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role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Twemoji_1f527.svg/30px-Twemoji_1f527.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Twemoji_1f527.svg/45px-Twemoji_1f527.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Twemoji_1f527.svg/60px-Twemoji_1f527.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div style="padding-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><b>This help page is a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace#Wikipedia_how-to_and_information_pages" title="Wikipedia:Project namespace">how-to guide</a>.</b><br/><div style="font-size: 90%;">It explains concepts or processes used by the Wikipedia community. It is not one of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Wikipedia's policies or guidelines</a>, and may reflect varying levels of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">consensus</a>.</div></div></td><td class="mbox-imageright"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1252059228">.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain{float:right;margin:0 0 0 1em;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff);padding:0.3em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;text-align:center;font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxleft{float:left;margin:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutlist{display:inline-block;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);margin-bottom:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain ul{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutanchordiv{position:relative;top:-3em}.mw-parser-output li .module-shortcutanchordiv{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mbox-imageright .module-shortcutboxplain{padding:0.4em 1em 0.4em 1em;line-height:1.3;margin:0}</style><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:MTR"></span><span id="H:MTR"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:MTR&redirect=no">WP:MTR</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:MTR&redirect=no">H:MTR</a></span></li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238436933"><table class="plainlinks ombox ombox-notice nutshell" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/30px-Walnut.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/45px-Walnut.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/60px-Walnut.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="192"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><b>This page in a nutshell:</b> If you have the ability, please <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BOLD">boldly</a> assist Wikipedia by fixing the issues flagged by maintenance templates!<br/>All problems on Wikipedia are resolved through the efforts of volunteers like you. If you understand the problem that the template highlights, such as by reading the explanatory links it contains or have found guidance through this page – and have <i>reasonably fixed the issues</i> – you may simply remove the maintenance template; it will <strong>not</strong> be removed automatically.</td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238436933"><table class="box-Caution plainlinks ombox ombox-style" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Caution"><img alt="Caution" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/74/Ambox_warning_yellow.svg/40px-Ambox_warning_yellow.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="35" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/74/Ambox_warning_yellow.svg/60px-Ambox_warning_yellow.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/74/Ambox_warning_yellow.svg/80px-Ambox_warning_yellow.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="386" data-file-height="334"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="text-align: left;">Legitimate Wikipedia editors will never offer to remove maintenance templates in exchange for money. See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/Scam_warning" title="Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Scam warning">paid editing scam warning</a> for more information.</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Many Wikipedia pages display maintenance templates that identify problems. You may have arrived at this help page after clicking a link on a maintenance template saying "<samp><i>Learn how and when to remove this template message</i></samp>". </p><p>Maintenance templates are added and removed by volunteers. This help page explains the process for examining and removing such templates. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Overview" data-mw-thread-id="h-Overview"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Overview"></span>Overview<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Overview"></span></h2></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TM">Maintenance templates</a> (or "tags") are not removed automatically. Even if you fix the issue(s) described in a maintenance template, the tag will remain in the article until you or someone else <i>manually removes it</i>. The mechanics of removal are usually as simple as clicking "Edit" at the top of the page or in the section involved (if you're not already in edit mode), removing the code that produces the display of the template, leaving an <a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_summary" title="Help:Edit summary">edit summary</a>, and saving the page. </p><p>It is <strong>not</strong> okay to remove maintenance templates until the issue flagged by the template is remedied first—that is, until the maintenance tag is no longer valid—unless it truly did not belong in the first place. Maintenance templates are <strong>not</strong> to be used to express your personal opinion. </p><p>Wikipedia works because of the efforts of volunteers just like you, making <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BOLD">bold edits</a> to help build this encyclopedia. Fixing problems and then removing maintenance templates when you are done is important in that effort. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Addressing_the_flagged_problem" data-mw-thread-id="h-Addressing_the_flagged_problem"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Addressing_the_flagged_problem"></span>Addressing the flagged problem<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Addressing_the_flagged_problem"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:TEMPREMOVE"></span><span id="H:TEMPREMOVE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:TEMPREMOVE&redirect=no">WP:TEMPREMOVE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H:TEMPREMOVE&redirect=no">H:TEMPREMOVE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>We don't know which maintenance tag brought you to this page, and thus what specific problem needs attention. However, every maintenance template contains links to help pages, policies, guidelines, or other relevant pages that provide information on the problem the template was placed to flag. You will also find guidance on some of the more common templates <a href="#Specific_template_guidance">below</a>. </p><p>Many common templates address problems with article citations and references, or their <i>lack</i> – because reliable sourcing is the lifeblood of Wikipedia articles and at the core of all of Wikipedia's content policies and guidelines, such as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notability</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiability</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutral point of view</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOR">no original research</a>. But a host of other issues may be flagged, including <a href="/wiki/Template:Tone" title="Template:Tone">tone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup#Style_of_writing" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup">style of writing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup#Structure,_formatting_and_sections" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup">structure, and formatting</a>, lack of links to or from other articles, compliance with Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:MOS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:MOS">manual of style</a> and the lack of a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LEAD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LEAD">lead section</a>. </p><p>Please make sure the issue has been resolved before removing the template. That does require some effort on your part—to understand both the problem and how to solve it. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="An_example" data-mw-thread-id="h-An_example-Addressing_the_flagged_problem"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-An_example-Addressing_the_flagged_problem"></span>An example<span data-mw-comment-end="h-An_example-Addressing_the_flagged_problem"></span></h3></div> <p>If the issue flagged by the maintenance template is that the article contains no references, a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a> template used might be <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Unreferenced" title="Template:Unreferenced">Unreferenced</a>}}</code> – typically placed by the code you would see when wikitext (source) editing: <code>{{Unreferenced|date=November 2024}}</code>. </p><p>It is important to understand that what you see when <i>reading</i> an article, and what you see when <i>editing</i> it, are different unless you're in Visual editing mode. Thus, the above code, only seen when doing source editing, results in the <i>display</i> of the '<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Transclusion">called</a>' template below: </p> <div style="border:1px dashed grey; position:relative; float:left; padding:1em;"> <div style="font-size:0.8em;font-weight:bold;font-style: italic;">Example:</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399"/></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Special:EditPage/Help:Maintenance template removal">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.