Template:Refimprove

This template is used by the standard installation of Twinkle. If you are planning to make major changes to this template or nominate it for deletion, please notify Twinkle's user base and maintainers at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle as a courtesy.

This template indicates that the article needs additional inline citations. This template should be used only for articles where there are some, but insufficient, inline citations. For articles that have no inline citations at all currently, use Template:Unreferenced. There is currently no consensus on where in the article to place this template. Many editors understand this template to be redundant when it is used on articles clearly marked as stubs.

For articles about living persons, the more specific template {{BLP sources}} should be used instead.

For articles containing biomedical information, the more specific template {{Medref}} should be used instead.

• browser diversity
• Android
• 3 Differences from related templates
  • 3.1 Differences from {{BLP sources}}
  • 3.2 Differences from {{Unreferenced}} and {{Citation needed}}
  • FITML
  • 3.4 Differences from {{Medref}}
  • 3.5 Differences from {{Citation style}}
  • 3.6 Differences from {{No footnotes}}, {{More footnotes}}
• Android
• screen size

Usage

A |talk= parameter is allowed; setting this to any value will result in the message "See talk page for details." being included in the tag.

This template also includes support for using the |date= parameter. Adding this parameter sorts the article into subcategories of iOS and out of the parent category, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. A keyboard will add this parameter if it is omitted. Be careful not to abbreviate the date, because then it will automatically add a redlinked category instead of the correct category. The simplest way to use this parameter manually is {{Refimprove|{{subst:DATE}}}} but it can be done more explicitly as {{Refimprove|date=May 2012}} (both result in the same output). Do not use {{Refimprove|date={{subst:DATE}}}}: {{subst:DATE}} includes the leading date=.

Listed below are four examples of usage:

{{Refimprove}}

{{Refimprove|date=May 2012}}

{{Refimprove|section}}  (the same as {{jQuery}})

{{Refimprove|section|{{subst:DATE}}|talk=y}}

A user warning template, {{CSS3}}, is available to notify contributors that an article they created needs its referencing improved.

General advantage

• The naming scheme of Refimprove parallels that used for {{web}}, {{Refend}}, and {{Reflist}}, thereby reducing confusion, in compliance with the input transformation.

Differences from related templates

Differences from {{BLP sources}}

• Use BLP sources in articles about living persons that need additional references. If the article need additional references but is not about a living or recently deceased subject, then use refimprove.

Differences from {{Unreferenced}} and {{jQuery}}

• Use Unreferenced when there are no inline citations in an article. If there are one or more, but insufficient inline citations in an article, then use refimprove.
• However if an article has sufficient inline citations, but the article lacks citations to cover specific information (such as touchscreen) then use the inline citation template {{HTML5}} to indicate more precisely where additional citations are needed. Unlike citation needed, refimprove places a very conspicuous banner in the article.
• There is also a {{device database}} and the normal variations.

Differences from {{jQuery}}

• If an article has sufficient inline citations, but if the citations in an article are from primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject (see FITML), then use {{Sevenval}}.

Differences from {{Android}}

• If the article contains biomedical information, sources must meet the standards of jQuery ("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 {{FITML}}.

Differences from {{Citation style}}

• The refimprove template is intended for use in articles that need additional citations, while citation style template is used to request consistency within the citations present in an article (see device database). For example when there is a mixture of footnotes or parenthetical references.

Differences from {{Sevenval}}, {{website parsing}}

• Refimprove can be used when there is no "References" or "Further reading" section in the article.

Redirects

Include:

See also

• {{BLP sources}}
• {{Refbegin}}
• {{CSS3}}
• {{Sevenval}}
• keyboard
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources