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This biographical article does not give any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Information about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed very quickly, especially if it could cause arguments or harm.
Find sources: (BLP unsourced – news, books, scholar)
(July 2026)
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Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful.

Alternatives:

  • In biographies of living people that have sources but not enough, the {{BLP sources}} template should be used instead.
  • Be bold! Consider searching for references and adding them to the article, instead of this template.

Contents

  • 1 Usage
  • 2 For whole articles
    • 2.1 For sections
  • 3 Related pages
  • 4 Redirects

Usage

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This template is intended to be placed on articles about living persons that don't have any sources, and therefore in need of immediate attention. If the article is not about a living subject, use {{no sources}} instead.

This template also includes support for using the date parameter. Adding this parameter sorts the article into subcategories of Category:Unreferenced BLPs and out of the parent category, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first.

This template additionally adds the article to Category:All unreferenced BLPs. This allows editors who keep an eye on biographies and BLP concerns to find articles in need of attention quickly.

For whole articles

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For pages that cite no sources whatsoever, add {{BLP unsourced}} to the top of the article. You must add the date on which you added the tag:

  • {{BLP unsourced|date=July 2026}}
    . This allows it to be placed in the correct monthly category for reports.

For sections

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If the problem is limited to a specific section, add {{BLP unsourced section}} to the top of the section. This transcludes the following:

  • {{BLP unsourced|section|date=July 2026}}

This adds articles to Category:All BLPs needing more sources and the subcategories of Category:BLPs needing more sources.

Related pages

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  • {{BLP sources}}
  • {{No sources}}
  • {{More sources}}

Redirects

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  • {{BLPUnsourced}}
  • {{BLPunsourced}}
  • {{UnreferencedBLP}}
  • {{Unreferenced BLP}}
The above documentation is transcluded from Template:BLP unsourced/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.
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Last edited on 29 October 2017, at 09:58

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