<br/><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22">"Maintenance template removal"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> </div><div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <p>This template contains several <a href="/wiki/Help:Link" title="Help:Link">links</a>, indicated by the words and phrases in blue. Three of these links are to pages that, when explored, provide context and resources for you to understand <i>why</i> the template was placed on the page, and <i>how</i> to address the issue of the article being <i>unreferenced</i>: </p> <ul><li>"cite", which links to the content guideline <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">Wikipedia:Citing sources</a>;</li> <li>"sources", which links to the policy <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">Wikipedia:Verifiability</a>; and</li> <li>"adding citations to reliable sources", which links to a help page providing a <a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing_with_Wiki_Markup/1" title="Help:Introduction to referencing with Wiki Markup/1">how-to guide to the basics of citing references</a>.</li></ul> <p>Whatever maintenance tag brought you to this help page should likewise contain relevant explanatory links addressed to whatever <i>its issue is</i>. Read these explanatory and contextual pages to learn about the problem and what it is you need to do to take care of it. Again, some of the more common maintenance templates seen are addressed in the <a href="#Specific_template_guidance">specific template guidance section below</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="When_to_remove" data-mw-thread-id="h-When_to_remove"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-When_to_remove"></span>When to remove<span data-mw-comment-end="h-When_to_remove"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:WTRMT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WTRMT&redirect=no">WP:WTRMT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Maintenance templates are not meant to be in articles permanently. Any user without a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest" title="Wikipedia:Conflict of interest">conflict of interest</a> may remove a maintenance template in any of the following circumstances: </p> <ol><li>When the issue has been adequately addressed;</li> <li>Upon determining that the issue has been resolved (perhaps by someone else);</li> <li>If it reasonably appears that the template did not belong when placed or was added in error. Consider first discussing the matter with the original placer of the template (unless this user is no longer active on Wikipedia). In any case, if the issue appears contentious, seek <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">consensus</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Help:Using_talk_pages" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Using talk pages">talk page</a>;</li> <li>When an article talk page discussion has not been initiated (for templates requesting it);</li> <li>When there is consensus on the talk page (or elsewhere) as to how to address the flagged issue, and you are reasonably implementing those changes. (It is good practice to note the location of the consensus in the <a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_Summary" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Edit Summary">edit summary</a> accompanying your removal, ideally with a <a href="/wiki/Help:Link#Wikilinks" title="Help:Link">link</a> to the location);</li> <li>When it can reasonably be concluded that the template is no longer relevant, such as a <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Current" title="Template:Current">Current</a>}}</code> template appearing in an article that no longer documents a current event;</li> <li>If the maintenance template is of a type that requires support but is not fully supported. For example, neutrality-related templates such as <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:COI" title="Template:COI">COI</a>}}</code> (associated with the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:COI" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:COI">conflict of interest guideline</a>) or <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:POV" title="Template:POV">POV</a>}}</code> (associated with the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutral point of view policy</a>) strongly recommend that the tagging editor initiate a discussion (generally on the article's talk page) to support the placement of the tag. If the tagging editor failed to do so, or the discussion is dormant, and there is no other support for the template, it can be removed. A <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Notability" title="Template:Notability">notability</a>}}</code> tag may be removed and may not be re-added if an article has passed an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion">Wikipedia:Articles for deletion</a> review.</li> <li>You may remove a template when according to your best judgment the lack of edits and/or talk page discussion should be interpreted as the issue not worth fixing (as a form of "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Silence_and_consensus" title="Wikipedia:Silence and consensus">silent consensus</a>"). Please note there is currently no consensus for <i>general</i> age-related removal of maintenance templates – that is, removing a template purely or chiefly because it is old is <i>not</i> considered a sufficient argument. Exception: removing POV-related templates whose discussions have gone dormant is encouraged, as addressed in the bullet point immediately above;</li> <li>Lastly, there are times when a person attempting to address a maintenance template that flags some fundamental matter may find that the issue <i>cannot</i> actually be addressed. For example, if an article is flagged as lacking citations to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources">reliable</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SECONDARY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SECONDARY">secondary</a> sources, written by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_and_using_independent_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Identifying and using independent sources">third-parties</a> to the topic, and a user seeing the maintenance templates discovers that such sources appear <i>not to exist</i>, that usually means the article should be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_process" title="Wikipedia:Deletion process">deleted</a>. In such cases, it is not so much that the template does not belong and should be removed, but rather that flagging the page for maintenance will never address the more critical issue that the page itself does not belong on Wikipedia at all.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="When_not_to_remove" data-mw-thread-id="h-When_not_to_remove"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-When_not_to_remove"></span>When not to remove<span data-mw-comment-end="h-When_not_to_remove"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:WNTRMT"></span><span id="WP:MAINTENANCEDISAGREEMENT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WNTRMT&redirect=no">WP:WNTRMT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:MAINTENANCEDISAGREEMENT&redirect=no">WP:MAINTENANCEDISAGREEMENT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>You should not remove maintenance templates if any of the following apply: </p> <ol><li>You do not understand the issues raised by the template;</li> <li>The issue has not yet been resolved;</li> <li>There is ongoing activity or discussion related to the template issue;</li> <li>The problem that the maintenance template flags is plainly and unambiguously required for a proper article under <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Wikipedia's policies and guidelines</a>;</li> <li>You have been paid to edit the article or have some other <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:COI" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:COI">conflict of interest</a> [exceptions apply: see individual template documentation].</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Removal" data-mw-thread-id="h-Removal"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Removal"></span>Removal<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Removal"></span></h2></div> <p>Have you carefully read the help pages and thoroughly fixed the problem? Or have you made a considered decision that the template is not, or is no longer, applicable? Great! Now, to remove the maintenance template: </p> <ol><li>Either click on "edit" or "edit source" at the top of the page, or if the maintenance template is not at the top but somewhere in the body of the article, you might instead use a <a href="/wiki/Help:Section#Section_editing" title="Help:Section">section edit link</a>;</li> <li><i>If you are editing wikitext ("source" editing)</i>: Delete the template code. The template code you see in this edit mode will usually be in the following form, as in the example above: <code>{{Name of template|date=Month Year}}</code>. <i>If you are editing using VisualEditor</i>: Click on the template (tag), which will then turn blue. Press the "Delete" or backspace key on your keyboard.</li> <li>Leave a descriptive <a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_summary" title="Help:Edit summary">edit summary</a>, e.g., "Removed [<i>insert the name of template</i>] because I have fixed the issue;"</li> <li>Click <kbd class="nowrap button" title="This is not a clickable button; it illustrates the button one should find." style="padding:.2em .6em; border:1px solid; border-color:var(--border-color-base, #a2a9b1) var(--border-color-interactive, #72777d) var(--border-color-interactive, #72777d) var(--border-color-base, #a2a9b1); border-radius:3px; background-color: #F2F2F2; color: inherit; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, var(--background-color-interactive-subtle, #f8f9fa), var(--background-color-interactive, #eaecf0)); font-family:sans-serif;">Publish changes</kbd>.