Template:Hoax/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Hoax.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original Template page.

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Usage

This template will categorise articles into Category:Wikipedia suspected hoax articles.

Listed below are several options for usage.

{{Hoax|date=April 2025}}

{{Hoax|section=yes|date=April 2025}}

Please use {{subst:Uw-hoax}} to add the appropriate user warning on the talk page of hoaxers.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Hoax in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Hoax

<templatedata> { "params": { "date": { "label": "Month and year", "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}", "suggested": true, "type": "string" }, "section": { "label": "Section?", "description": "Set to \"yes\" if the template is used for a section", "type": "string", "suggestedvalues": [ "yes" ] } }, "format": "inline" } </templatedata>

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BLP-specific	{{BLP unreferenced}} {{BLP unreferenced section}} {{BLP primary sources}} {{BLP self-published}} {{BLP sources}} {{BLP sources section}} {{BLP IMDb-only refimprove}} {{BLP IMDb refimprove}} {{BLP no footnotes}} {{BLP more footnotes needed}} {{BLP one source}}
Topic specific	{{Localist}} {{Media IMDb refimprove}} {{More medical citations needed}} {{More science citations needed}} {{Neologism}} {{Science review}} {{Unreferenced law}} {{Unreferenced-law section}} {{Unreferenced medical section}}
Dispute-related	{{Cite check}} {{Cite check section}} {{Content}} {{Disputed}} {{Dispute about}} {{Disputed section}} {{Disputed chem}} {{Disputed list}} {{Disputed map}} {{Expert needed}} {{Hoax}} {{Original research}} {{Original research section}} {{Speculation}} {{Speculation section}} {{Synthesis}} {{Verifiability}} {{Verify sources}}
Citation improvements	{{Citation style}} {{Citations broken}} {{Cleanup bare URLs}} {{Format footnotes}} {{Full citations needed}} {{Ibid}} {{Page numbers improve}} {{Page numbers needed}} {{Shallow references}}
General advice	Citing sources Reliable sources Maintenance template removal Citation needed Find sources Combining sources Referencing styles

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