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 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=November 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

See also: Elite Dangerous Wiki:Verifiability, Elite Dangerous Wiki:No original research, Elite Dangerous Wiki:Reliable sources, and Elite Dangerous Wiki:Citing sources

Biographies of living persons

Tag	Text that will be shown (and usage notes)
{{BLP living dead}} category links talk edit
{{BLP more footnotes needed}} category links talk edit
{{BLP no footnotes}} category links talk edit
{{BLP one source}} category links talk edit
{{BLP primary sources}} category links talk edit
{{BLP self-published}} category links talk edit
{{BLP sources}} category links talk edit
{{BLP unreferenced}} category links talk edit

Add, improve, remove

General

{{circular}} category links talk edit
{{cite check}} category links talk edit
{{more citations needed}} category links talk edit
{{no reliable sources}} category links talk edit
{{no significant coverage}} category links talk edit
{{old news}} category links talk edit
{{one source}} category links talk edit
{{only primary sources}} category links talk edit
{{original research}} category links talk edit
{{primary sources}} category links talk edit
{{self-published}} category links talk edit
{{self-sourcing examples}} category links talk edit
{{sources exist}} category links talk edit
{{spam references}} category links talk edit
{{synthesis}} category links talk edit
{{tertiary sources}} category links talk edit
{{third-party}} category links talk edit
{{unreferenced}} category links talk edit
{{unreliable sources}} category links talk edit
{{user-generated}} category links talk edit
{{verifiability}} category links talk edit
{{verify sources}} category links talk edit

Specific

{{media IMDb refimprove}} category links talk edit
{{more science citations needed}} category links talk edit

Expansion and cleanup

{{biblio}} category links talk edit
{{citation style}} category links talk edit
{{citations broken}} category links talk edit
{{cleanup bare URLs}} category links talk edit
{{duplicated citations}} category links talk edit
{{format footnotes}} category links talk edit
{{full citations needed}} category links talk edit
{{ibid}} category links talk edit
{{more footnotes needed}} category links talk edit
{{no footnotes}} category links talk edit
{{page numbers improve}} category links talk edit
{{page numbers needed}} category links talk edit
{{parenthetical referencing}} category links talk edit
{{shallow references}} category links talk edit
{{text-source}} category links talk edit

Inline with article text

{{according to whom}} links talk edit
{{additional citation needed}} links talk edit
{{attribution needed}} links talk edit
{{better source needed}} links talk edit
{{better source needed example}} links talk edit	Links to self-sourcing examples
{{by whom}} links talk edit
{{chronology citation needed}} links talk edit
{{circular reference}} links talk edit	When the sources copy Elite Dangerous Wiki material directly
{{circular reporting}} links talk edit	For the subtler case when you suspect the sources are based on facts first published at Elite Dangerous Wiki, but they didn't copy it directly
{{citation needed}} links talk edit
{{citation needed span}} links talk edit	The sun is hot.
{{clarify}} links talk edit
{{copyvio link}} links talk edit
{{dead link}} links talk edit
{{disambiguation needed}} links talk edit
{{disputed inline}} links talk edit
{{dubious}} links talk edit
{{episode needed}} links talk edit
{{example needed}} links talk edit
{{example needed span}} links talk edit	This is a claim that needs one or more examples.
{{excessive citations inline}} category links talk edit	For abuse of citations, per Citation overkill.
{{explain}} links talk edit
{{failed verification}} links talk edit
{{full citation needed}} links talk edit
{{how}} links talk edit
{{medical citation needed}} links talk edit
{{medical citation needed span}} links talk edit	This is an uncited biomedical claim.
{{nonspecific}} links talk edit
{{not verified in body}} links talk edit
{{original research inline}} links talk edit
{{page needed}} links talk edit
{{primary source inline}} links talk edit
{{quantify}} links talk edit
{{quote without source}} links talk edit
{{registration required}} category links talk edit	(registration required)
{{request quotation}} links talk edit
{{season needed}} links talk edit
{{self-published inline}} category links talk edit
{{self-published source}} category links talk edit
{{specify}} category links talk edit
{{synthesis inline}} links talk edit
{{third-party inline}} links talk edit
{{unreliable medical source}} links talk edit
{{unreliable source?}} links talk edit
{{update after}} links talk edit
{{user-generated inline}} category links talk edit
{{user-generated source}} category links talk edit
{{vague}} links talk edit
{{verify quote}} links talk edit
{{verify source}} links talk edit
{{volume needed}} links talk edit
{{when}} links talk edit
{{where}} links talk edit
{{which}} links talk edit
{{who}} links talk edit
{{whose quote}} links talk edit
{{why}} links talk edit
{{year missing}} links talk edit	Use when the year of publication of a source is needed
{{year needed}} links talk edit	Use when the date of an event is needed

Links for search

{{find sources}} links talk edit	Find sources: Google (books⧼Dot-separator⧽news⧼Dot-separator⧽scholar⧼Dot-separator⧽free images⧼Dot-separator⧽WP refs)⧼Dot-separator⧽FENS⧼Dot-separator⧽JSTOR⧼Dot-separator⧽TWL
{{search}} links talk edit	( wp g b )

