Template:Full citation needed

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This template is an alternative to {{Citation needed }}, for the cases where a reference is alluded to, or given in part, but not specified in enough detail. The factuality may or may not be in question; this template is just about the completeness of the citation.

For an article with numerous partial citations, consider instead the banner template {{Full citations needed }}.

How to use

{{Full citation needed |date=August 2026}}

The template should be placed outside <ref>...</ref> tags.

Nixon resigned August 9, 1974.<ref>''The New York Times''</ref>{{Full citation needed|date=August 2026}}
Result: Nixon resigned August 9, 1974.^[1]^{[full citation needed ]}

References

↑ The New York Times

When to use

Use this when you find citations that are hopelessly incomplete, such as:

The Daily News (but no date or article title)
Smith 2000 (and no indication of the title, or which of the many authors named "Smith" wrote it)
According to a press release from the company... (they might send out hundreds every year)

Do not use this when there is enough of a bibliographic citation that you can find the source (e.g., the book or the article), but you want a page number, quotation, or other detail. Instead, use {{page needed }}, {{request quotation }}, or other specific template.

Other information

This template places the article into Category:Articles needing more detailed references or a dated subcategory thereof.

This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopædic content.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Full citation needed in articlesbased on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Full citation needed

This inline template is used where a reference is alluded to, or given in part, but not specified in enough detail to identify it.

Template parameters[Edit template data ]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Month and year	`date`	Provides the month and year; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13' Auto value `{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}`	String	suggested
More details	`reason`	A reason as to why more details are needed, or which details exactly are needed. Appended to the default hovertext, "A complete citation is needed."	String	optional

Redirects

{{fcn }}
{{full }}
{{Citation broken }}
{{Vague citation }}

{{Ref expand }} – banner version of this template, for when an article needs many citations to be completed
{{Incomplete short citation }} – variant of this inline template for when a short citation is too incomplete to identify which long citation it references
{{Citation needed }} – for when no source is indicated at all
{{Ref improve }} – banner template for when an article needs more than one citation to be added
{{Author missing }} – inline template for a specific issue
{{Year missing }} – inline template for a specific issue
{{Page missing }} – inline template for a specific issue
Wikipedia:Citing sources, especially Unsourced material
Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources
Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles
Wikipedia:Verifiability
Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check

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Sourcing	{{Circular }} {{Dubious }} {{Excessive citations }} {{Further reading cleanup }} {{Independent sources }} {{More citations needed }} {{More citations needed section }} {{More footnotes needed }} {{No footnotes }} {{No reliable sources }} {{No significant coverage }} {{One source }} {{One source section }} {{Only primary sources }} {{NRIS only }} {{Primary sources }} {{Primary sources section }} {{Religious text primary }} {{Self-published }} {{Self-reference cleanup }} {{Self-sourcing examples }} {{Refexample section }} {{Sources exist }} {{Text-source }} {{Unreferenced }} {{Unreferenced section }} {{Unreferenced category }} {{Unreliable sources }} {{Unreliable sources section }} {{User-generated }}
BLP-specific	{{BLP unreferenced }} {{BLP unreferenced section }} {{BLP primary sources }} {{BLP self-published }} {{BLP sources }} {{BLP sources section }} {{BLP no footnotes }} {{BLP more footnotes needed }} {{BLP one source }}
Topic specific	{{Localist }} {{Media IMDb refimprove }} {{More medical citations needed }} {{More science citations needed }} {{Neologism }} {{Science review }} {{Unreferenced law }} {{Unreferenced medical section }}
Dispute-related	{{Cite check }} {{Cite check section }} {{Content }} {{Disputed }} {{Dispute about }} {{Disputed section }} {{Disputed chem }} {{Disputed list }} {{Disputed map }} {{Expert needed }} {{Hoax }} {{Original research }} {{Original research section }} {{Speculation }} {{Speculation section }} {{Synthesis }} {{Verifiability }} {{Verify sources }}
Citation improvements	{{Citation style }} {{Citations broken }} {{Cleanup bare URLs }} {{Format footnotes }} {{Full citations needed }} {{Ibid }} {{Page numbers improve }} {{Page numbers needed }} {{Parenthetical referencing }} {{Shallow references }}
General advice	Citing sources Reliable sources Maintenance template removal Citation needed Find sources Combining sources Referencing styles

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