Template:BLP unreferenced

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Usage

This template is intended to be placed at the top of articles about living persons that don't have any sources, and are therefore in need of immediate attention. If the article meets the criteria described at WP:BLPPROD, you are recommended to tag it with Template:Prod blp instead. If the article is not about a living person, use {{Unreferenced}} instead.

This template also includes support for using the date parameter. Adding this parameter sorts the article into subcategories of Category:Unreferenced BLPs 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:All unreferenced BLPs. This allows editors who keep an eye on biographies and BLP concerns to quickly find articles in need of attention.

Articles with this template are not automatically added to Category:Living people or Category:Possibly living people.

Listed below are the options for usage:

{{BLP unsourced}}
{{BLP unsourced|date=August 2024}}

Historical bot parameter

An additional option, when the template was added by a bot, was the bot parameter:

{{BLP unsourced|date=August 2024|bot=yes}}
The banner message then included additional wording to advise that the article was automatically assessed.

This, however, has been deprecated since any inaccurate tags should be removed regardless of source.

See also

• {{BLP sources}} – for biographies of living persons (BLPs) that need additional references
• {{BLP more footnotes needed}} – for BLPs that include a list of sources or external links, but have insufficient inline citations
• {{BLP no footnotes}} – for BLPs that include a list of sources or external links, but have no inline citations at all

• Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• Wikipedia:Reliable sources
• Wikipedia:Verifiability

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:BLP unreferenced in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for BLP unreferenced

This template is to be added to articles of living persons which have no references. If it means the conditions at [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people]], you are recommended to tag it with {{prod blp}} instead.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Typ	Status
Month and year	date	The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically. Default {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} Example January 2001	Line	suggested
name	name	no description	Unknown	optional
subst	subst	no description	Unknown	optional
prefix	prefix	no description	Unknown	optional
cat	cat	no description	Unknown	optional
all	all	no description	Unknown	optional

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