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To help find sources, Wikipedians have developed a number of source-finding templates which link to searches most likely to find references suitable for use in articles. The most well-known of these is {{ find sources }} , an inline template which can be used almost anywhere.
Search for periodical titles in the Wikipedia Library database index at The Wikipedia Library/A–Z; Check the list of online newspaper archives (some of which are free to access) or the list of free English newspaper sources. There are also other digitized-newspaper archives, particularly for older articles, that may be available.
Remove hopelessly-lost web-only sources: If the source material does not exist offline, and if there is no archived version of the web page (be sure to wait ~24 months), and if you cannot find another copy of the material, then the dead citation should be removed and the material it supports should be regarded as unverified if there is no other ...
Wikipedia:Wikipedia as an academic source – list of academic works citing Wikipedia as a source. Reference resources. Help:Find sources – a place that helps access reliable sources. Wikipedia:Book sources – links to catalogs of libraries, booksellers, and other book sources where you can search for the book by its ISBN identifier .
You should always try to use the best possible source, particularly when writing about living people. These are general guidelines, but the topic of reliable sources is a complicated one, and is impossible to fully cover here. You can find more information at Wikipedia:Verifiability and at Wikipedia:Reliable sources.
The easiest way to start citing on Wikipedia is to see a basic example. The example here will show you how to cite a newspaper article using the {{ cite news }} template (see Citation quick reference for other types of citations).
There are three preferred ways of citing sources: Footnotes; Footnotes with list-defined references; Shortened footnotes; Citations can also be placed as external links, but these are not preferred because they are prone to link rot and usually lack the full
If a Wikipedia article doesn't exist or you can't find an article that contains what you're looking for, you can ask a Wikipedia editor at our reference desk to research it for you. If you research the topic, you can add a reference and a summary of that source to the Wikipedia article, so that future Wikipedia readers can find that information.