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This template is intended to be placed at the top of articles or sections with medical or health content that need additional references or are using sources that are unreliable and/or outdated, and therefore, are in need of attention.
If the article or section does not cover medical or health sciences topics, one should use another template, such as {{more citations needed}}
, instead.
This template places the articles into Category:All articles needing additional references and Category:Articles requiring reliable medical sources.
Adding a date parameter also sorts the tagged article into dated subcategories of Category:Articles needing additional medical references, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. Additionally, it saves bots having to add the date, keeping article edit histories tidy. This allows editors who keep an eye on medical content concerns to find articles in need of attention quickly.
All parameters are optional; please always add a date.
|section=
(Must be the first parameter)|date=
|reason=
|talk=1
(Or any other nonblank value)|small=left
section
, the normally sized warning starts "This section ..." rather than "This article ...". (For compatibility with earlier versions of the template, any other unnamed first parameter is treated as a reason. Please explicitly use |reason=
.)|reason=
.|talk=1
.|small=left
; section
isn't needed as a first parameter because neither "article" nor "section" is displayed.{{More medical citations needed|{{subst:DATE}}}}
{{More medical citations needed|section|{{subst:DATE}}}}
{{More medical citations needed|date=August 2024}}
{{More medical citations needed|talk=1|{{subst:DATE}}}}
{{More medical citations needed|reason=Information on foo does not cite any references or sources|date=August 2024}}
{{More medical citations needed|small=left|{{subst:DATE}}}}
An maintenance tag that generates a banner with the text "This article needs more medical references for verification or relies too heavily on primary sources. Please review the contents of the article and add the appropriate references if you can. Unsourced or poorly sourced material may be challenged and removed."
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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1 | 1 section | Set to "section" if this refers to a section, instead of the entire article.
| Unknown | optional |
reason | reason | no description | Unknown | optional |
talk | talk | When set, provides a link to the talk page.
| Unknown | optional |
small | small | Reduces the size to a size similar to the "Expand section" template, and determines the horizontal alignment.
| Unknown | optional |
date | date | no description
| Unknown | optional |