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Combined message boxes

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Individual message boxes: Biographies of living persons

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{{ BLP sources section}} category  links  talk	This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources:  "Verifiability and sources" –  news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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Individual message boxes: Issues with citations and sources

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{{ cite check}} category  links  talk	This article may contain citations that do not verify the text. Please check for citation inaccuracies. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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{{ media IMDb refimprove}} category  links  talk	This media article uses IMDb for verification. IMDb may not be a reliable source for film and television information and is generally only cited as an external link. Please help by replacing IMDb with third-party reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ more citations needed}} category  links  talk	This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this article. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  "Verifiability and sources" –  news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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{{ More medical citations needed}} category  links  talk	This article needs more reliable medical references for verification or relies too heavily on primary sources. Please review the contents of the article and add the appropriate references if you can. Unsourced or poorly sourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  "Verifiability and sources" –  news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR
{{ more science citations needed}} category  links  talk	This scientific article needs additional citations to secondary or tertiary sources such as review articles, monographs, or textbooks. Please also establish the relevance for any primary research articles cited. Unsourced or poorly sourced material may be challenged and removed. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ old news}} category  links  talk	This article may be excessively based on contemporary reporting. Please use newer secondary sources; articles on events that lack lasting impact may be merged, redirected, or deleted. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ one source}} category  links  talk	This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources:  "Verifiability and sources" –  news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR
{{ original research}} category  links  talk	This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ primary sources}} category  links  talk	This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources:  "Verifiability and sources" –  news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ Self-sourcing examples}} category  links  talk	This article gives self-sourcing popular culture examples. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources and remove less pertinent examples. Unsourced or poorly sourced material may be challenged or removed. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ religious text primary}} category  links  talk	This article uses texts from within a religion or faith system without referring to secondary sources that critically analyze them. Please help improve this article. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ self-published}} category  links  talk	This article may contain excessive or inappropriate references to self-published sources. Please help improve it by removing references to unreliable sources where they are used inappropriately. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ speculation}} category  links  talk	This article possibly contains unsourced predictions, speculative material, or accounts of events that might not occur. Information must be verifiable and based on reliable published sources. Please help improve it by removing unsourced speculative content. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ third-party}} category  links  talk	This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ unreferenced category}} category  links  talk	This article contains unreferenced categories. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced categories may be challenged and removed. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ unreferenced}} category  links  talk	This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  "Verifiability and sources" –  news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ unreferenced section}} category  links  talk	This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ unreliable sources}} category  links  talk	Some of this article's listed sources may not be reliable. Please help improve this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Unreliable citations may be challenged and removed. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ user-generated}} category  links  talk	This article may contain improper references to user-generated content. Please help improve it by removing references to unreliable sources, where they are used inappropriately. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Individual message boxes: Issues with style or format

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{{ Citation style}} category  links  talk	This article has an unclear citation style. The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of citation and footnoting. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ Citations broken}} category  links  talk	This article uses citations that link to broken or outdated sources. Please improve the article by addressing link rot or discuss this issue on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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{{ Cleanup bare URLs}} category  links  talk	This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot. Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style. Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as reFill ( documentation) and Citation bot ( documentation). ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ Duplicated citations}} category  links  talk	This article lists the same citations more than once. Please consider using named references to identify unique citations. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ Format footnotes}} category  links  talk	This article includes inline citations, but they are not properly formatted. Please improve this article by correcting them. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ Full citations needed}} category  links  talk	This article needs more complete citations for verification. Please help add missing citation information so that sources are clearly identifiable. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ Ibid}} category  links  talk	Constructs such as ibid., loc. cit. and idem are discouraged by Wikipedia's style guide for footnotes, as they are easily broken. Please improve this article by replacing them with named references ( quick guide), or an abbreviated title. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ More footnotes needed}} category  links  talk	This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ No footnotes}} category  links  talk	This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
{{ Page numbers improve}} category  links  talk	This article cites its sources but its page references ranges are too broad or incorrect. Please help adding a more precise page range. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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