Template:More medical citations needed

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{{more med cn}}

Alternatives:

Be bold! Consider searching for medical references and adding them to the article, instead of using this template.

Usage

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sections with medical or health content that need additional references or are using sources that are unreliable and/or outdated, and therefore, are in need of attention.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.

Parameters

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

If the first parameter is 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=.)
If you would like to add a reason, add the parameter |reason=.
To point to the Talk page with discussion of the issues, use |talk=1.
To produce a small version to use within a section, use |small=left; section isn't needed as a first parameter because neither "article" nor "section" is displayed.

Examples

{{More medical citations needed|{{subst:DATE}}}}: Paste-ready version; the month and year are added automatically.
{{More medical citations needed|section|{{subst:DATE}}}}: Paste-ready version; the month and year are added automatically. This places a normally sized box within a section.
{{More medical citations needed|date=January 2025}}: Paste-ready version; with month and year.
{{More medical citations needed|talk=1|{{subst:DATE}}}}: Paste-ready version for an article with pointer to the article talk page for details; with month and year.
{{More medical citations needed|reason=Information on foo does not cite any references or sources|date=January 2025}}: Paste-ready version for an article with date and a reason given.
{{More medical citations needed|small=left|{{subst:DATE}}}}: Paste-ready version reduced in size for use in a section of an article; with month and year (not displayed on template).

Template Data

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."

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
1	`1` `section`	Set to "section" if this refers to a section, instead of the entire article. Example section	Unknown	optional
reason	`reason`	no description	Unknown	suggested
talk	`talk`	When set, provides a link to the talk page. Example 1	Unknown	optional
small	`small`	Reduces the size to a size similar to the "Expand section" template, and determines the horizontal alignment. Example left	Unknown	optional
date	`date`	no description Example December 2024 Auto value `{{subst:DATE}}`	Unknown	suggested

{{Medical citation needed}} – adds: some text^{[medical citation needed]}
{{Medical citation needed span}} adds: some text^{[medical citation needed]}
{{Unreliable medical source}} – adds: some text^{[unreliable medical source?]}
{{Reliable medical sources please}} – a note for user talk pages with links to WP:MEDRS
{{Reliable sources for medical articles}} – a banner for placing on an article's talk page
{{Uw-medrs}} – a single-level user warning template

Policies, guidelines, essays, and WikiProjects

Medicine-specific

Vickers, Tim and Eubulides (30 June 2008). "Dispatches: Sources in biology and medicine"". The Wikipedia Signpost.
Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)
- Wikipedia:Biomedical information
Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (science)
Wikipedia:Reliable source examples § Physical sciences and medicine
Wikipedia:Current science and technology sources
Wikipedia:Conflicts of interest (medicine)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles
Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Resources, external resources useful for writing medicine related content

General

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:More medical citations needed/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

v t e Citation and verifiability article maintenance templates
Sourcing	{{Circular}} {{Better sources needed}} {{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 IMDb-only refimprove}} {{BLP IMDb refimprove}} {{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-law section}} {{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}} {{Shallow references}}
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