Template:AEIS/doc

Usage

This is a shortcut template for generating a link to the secondary sources sub-policy of WP:No original research, useful when it's necessary to give a reminder that only secondary sources can be used for any WP:AEIS: analysis, evaluation, interpretation, or synthesis of the facts, evidence, concepts, and ideas taken from primary sources. It saves a lot of typing.

Parameters:

|uc=y or |lc=n – begins with upper-case "A", for use at start of sentence. (These parameters accept any input like |uc=TRUE
 

|s or |es or |plural – changes default text (singular nouns) to plural nouns "analyses, evaluations, interpretations, or syntheses"

|adj or |ic or |ive – changes to adjectival "analytic, evaluative, interpretive, or synthetic", for use before words like "claims"

|al or |cal or |ical – changes to alternative adjectival "analytic, evaluative, interpretive, or synthetic", for use before words like "claims"

|ze or |ize or |yze or |ate – changes to US/Oxford-style verbs "analyze, evaluate, interpret, or synthesize",

|se or |ise or |yse – changes to UK-news-style verbs "analyse, evaluate, interpret, or synthesize" [Note: "synthesise" is non-standard even in Commonwealth English.]

|zes or |izes or |yzes – changes to alt. US/Oxford verbs "analyzes, evaluates, interprets, or synthesizes"

|ses or |ises or |yses – changes to alt. UK verbs "analyses, evaluates, interprets, or synthesizes"

|ing or |zing or |izing– changes to US/Oxford gerunds "analyzing, evaluating, interpreting, or synthesizing"

|sing or |ising – changes to UK gerunds "analysing, evaluating, interpreting, or synthesizing"

|ed or |zed or |ized or |yzed – changes to US/Oxford past tense "analyzed, evaluated, interpreted, or synthesized",

|sed or |ised or |ysed – changes to UK past tense "analysed, evaluated, interpreted, or synthesized"

Examples:

{{AEIS|uc=y}} requires a secondary source.
     renders as:
Analysis, evaluation, interpretation, or synthesis requires a secondary source.
 

Primary sources cannot be used for any ''{{AEIS|adj}}'' claims.
     renders as:
Primary sources cannot be used for any analytic, evaluative, interpretive, or synthetic claims.
 

This material {{AEIS|yses}} data and alleged facts, but cites no secondary sources.
     renders as:
This material analyses, evaluates, interprets, or synthesizes data and alleged facts, but cites no secondary sources.

See also

• WP:No original research (policy)
• WP:Citing sources (guideline)
• WP:Identifying reliable sources (guideline)