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	This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Air Force
{{AFHRA}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
{{Bioguide}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Federal government of the United States.
{{CDC}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
{{CIA World Factbook}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook (2025 ed.). CIA.
{{USCG}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Coast Guard.
{{Country study}} Talk	This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Country Studies. Federal Research Division.
{{DADS}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from Paul E. Black. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. NIST.
{{DANFS}} Talk	This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
{{DHS}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Homeland Security.
{{DoE}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Energy.
{{FJC Bio}} Talk	John Joseph Gibbons at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
{{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).
{{GHR}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from Genetics Home Reference. United States National Library of Medicine.
{{Marine Corps}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Marine Corps.
{{NARA}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Archives and Records Administration.
{{NASA}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
{{NCBI-handbook}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from NCBI Handbook. National Center for Biotechnology Information.
{{NCBI-scienceprimer}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from Science Primer. NCBI. Archived from the original on 8 December 2009.
{{NCI-cancer-dict}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from Dictionary of Cancer Terms. U.S. National Cancer Institute.
{{NHC}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
{{NIMH}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Institute of Mental Health.
{{NIOSH}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
{{NIST-PD}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
{{NLM content}} Talk	This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.
{{NPS}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Park Service.
{{NTSB}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Transportation Safety Board.
{{NVR}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from the Naval Vessel Register.
{{OSGguide}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Solicitor General of the United States.
{{Recreation.Gov}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from Recreation.gov. Federal government of the United States.
{{US DOS}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of State.
{{US DOS Background Notes}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.
{{US Army}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Army.
{{USACE.Army.Mil}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
{{USDA}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Agriculture.
{{HHS content}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
{{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.
{{USGovernment-Navy}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Navy.
{{USGovernment-courts}} Talk	This article incorporates written opinion of a United States federal court. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the text is in the public domain.
{{Usgs-gazetteer}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from [ " "]. Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. {{citation}}: Check |url= value (help)

United States state government attribution templates

From Category:United States State government attribution templates:

Template	Display
{{CAGovernment}}	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}}	This article incorporates text from {{{sourceURL}}}, a public domain work of the Government of Florida.
{{Geological Survey of California}}	Geological Survey of California (1865). Geology. Caxton Press of Sherman & Co. p. {{{1}}}.
{{Include-ILCS}}	This article incorporates public domain material from the Illinois Compiled Statutes.
{{Natural Wealth of California}}	Cronise, Titus Fey (1868). The Natural Wealth of California: Comprising Early History; Geography, Topography, and Scenery; Climate; Agriculture and Commercial Products; Geology, Zoology, and Botany; Mineralogy, Mines, and Mining Processes; Manufactures; Steamship Lines, Railroads, and Commerce; Immigration, Population and Society; Educational Institutions and Literature; Together with a Detailed Description of Each County; Its Topography, Scenery, Cities and Towns, Agricultural Advantages, Mineral Resources, and Varied Productions. H.H. Bancroft & Company.
{{NHStateBuilders}}	This article incorporates text from the 1903 State Builders; An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century by George Franklyn Willey, a book now in the public domain. Please feel free to update the text but please maintain the proper citations on the information from that source.

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
{{A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature}} Talk	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	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	This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wace, Henry; Piercy, William C., eds. (1911). Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century (3rd ed.). London: John Murray. {{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
{{Eastons}} Talk	This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)	Articles at top
{{Etude}} Talk		Articles near bottom
{{Gray's}} Talk	This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)	Articles near bottom
{{Grocers}} Talk	This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ward, Artemas (1911). "The Grocer's Encyclopedia". The Grocer's Encyclopedia.	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
{{JewishEncyclopedia}} Talk	This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)	Articles near bottom
{{KeyTarot}} Talk	This article incorporates text from the public domain 1910 book The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite. Please feel free to update the text.	Articles near bottom
{{NHC}} Talk	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command.	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
{{Schaff-Herzog}} Talk	This article incorporates text from a publication in the public domain: Jackson, Samuel Macauley, ed. (1914). New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)	Articles near bottom
{{SeyffertDCA}} Talk	This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Classical Antiquities by Oskar Seyffert, edited by Henry Nettleship and J. E. Sandys (1894).	Articles near bottom
{{SmithDGRA}} Talk	This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. London: John Murray. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)	Articles near bottom
{{DGRBM}} Talk	This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)	Articles near bottom
{{DGRG}} Talk	This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.	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 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	This article was originally based on one in Camerapedia, retrieved at an unknown date under the GNU Free Documentation License.	Articles bottom
{{FOLDOC}} Talk	This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.	Articles near bottom
{{OpenHistory}} Talk	This article incorporates text from OpenHistory.	Articles near bottom
{{wookieepedia content}} Talk		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 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
{{ITIS|ID=|taxon=|accessdate=}} Talk	"Genus species". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 January 2004.
{{FishBase species|genus=|species=|year=|month=}} Talk	Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Genus species". FishBase. January 2004 version.
{{FishBase species alt|ID=|taxon=|year=|month=}} Talk	Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2004). Genus species in FishBase. January 2004 version.
{{FishBase_genus|genus=|year=|month=}} Talk	Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Genus". FishBase. Month Year version.
{{FishBase family|family=|year=|month=}} Talk	Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Family". FishBase. Month Year version.
{{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	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.
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: Stearns, Peter N. (ed.). Encyclopedia of World History (6th ed.). The Houghton Mifflin Company/Bartleby.com. Diderot's encyclopedia banned in 1751
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: "Stickney". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
UDOT Traffic Statistics {{UDOT AADT|year=}}	Example: {{UDOT AADT|year=2023}} Creates: "Traffic Statistics". udot.utah.gov. Utah Department of Transportation. 2023.

Citations of generic sources

Transcluded from Citation templates

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