Wikipedia:WikiProject Timeline Tracer/Resources

Tag Templates

• {{histref}} — yields:

This article needs more sources for chronology/history verification. Please improve the sources if you can. This article is under evaluation by the WikiProject Timeline Tracer. Please remove this message only after the article has been corrected.

{{histref|give ideas here.}} — yields:

This article needs more sources for chronology/history verification. Specifically: give ideas here. Please improve the sources if you can. This article is under evaluation by the WikiProject Timeline Tracer. Please remove this message only after the article has been corrected.

{{histrefm}}, will show as:

This article needs more Sources for chronology/history verification WP Timeline Tracer

If you prefer to work only with inline calls, or you want to tag the problem lines, enter {{Timefact}} in the body of an article as a request for other editors to find sources for verifying the chronology, timeline and dates provided as reference in the content. It will display: ^{[chronology source needed]} .
If the missing citation refers to lineage or historical claims, you may use {{Histfact}}, requesting not only a source but a source that corroborates the historical claim or context. It will yield: ^{[history source needed]}

Usage

1. Use {{Histfact}} to label a passage which is incomplete without a cited source of historical or chronology information
2. Use {{Timefact}} to label a statement which lacks a source confirming or providing its chronology or timeline as per Wikipedia:Citing sources

Examples

• In the sentence "it was started by Lord Champs in 2001 and enhanced two years later ..."

• You will place {{fact}} if you are simply requesting a source that says that it was started by Lord Champs in 2001
• You will insert {{Timefact}} if what you are requesting is a source that confirms when it was started and its development after that.
• You will place {{Histfact}} for showing the need for a source that specifies not only the date of starting but also the historical development (that it was enhanced), how and when.

• In the sentence "that organization was founded in 1978 when the natural disasters had increased..."

• You will place {{fact}} if you are simply requesting a source that says that the organization was founded in 1978
• You will insert {{Timefact}} if what you are requesting is a source that says when the disasters increased in relation with the year of foundation
• You will place {{Histfact}} for showing the need for a source that specifies in what historical context that happened, what disasters were those, where and when.

• In the sentence "those celtic tribes survived more than one invasion...":

• You will place {{fact}} if you are simply requesting a source that says that those tribes survived many invasions
• You will insert {{Timefact}} if what you are requesting is a source that says when that happened
• You will place {{Histfact}} for showing the need for a source that specifies in what historical context that happened, what invasions were those

Category

Placing any of these tags will add the article to the category Articles lacking chronology/history sources

Edit summary

• When adding the {{histref}} template, you can use the following edit summary: This article needs sources for its chronology/history information. See [[WP:TIMETRACE]].
• When actually adding sources, you can use: Adding chronology/history sources. [[WP:TIMETRACE|You can help!]]

Tag for later view

To only mark up for later view and the article to the category Articles waiting for chronology/history evaluation, just add at the bottom of the article {{histrefeval}}, it will show this small tag:

This article is waiting for chronology/history sources evaluation by WP Timeline Tracer

Tag for completed task

When the article has been improved in a satisfactory manner, you must remove the "request for chronology/history sources " tag and leave instead, at the foot of the article {{histrefverif|the date goes here}}, which will add the article to the category Category:Articles evaluated by WP Timeline Tracer‎ and will show :

This article had its chronology/history sources verified On: 00 Aug 2007 by WP Timeline Tracer

Project banner

{{WikiProject Timeline Tracer}}

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Timeline Tracer, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's articles in: Accuracy of the Chronology of references Accuracy of historical or cultural heritage and lineage claims of modern religions, movements, organizations, groups and societies Accurate and sufficient sources for chronology/history verification. Please read why this is important and what you can do to help.

Invitation banner

For spreading the use of the inline calls for history/chronology sources, this invitation banner can be left as a message at the talk_page of those Wikipedians who seem to care for the sourcing of dates, timelines and chronologies when editing or anyone who could make good use of these inline calls. Just place {{WikiProject Timeline Tracer Invitation}} as a message, followed by your signature. It will display

Hello. You may have seen that some Wikipedia articles lack sources to given dates, timelines and chronologies.
If you feel that you could like to help in making all articles more reliable and well sourced in this regard, we would like to encourage you to use, as part of your daily editing and when {{fact}} is not enough for requesting clearly and specifically a citation or source for dates, timeline or chronology, the following inline tags:

{{Histfact}} displays ^{{history source needed}} for requesting sources for historical claims and history context. Click here for more information

{{Timefact}} displays ^{{chronology source needed}} for requesting timelines, dates and chronology sources. Click here for more information

At WP Timeline Tracer, we thank you for using these tools and for helping to make Wikipedia articles more accurate and reliable.

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Show you're a member of this WikiProject! (This also helps attract more members.)

• Use {{user timetrace}} on your user page, it displays

This user is a participant of WikiProject Timeline Tracer

Userbox 2

• Alternatively you can use {{user timetracer}} (smaller) on your user page, it displays

This user is a Timeline Tracer

Categories

• {{histref}} and {{histrefm}} automatically categorize the page into Category:Articles lacking chronology/history sources.
• {{histrefeval}} automatically categorize the page into Category:Articles waiting for chronology/history evaluation.
• {{histrefverif}} automatically categorize the page into Category:Articles evaluated by WP Timeline Tracer.