Template:User-generated inline

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Usage

{{User-generated inline|date=April 2025}}

This is an inline template used to flag facts in an article as being cited to sources that user-generated content (e.g. other wikis, content farms, or user-editable databases like IMDb), and thus potentially unreliable, per WP:Identifying reliable sources#User-generated content (WP:Verifiability#Self-published sources and WP:Neutral point of view are also relevant, but the template's link to goes to that anchor at the reliable sources guideline).

This template will categorize tagged articles into Category:Accuracy disputes.

To flag citations themselves as being to such questionable sources, use Template:User-generated source, inside of <ref>...</ref>. For whole sections or articles, use Template:Self-published.

This template takes a compulsory parameter (which if not set by the editor will be set by a bot):

• |date=date—in the format "Month Year" or "YYYY-MM-DD" etc.

If there is concrete proof that the source is user-generated, you can use a parameter to remove the "?" from the template's output:

• |certain=yes or |certain=y

Redirects

• Any hyphenation will work:
  • {{User generated inline}}
  • {{User generated-inline}}
  • {{User-generated-inline}}
• {{user-generated content}}
• {{ugc}}
• {{UGC}}
• {{ugs}}

Templatedata

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

TemplateData for User-generated inline

Places text after a citation to inform the reader that the source is user-generated.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Certain?	certain	If there is no doubt the source is user-generated, setting this field to 'y' or 'yes' removes the question mark. Example yes Auto value yes	String	optional
Month and year	date	Provides the month and year of the UGC tag Example January 2013 Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	String	suggested

See also

• {{User-generated source}} – a similar inline template for flagging the citation itself as being to a user-generated source (use inside <ref>)
• {{Self-published inline}} – a more general variant of this template for flagging facts in the article as being reliant on some other kind of self-published source[s] (use outside <ref>)
• {{Self-published source}} – a similar inline template for flagging the citation itself as being to some other kind of self-published source (use inside <ref>)
• {{User-generated}} – an article- or section-level banner for user-generated sourcing
• {{Self-published}} – an article- or section-level banner for self-published sourcing
• {{Primary source inline}} – a similar inline template for flagging inappropriate use of a primary source
• {{Primary sources}} – an article- or section-level banner
• {{Third-party}} or {{third-party inline}}, when an independent or third-party source is needed
• {{Tertiary source inline}} – a similar inline template for flagging inappropriate use of a tertiary source
• {{Tertiary}} – for noting a citation to a tertiary source that does not sufficiently or at all cite its own sources (use inside <ref>)
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles

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