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When to use

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This template indicates that the article uses many improperly formatted or non-formatted inline citations that require large-scale conversion to an accepted form of inline citation.

How to use

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To add this template to an article, copy and paste:

or

Both options result in the same output.

Examples

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In-line reference using ref tags (correct)

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A standard, correct way of formatting the following citations (with some acceptable variations as described at Wikipedia:Citing sources) would be:

Correct: Australia has a government.[1]

References

  1. ^ Australian Government Press Agency (25 November 2009). "Australian Government". Retrieved 25 November 2009.

The following are examples of improperly formatted or non-formatted inline citations. This template is appropriate for articles that contain many such citations, therefore requiring large-scale conversion.

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Incorrect: Australia has a government Australian Government.

or:

Incorrect: Australia has a government.[1]

Manual number (incorrect)

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Incorrect: Australia has a governmentsee footnote 1

Inline parenthetical reference (incorrect)

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Inline parenthetical referencing was a previously accepted citation system that is now deprecated per WP:PARREF. The recommendation is to convert inline parenthetical references to shortened footnotes (as depicted below) or regular footnotes (as depicted in the first example above) or footnotes with list-defined references.

Incorrect: Australia has a government (Australian Government Press Agency, 2009).

Correct: Australia has a government.[1]

References

Sources

See also

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This template indicates that the article uses many improperly formatted or non-formatted inline citations that require large-scale conversion to an accepted form of inline citation.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Affected area1

Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"

Example
section
Lineoptional
Reasonreason

A description of the issue, to add to the end of the text in the generated tag.

Example
Parenthetical citations should be converted to [[Help:Footnotes|footnotes using reference tags]].
Lineoptional
Month and yeardate

Provides the month and year of the citation request; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'

Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Stringsuggested