Template:BLP sources/doc

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This is a documentation subpage for Template:BLP sources.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

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If you plan to make major changes to this template, move it, or nominate it for deletion, please notify Twinkle's users/maintainers at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle as a courtesy, as this template is used by the standard installation of Twinkle. Thank you!

Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful.

Alternatives:

In BLP articles that have no sources at all, the {{BLP unsourced}} template should be used instead.
In non-BLP articles that require additional sources, the {{refimprove}} template should be used instead.
Be bold! Consider searching for references and adding them to the article, instead of this template.
Consider not adding this template to extremely short articles.

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

Examples

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

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

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

Redirects

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>