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.
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=November 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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| {{unattributed translation}} category |
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Combined message boxes
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Verifiability and sources
Biographies of living persons
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| {{BLP living dead}} category |
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| {{BLP more footnotes needed}} category |
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| {{BLP no footnotes}} category |
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| {{BLP one source}} category |
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| {{BLP primary sources}} category |
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| {{BLP self-published}} category |
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| {{BLP sources}} category |
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| {{BLP unreferenced}} category |
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Add, improve, remove
General
| {{circular}} category |
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| {{cite check}} category |
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| {{more citations needed}} category |
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| {{no reliable sources}} category |
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| {{no significant coverage}} category |
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| {{old news}} category |
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| {{one source}} category |
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| {{only primary sources}} category |
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| {{original research}} category |
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| {{primary sources}} category |
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| {{self-published}} category |
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| {{self-sourcing examples}} category |
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| {{sources exist}} category |
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| {{spam references}} category |
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| {{synthesis}} category |
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| {{tertiary sources}} category |
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| {{third-party}} category |
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| {{unreferenced}} category |
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| {{unreliable sources}} category |
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| {{user-generated}} category |
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| {{verifiability}} category |
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| {{verify sources}} category |
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Specific
| {{media IMDb refimprove}} category |
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| {{more science citations needed}} category |
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Expansion and cleanup
| {{biblio}} category |
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| {{citation style}} category |
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| {{citations broken}} category |
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| {{cleanup bare URLs}} category |
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| {{duplicated citations}} category |
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| {{format footnotes}} category |
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| {{full citations needed}} category |
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| {{ibid}} category |
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| {{more footnotes needed}} category |
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| {{no footnotes}} category |
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| {{page numbers improve}} category |
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| {{page numbers needed}} category |
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| {{parenthetical referencing}} category |
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| {{shallow references}} category |
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| {{text-source}} category |
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Inline with article text
Links for search
| {{find sources}} |
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 |
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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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| {{DADS}} Talk |  This article incorporates public domain material from Paul E. Black. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. NIST.
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| {{DoE}} Talk | This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Energy.
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| {{FS1037C}} Talk | This article incorporates public domain material from Federal Standard 1037C. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on 22 January 2022.
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| {{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).
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| {{NASA}} Talk | This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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| {{NIST-PD}} Talk | This article incorporates public domain material from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
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| {{USGS}} Talk | This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Geological Survey.
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| {{USGovernment}} Talk | This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States government.
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United States state government attribution templates
From Category:United States State government attribution templates:
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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.
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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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| {{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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| {{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.
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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 |
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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.
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| {{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. |
| USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature {{Gpn|id|name}} |
Example: {{Gpn|65876|Stickney}} |
Citations of generic sources
Categories:
- CS1 maint: ID limit load fail
- Wikipedia articles incorporating material from the United States Department of Energy
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Federal Standard 1037C
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from MIL-STD-188
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from NASA
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Geological Survey
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government
- CS1 errors: missing title
- CS1 English-language sources (en)
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Jargon File
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Nordisk familjebok
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Russian Biographical Dictionary
- Citation and verifiability maintenance templates