need to specify the date manually; a bot will add it later automatically.
- Find and find2
- Generally follows the usage and values as described at Template:Primary sources#Parameters.
- Suggested usage:
|find=Article title
and|find2=Section header
. This will often yield the best results if the article title is limited to one or two words (e.g., "French Revolution"), or if longer than two words, if it is a set expression unlikely to vary (e.g., "Frankie Goes to Hollywood"). For descriptive titles that are longer than two words, it is often better to limit param|find=
to just one or two words, and use the remaining keywords as part of unquoted search in|find2=
. - There is one main difference in usage between this template and {{Primary sources}}: in this template, the default if no parameters are given is
|find=none
; this is because the normal default at article level is the article title, but that wouldn't yield good results for find sources links in individual sections; the most important words of the section header should be included in the "find" search keywords. - The combination of
|find=none
and|find2=any value
is invalid.
See also
[edit]- {{Primary sources}}
- {{BLP primary sources}}
- {{Primary source inline}}
- {{Only primary sources}}
Template data
[edit]TemplateData for Primary sources section
This template alerts people to an article section containing encyclopedic content which appears to rely too much on primary sources.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Month and year | date | As with most cleanup templates, the date= parameter sorts the article into subcategories of Category:Articles lacking reliable references, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. You do not need to specify the date manually; a bot will add it later automatically.
| String | suggested |
Talk | talk | Name of talk page section | String | optional |
Find | find | Search keywords for 'find sources' double-quoted (exact) search. May be one or more words. Leave empty to suppress 'find sources' output.
| String | optional |
Find2 | find2 unquoted | Search keywords for 'find sources' unquoted search.
| String | optional |