</li></ol> <p>That's it. Thank you! </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Changing_a_template" data-mw-thread-id="h-Changing_a_template"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Changing_a_template"></span>Changing a template<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Changing_a_template"></span></h2></div> <p>Problems flagged by some templates may imply secondary problems that will still exist after you take care of the main issue. In such cases, it may be more appropriate to switch the template to another applicable one following your edits, rather than just removing it. The reasoning behind the change in templates should be addressed in the <a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_summary" title="Help:Edit summary">edit summary</a>. </p><p>A case in point is the {{Unreferenced}} template example used above. It is placed on pages with <i>no references</i>. Thus, adding just one suitable reference renders that maintenance template inapplicable. However, that change does not take care of the <i>overarching issue of poor sourcing</i>. In this example, a change to a different template may be appropriate, depending on the type, quality, depth, and manner of sourcing added to fix the issue, such as <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Refimprove" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Refimprove">refimprove</a>}}</code>, <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:No_footnotes" title="Template:No footnotes">No footnotes</a>}}</code>, <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Primary_sources" title="Template:Primary sources">Primary sources</a>}}</code>, or one of the many others listed at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/Sources_of_articles" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles">Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles</a>. </p><p>Conversely, some templates flag highly discrete issues where there is no need to consider a switch to another template. For example, if an article is "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Orphan" title="Wikipedia:Orphan">orphaned</a>" – no other articles in the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article%3F#Namespace" title="Wikipedia:What is an article?">main article namespace</a> link to it – then once that is taken care of (by the addition of links to it from other articles), the issue is gone entirely and the tag's removal is unambiguous. </p><p>When a flagged issue has been addressed in parts of an article but remains in discrete sections, clarity may be served by replacing the template with a section variant, or by use of <a href="/wiki/Template:Inline_cleanup_tags" title="Template:Inline cleanup tags">inline cleanup tags</a>, if such versions of the template exist. </p><p>In some cases, it may be helpful to request a review of a maintenance template's removal or proposed removal with the editor who initially added it to the article at issue. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Specific_template_guidance" data-mw-thread-id="h-Specific_template_guidance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Specific_template_guidance"></span>Specific template guidance<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Specific_template_guidance"></span></h2></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="Multiple_issues"></span><span class="anchor" id="Unreferenced"></span><span class="anchor" id="Refimprove"></span><span class="anchor" id="No_footnotes"></span><span class="anchor" id="Primary_sources"></span><span class="anchor" id="Notability"></span><span class="anchor" id="Advert"></span><span class="anchor" id="POV"></span><span class="anchor" id="Lead_missing"></span> </p><p>This section guides you on how to address some of the more common specific templates that may have brought you to this help page. More detailed information about the templates can be found by following the links to the templates themselves. </p><p><b>Click "show" at the right to display the instructions.</b> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1214851843">.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{box-sizing:border-box;width:100%;padding:5px;border:none;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .hidden-title{font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .hidden-content{text-align:left}@media all and (max-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{width:auto!important;clear:none!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background-color: #eaecf0;"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Multiple_issues" title="Template:Multiple issues">Multiple issues</a>}}</code></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <p>Some articles will be flagged for multiple discrete problems using a single template: <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Multiple_issues" title="Template:Multiple issues">Multiple issues</a>}}</code>. If you take care of one or more problems that it flags but <i>not all</i>, do not remove the template entirely but just those <a href="/wiki/Help:Template#Parameters" title="Help:Template">parameters</a> in it that you have fixed. The example below shows three different issues flagged by this template: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Multiple issues</span><span class="p">|</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Orphan</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">date</span><span class="o">=</span>January 2008<span class="p">}}</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">POV</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">date</span><span class="o">=</span>June 2009<span class="p">}}</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">One source</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">date</span><span class="o">=</span>March 2011<span class="p">}}</span> <span class="p">}}</span> </pre></div> <p>If you address the "orphaning" issue, but not the other two, remove just the line that flagged the orphan issue and leave the others intact. Thus, your removal would leave the template in this state. </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Multiple issues</span><span class="p">|</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">POV</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">date</span><span class="o">=</span>June 2009<span class="p">}}</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">One source</span><span class="p">|</span><span class="nl">date</span><span class="o">=</span>March 2011<span class="p">}}</span> <span class="p">}}</span> </pre></div> <p>See the sections below for how to address some of the more common problems flagged by templates that may be wrapped into this template. </p> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background-color: #eaecf0;"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Unreferenced" title="Template:Unreferenced">Unreferenced</a>}}</code></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <p>All of Wikipedia's core content policies and guidelines have as a common denominator the need for reliable sourcing. For example, the content of Wikipedia articles must be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiable</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IRS">reliable sources</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notability</a> of a topic demonstrated through such reliable sources that are <i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SECONDARY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SECONDARY">secondary</a></i> in nature, which are <i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INDEPENDENT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INDEPENDENT">independent</a></i> of the topic and treat the subject in substantive detail (not just "mere mentions"); and to establish that the content is not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OR">original research</a>, the sources cited must directly support the material being presented without analysis or synthesis to reach or imply a conclusion that is not stated in the sources. </p><p><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Unreferenced" title="Template:Unreferenced">Unreferenced</a>}}</code>, typically placed by the code <code>{{Unreferenced|date=November 2024}}</code>, having <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirects</a> such as {{Unsourced}}, {{Unverified}}, {{No references}}, {{No sources}}, and {{Unref}}, and displaying when reading as: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399"/></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Special:EditPage/Help:Maintenance template removal">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.<br/><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22">"Maintenance template removal"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>flags the issue of an article containing <i>no references</i> at all. This template no longer applies once a single reference appears in the article, whether placed through the preferred method of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Inline_citation" title="Wikipedia:Inline citation">inline citations</a>, ones appearing in a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GENREF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GENREF">general references</a> section, or even through such a poor method as including an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Avoid_embedded_links" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">embedded raw link</a>. </p><p>To address the issue, <b>add citations to reliable sources</b>. Because of their importance, Wikipedia contains numerous instruction pages on aspects of referencing. We suggest starting with <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">Help:Referencing for beginners</a> and <a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing/1" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Introduction to referencing/1">Help:Introduction to referencing/1</a>, and then seeing <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">Wikipedia:Citing sources</a> for a more involved treatment, noting that each contains see also sections linking to additional help pages, guides, and tutorials. A visual guide to placing inline citations through <code><ref> ... </ref></code> tags may also help, and appears below. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background: LightSteelBlue; text-align: center;">Visual inline citation guide</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Formatting references using inline citations </caption> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td colspan="2"><small>All information in Wikipedia articles should be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verification" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Verification">verified</a> by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">citations</a> to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">reliable sources</a>. Our preferred method of citation is using the <span class="plainlinks">"<a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php">cite.php</a>"</span> form of inline citations, using the <ref></ref> elements. Using this method, each time a particular source is mined for information (<i>don't copy word-for-word</i>!), a footnote is placed in the text ("inline"), that takes one to the detail of the source when clicked, set forth in a references <a href="/wiki/Help:Section" title="Help:Section">section</a> after the text of the article.