Template:User-generated source
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Usage
{{User-generated source|date=October 2026}}
This is an inline citation cleanup template used inside <ref>...</ref> to flag a source as user-generated content (e.g. another wiki, a content farm, or a user-editable database like IMDb—in other words, a crowdsourced reference), and thus potentially unreliable, per WP:Identifying reliable sources#User-generated content (WP:Verifiability#Self-published sources and WP:Neutral point of view are also relevant, but the template's link to goes to that anchor at the reliable sources guideline).
This template will categorize tagged articles into Category:Accuracy disputes.
To flag blocks of information as questionably sourced in this manner, use Template:User-generated inline, outside of <ref>...</ref>. For whole sections or articles, use Template:Self-published.
See also
- {{User-generated inline}} – a similar inline template for flagging facts in the article as being reliant on a user-generated source or sources (use outside <ref>)
- {{Self-published source}} – a more general variant of this template for flagging the citation itself as being to some other kind of self-published source (use inside <ref>)
- {{Self-published inline}} – a similar inline template for flagging facts in the article as being reliant on some other kind of self-published source[s] (use outside <ref>)
- {{User-generated}} – an article- or section-level banner for user-generated sourcing
- {{Self-published}} – an article- or section-level banner for self-published sourcing
- {{Primary source inline}} – a similar inline template for flagging inappropriate use of a primary source
- {{Primarysources}} – an article- or section-level banner
- {{Third-party}} or {{third-party inline}}, when an independent or third-party source is needed
- {{Tertiary source inline}} – a similar inline template for flagging inappropriate use of a tertiary source
- {{Tertiary}} – for noting a citation to a tertiary source that does not sufficiently or at all cite its own sources (use inside <ref>)
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup