Usage[edit]

((Primary sources section|date=April 2024))

Parameters[edit]

There are four parameters, all optional:

|date= : month and year the section was last checked for references; e.g., |date=April 2024
|talk= : discussion section on the talk page.
|find= : search keywords for ((find sources)) param 1 (double-quoted search). This optional parameter adds a set of links produced by the ((find sources)) template to the output. If omitted, no "find sources" links are displayed.
|find2= : search keywords for ((find sources)) param 2 (unquoted search). Alias: unquoted.

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Date: As with most cleanup templates, the |date= parameter sorts the article into subcategories of Category:Articles lacking reliable references, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. You do not need to specify the date manually; a bot will add it later automatically.

Find and find2

Generally follows the usage and values as described at Template:Primary sources#Parameters.
Suggested usage: |find=Article title and |find2=Section header. This will often yield the best results if the article title is limited to one or two words (e.g., "French Revolution"), or if longer than two words, if it is a set expression unlikely to vary (e.g., "Frankie Goes to Hollywood"). For descriptive titles that are longer than two words, it is often better to limit param |find= to just one or two words, and use the remaining keywords as part of unquoted search in |find2=.
There is one main difference in usage between this template and ((Primary sources)): in this template, the default if no parameters are given is |find=none; this is because the normal default at article level is the article title, but that wouldn't yield good results for find sources links in individual sections; the most important words of the section header should be included in the "find" search keywords.
The combination of |find=none and |find2=any value is invalid.

Template data[edit]

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Primary sources section in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Primary sources section

This template alerts people to an article section containing encyclopedic content which appears to rely too much on primary sources.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
This template prefers block formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Month and year	`date`	As with most cleanup templates, the date= parameter sorts the article into subcategories of Category:Articles lacking reliable references, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. You do not need to specify the date manually; a bot will add it later automatically. Auto value `((subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME)) ((subst:CURRENTYEAR))`	String	suggested
Talk	`talk`	Name of talk page section	String	optional
Find	`find`	Search keywords for 'find sources' double-quoted (exact) search. May be one or more words. Leave empty to suppress 'find sources' output. Example Jane Austen	String	optional
Find2	`find2` `unquoted`	Search keywords for 'find sources' unquoted search. Example early life	String	optional

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Sourcing	((Circular)) ((Dubious)) ((Excessive citations)) ((Further reading cleanup)) ((More citations needed)) ((More citations needed section)) ((More footnotes needed)) ((No footnotes)) ((No significant coverage)) ((One source)) ((One source section)) ((Only primary sources)) ((NRIS only)) ((Primary sources)) ((Primary sources section)) ((Religious text primary)) ((Self-published)) ((Self-reference cleanup)) ((Self-sourcing examples)) ((Refexample section)) ((Sources exist)) ((Text-source)) ((Third-party)) ((Unreferenced)) ((Unreferenced section)) ((Unreferenced category)) ((Unreliable sources)) ((Unreliable sources section)) ((User-generated))
BLP-specific	((BLP unreferenced)) ((BLP unreferenced 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)) ((Disputed chem)) ((Disputed list)) ((Disputed map)) ((Expert needed)) ((Hoax)) ((Original research)) ((Original research section)) ((Speculation)) ((Speculation section)) ((Synthesis)) ((Verifiability)) ((Verify sources))
Citation improvements	((Citation style)) ((Citations broken)) ((Cleanup bare URLs)) ((Format footnotes)) ((Full citations needed)) ((Ibid)) ((Page numbers improve)) ((Page numbers needed)) ((Shallow references))
General advice	Citing sources Reliable sources Maintenance template removal Citation needed Find sources Combining sources Referencing styles

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