</small><p><small> In brief, anywhere you want a footnote to appear in a piece of text, you place an opening <ref> tag followed by the text of the citation which you want to appear at the bottom of the article, and close with a </ref> tag. Note the closing slash ("/"). For multiple use of a single reference, the opening ref tag is given a name, like so: <ref name="name"> followed by the citation text and a closing </ref> tag. Each time you want to use that footnote again, you simply use the first element with a slash, like so: <ref name="name" />.</small></p><p><small> For these references to appear, you must tell the software where to display them, using either the code <references/> or, most commonly, the template, <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Reflist" title="Template:Reflist">Reflist</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> which can be modified to display the references in columns using {{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}. Per our <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">style guidelines</a>, the references should be displayed in a separate section denominated "References" located after the body of the article.</small></p> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"> <td><small><i><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Footnotes">Inline citation</a> code; what you type in 'edit mode'</b></i></small> </td> <td><small><i><b>What it produces when you save</b></i></small> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td style="width: 400px;">Two separate citations.<span style="color: #002BB8;"><ref></span><code><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', serif; color: var(--color-content-added, #006400);">Citation text.</span></code><span style="color: #002BB8;"></ref><ref></span><code><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', serif; color: var(--color-content-added, #006400);">Citation text2.</span></code><span style="color: #002BB8;"></ref></span><p><br/>Multiple<span style="color: #002BB8;"><ref name="multiple"></span><code><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', serif; color: var(--color-content-added, #006400);">Citation text3.</span></code><span style="color: #002BB8;"></ref></span>citation<span style="color: #002BB8;"><ref name="multiple" /></span> use.<span style="color: #002BB8;"><ref name="multiple" /></span></p><p><br/>== References ==</p><p>{{Reflist}}</p> </td> <td style="width: 400px;">Two separate citations.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><p><br/><br/> Multiple<sup id="cite_ref-multiple_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiple-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> citation<sup id="cite_ref-multiple_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiple-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> use.<sup id="cite_ref-multiple_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiple-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><p><u style="font-size: larger;"><br/><br/><br/><b>References</b>_________________</u></p><p class="mw-empty-elt"></p><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Citation text.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Citation text2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-multiple-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-multiple_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-multiple_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-multiple_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Citation text3.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><small>Templates that can be used between <ref></ref> tags to format references</small><p><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Citation" title="Template:Citation">Citation</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> • <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_web" title="Template:Cite web">Cite web</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> • <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">Cite book</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> • <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_news" title="Template:Cite news">Cite news</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> • <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_journal" title="Template:Cite journal">Cite journal</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> • <a href="/wiki/Category:Citation_templates" title="Category:Citation templates">Others</a> • <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates" title="Wikipedia:Citation templates">Examples</a></p> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div></div> <p>As noted <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Changing_to_a_different_template">higher on this page</a>, unless you thoroughly source a page in response to this template, it may more appropriate to switch this template with a more specific one rather than simply removing it. Depending on the type, quality, depth, and manner of sourcing added to fix the issue, you might replace it with <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Refimprove" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Refimprove">refimprove</a>}}</code>, <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:No_footnotes" title="Template:No footnotes">No footnotes</a>}}</code>, <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Primary_sources" title="Template:Primary sources">Primary sources</a>}}</code> or a host of others listed at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/Sources_of_articles" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles">Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles</a>. </p> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background-color: #eaecf0;"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Refimprove" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Refimprove">Refimprove</a>}}</code></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <p>All of Wikipedia's core content policies and guidelines have as a common denominator the need for reliable sourcing. For example, the content of Wikipedia articles must be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiable</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IRS">reliable sources</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notability</a> of a topic demonstrated through such reliable sources that are <i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SECONDARY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SECONDARY">secondary</a></i> in nature, which are <i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INDEPENDENT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INDEPENDENT">independent</a></i> of the topic and treat the subject in substantive detail (not just "mere mentions"); and to establish that the content is not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OR">original research</a>, the sources cited must directly support the material being presented without analysis or synthesis to reach or imply a conclusion that is not stated in the sources. </p><p><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Refimprove" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Refimprove">Refimprove</a>}}</code>, typically placed by the code <code>{{Refimprove|date=November 2024}}</code>, having <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirects</a> such as {{Improve references}}, {{Verify}}, {{More sources}} and {{Citations needed}}, and displaying when reading as: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399"/></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Special:EditPage/Help:Maintenance template removal">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.<br/><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22">"Maintenance template removal"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>flags the issue of an article that has some, but <i>insufficient</i> inline citations to support the material currently in the article. It should not be used for articles with no sources at all (<code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Unreferenced" title="Template:Unreferenced">unreferenced</a>}}</code> should be used instead), nor for articles without inline citations but which contain some sources (<code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:No_footnotes" title="Template:No footnotes">No footnotes</a>}}</code> should be used instead), nor for an article on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLP">living persons</a> (<code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:BLP_sources" title="Template:BLP sources">BLP sources</a>}}</code> should be used instead). This template no longer applies once an article has been made fairly well-sourced. </p><p>To address the issue, <b>add additional inline citations to reliable sources</b> for all significant statements in the article. Whether or not an article has been rendered "fairly well sourced" may involve a judgment call, but in any event, the sources used must be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IRS">reliable</a> ones, and articles should not rely predominantly on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PRIMARY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PRIMARY">primary sources</a>, but rather on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SECONDARY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SECONDARY">secondary</a> sources. Note the <i>minimum</i>: all quotations, material whose verifiability has been challenged or is likely to be challenged, and contentious material, whether negative, positive, or neutral, about living persons, must include an inline citation that directly supports the material. </p> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background-color: #eaecf0;"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:No_footnotes" title="Template:No footnotes">No footnotes</a>}}</code></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <p>All of Wikipedia's core content policies and guidelines have a common denominator: the need for reliable sourcing. For example, the content of Wikipedia articles must be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiable</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IRS">reliable sources</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notability</a> of a topic demonstrated through such reliable sources that are <i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SECONDARY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SECONDARY">secondary</a></i> in nature, which are <i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INDEPENDENT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INDEPENDENT">independent</a></i> of the topic and treat the subject in substantive detail (not just "mere mentions"); and to establish that the content is not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OR">original research</a>, the sources cited must directly support the material being presented without analysis or synthesis to reach or imply a conclusion that is not stated in the sources. </p><p><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:No_footnotes" title="Template:No footnotes">No footnotes</a>}}</code>, typically placed by the code <code>{{No footnotes|date=November 2024}}</code>, and having <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirects</a> such as {{Citations}}, {{No citations}}, {{Inline citations}} and {{No inline citations}}, and displaying when reading as: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-No_footnotes plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style ambox-No_footnotes" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/40px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/60px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/80px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48"/></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article includes a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">list of references</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Further_reading" title="Wikipedia:Further reading">related reading</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links" title="Wikipedia:External links">external links</a>, <b>but its sources remain unclear because it lacks <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Inline_citations" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">inline citations</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check">improve</a> this article by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:When_to_cite" title="Wikipedia:When to cite">introducing</a> more precise citations.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>flags the issue of an article that contains some form of sourcing but lacks the precision of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IC">inline citations</a> to associate given portions of material with a specific reliable source(s) that support that material. Inline citations make <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiability</a> accessible. In short, in the absence of an inline citation that associates specific material to a specific source, it becomes very difficult for a reader to check what sources, given in only some general manner, verify what items of content. </p><p>To address the issue, <b>add inline citations to reliable sources</b>, ideally for all significant statements in the article. Note that at a <i>minimum</i>: all quotations, material whose verifiability has been challenged or is likely to be challenged, and contentious material, whether negative, positive, or neutral, about living persons, must include an inline citation that directly supports the material. </p><p>There are many instruction pages that directly and indirectly give guidance on adding inline citations. We suggest starting with <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">Help:Referencing for beginners</a> and <a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing/1" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Introduction to referencing/1">Help:Introduction to referencing/1</a>, and then seeing <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">Wikipedia:Citing sources</a> for a more involved treatment, noting that each contains see also sections linking to additional help pages, guides, and tutorials. A visual guide to placing inline citations through <code><ref> ... </ref></code> tags may also help, and appears below. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background: LightSteelBlue; text-align: center;">Visual inline citation guide</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Formatting references using inline citations </caption> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td colspan="2"><small>All information in Wikipedia articles should be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verification" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Verification">verified</a> by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">citations</a> to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">reliable sources</a>. Our preferred method of citation is using the <span class="plainlinks">"<a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php">cite.php</a>"</span> form of inline citations, using the <ref></ref> elements. Using this method, each time a particular source is mined for information (<i>don't copy word-for-word</i>!), a footnote is placed in the text ("inline"), that takes one to the detail of the source when clicked, set forth in a references <a href="/wiki/Help:Section" title="Help:Section">section</a> after the text of the article.</small><p><small> In brief, anywhere you want a footnote to appear in a piece of text, you place an opening <ref> tag followed by the text of the citation which you want to appear at the bottom of the article, and close with a </ref> tag. Note the closing slash ("/"). For multiple use of a single reference, the opening ref tag is given a name, like so: <ref name="name"> followed by the citation text and a closing </ref> tag. Each time you want to use that footnote again, you simply use the first element with a slash, like so: <ref name="name" />.</small></p><p><small> For these references to appear, you must tell the software where to display them, using either the code <references/> or, most commonly, the template, <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Reflist" title="Template:Reflist">Reflist</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> which can be modified to display the references in columns using {{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}. Per our <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">style guidelines</a>, the references should be displayed in a separate section denominated "References" located after the body of the article.</small></p> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"> <td><small><i><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Footnotes">Inline citation</a> code; what you type in 'edit mode'</b></i></small> </td> <td><small><i><b>What it produces when you save</b></i></small> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td style="width: 400px;">Two separate citations.<span style="color: #002BB8;"><ref></span><code><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', serif; color: var(--color-content-added, #006400);">Citation text.</span></code><span style="color: #002BB8;"></ref><ref></span><code><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', serif; color: var(--color-content-added, #006400);">Citation text2.</span></code><span style="color: #002BB8;"></ref></span><p><br/>Multiple<span style="color: #002BB8;"><ref name="multiple"></span><code><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', serif; color: var(--color-content-added, #006400);">Citation text3.</span></code><span style="color: #002BB8;"></ref></span>citation<span style="color: #002BB8;"><ref name="multiple" /></span> use.<span style="color: #002BB8;"><ref name="multiple" /></span></p><p><br/>== References ==</p><p>{{Reflist}}</p> </td> <td style="width: 400px;">Two separate citations.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><p><br/><br/> Multiple<sup id="cite_ref-multiple_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiple-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> citation<sup id="cite_ref-multiple_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiple-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> use.<sup id="cite_ref-multiple_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-multiple-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><p><u style="font-size: larger;"><br/><br/><br/><b>References</b>_________________</u></p><p class="mw-empty-elt"></p><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Citation text.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Citation text2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-multiple-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-multiple_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-multiple_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-multiple_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Citation text3.