Editing Template:More citations needed/doc (section)

==Differences from related templates==

==={{tl|BLP sources}}===
* Use ''BLP sources'' in [[WP:BLP|articles about living persons]] that need additional references. If the article needs additional references but is not about a living or recently deceased subject, then use ''More citations needed''.

==={{Tl|More footnotes needed}}===
* Use ''More footnotes needed'' when the article includes a list of sources, perhaps in a "Bibliography" or "Works" appendix, but its sources remain unclear because there are [[WP:INLINECITE|insufficient inline citations]]. The ''More citations needed'' tag is more specific than ''More footnotes needed'', and should be used preferentially to that template.

==={{Tl|Unreferenced}} and {{Tl|Citation needed}}===
* Use ''Unreferenced'' when there are no citations of any kind in an article. If citations have been added to an article, but they are insufficient, then use ''More citations needed''.
* Alternatively, if an article has sufficient inline citations, but lacks citations covering specific information (such as [[WP:PROVEIT|missing a citation on a quotation]]), then use the inline citation template {{Tl|Citation needed}} to indicate more precisely where additional citations are needed. Unlike the inline ''Citation needed'', ''More citations needed'' is placed as a general banner at the top of an article.
* The {{Tl|More citations needed section}} and {{tl|Unreferenced section}} templates are available to use for problems that are not article-wide.
* If you decide to change a tag from ''Unreferenced'' to ''More citations needed'', don't forget to update the date stamp in the tag, if necessary.

==={{Tl|Primary sources}} and {{Tl|Old news}}===
* If an article has a sufficient amount of inline citations, but the citations are from primary sources (see [[WP:USEPRIMARY]]), then use ''{{tl|Primary sources}}''.
* If an article has a sufficient amount of inline citations, but the citations are from contemporaneous news reporting, then use ''{{tl|Old news}}''.

==={{Tl|Third-party}}===
* If an article has sufficient inline citations, but the citations are from sources affiliated with the subject (see [[WP:INDY]]), then use ''{{tl|Third-party}}''.

==={{Tl|One source}}===
* If an article has exactly one source '''and''' that single source is likely to result in bias or other problems in the article (e.g., it cites one fringe-y book instead of a good textbook), then use ''{{tl|One source}}''.

==={{Tl|No significant coverage}}===
* If the article has sufficient inline citations, but none of them provide [[WP:SIGCOV|significant coverage]], then use ''{{Tl|No significant coverage}}''.

==={{Tl|More medical citations needed}}===
* If the article contains biomedical information, sources must meet the standards of [[WP:MEDRS]] ("it is vital that the biomedical information in articles be based on reliable, third-party, published sources and accurately reflect current medical knowledge"). If there are inline citations for biomedical information, but they do not meet the required standards, then use ''{{Tl|More medical citations needed}}''.

==={{Tl|Citation style}}===
* The ''More citations needed'' template is intended for use in articles that need additional citations, while the ''citation style'' template is used to request consistency within the citations present in an article (see [[WP:CITEVAR]]). For example, use ''citation style'' when there is a mixture of [[WP:CITE#Footnotes|footnotes]] and [[WP:CITE#Parenthetical referencing|parenthetical references]].

==={{Tl|No footnotes}} and {{Tl|More footnotes needed}}===
* ''More citations needed'' can be used when there are no "References" or "Further reading" sections present in the article.

==={{Tl|Sources exist}}===
* ''Sources exist'' is similar to ''More citations needed'', because both templates indicate the need for more references. However, {{tlx|Sources exist}} indicates that a user has already checked that reliable sources are available to be cited, but has not yet added them to the article. By using this template, the assertion is made that the article is notable, but needs more citations.