Template:Only primary sources

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This template should be used on pages on which their ONLY references are primary sources. Pages using this template will be added to Category:Articles lacking reliable references, organized by date.

Parameters

Date

The date parameter is used to specify the date when the template was added to the article. See the following example:

{{Only primary sources|date=December 2025}}

If the date parameter is not specified, a bot will automatically add it shortly after the template was put into the article.

{{{1}}}

The first parameter can be used to make the template apply to a specific section.

{{Only primary sources|section}}

Produces:

This section only references primary sources. Please improve this section by adding secondary or tertiary sources.
Find sources: "Only primary sources" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

If the template is used on an article in the main namespace, the word "page" will be replaced with "article."

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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 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}} {{Parenthetical referencing}} {{Shallow references}}
General advice	Citing sources Reliable sources Maintenance template removal Citation needed Find sources Combining sources Referencing styles

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