Template talk:Citation needed

"T:CN" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect T:CN has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 February 4 § T:CN until a consensus is reached. M.C. (talk) 21:49, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Mandatory

I suggest this template as mandatory on ALL languages here, especially the German one. 109.250.16.196 (talk) 21:28, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean, but this is the English Wikipedia; the other language Wikipedias are out of scope. DonIago (talk) 02:55, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

I suggest that you raise the matter at meta:Wikimedia Forum. That covers all of the (several hundred) wikis within the Wikimedia Foundation. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 14:46, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Is there a way to sort articles by how many of these they have?

I feel like it would be good for morale if you could make a dent in Category:Articles with unsourced statements just by sourcing one or two statements. Can't find a way to accurately identify articles where that is possible, unfortunately. Is there a way to do that? Can one be made? JustARandomSquid (talk) 07:26, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

MediaWiki doesn't track how many times a template is used in a page, just whether it's used at all. It's specifically not possible to count it via wikitext or Scribunto either: when Parsoid was first getting going, they wanted to eliminate as much as possible cases where you'd have to parse the whole page to get the correct rendering for some bit of wikitext; what they'd have done for citations if mw:Extension:Cite didn't already exist I don't know. You might see if Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia has any information collected from their analysis of the dumps. Anomie⚔ 14:32, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Shorten text to either [cn] or [c.n.]

"Citation needed" is extremely long and anyone who knows how to click on references will know how to click on "cn" and come to the Citation needed page. OmegaAOLtalk? 22:06, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

No, it's an attention-getter, and rightly so. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:51, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

The undocumented {{Citation needed in table}} might be what the OP is looking for. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:01, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Edit request for pages redirecting to this template

• Citeneeded
• Refplease
• Uncited

Since these specific redirects are locked, I would like to request for the following code to be added to them:
{{Redirect category shell|
{{R from shortcut}}
}}

Thanks in advance. ~ 8BitBros (talk page • contributions) 06:40, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

"Template:Need sources" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Template:Need sources has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 February 16 § Template:Need sources until a consensus is reached. 8BitBros (talk • edits) 10:34, 16 February 2026 (UTC)