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^{[citation needed]}

Some dubious claim.
This claim needs a reliable source

Usage

{{Citation needed}}
{{Citation needed|date=February 2026}}
{{Citation needed|reason=This claim is dubious}}
{{Citation needed|date=February 2026|reason=This claim is dubious}}

In all these cases, {{Citation needed... can be substituted with {{cn.... E.g.:

{{cn}}
{{cn|date=February 2026}}
etc.

NOTE: The arguments (i.e. date and reason) must be in that order.
They're both optional, but if you're including them both, then it's date first, and reason second.

If you don't include a date, no date will be defined, and if you don't provide a reason, the default reason will be "This claim needs a reliable source".

Note to any editors

For the life of me I couldn't get this to work 100% properly

see the talk/discussion page for more details.

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 <noinclude><sup><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Citation_needed|''citation needed'']]<nowiki>]</nowiki></sup>
-Some dubious claim.</noinclude><onlyinclude><sup><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Citation_needed|''citation needed'']]<nowiki>]</nowiki></sup></onlyinclude><noinclude><br>{{{date|}}}{{{reason|This claim needs a reliable source}}}
+Some dubious claim.</noinclude><includeonly><sup><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Citation_needed|''citation needed'']]<nowiki>]</nowiki></sup>[[Category:Pages with citations needed]]</includeonly><noinclude><br>{{{date|}}}{{{reason|This claim needs a reliable source}}}
 === Usage ===
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 For the life of me I couldn't get this to work 100% properly
 * see the talk/discussion page for more details.
+[[Category:Citation templates]]
-[[Category:Pages with citations needed]]
 </noinclude>