Elite Dangerous Wiki:Template index/Sources of articles

This index documents local templates. Follow this wiki's local policies and guidance when using the examples.

See also: Citing sources and Project:Responsible tagging

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 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 Article scope. 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
{{unattributed translation}} category links talk edit

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

Verifiability and sources

Transcluded from Project:Template index/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources

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
{{DADS}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from Paul E. Black. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. NIST.
{{DoE}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Energy.
{{FS1037C}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from Federal Standard 1037C. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on 22 January 2022.
{{FS1037C MS188}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from Federal Standard 1037C. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. (in support of MIL-STD-188).
{{NASA}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
{{NIST-PD}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
{{USGS}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Geological Survey.
{{USGovernment}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States government.

United States state government attribution templates

From Category:United States State government attribution templates:

Template	Display

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	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	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	This section incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Encyclopædia Britannica (in English) (11th ed.). 1911. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)	Articles at the end of a section
{{WD1913}} Talk	This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Porter, Noah, ed. (1913). Webster's Dictionary. Springfield, Massachusetts: C. & G. Merriam Co. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)	Articles near bottom
{{DNB}} Talk	This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Dictionary of National Biography (in English). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)	Articles near bottom
{{GSE}} Talk	GSE: {{{1}}}	Articles near bottom
{{JargonFile}} Talk	This article is based in part on the Jargon File, which is in the public domain.	Articles near bottom
{{Owl}} Talk	This article contains content from the Owl Edition of Nordisk familjebok, a Swedish encyclopedia published between 1904 and 1926, now in the public domain.	Articles near bottom
{{RBD}} Talk	This article includes content derived from the Russian Biographical Dictionary, 1896–1918.	Articles near bottom
{{Vectorsite}} Talk	The initial version of this article was based on a public domain article from Greg Goebel's Vectorsite.	Articles Reference

Wikis

For interwiki translation and other copying, see Copying within this wiki.

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes

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 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 PMID.

What to type	What it makes
{{Gutenberg | no=6656 | name=The Kiltartan Poetry Book}} Talk	The Kiltartan Poetry Book at Project Gutenberg
{{MathWorld | urlname=PetersenGraph | title=Petersen Graph}} Talk	Weisstein, Eric W. "Petersen Graph". MathWorld.
{{ScienceWorld | urlname=biography/Einstein.html | title=Albert Einstein}} Talk	Weisstein, Eric Wolfgang (ed.). "Albert Einstein". ScienceWorld.
USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature {{Gpn|id|name}}	Example: {{Gpn|65876|Stickney}} Creates: "Stickney". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.

Citations of generic sources

Transcluded from Citation templates

Citation guidance