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;" colspan="2"><small>Templates that can be used between <ref></ref> tags to format references</small><p><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Citation" title="Template:Citation">Citation</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> • <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_web" title="Template:Cite web">Cite web</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> • <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">Cite book</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> • <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_news" title="Template:Cite news">Cite news</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> • <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_journal" title="Template:Cite journal">Cite journal</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> • <a href="/wiki/Category:Citation_templates" title="Category:Citation templates">Others</a> • <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates" title="Wikipedia:Citation templates">Examples</a></p> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div></div> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background-color: #eaecf0;"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Primary_sources" title="Template:Primary sources">Primary sources</a>}}</code></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <p><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Primary_sources" title="Template:Primary sources">Primary sources</a>}}</code>, typically placed by the code <code>{{Primary sources|date=November 2024}}</code>, having among other redirects {{Primary}}, and displaying when reading as: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Primary_sources plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Primary_sources" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399"/></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article <b>relies excessively on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">references</a> to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">primary sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please improve this article by adding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">secondary or tertiary sources</a>. <br/><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22">"Maintenance template removal"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>flags the issue of an article that too heavily relies on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">primary sources</a> – original materials that are close to an event; often accounts written by people who are directly involved – as opposed to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SECONDARY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SECONDARY">secondary</a>, and to some extent, <a href="/wiki/Tertiary_source" title="Tertiary source">tertiary sources</a>. Primary sources have their place but they must be used carefully and are easy to misuse. Typically, they should only be used for straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the primary source but without further, specialized knowledge. They should not be used to support content that presents interpretation, analysis, evaluation, or synthesis, and should not be the predominant form of sourcing in an article. Moreover, primary sources are generally not useful to demonstrate a topic's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notability</a>. </p><p>To address the issue, <b>add citations predominantly to secondary sources</b>. Often this involves replacing some of the primary sources with secondary sources, and not just adding them alongside existing ones—especially where the primary source is being used for an invalid purpose such as interpretive claims and synthesis. </p><p>Finding secondary sources is a large topic but make use of Google Books, News, and Scholar; find local newspaper archives; go to a library; if you have access, use pay/subscription services like JSTOR, Newspaperarchive.com; Ancestry.com, etc.; see our guide on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FENS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FENS">free English newspaper sources</a> and others listed <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Navbox" title="Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Navbox">here</a>; request access to pay/prescription sources at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RX" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RX">WP:RX</a>. If insufficient reliable secondary and independent sources exist treating a topic in substantive detail, then Wikipedia should not have an article on the topic. Remember that <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_amount_of_editing_can_overcome_a_lack_of_notability" title="Wikipedia:No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability">no amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability</a>. </p> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background-color: #eaecf0;"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Notability" title="Template:Notability">Notability</a>}}</code></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <p>Wikipedia is an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ENC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ENC">encyclopedia</a>, a specific type of reference work properly containing articles on topics of knowledge. Wikipedia employs the concept of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notability</a> to avoid <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IINFO" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IINFO">indiscriminate inclusion</a> of topics by attempting to ensure that the subjects of articles are "worthy of notice" – by only including articles on topics that the world has taken <i>note</i> of by substantively treating them in reliable sources unconnected with the topic. </p><p>The general notability standard thus presumes that topics are notable if they have "received <b>significant coverage</b> in <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">reliable sources</a></b> that are <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources">independent</a> of the subject</b>". </p><p><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Notability" title="Template:Notability">Notability</a>}}</code>, typically placed by the code <code>{{Notability|date=November 2024}}</code>, having <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirects</a> such as {{Notable}}, {{Non-notable}}, {{Nn}} and {{Significance}}, and displaying when reading as: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Notability plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Notability" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/40px-Ambox_important.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/60px-Ambox_important.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/80px-Ambox_important.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="40" data-file-height="40"/></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">The topic of this article <strong>may not meet Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability" title="Wikipedia:Notability">general notability guideline</a></strong>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">reliable secondary sources</a> that are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources">independent</a> of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging" title="Wikipedia:Merging">merged</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirected</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy" title="Wikipedia:Deletion policy">deleted</a>.<br/><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22">"Maintenance template removal"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Maintenance+template+removal%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>(or some variation linking to one of the <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_notability_guidelines" title="Category:Wikipedia notability guidelines">subject-specific notability guidelines</a>) questions whether a topic is notable. As stated in the template, addressing the issue requires adding citations to reliable secondary sources. There are several common mistakes seen in addressing this issue: </p> <ul><li><b>Adding citations but to unreliable sources</b>: We are looking for treatment in sources like mainstream newspaper articles, non-vanity books, magazines, scholarly journals, television and radio documentaries, etc. – sources with editorial oversight and a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. This means generally <i>not</i> random personal websites, blogs, forum posts, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SPS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SPS">self-published sources</a> like open wikis (including <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CIRCULAR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CIRCULAR">other Wikipedia articles</a>), etc. In short, read and understand <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources">Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources</a>.</li> <li><b>Adding citations to connected (non-independent) sources</b>: While <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PRIMARY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PRIMARY">primary</a> sources may be useful to verify certain facts, they must be used with caution and do nothing to establish notability. In short, we are looking for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SECONDARY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SECONDARY">secondary sources</a> written by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Secondary_does_not_mean_independent" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Secondary does not mean independent">third parties</a> to a topic.</li> <li><b>Adding citations to sources that merely mention the topic</b>: You can cite numerous reliable, secondary, independent sources and it will not help establish notability if they do not treat the topic substantively – think generally two paragraphs of text focused on the topic at issue. Remember: it is much better to cite two good sources that treat a topic in detail, than twenty that just mention it in passing. Moreover, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_overkill" title="Wikipedia:Citation overkill">citation overkill</a> to sources containing mere passing mentions of the topic is a badge of a non-notable topic and, if good sources are present in the mix, they will be hidden among these others from those seeking to assess a topic's demonstration of notability.