Template:Primary sources/doc

Use this template to tag information or analysis that you believe is improperly or unnecessarily supported by a primary source, so that other editors can see whether this use is appropriate or replace it with a citation to a secondary source.

Usage

 * for entire articles
 * for sections

Substitution of this template will automatically fill the date parameter.

Optional find parameters are available, for modifying the operation of the find sources links displayed by the template:

This template will categorize tagged articles into Category:Articles lacking reliable references.

There is currently no consensus on where in the article to place templates such as this.

When to use
The presence of primary sources in an article doesn't mean the article must be tagged. Primary sources may be used on Wikipedia, but they need to be handled with care.

Whether a source is independent is a different concept from whether it is a primary source. To tag an article as lacking sufficient independent sources, use the template instead.

Parameters
There are five parameters, one positional, and four named parameters. All parameters are optional.


 * 1 – scope of notification (e.g., 'paragraph', 'section', 'article', etc.) default: 'article'. see Details.
 * date – month name and year; e.g. 'August 2024' (no default)
 * talk – section or fullpage id of discussion
 * find – search keywords for find sources param 1 (double-quoted search); default: page title. See details below.
 * find2 – search keywords for find sources param 2 (unquoted search). Alias: . See below.

Details
Positional parameter 1
 * Positional parameter 1 is the 'type' parameter, which may be set to paragraph or section or any string value.

Date parameter:
 * The date parameter is (generally ) used to indicate when the template was added to a page. An example of its usage is . Adding this parameter sorts the article into monthly subcategories of Category:Articles lacking sources, rather than adding it to the category itself, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. If the date parameter is omitted, a bot will add it later.

Find parameters:
 * There are two 'find' parameters available to control the presentation and operation of the find sources links optionally displayed by the Primary sources template. By default, the template displays find sources with a quoted search query equivalent to the exact article title. Sometimes, especially if the article has a long, descriptive title, or if it includes parenthetical disambiguation terms, this may not give useful results. The find parameters can be used to provide the search keywords of your choice to the find sources links. Use:
 * find to specify keywords for an exact search (double-quoted query); this corresponds to find sources positional param.
 * find2 to specify keywords for an unquoted search; this corresponds to find sources param . The alias unquoted may be used instead. Note that booleans, exclusion terms (preceded by minus sign) and other search operators may be used in unquoted search (find2) if valid for the search domains:
 * ⟶ (see Examples below)
 * Param find may take the special value in order to suppress display of find sources links. (Note that specifying none and a nonempty value for find2 is not a valid combination.)

Wrappers
To tag an individual section instead of the whole article, you can use template.

If you use template BLP primary sources, it indicates that the article is a biography of a living person, and also sorts the article into subcategories of Category:BLP articles lacking sources. This serves to indicate a problem with the policy on self-published sources in biographies of living persons.

Examples


Exclusion term in unquoted search:

For Biographies of Living Persons:

Redirects
Aliases include:
 * Primary
 * Primary source
 * Primary Sources
 * Primarysource
 * Primarysources
 * PrimarySources

Aliases

 * BLP primary sources – this template with yes

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