Template:Unreliable sources

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Usage

Add {{Unreliable sources|date=March 2025}} to the top of the article, below any hatnotes.

Consider tagging any specific statements with potentially unreliable sources with {{Verify credibility|date=March 2025}} before tagging the whole article with this template.

This template can be used for sections by placing it at the top of a section like this: {{Unreliable sources|section|date=March 2025}}

This template adds tagged articles to Category:Articles lacking reliable references, or one of its dated subcategories.

If you want to specify that only some, but not all of the used sources are possibly unreliable, add some=yes. If IMDb is one of the sources, add imdb=yes.

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{{Badsources}}
{{Reliable sources}}
{{Reliable-sources}}
{{Reliablesources}}
{{Unreliable}}
{{Unreliablesources}}

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BLP-specific	{{BLP unsourced}} {{BLP unsourced section}} {{BLP primary sources}} {{BLP self-published}} {{BLP sources}} {{BLP sources section}} {{BLP IMDb-only refimprove}} {{BLP IMDb refimprove}} {{BLP no footnotes}} {{BLP more footnotes needed}} {{BLP one source}}
Topic specific	{{Localist}} {{Media IMDb refimprove}} {{More medical citations needed}} {{More science citations needed}} {{Neologism}} {{Science review}} {{Unreferenced-law}} {{Unreferenced-law section}} {{Unreferenced-medical section}}
Dispute-related	{{Cite check}} {{Cite check section}} {{Content}} {{Disputed}} {{Dispute about}} {{Disputed section}} {{Expert needed}} {{Hoax}} {{Original research}} {{Original research section}} {{Speculation}} {{Speculation section}} {{Synthesis}} {{Verifiability}} {{Verify sources}}
Citation improvements	{{Bad linked references}} {{Citation style}} {{Citations broken}} {{Cleanup bare URLs}} {{Format footnotes}} {{Full citations needed}} {{Ibid}} {{Page numbers improve}} {{Page numbers needed}}
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