Template:Primary sources/doc


 * This template will categorize tagged articles into Category:Articles lacking reliable references.
 * There is currently no consensus on where on the article to place templates such as this.

When to use
Use this template to "tag" information or analysis that you believe is improperly or unnecessarily supported by a primary source, so that other editors can see whether this use is appropriate or replace it with a citation to a secondary source. There is no need to do so. Primary sources may be used on Wikipedia, but they need to be handled with care.

"Primary source" does not mean that the author is too closely affiliated with the subject. As a general rule, primary sources include all scientific journal articles about experiments, as well as news reports and other documents dating from around the time of an event. To tag an article as lacking independent reliable sources, use the template instead.

How to use
This template also has several optional fields.

If you pass in an unnamed parameter, it specifies which part of the article inappropriately relies solely on primary sources. By default, the entire article needs third-party sources, i.e. it's equivalent to:



To tag a specific section use:



If you pass in a date parameter ( month year ), it sorts the article into subcategories of Category:Articles lacking reliable references and out of the parent category. This in turn allows the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. If the date parameter is omitted, a bot will add it later.

You can use talk to specify a section header on the talk page.

If you use BLP primary sources (which is a wrapper for Primary sources with the  parameter), it indicates that the article is a biography of a living person, and also sorts the article into subcategories of Category:BLP articles lacking sources. This serves to indicate a problem with the policy on self-published sources in biographies of living persons.

Note that order does not matter with respect to the above optional parameters. Both  and   will produce the same result.

Examples


For Biographies of Living Persons:

Redirects
Aliases include:
 * Primary
 * Primary source
 * Primary Sources
 * Primarysource
 * Primarysources
 * PrimarySources

Aliases

 * BLP primary sources – this template with yes

TemplateData
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