This is a documentation subpage for සැකිල්ල:Unreliable medical source. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original සැකිල්ල page.

Alternatives: Be bold! Consider searching for medical references and adding them to the article, instead of using this template.

This template is intended to be used when a statement about medicine or health (including veterinary, psychiatric, etc.) is sourced but it is questionable whether the source used is medically reliable for supporting the statement. It produces a superscripted notation like the following:

The treatment is definitely effective.^{[unreliable medical source?]}

Articles tagged with this template will be categorized into Category:All articles lacking reliable references.

Place this template inline, ((Unreliable medical source|date=සැප්තැම්බර් 2024)) following the questionable claim (and any punctuation attached to it). The template should be placed outside the reference (<ref> ... </ref>), within the article's text:

Potentially controversial statement.<ref>some alleged source for this</ref>((Unreliable medical source|date=සැප්තැම්බර් 2024)) Next sentence.

This template should be used to express doubt about the credibility of a source for a medical claim.

This tag should not be used on unreliably sourced contentious statements about living persons; if the source is not reliable, the statement should be removed immediately.

For whole articles or article sections that rely on poor medical sources, considering using the banner template ((medref)) or ((medref|section)), respectively, rather than individually tagging a large number of statements.

For sources promoting non-medical [[WP:FRINGE|fringe theories and pseudo-science)), the variant template ((Unreliable fringe source)) can be used.

For sources unreliable for reasons other than promotion of dubious scientific claims, the more general template ((Unreliable source?)) can be used.

This tag should not be used to indicate that the sourced material could not be found within a given source. In that case, ((failed verification)) is a better template. For statements that have failed verification and have a questionable would-be source, consider removal of the source (and possibly the statement) over using both tags.

The template has the following optional parameters:

• date: should be set to the month and year when the article was tagged. Example: ((Unreliable medical source|date=සැප්තැම්බර් 2024))
• reason: a note explaining why you think the source is unreliable as per WP:MEDRS. Displays as a tool tip. Keep it short (one sentence) as longer material belongs on the talk page. It is good to reiterate the reason in your edit summary. Example: ((Unreliable medical source|reason=Your WP:MEDRS-based reason here.|date=සැප්තැම්බර් 2024))
• sure or certain: if set to "y" or "yes" will remove the question mark from the template's output to denote a degree of certainty that the source is unreliable. Please use this with a reason parameter, and only after a good faith attempt to verify the reliability of the source in question. Example: ((Unreliable medical source|sure=y|reason=Your WP:RS-based reason here.|date=සැප්තැම්බර් 2024))

• ((Medrs))
• ((Medical source))
• ((MEDRS))
• ((UMED))
• ((Umed))
• ((UNMED))
• ((Ums))
• ((UnMED))
• ((UNRMED))

• ((Medical citation needed)), for requesting a citation to a medically reliable source instead of or in addition to a non-medical one already present
• ((Medical citation needed span)), same as above, except it highlights the text that needs a medical reference
• ((Better source)), an alternative to ((Unreliable source|certain=y)); especially useful for tagging sources that are low-quality but not necessarily wrong
• ((Obsolete source)), for when a source has been surpassed by more recent works
• ((Unreliable fringe source)), for non-medical pseudo-science sourcing
• ((Unreliable source?)), for unreliable but non-fringe sources
• ((Primary source inline)), for non-medical misuse of primary source material
• ((Dubious)), for questionable claims that seem unlikely to be properly sourceable
• ((Disputed inline)), stronger than dubious, may indicate sources in conflict with each other

• ((More medical citations needed)), a banner template for flagging an entire article or section as relying on poor (or no) medical sources for medical claims
• ((Reliable medical sources please)), a note for user talk pages with links to WP:MEDRS
• ((More citations needed)), a banner template for flagging entire article or section as needing better sourcing generally
• ((Reliable sources for medical articles)), a banner for placing on an article's talk page
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles
• ((Uw-medrs)), a user warning for placing on a user's talk page with links to MEDRS

• Vickers, Tim and Eubulides (30 June 2008). "Dispatches: Sources in biology and medicine"". The Wikipedia Signpost.
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)
  • Wikipedia:Biomedical information
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (science)
• Wikipedia:Reliable source examples § Physical sciences and medicine
• Wikipedia:Current science and technology sources
• Wikipedia:Conflicts of interest (medicine)
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Resources, external resources useful for writing medicine related content

• Wikipedia:Citing sources, especially § Unsourced material
• Wikipedia:Independent sources
• Wikipedia:Reliable sources
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Reliability