</li></ul> <p>If insufficient reliable secondary and independent sources exist treating a topic in substantive detail, then Wikipedia should not have an article on the topic. Remember that <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_amount_of_editing_can_overcome_a_lack_of_notability" title="Wikipedia:No amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability">no amount of editing can overcome a lack of notability</a>. </p> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background-color: #eaecf0;"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Advert" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Advert">Advert</a>}}</code></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <p><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Advert" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Advert">Advert</a>}}</code>, typically placed by the code <code>{{Advert|date=November 2024}}</code>, and having <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirects</a> such as {{Advertisement}}, {{Advertising}}, {{Ad}} and {{Puff}}, and displaying when reading as: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Promotional plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Advert" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/40px-Ambox_important.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/60px-Ambox_important.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/80px-Ambox_important.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="40" data-file-height="40"/></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article <b>contains <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_soapbox_or_means_of_promotion" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">promotional content</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Maintenance_template_removal&action=edit">improve it</a> by removing <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Spam" title="Wikipedia:Spam">promotional language</a> and inappropriate <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links#Advertising_and_conflicts_of_interest" title="Wikipedia:External links">external links</a>, and by adding encyclopedic text written from a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">neutral point of view</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>flags the issue of an article that reads like an <a href="/wiki/Advertising" title="Advertising">advertisement</a>. For example, such articles may tell users to buy a company's product, provide price lists, give links to online sellers, use unencyclopedic or meaningless <a href="/wiki/Buzzword" title="Buzzword">buzzwords</a>, be filled with <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PEACOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PEACOCK">peacock language</a> and read like the website of the article's topic or a press release touting its virtues, rather than that of a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutrally</a>-written encyclopedia article <i>about</i> the topic. </p><p>Advertisements are by no means limited to commercial topics and indeed are often seen for all manner of others, such as "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_here_to_tell_the_world_about_your_noble_cause" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause">noble causes</a>", religious/spiritual leaders, sports teams, gaming clans and so forth. If the article's main problem is not advertising <i>per se</i>, then you can change the tag to something more appropriate, such as <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:COI" title="Template:COI">COI</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> or <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Peacock" title="Template:Peacock">Peacock</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> or <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:POV_check" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:POV check">POV check</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>. Pages that are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_blatant_advertising" title="Wikipedia:Identifying blatant advertising"><i>exclusively</i> promotional</a> and would need to be <i>fundamentally</i> rewritten to become encyclopedic may be tagged for speedy deletion under <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD#G11" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CSD">section G11 of the criteria</a> using <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Db-g11" title="Template:Db-g11">db-g11</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> or <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Db-spam" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Db-spam">db-spam</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>. </p><p>To address the issue, rewrite the article from a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutral point of view</a> – which is not just about the wording and tone, but also what the article covers and what it <i>does not cover</i>. Wikipedia articles should represent fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all of the significant views that have been <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">published by reliable sources</a> on a topic. Removing all promotional language is a good start, but depending on what is left, may only be a surface treatment. See what you can salvage, but often editors strip out all but the most basic content, leaving it in a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:STUB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:STUB">stub</a> state. If you want to build a solid article, explore the existence of independent sources for the topic, and build it from the ground up. </p> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background-color: #eaecf0;"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:POV" title="Template:POV">POV</a>}}</code></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <p><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:POV" title="Template:POV">POV</a>}}</code>, typically placed by the code <code>{{POV|date=November 2024}}</code>, and having <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirects</a> such as {{NPOV}}, {{POV dispute}}, {{Neutrality}}, {{Neutral}} and {{Not neutral}}, and displaying when reading as: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-POV plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-POV" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/45px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/68px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/90px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="354"/></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">The <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">neutrality</a> of this article is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV_dispute" title="Wikipedia:NPOV dispute">disputed</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Relevant discussion may be found on the <a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Maintenance_template_removal##" title="Help talk:Maintenance template removal">talk page</a>. Please do not remove this message until <a href="/wiki/Template:POV#When_to_remove" title="Template:POV">conditions to do so are met</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>flags the issue of an article that has been identified as having a serious issue of balance, the lack of a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">neutral point of view</a>, and the tagger wishes to attract editors with different viewpoints to the article. An unbalanced or non-neutral article does not fairly represent the balance of perspectives of high-quality, reliable <a href="/wiki/Secondary_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Secondary sources">secondary sources</a>. This tag is meant to be accompanied by an explanation on the article's talk page about why it was added, identifying specific issues that are actionable within Wikipedia's content policies. </p><p>This template is not meant to be a permanent resident on any article. You may remove this template whenever any one of the following is true: </p> <ol><li>There is consensus on the talkpage or the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard">NPOV Noticeboard</a> that the issue has been resolved;</li> <li>It is not clear what the neutrality issue is, and no satisfactory explanation has been given;</li> <li>In the absence of any discussion, or if the discussion has become dormant.</li></ol> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background-color: #eaecf0;"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Lead_missing" title="Template:Lead missing">Lead missing</a>}}</code></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <p><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Lead_missing" title="Template:Lead missing">Lead missing</a>}}</code>, typically placed by the code <code>{{Lead missing|date=November 2024}}</code>, and having <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirects</a> such as {{No lead}}, {{Nointro}}, {{No lead section}}, {{Lead absent}} and {{Intro needed}}, and displaying when reading as: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Lead_missing plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-lead_missing" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Wiki_letter_w.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Wiki_letter_w.svg/60px-Wiki_letter_w.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Wiki_letter_w.svg/80px-Wiki_letter_w.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="44"/></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article <b>has no <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lead_section" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section">lead section</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Maintenance_template_removal&action=edit">improve this article</a> by adding one in your own words.