Template:User-generated inline/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:User-generated inline. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

{{User-generated inline|date=August 2026}}

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

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

• {{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