Template:Religious text primary

This article uses texts from within a religion or faith system without referring to secondary sources that critically analyse them. Please help improve this article. (December 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]

{{Religious text primary}} is a template used to identify articles that uncritically use texts from within a religion or faith system without referring to reliable secondary sources that critically analyze them. Primary sources do not meet Wikipedia's requirements for reliable sources, and such content may violate Wikipedia's core content policies regarding No original research and Neutral point of view. Additionally, lack of reliable secondary sources that critically analyze primary texts may indicate lack of notability.

This {{Religious text primary}} template can be copy-pasted to the very top of the page/article, where it will produce a banner like the one at the top of this template page.

Usage

This template says that an article uses primary source documents from a religion or religious text, and it needs more reliable secondary sources.

v t e Citation and verifiability article maintenance templates
Sourcing	{{Circular}} {{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 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

No description.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
1	`1`	no description	Unknown	optional
date	`date`	no description	Unknown	optional

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

Usage

See also