Template:Excessive citations inline/doc

Usage

{{Excessive citations inline|date=June 2026}}

When to use

This template should be used to indicate that there are an excessive number of citations for the same claim or sentence. Such a large number of citations can be aesthetically unappealing and may make the article unreadable or may lead to confusion about what exactly each citation is used in support of.

This template may be removed by anyone who fixes the problem.

How to fix

  • If all the citations are useful for the associated sentence, consider bundling citations.
  • If some of the citations relate to content earlier in the paragraph or article, consider moving the citations closer to the content they verify.
  • For multiple primary citations, consider if they can be replaced with an equivalent secondary source.

Limitations

This template should be used only on articles that have sources.

It may be used with {{More citations needed}} or other check references templates. This template should not be used with stubs.

Operation

This template will categorise tagged articles into Category:Citation overkill and Category:Articles tagged with the inline citation overkill template, or the latter category's subcategories thereof.

This template is a self-reference.

This template should not be substituted.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Excessive citations inline in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Excessive citations inline

This inline template is used to mark places in an article where there are excessive citations.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Reasonreason

A short explanation of why the claim has excessive citations.

Stringsuggested
Month and yeardate

Provides the month and year of the citation request; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'

Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Stringsuggested

See also


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