Template:Page needed

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This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see COinS in Wikipedia.

Usage

The {{page needed}} template, and its plural version {{pages needed}}, function as in-line requests for the specific citation of a page number, or numbers, in a cited work such as a book or journal. Do not use these tags to label citations to named entries in dictionaries or other alphabetically-arranged works with multiple entries per page, as the entry specified is already more specific than a page number. Do not use these tags to label statements which you suspect to be false. Instead, use a dispute template such as {{Dubious}}, or move those statements to the talk page and ask for evidence.

{{Page needed|date=October 2025}}

These tags will categorise tagged articles into Category:Wikipedia articles needing page number citations or a dated subcategory thereof.

These templates are self-references and so are part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopædic content.

Position

Outside of <ref> tags.

Example

Markup	Renders as
Some text here.<ref name="Smith 2009">{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Jane |title=The Unbearable Beingness of Light |year=2009 |location=New York |publisher=Fnord Pubs }}</ref>{{page needed|date=December 2016}} ... {{Reflist}}	Some text here. ...

Template data

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TemplateData for Page needed

The template functions as in-line request for the page number, or numbers, in a cited work such as a book or journal

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Month and year	date	Provides the month and year; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13' Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	String	suggested

Redirects

• {{Page number}}
• {{Page missing}}

See also

• {{Page numbers needed}} (non-inline version for when the problem is article- or section-wide)
• {{Rp}} to supply a referenced page number, for a source cited many times, at different pages numbers, in the same article
• {{Volume needed}} (similar to {{page needed}}, for missing journal, newspaper, comic, etc., volume and issue numbers)
• {{Page range too broad}} (the opposite of {{page needed}}, when the cited page numbers span more than a few pages)

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