Elite Dangerous Wiki:Template index/Sources of articles
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 Wikipedia:Template messages/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 Wikipedia 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:
This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. |
Overarching copyright issues
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Combined message boxes
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Verifiability and sources
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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.
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| {{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 [Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "{". " "]. Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. {{citation}}: Check |url= value (help) Lua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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United States state government attribution templates
From Category:United States State government attribution templates:
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
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| {{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)
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| {{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)
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| {{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)
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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)
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| {{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)
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| {{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)
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| {{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)
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| {{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)
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| {{Etude}} Talk |
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| {{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)
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| {{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)
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| {{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)
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| {{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)
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| {{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 Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.
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| {{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 |
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Citations of specific sources
Notes:
- See also Wikipedia:Template messages/Links#External links for components of online citations such as DOIs.
- ISBNs are autolinked by the Wikipedia 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 |
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| {{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. {{cite iucn}}: error: no identifier (help) |
| {{Gutenberg | no=6656 | name=The Kiltartan Poetry Book}} Talk |
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| {{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=}} |
Example: {{worldhistory|section=716|quote=Diderot's encyclopedia banned in 1751}} |
| USGS Geographic Names Information System {{Cite gnis|id|name|type=}} |
Example: {{Cite gnis|2410240|Cotati}} |
| USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature {{Gpn|id|name}} |
Example: {{Gpn|65876|Stickney}} |
| UDOT Traffic Statistics {{UDOT AADT|year=}} |
Example: {{UDOT AADT|year=2023}} |
Citations of generic sources
{{Wikipedia:Citation templates}}