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Usage

This template is intended to be placed at the top of articles about living persons that need additional references, and therefore in need of immediate attention. If the article is not about a living or recently deceased subject, you may wish to use {{Refimprove}} instead.

Please add a date parameter. Adding a date parameter sorts the article into subcategories of Category:BLP articles lacking sources and out of the parent category, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first.

Finally, if the article has a defaultsort, this is used for these categories as well. Otherwise, it is sorted on the first word (usually the first name).

Parameters

• date = November 2024 - required parameter, will be added by bot
• reason = text - optional parameter which appends advisory text

Examples

Paste-ready example: {{BLP sources|date=November 2024}}

Example with reason: {{BLP sources|date=November 2024|reason=}}

This template can be used with a "section" parameter to tag specific sections: {{BLP sources|section|date=November 2024}}

Redirects

1. {{BLP Improvereferences}}
2. {{BLP improvereferences}}
3. {{blp improvereferences}}
4. {{BLPImprovereferences}}
5. {{BLPimprovereferences}}
6. {{blpimprovereferences}}
7. {{BLPmoreref}}
8. {{BLP Refimprove}}
9. {{BLP refimprove}}
10. {{blp refimprove}}
11. {{BLPRefimprove}}
12. {{BLPrefimprove}}
13. {{blprefimprove}}
14. {{BLP Sources}}
15. {{blp sources}}
16. {{BLPSources}}
17. {{BLPsources}}
18. {{blpsources}}
19. {{BLP more sources}}
20. {{refimprove-BLP}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

BLP sources

<templatedata>{ "description": "A template to display that a biography of a living person needs additional sources", "params": {

 "date": {
   "label": "Date",
   "description": "The month and year the template was added, in the form \"July 2013\"",
   "type": "string",
   "required": false
 },
 "reason": {
   "label": "Reason",
   "description": "A reason for adding the tag",
   "type": "string",
   "required": false
 },
 "1": {
   "label": "Suffix",
   "aliases": ["suffix"],
   "description": "Add \"section\" if the tag applies to a particular section",
   "type": "string",
   "required": false
 }

}}</templatedata>

See also

• {{Refimprove}} – for non-BLP articles
• {{BLP unsourced}} – for BLP articles that don't have any sources at all
• {{BLP primary sources}} – for BLP articles that only have primary sources
• {{BLP unverified}} – for stubbing inadequately referenced BLPs
• {{BLP noticeboard}} – for BLP articles that are being discussed on the BLP noticeboard
• {{BLP IMDb refimprove}} – for BLP articles that primarily use IMDb as a source
• {{No footnotes}} – for articles that refer to sources but lack inline citations
• Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
• Wikipedia:Verifiability