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>flags the issue of an article that fails to follow Wikipedia's standard <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Layout" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout">article layout guidelines</a> by introducing the reader to the topic in a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lead_section" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section">lead section</a> containing a summary of the most important article contents. The lead should stand on its own as a concise overview of the article's topic. A good lead section cultivates the reader's interest in reading more of the article, but not by teasing the reader or hinting at content that follows. It should identify the topic, establish context, explain why the topic is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notable</a>, and summarize the most important points, including any prominent controversies. </p><p>To address the issue, write a lead section. The size of an appropriate lead will depend on the breadth of the article but it should be no more than four well-composed paragraphs, and should generally not contain content that is not already present in the body of the article. </p> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background-color: #eaecf0;"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Current" title="Template:Current">Current</a>}}</code></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <p><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Current" title="Template:Current">Current</a>}}</code>, typically placed by the code <code>{{Current|date=November 2024}}</code>, and displaying when reading as: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Current plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-notice" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Graphic of a globe with a red analog clock" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/50px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/75px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/99px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290"/></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span"><b>This article documents a <a href="/wiki/Portal:Current_events" title="Portal:Current events">current event</a>.</b> Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources#Breaking_news" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">unreliable</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Special:History/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Special:History/Help:Maintenance template removal">latest updates</a> to this article <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Risk_disclaimer" title="Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer">may not reflect</a> the most current information.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Feel free to <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Special:EditPage/Help:Maintenance template removal">improve this article</a> or discuss changes on the <a href="/wiki/Help_talk:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help talk:Maintenance template removal">talk page</a>, but please note that updates without valid and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">reliable references</a> will be removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>(or a subject-specific variation listed on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Current_event_templates" title="Wikipedia:Current event templates">Wikipedia:Current event templates</a>) warns editors and readers about an article that is the subject of a current event, such as a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RSBREAKING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RSBREAKING">breaking news story</a>, that is accordingly experiencing a great flux of edits and is in a fast-changing state. Wikipedia attracts numerous editors who want to update articles in real time immediately after such current events are published. However, sources for breaking news reports often contain serious inaccuracies, so these templates can also draw attention to the need to add improved sources as soon as they become available. </p><p>The template should generally be removed when the event described is no longer receiving massive editing attention. It is not meant to be a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_disclaimers_in_articles" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles">general disclaimer</a> indicating that an article's contents may not be accurate, or to mark an article that merely has recent news articles about the topic (if it were, hundreds of thousands of articles would have the {{Current}} template, with no informational consequence). If the article continues to have sourcing or cleanup issues, a more appropriate maintenance template should be used instead. </p> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background-color: #eaecf0;"><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Linkrot" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Linkrot">Linkrot</a>}}</code></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <p><code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Linkrot" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Linkrot">Linkrot</a>}}</code>, typically placed by the code <code>{{Linkrot|date=November 2024}}</code>, and displaying when reading as: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Cleanup_bare_URLs plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style ambox-cleanup-link_rot" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/40px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/60px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/80px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48"/></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article <b>uses <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bare_URLs" title="Wikipedia:Bare URLs">bare URLs</a>, which are uninformative and vulnerable to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">link rot</a>.</b><span class="hide-when-compact"> Please consider converting them to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Citation_styles" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">full citations</a> to ensure the article remains <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verifiable</a> and maintains a consistent citation style. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Sources_of_articles#Examples" title="Wikipedia:Template index/Sources of articles">Several templates</a> and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as <span class="nowrap"><a class="external text" href="https://refill.toolforge.org/ng/result.php?page=Help:Maintenance_template_removal&defaults=y">reFill</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ReFill" title="Wikipedia:ReFill">documentation</a>)</span> and <span class="nowrap"><a class="external text" href="https://citations.toolforge.org/process_page.php?edit=automated_tools&slow=1&page=Help:Maintenance_template_removal">Citation bot</a> (<a href="/wiki/User:Citation_bot" title="User:Citation bot">documentation</a>)</span>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>flags an article as having bare URLs, URLs that are used as references or external links without contextual information. These bare URLs are particularly vulnerable to link rot, as the record of the reference depends on the hosting website maintaining the current site structure, which is not guaranteed. A change in the underlying URL could make the reference unusable. The full citation format, on the other hand, preserves information (such as title and author) that can be used to restore a version of the reference that is still accessible. In addition, bare URLs can be less visually pleasing if the underlying URL is long. </p><p>To address this issue, convert all bare URLs used as references to the appropriate <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Inline_citations" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Inline citations">citation template format</a>. For bare URLs which are not used as references, use the following format: [bare_URL Descriptive text]. Depending on the specific URL, it may be necessary to use an archiving service to restore an URL. More information is available at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DEADLINK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DEADLINK">Repairing a dead link</a>. </p> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Researching_the_tagged_issue" data-mw-thread-id="h-Researching_the_tagged_issue-Specific_template_guidance"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Researching_the_tagged_issue-Specific_template_guidance"></span>Researching the tagged issue<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Researching_the_tagged_issue-Specific_template_guidance"></span></h3></div> <p>As noted previously, most templates contain links to guidance pages. Additionally, many templates have documentation that provides more information about the template's flagged issue, which is displayed when you visit the <i>template page itself</i>. </p><p>To access the template and thereby see its documentation, type into the search field <kbd>Template:</kbd>, followed by the <i>name of the template</i>, seen when you view its placement in the Edit interface (typically found in the first lines of the article). The first "parameter" is the name of the template. </p><p>For example, if you found this in the Edit interface, <code>{{Unreferenced|date=November 2024}}</code>, then you would visit the template itself by searching for <kbd>Template:Unreferenced</kbd>. The accompanying documentation for all maintenance templates, if it exists, can be located in this way. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Still_need_help?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Still_need_help?"><span id="Still_need_help.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Still_need_help?"></span>Still need help?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Still_need_help?"></span></h2></div> <p>If you've read through this page and are still confused about what needs to be done to fix an issue on a page and remove a maintenance template, try asking at the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse" title="Wikipedia:Teahouse">Teahouse</a>, a page designed for new users to ask questions. Alternatively, you could try the more general <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk" title="Wikipedia:Help desk">Help desk</a>, or seek live assistance at the IRC channel: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk/chat" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Help desk/chat">#wikipedia-en-help</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Template messages">Wikipedia:Template messages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Template" title="Help:Template">Help:Template</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tagging_pages_for_problems" title="Wikipedia:Tagging pages for problems">Wikipedia:Tagging pages for problems</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Tagging_pages_for_problems" title="Wikipedia:Tagging pages for 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