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If you encounter a harmless statement that lacks attribution, you can tag it with the {} template, or move it to the article's talk page with a comment requesting attribution. If the whole article is unsourced, you can use the {{ unreferenced }} template; for sections requiring sourcing, {{ unreferenced section }} is available.
Following are examples intended to illustrate Wikipedia:Attribution. Note that these examples do not constitute policy (though they may include precedents derived from policy)--any examples which are found to contradict the policy should be removed. They are only here to assist the reader in their understanding of policy.
Add attribution: Attribute the text using the 'Free-content attribution' template in the 'Sources' section, as explained below. Cite: Add the original source of the text as a reference at the end of every paragraph or more if required. If the text has references add them as citations in the article.
While any edit lacking attribution may be removed, the best practice is try to find a source for it; dispute the statement on the talk page, perhaps moving it there; add the {} template to request a citation, add the {} template to request attribution; or; remove it.
A statement in the edit summary such as text from [[page name]] originally contributed by [[User:Example]] on 13 January 2025 serves as full attribution. If the material being copied has more than one author, attribution requirements can technically be satisfied with a note in the edit summary directing attention to a list of contributors on ...
Attribution, in copyright law, is acknowledgment as credit to the copyright holder or author of a work. If a work is under copyright, there is a long tradition of the author requiring attribution while directly quoting portions of work created by that author.
In-text attribution is the attribution inside a sentence of material to its source, in addition to an inline citation after the sentence. In-text attribution may need to be used with direct speech (a source's words between quotation marks or as a block quotation ); indirect speech (a source's words modified without quotation marks); and close ...
If the image is tagged as Fair use, then most probably you cannot.See the Fair use section for more details. You can for all other images released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License or a similarly free license provided you abide by the license conditions – include a link back to the wikipage for that picture or to the creator's website and license any ...