Template:Irrelevant citation
Usage
You may use either one of the following:
{{irrelevant citation|{{subst:DATE}}|reason=Optional BRIEF explanation of the problem; if over 1 sentence, use talk page.}}
or
{{irrelevant citation|date=April 2024|reason=Optional BRIEF explanation of the problem; if over 1 sentence, use talk page.}}
The tag is used inline in the prose immediately after the questionable reference citation (after </ref>
).
This inline template is similar to {{
Citation problems that trigger the need for this template are most often good-faith attempts to provide source citations, that fail because of less than careful processing of the information in the source or because of assumptions and improper correlation. If it appears systemic and willful, consider use a tag relating to
{{Original research}}
(banner). In particularly bad cases, mark the article {{Disputed
This template categorizes tagged articles into Category:All articles lacking reliable references and (when dated) into the appropriate subcategory of Category:Articles lacking reliable references. This is a milder categorization than {{failed verification}}
's Category:All articles with unsourced statements.
TemplateData
TemplateData for Irrelevant citation
This inline template indicates that, following an attempt to verify, a source is not relevant to the material that cites it as a reference, rather than blatantly falsified.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Reason | reason | An optional brief explanation of the problem. If it is over one sentence, use the talk page.
| String | suggested |
Month and year | date | Provides the month and year of the citation request; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'
| Unknown | suggested |
Talk page | talk talk page | The section name for a related discussion on the talk page, which adds a link to the talk page discussion in the inline tag; e.g., [irrelevant citation (See discussion.)]
| String | optional |
See also
- Template:Failed verification, for cases where the source does not say what the article claims it does
- Template:Verify credibility, for cases where reliability of the source is an open question
- Template:Relevance-inline, for cases where the irrelevancy is in the prose, and not a sourcing issue
- Wikipedia:Citing sources, especially Unsourced material
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check