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This template is intended to be placed at the top ofarticles about living persons that need additional references, and are therefore in need of immediate attention. If the article is not about a living or recently deceased subject, you may wish to use{{More citations needed}} instead.
Please add a date parameter. Adding a date parameter sorts the article into subcategories ofCategory:BLP articles lacking sources and out of the parent category, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first.
Finally, if the article has a defaultsort, this is used for these categories as well. Otherwise, it is sorted on the first word (usually the first name).
date = December 2025 - required parameter, will be added by botreason =text - optional parameter which appends advisory textThe following parameter is obsolete:|suffix= (simply use the first unnamed parameter).
{{BLP sources|date=December 2025}}{{BLP sources|date=December 2025|reason=}}This template can be used with a "section" parameter to tag specific sections:{{BLP sources|section|date=December 2025}}
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| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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| Section | 1 | Add "section" if the tag applies to a particular section | String | optional |
| Date | date | The month and year the template was added, in the form "July 2013"
| String | required |
| Reason | reason | A reason for adding the tag | String | optional |