Template:Dubious/doc

Add {{Dubious}} after a specific statement or alleged fact that seems dubious or unlikely.

Usage

When using this template, it is strongly suggested to simultaneously discuss the dubious statement on the article's talk page – and to point this template to a specific talk page section (either new or existing) which contains that discussion. To do so, use the following syntax:

{{Dubious |Talk section name|date=November 2024}}

Note, do not include Talk:PAGE#, just the section title.

Do not add this template to a page more than a reasonable number of times. Please consider using one of the other templates mentioned below instead.

Parameters

• |1 = Talk section name – the first field should point to the section name on the talk page which contains the discussion.
  • If the section name contains an equal sign, use the following syntax: {{Dubious|1=Implies access=yes?}}.
  • Other special characters used in section names (such as brackets, "[" and "]") may need to be encoded. For example, the markup:

{{Dubious|value of the traffic_sign in %5B%5D}}

would produce:

{{Dubious|value of the traffic_sign in []}}.

• |date = – the month and year when the template was added. Example: |= date=November 2024.
• |reason = – Because it may not be immediately apparent to other editors what about the tagged passage is questionable, it may be helpful to add a brief reason for the tag: {{Dubious|reason=What the problem is}} (this is preferable to using an HTML <!-- comment --> after the tag, as it is tidier to keep all of the {{Dubious}}-related code inside the template). If the explanation would be lengthy, use the article's talk page. As well as being visible in the source code for editors' benefit, the reason parameter is, if provided, displayed as a tooltip when the mouse is hovered over the "dubious" part of the rendered text in the article.

See also

• {{Disputed}}
• {{Questioned}}
• {{Citation needed}}