Template:BLP sources

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Usage

This template is intended to be placed at the top of articles about living persons that need additional references, and therefore in need of immediate attention. If the article is not about a living or recently deceased subject, you may wish to use {{Refimprove}} instead.

Please add a date parameter. Adding a date parameter sorts the article into subcategories of Category:Articles lacking reliable references and out of the parent category, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first.

This template additionally adds the article to Category:BLP articles lacking sources. This allows editors who keep an eye on biographies and BLP concerns to find articles in need of attention quickly.

Finally, if the article has a defaultsort, this is used for these categories as well. Otherwise, it is sorted on the first word (usually the first name).

Examples

Paste-ready version: {{BLP sources|date=May 2025}}

This template can be used with a "section" parameter to tag specific sections: {{BLP sources|section|date=May 2025}}

Redirects

1. {{BLP Improvereferences}}
2. {{BLP improvereferences}}
3. {{blp improvereferences}}
4. {{BLPImprovereferences}}
5. {{BLPimprovereferences}}
6. {{blpimprovereferences}}
7. {{BLPmoreref}}
8. {{BLP Refimprove}}
9. {{BLP refimprove}}
10. {{blp refimprove}}
11. {{BLPRefimprove}}
12. {{BLPrefimprove}}
13. {{blprefimprove}}
14. {{BLP Sources}}
15. {{blp sources}}
16. {{BLPSources}}
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See also

• {{BLP IMDb refimprove}} - for BLP articles that primarily use IMDb as a source
• {{BLP primary sources}} - for BLP articles that only have primary sources
• {{BLP unsourced}} - for BLP articles that don't have any sources at all
• {{BLP unverified}} - for stubbing inadequately referenced BLPs
• {{No footnotes}} - for articles that refer to sources but lack inline citations
• {{Refimprove}} - for non-BLP articles
• Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
• Wikipedia:Verifiability

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