قالب:Tertiary sources/doc

Use this template to tag information or analysis that you believe is improperly or unnecessarily supported by a tertiary source, so that other editors can see whether this use is appropriate or replace it with a citation to a secondary source.

 Usage

• {{Tertiary sources|date=يوليو 2026}} for entire articles
• {{Tertiary sources|section|date=يوليو 2026}} for sections

Substitution of this template will automatically fill the date parameter.

• {{subst:Tertiary sources}}

Optional find parameters are available, for modifying the operation of the {{find sources}} links displayed by the template:

• {{Tertiary sources|find=double-quoted search keyword(s)|find2=unquoted keywords|date=يوليو 2026}}

This template will categorize tagged articles into Category:Articles lacking reliable references.

There is currently no consensus on where in the article to place templates such as this.

 When to use

The presence of tertiary sources in an article doesn't mean the article must be tagged. Tertiary sources may be used on Wikipedia, but they need to be handled with care.

 Parameters

There are five parameters, one positional, and four named parameters. All parameters are optional.

• |1= – scope of notification (e.g., 'paragraph', 'section', 'article', etc.) default: 'article'. see Details.
• |date= – month name and year; e.g. 'يوليو 2026' (no default)
• |talk= – section or fullpage id of discussion
• |find= – search keywords for {{find sources}} param 1 (double-quoted search); default: page title. See details below.
• |find2= – search keywords for {{find sources}} param 2 (unquoted search). Alias: unquoted. See below.

 Details

Positional parameter 1

Positional parameter |1= is the 'type' parameter, which may be set to paragraph or section or any string value.

Date parameter:

The |date= parameter is (generally) used to indicate when the template was added to a page. An example of its usage is {{Tertiary sources|date=يوليو 2026}}. Adding this parameter sorts the article into monthly subcategories of Category:Articles lacking sources, rather than adding it to the category itself, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. If the date parameter is omitted, a bot will add it later.

Find parameters:

There are two 'find' parameters available to control the presentation and operation of the {{find sources}} links optionally displayed by the {{Tertiary sources}} template. By default, the template displays {{find sources}} with a quoted search query equivalent to the exact article title. Sometimes, especially if the article has a long, descriptive title, or if it includes parenthetical disambiguation terms, this may not give useful results. The find parameters can be used to provide the search keywords of your choice to the {{find sources}} links. Use:

• |find= to specify keywords for an exact search (double-quoted query); this corresponds to {{find sources}} positional param |1.
• |find2= to specify keywords for an unquoted search; this corresponds to {{find sources}} param |2. The alias |unquoted= may be used instead. Note that booleans, exclusion terms (preceded by minus sign) and other search operators may be used in unquoted search (|find2=) if valid for the search domains:

{{Tertiary sources|find=John Adams|find2=president -Quincy}} ⟶ (see Examples below)

• Param |find= may take the special value none in order to suppress display of find sources links. (Note that specifying |find=none and a nonempty value for |find2= is not a valid combination.)

 Wrappers

To tag an individual section instead of the whole article, you can use {{Tertiary sources section}} template.

 Examples

{{tertiary sources|date=يوليو 2026}}

Exclusion term in unquoted search:

{{Tertiary sources|find=John Adams|find2=president -Quincy}} ⟶

 Aliases

• قالب:Template aliases

 See also

• Primary source templates:
  • {{Primary sources section}}
  • {{BLP primary sources}}
  • {{Only primary sources}}
  • {{Primary source inline}} – inline with text, to object to the inappropriate use of a primary source (regardless of whether the primary source is independent of the subject)
• Third-party source templates:
  • {{Third-party}}
  • {{Third-party inline}} – inline with text, to request an independent source
• Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary and secondary sources
• Wikipedia:Secondary does not mean independent
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles

 TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

Tertiary sources

Use this template to tag information or analysis that you believe is improperly or unnecessarily supported by a tertiary source, so that other editors can see whether this use is appropriate and/or replace it with a citation to a stronger, secondary source. Tertiary sources may be used on Wikipedia, but they need to be handled with care.

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وسيط		وصف	نوع	حالة
Focus	1	Use if the focus is a particular section or paragraph غيابي article	نص	اختياري
Month and year	date	Month and year when template was applied; if left blank, this will be filled by a bot قيمة تلقائية {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	نص	مقترح
Talk	talk	Section name or full page and section of discussion مثال Discussion section name	نص	اختياري
Find	find	Search keywords for 'find sources' double-quoted (exact) search. May be one or more words. Leave empty to suppress 'find sources' output. مثال Austen's early life	نص	اختياري
Find2	find2 unquoted	Search keywords for 'find sources' unquoted search.	نص	اختياري