This is in response to Aervanath's Analysis and Proposal in TfD 4/5/08 Citations missing.
Proposed template
Existing templates
 | This article or section is missing citations or needs footnotes. Using inline citations helps guard against copyright violations and factual inaccuracies. |
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{{Unreferenced}}
 | This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. |
{{#switch:{{NAMESPACE}}||Talk={{{category|[[Category:Articles lacking sources {{#if:{{{date|}}}|from {{{date}}}|}}]]}}}{{{category|[[Category:All articles lacking sources]]}}}{{#if:{{{date|}}}|{{#ifexist:Category:Articles lacking sources from {{{date}}}||{{{category|[[Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template]]}}}}}|}}|}}
| This section does not cite any references or sources. Please improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. |
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{{onesource}}
| This article or section relies largely or entirely upon a single source. Please help improve this article by introducing appropriate citations of additional sources. |
<includeonly>{{{category|{{#if:{{{date|}}}|[[Category:Articles lacking reliable references from {{{date}}}]]|[[Category:Articles lacking reliable references]]}}}}}</includeonly>
{{Refimprove}}
| This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. |
<includeonly>{{#if:{{{date|}}}|{{{category|[[Category:Articles needing additional references from {{{date|}}}]]}}}|{{{category|[[Category:Articles needing additional references]]}}}}}{{#if:{{NAMESPACE}}||{{#if:{{{date|}}}|{{#ifexist:Category:Articles needing additional references from {{{date}}}||[[Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template]]}}|}}}}</includeonly>
{{nofootnotes}}
 | This article or section includes a list of references or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. You can improve this article by introducing more precise citations. |
<includeonly>{{{category|[[Category:Articles lacking in-text citations|{{PAGENAME}}]]}}}</includeonly>
{{morefootnotes}}
| This article or section, while providing some complete reference citations, includes a list of references or external links, and its verifiability remains partly unclear because it has insufficient in-text citations. You can improve this article by introducing more precise citations. |
<includeonly>{{{category|[[Category:Articles lacking in-text citations|{{PAGENAME}}]]}}}</includeonly>