Elite Dangerous Wiki:Template index/Sources of articles

This index is adapted from Wikipedia. Examples and linked guidance may describe its processes; check that each template and its instructions apply here before using it.

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 Project:Template index/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 Elite Dangerous Wiki 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=October 2026}} to produce this:

Overarching copyright issues

Tag	Text that will be shown (and usage notes)
{{copypaste}} category links talk edit	Template:Copypaste
{{unattributed translation}} category links talk edit	Template:Unattributed translation

Combined message boxes

Tag	Text that will be shown (and usage notes) — multiple issues (top of article)
{{multiple issues}} links talk edit

Tag	Text that will be shown (and usage notes) — multiple issues (section)
{{multiple issues|section=yes}} links talk edit

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
{{US Air Force}} Talk	Template:US Air Force
{{AFHRA}} Talk	Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
{{Bioguide}} Talk	Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Federal government of the United States.
{{CDC}} Talk	Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
{{CIA World Factbook}} Talk	Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook (2025 ed.). CIA.
{{USCG}} Talk	Template:USCG
{{Country study}} Talk	Template:Country study
{{DADS}} Talk	Template:DADS
{{DANFS}} Talk	Template:DANFS
{{DHS}} Talk	Template:DHS
{{DoE}} Talk	Template:DoE
{{FJC Bio}} Talk	Template:FJC Bio
{{FS1037C}} Talk	Template:FS1037C
{{FS1037C MS188}} Talk	Template:FS1037C MS188
{{GHR}} Talk	Template:GHR
{{Marine Corps}} Talk	Template:Marine Corps
{{NARA}} Talk	Template:NARA
{{NASA}} Talk	REDIRECT Template:NASA
{{NCBI-handbook}} Talk	Template:NCBI-handbook
{{NCBI-scienceprimer}} Talk	Template:NCBI-scienceprimer
{{NCI-cancer-dict}} Talk	Template:NCI-cancer-dict
{{NHC}} Talk	Template:NHC
{{NIMH}} Talk	Template:NIMH
{{NIOSH}} Talk	Template:NIOSH
{{NIST-PD}} Talk	Template:NIST-PD
{{NLM content}} Talk	Template:NLM content
{{NPS}} Talk	Template:NPS
{{NTSB}} Talk	Template:NTSB
{{NVR}} Talk	Template:NVR
{{OSGguide}} Talk	Template:OSGguide
{{Recreation.Gov}} Talk	Template:Recreation.Gov
{{US DOS}} Talk	Template:US DOS
{{US DOS Background Notes}} Talk	Template:US DOS Background Notes
{{US Army}} Talk	Template:US Army
{{USACE.Army.Mil}} Talk	Template:USACE.Army.Mil
{{USDA}} Talk	Template:USDA
{{HHS content}} Talk	Template:HHS content
{{USGS}} Talk	Template:USGS
{{USGovernment}} Talk	Template:USGovernment
{{USGovernment-Navy}} Talk	Template:USGovernment-Navy
{{USGovernment-courts}} Talk	Template:USGovernment-courts
{{Usgs-gazetteer}} Talk	Template:Usgs-gazetteer

United States state government attribution templates

From Category:United States State government attribution templates:

Template	Display
{{CAGovernment}}	File:PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from {{{sourceURL}}}, a public domain work of the Government of California.
{{California tourist guide}}	Drury, Wells; Drury, Aubrey (1913). California tourist guide and handbook: authentic description of routes of travel and points of interest in California. Western guidebook company. p. {{{1}}}. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
{{FLGovernment}}	Template:FLGovernment
{{Geological Survey of California}}	Template:Geological Survey of California
{{Include-ILCS}}	Template:Include-ILCS
{{Natural Wealth of California}}	Template:Natural Wealth of California
{{NHStateBuilders}}	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
{{1728}} Talk	Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)	Articles near bottom
{{1771 Britannica}} Talk	Public Domain This article incorporates text from the 1771 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.	Articles near bottom
{{1911}} Talk	This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (in English) (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)	Articles near bottom
{{Sect1911}} Talk	Template:Sect1911	Articles at the end of a section
{{WD1913}} Talk	Template:WD1913	Articles near bottom
{{A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature}} Talk	Wikisource reference This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.	Articles near bottom
{{Catholic}} Talk	File:PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)	Articles near bottom
{{DCBL}} Talk	Template:DCBL	Articles near bottom
{{DNB}} Talk	Template:DNB	Articles near bottom
{{Eastons}} Talk	Template:Eastons	Articles at top
{{Etude}} Talk	Template:Etude	Articles near bottom
{{Gray's}} Talk	Template:Gray's	Articles near bottom
{{Grocers}} Talk	Template:Grocers	Articles near bottom
{{GSE}} Talk	Template:GSE	Articles near bottom
{{JargonFile}} Talk	Template:JargonFile	Articles near bottom
{{JewishEncyclopedia}} Talk	Template:JewishEncyclopedia	Articles near bottom
{{KeyTarot}} Talk	Template:KeyTarot	Articles near bottom
{{NHC}} Talk	Template:NHC	Articles near bottom
{{Owl}} Talk	Template:Owl	Articles near bottom
{{RBD}} Talk	Template:RBD	Articles near bottom
{{Schaff-Herzog}} Talk	Template:Schaff-Herzog	Articles near bottom
{{SeyffertDCA}} Talk	Template:SeyffertDCA	Articles near bottom
{{SmithDGRA}} Talk	Template:SmithDGRA	Articles near bottom
{{DGRBM}} Talk	Template:DGRBM	Articles near bottom
{{DGRG}} Talk	Template:DGRG	Articles near bottom
{{Vectorsite}} Talk	Template:Vectorsite	Articles Reference

Wikis

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

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{Citizendium}} Talk	This article incorporates material from the Citizendium article "Template index/Sources of articles", which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License but not under the GFDL.	Articles near bottom
{{from Camerapedia}} Talk	Template:From Camerapedia	Articles bottom
{{FOLDOC}} Talk	Template:FOLDOC	Articles near bottom
{{OpenHistory}} Talk	Template:OpenHistory	Articles near bottom
{{wookieepedia content}} Talk	Template:Wookieepedia content	Talk pages

Citations of specific sources

Notes:

• See also Project:Template index/Links#External links for components of online citations such as DOIs.
• ISBNs are autolinked by the Elite Dangerous Wiki 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
{{FishBase_genus|genus=|year=|month=}} Talk
{{FishBase family|family=|year=|month=}} Talk
{{Cite iucn|author=|title=|year=|ID=}} Talk	Lastname, Firstname Initial (2022). "Title". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022. 1234.
{{Gutenberg | no=6656 | name=The Kiltartan Poetry Book}} Talk	Template:Gutenberg
{{MathWorld | urlname=PetersenGraph | title=Petersen Graph}} Talk	Template:MathWorld
{{ScienceWorld | urlname=biography/Einstein.html | title=Albert Einstein}} Talk	Template:ScienceWorld
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: Template:Worldhistory
USGS Geographic Names Information System {{Cite gnis|id|name|type=}}	Example: {{Cite gnis|2410240|Cotati}} Creates: "Cotati". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
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

Template:Hatnote {{Wikipedia:Citation templates}}

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