Wiki143:Template index/Sources of articles

This page contains the following:

• Issues with sources: this is for tagging issues with sources; they are either inline tags, or message boxes for sections or entire pages. You could also leave a note on the talk page asking for a source, or move the material to the talk page and ask for a source there. There are also some templates for search links to find sources. Transcluded from Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources.
• Including third-party content: these are templates for referencing content for some specific sources: United States government, public domain and wikis.
• Citations of specific sources: inline citation templates for a few specific sources.
• Citations of generic sources: general inline citation templates transcluded from Wikipedia:Citation templates

Issues with sources

Is the article worth it?

Before placing templates on a page it is worthwhile to consider whether it should in fact be included in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Some articles can be tagged for speedy deletion or marked as an article for deletion.

Dates

It is useful to add the date of the request (or sometimes, a bot will assist by doing it automatically) by appending |date=month year to the template code, like this: {{Unreferenced|date=December 2025}} to produce this:

Overarching copyright issues

Tag	Text that will be shown (and usage notes)
Template:Tl category Template:Lts/	Template:Copypaste
Template:Tl category Template:Lts/	Template:Unattributed translation

Combined message boxes

Tag	Text that will be shown (and usage notes) — multiple issues (top of article)
Template:Tlp	Template:Multiple issues

Tag	Text that will be shown (and usage notes) — multiple issues (section)
Template:Tlp	Template:Multiple issues

Verifiability and sources

{{Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources}}

Including third-party content

United States federal government attribution templates

These templates can be added to articles (close to the end of the article, in the References or External links section, for example). Before adding the template to an article, check the details of the usage—some templates require parameters such as a URL. Most of these templates add the articles to the category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government.

Template	Display
Template:Tl Talk	Template:US Air Force
Template:Tl Talk	Template:AFHRA
Template:Tl Talk
Template:Tl Talk	Template:CDC
Template:Tl Talk	Template:CIA World Factbook
Template:Tl Talk	Template:USCG
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Country study
Template:Tl Talk
Template:Tl Talk	Public Domain This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
Template:Tl Talk	Template:DHS
Template:Tl Talk	Template:DoE
Template:Tl Talk	Template:FJC Bio
Template:Tl Talk
Template:Tl Talk
Template:Tl Talk	Template:GHR
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Marine Corps
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Include-USGov
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Include-NASA
Template:Tl Talk
Template:Tl Talk
Template:Tl Talk	Template:NCI-cancer-dict
Template:Tl Talk	Template:NHC
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Include-USGovTemplate:Main other
Template:Tl Talk	Template:NIOSH
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Include-USGov
Template:Tl Talk	Template:NLM content
Template:Tl Talk	Template:NPS
Template:Tl Talk	Template:NTSB
Template:Tl Talk	Template:NVR
Template:Tl Talk
Template:Tl Talk
Template:Tl Talk	Template:US DOS
Template:Tl Talk
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Main other
Template:Tl Talk
Template:Tl Talk	Template:USDA
Template:Tl Talk	Template:HHS content
Template:Tl Talk	Template:USGS
Template:Tl Talk	Template:USGovernment
Template:Tl Talk	Template:USGovernment-Navy
Template:Tl Talk	Template:USGovernment-courts
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Usgs-gazetteer

United States state government attribution templates

From Category:United States State government attribution templates:

Template	Display
Template:Tl	Template:CAGovernment
Template:Tl	Template:California tourist guide
Template:Tl	Template:FLGovernment
Template:Tl	Template:Geological Survey of California
Template:Tl	Template:Include-ILCS
Template:Tl	Template:Natural Wealth of California
Template:Tl	Template:NHStateBuilders

Other

Some of the reference types below use named fields (such as Title=Electric Power Monthly). In these references, you must use the exact field name (capitalization matters). Fields are separated with pipe (|) characters. The order of the fields does not matter.

Public domain

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
Template:Tl Talk	Template:1728	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Public Domain This article incorporates text from the 1771 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:1911	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	This section incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:	Articles at the end of a section
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Source-attribution	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Main other	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Catholic	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:DCBL	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:DNB	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Eastons	Articles at top
Template:Tl Talk		Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from Template:Wikidatathe 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	File:PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:GSE	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	This article is based in part on the Jargon File, which is in the public domain.	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:JewishEncyclopedia	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	This article incorporates text from the public domain 1910 book The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite. Please feel free to update the text.	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:NHC	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Owl	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:RBD	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication in the public domain:	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Classical Antiquities by Oskar Seyffert, edited by Henry Nettleship and J. E. Sandys (1894).	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:SmithDGRA	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:DGRBM	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:DGRG	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	The initial version of this article was based on a public domain article from Greg Goebel's Vectorsite.	Articles Reference

Wikis

For interwiki translation and other copying, see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Citizendium	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:From Camerapedia	Articles bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Talk other	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	This article incorporates text from OpenHistory.	Articles near bottom
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Tmbox	Talk pages

Citations of specific sources

Notes:

• See also Wikipedia:Template messages/Links#External links for components of online citations such as DOIs.
• ISBNs are autolinked by the Wikipedia software, though this feature is deprecated; see Wikipedia:ISBN.
• RFC references such as "RFC 2821" are also autolinked, though this feature is deprecated.
• PMIDs are also autolinked, though this feature is deprecated; see Wikipedia:PMID.

What to type	What it makes
{{ITIS|ID=|taxon=|accessdate=}} Talk
{{FishBase species|genus=|species=|year=|month=}} Talk
{{FishBase species alt|ID=|taxon=|year=|month=}} Talk	Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2004). Genus species in FishBase. January 2004 version.
{{FishBase_genus|genus=|year=|month=}} Talk
{{FishBase family|family=|year=|month=}} Talk
{{Cite iucn|author=|title=|year=|ID=}} Talk
{{Gutenberg | no=6656 | name=The Kiltartan Poetry Book}} Talk	Template:Gutenberg
{{MathWorld | urlname=PetersenGraph | title=Petersen Graph}} Talk
{{ScienceWorld | urlname=biography/Einstein.html | title=Albert Einstein}} Talk
The Encyclopedia of World History at Bartleby.com {{worldhistory|section=|quote=}}	section – the portion between http://www.bartleby.com/67/ and .html in the URL of the page you wish to cite. For example, if I wished to cite http://www.bartleby.com/67/716.html, the section is 716. quote – What do you want the first part of the included text to read. The default is Citation. Example: {{worldhistory|section=716|quote=Diderot's encyclopedia banned in 1751}} Creates:
USGS Geographic Names Information System {{Cite gnis|id|name|type=}}	Example: {{Cite gnis|2410240|Cotati}} Creates: Template:Cite gnis
USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature {{Gpn|id|name}}	Example: {{Gpn|65876|Stickney}} Creates: Template:Gpn
UDOT Traffic Statistics {{UDOT AADT|year=}}	Example: {{UDOT AADT|year=2023}} Creates: Template:UDOT AADT

Citations of generic sources

{{Wikipedia:Citation templates}} Template:Wikipedia template messages