Template:Wn/or/Source

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See Wikinews:Style guide for more information on citing your sources.

Usage

    *{{source|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4577142.stm 
    |title=Las Vegas hosts digital nirvana 
    |author=Alf Hermida 
    |pub=BBC News Online  (The parameter "|publisher=" is an alternate usage)
    |date=January 3, 2006
    }} 

• If you cannot find the author of a source, leave that field blank. Do not use 'staff reporter' or similar. List syndicate in the author field.
• Put in a (second level) section labeled Sources (==Sources==).
• Format date as shown above.
• Always try to cite multiple independent sources.
• Articles that don't provide a URL are listed at Category:Articles with broken source templates.
• Category:Citation templates lists templates for offline news sources.
• For unsupported URL schemas (like mms:) use brokenURL=true.
• For publications (the 'pub=' or 'publisher=' parameter) please specify the exact same name under which the publication appears on Wikipedia.
• On those rare occasions when publication name should differ from publication link target, use additional parameter 'pubtarget='. You can also use this to specify a target project other than English Wikipedia.
• For an unavailable source (brokenURL=true) of an archived article, you may provide information about archival copies of the source using 'archiveurl=' and 'archivedescription='.

Example

Some story

ନଭେମ୍ବର ୨୬, ୨୦୨୪

Story, blah foo bar, Baz Fred.

Sources

• Alf Hermida. "Las Vegas hosts digital nirvana" — BBC News Online, January 3, 2006

Note

you should always cite more than one source. Do not list multiple publications with the same wire report; instead try to list the originating location.

See also

• {{Wn/or/Source/archived}}
• {{Wn/or/Source/broken}}
• {{Wn/or/Source/lang}}
• {{Wn/or/Source/ucauthor}}