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Documentationview • edit • history • ⧼Code-rev-purge-link⧽This documentation is transcluded from Template:Onesource/doc.
Template:Template doc page transcluded The simplest way to add this template to an article is to copy and paste one of the following at the top of the article:
{{onesource|text=provide a caption here|date=November 2024}}This template will categorise tagged articles into Category:Articles lacking reliable references or a monthly category like Category:Articles lacking reliable references from November 2024, if a date is supplied.
This template alerts readers that an article or section may be based largely or entirely on a single source. Examples include articles with only one citation or one listing under references.
When using this template the text should have:
Please try to improve the article or make a good faith attempt to find additional citations before adding this template, and discuss the matter on the talk page. If the one citation is problematic consider using Template:Tl instead.
Articles that merely lack references or have POV problems should be flagged with some other template, such as Template:Tl or Template:Tl
Note that some sections based on a single source may not be a problem, so no tag is necessary. For an example see this section.
This template has two optional fields.
The first permits the user to specify what needs to be cited. For instance, if the entire article needs to be cited, a user would enter Template:Tlx; but should the user wish to be more specific on which section of the article needs to be cited, then the user could enter Template:Tlx. Leaving the parameter undefined is acceptable, as it will print out the default text "article or section."
The second field is a date parameter, entered as "date=month year". Adding this sorts the article into subcategories of Category:Articles lacking sources, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. If the date parameter is omitted, a bot will add it later.
Note that order does not matter with respect to the above optional parameters. Both Template:Tlx and Template:Tlx will produce the same result.
