Template:Medical citation needed span
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Usage
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The {{medical citation needed span}} template may be used when there is unsourced text that should be
Avoid use for multiple paragraphs or around a list without closing and opening each template around each paragraph or list item. This kind of use causes
Once a citation is added, please remove this template from the surrounded text.
{{medical citation needed span|date=April 2024|text=Passage(s) to be sourced to medical citations}}
The date is optional, so the minimal syntax is:
{{medical citation needed span|text=Passage(s) to be sourced}}
Example of usage:
Sourced material.{{medical citation needed span|date=April 2024|text=Passage to be sourced. Another passage to be sourced.}}More sourced material.
- Sourced material. Passage to be sourced. Another passage to be sourced.[medical citation needed] More sourced material.
Compare usage of {{Medical citation needed}}:
Sourced material. Passage to be sourced.{{Medical citation needed}}Another passage to be sourced.{{Medical citation needed}}More sourced material.
- Sourced material. Passage to be sourced.[medical citation needed] Another passage to be sourced.[medical citation needed] More sourced material.
Parameters
There are three parameters to the template:
|text=- The unreferenced content that needs a citation.
|date=- The date in the form
April 2024.If omitted, AnomieBOT will add it if there are no new edits for a few minutes. |reason=- The reason for the citation request. If omitted, "This claim needs references to reliable medical sources." will be used. This text is shown as a tooltip.
TemplateData
TemplateData for Medical citation needed span
Marks a specific piece of text as needing a citation.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | text 1 | The biomedical claim needing a citation
| Content | required |
| Date | date | Month and year the tag was added
| Date | suggested |
| Reason? | reason | Reason the text needs a citation; shown in a tooltip
| String | suggested |
Categorization of articles
Adding this template to an article places the article into Category:All articles with unsourced statements, Category:Articles with unsourced statements, and/or dated subcategories thereof.
See also
- {{Medical citation needed}} – equivalent which does not precisely identify the problematic text
- {{medical references
- {{Unreliable medical source}} – adds: [unreliable medical source?]
- {{Reliable medical sources please}} – a note for user talk pages with links to WP:MEDRS
Policies, guidelines, essays, and WikiProjects
Medicine-specific
- Vickers, Tim and Eubulides (30 June 2008). "Dispatches: Sources in biology and medicine"". The Wikipedia Signpost.
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (science)
- Wikipedia:Reliable source examples § Physical sciences and medicine
- Wikipedia:Current science and technology sources
- Wikipedia:Conflicts of interest (medicine)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Resources, external resources useful for writing medicine related content