Template:Citation by contributor

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This article references a source that one of the article's contributors may have written or published. Citing oneself is allowed on Wikipedia, but may represent a conflict of interest. Contributors should be careful not to place undue weight on their own work, and are discouraged from excessive self-citation. Guidelines relevant to this situation include Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view and WP:SELFPUBLISHED.

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Usage

This message should be placed only on article talk pages.

To use this template, add this code to an article’s talk page:

{{Citation by contributor|username|citation|declared=yes or no}}

Where username is the person's Wikipedia username, and citation is the full citation or a completed citation template.

Example

{{Citation by contributor|Example|{{cite news|...}}|declared=yes}}

This produces:

This article references a source that one of the article's contributors wrote or published. Citing oneself is allowed on Wikipedia, but may represent a conflict of interest. Contributors should be careful not to place undue weight on their own work, and are discouraged from excessive self-citation. Guidelines relevant to this situation include Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view and WP:SELFPUBLISHED.

Example (talk⧼dot-separator⧽contribs) — Jardine, Cassandra (5 August 2004). "The return of the secondary modern". The Daily Telegraph. London.

See also

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