Template:Original research
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Inline tag for sentences or short claims that appear to be original research, unsourced synthesis or speculative interpretation that has not been published elsewhere.
Reflects the project's editorial line: analytical argument and synthesis belong in Patreon longform; wiki pages report what published sources say.
Usage
Cannabis was first domesticated in the Tian Shan foothills.{{Original research}}
Renders: Cannabis was first domesticated in the Tian Shan foothills.[original research?]
With a date:
{{Original research|date=May 2026}}
Parameters
date: optional. Free text, conventionally "Month YYYY". Surfaces in the rendered tag as a muted suffix.
Behaviour
- Mainspace pages tagged with this template are added to Category:Pages with original research.
- Pages outside mainspace (Template, Help, News, Research, Landrace.Wiki and others) are not categorised, so this documentation page itself does not appear in the maintenance category.
When to use
- A specific claim has no citation and reads as the editor's own synthesis or inference.
- A sentence draws a conclusion across two or more sources that none of those sources individually supports.
- A claim repeats argumentation from a Patreon longform piece that has not yet been cited inline via the standard
dillonYYYYxreference.
When not to use
- Missing citation but the claim is a routine factual statement: use
{{Citation needed}}. - Vague wording: use
{{Clarify}}. - Undue praise: use
{{Peacock term}}. - Editor-voice opinion or framing: use
{{Editorialising}}. - Whole section is OR: flag the worst sentence inline for now; a section-level banner is on the roadmap.