Template:Circular risk/doc

Purpose

Notify editors in an article talk page that a source is dependent on Wikipedia to prevent circular references.

do not use... publications relying on material from Wikipedia as sources.

— WP:CIRCULAR

Example

{{Template:Circular risk
|source={{cite journal | last=Whitty | first=Monica T. | last2=Buchanan | first2=Tom | title=The online dating romance scam: The psychological impact on victims – both financial and non-financial | journal=Criminology & Criminal Justice | publisher=[[Sage Publishing|Sage]] | volume=16 | issue=2 | date=3 September 2015 | issn=1748-8958 | doi=10.1177/1748895815603773 | pages=176–194 | url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=2c5f26ef5bb746d64ca84842281fb83c3f00e2f2}}
|authorship-date=between January-June 2013
|authorship-date-explanation=
The most recently published works cited in {{harvtxt|Whitty|Buchanan|2015}}:
* {{cite report | author=National Fraud Authority | date=6 June 2013 | title=Annual fraud indicator | publication-place=London | publisher=Author | url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-fraud-indicator--2 <!-- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c7507ed915d6969f45001/nfa-annual-fraud-indicator-2013.pdf -->}}
* {{cite journal | last=Whitty | first=Monica T. | date=4 April 2013 | title=The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model: Development of a stage model to explain the online dating romance scam | journal=British Journal of Criminology | publisher=Oxford University Press | volume=53 | issue=4 | issn=0007-0955 | doi=10.1093/bjc/azt009 | doi-access=free | pages=665–684}}
* {{cite journal | last=Buchanan | first=Tom | last2=Whitty | first2=Monica T. | date=28 March 2013 | title=The online dating romance scam: Causes and consequences of victimhood | journal=Psychology, Crime & Law | publisher=Informa UK | volume=20 | issue=3 | issn=1068-316X | doi=10.1080/1068316x.2013.772180 | doi-access=free | pages=261–283}}

This work was cited as "in press" in {{harvtxt|Whitty|Buchanan|2015}}:
* {{cite journal | last=Whitty | first=Monica T. | title=Anatomy of the online dating romance scam | journal=Security Journal | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=28 | issue=4 | date=11 February 2013 | issn=0955-1662 | doi=10.1057/sj.2012.57 | doi-access=free | pages=443–455}}
|description={{harvtxt|Whitty|Buchanan|2015|p=15}} seems to be based on a version of our article after this [[Special:Diff/457597716|26 October 2011 revision]].
|nocat=yes
}}

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Circular risk

Notify editors in an article talk page that a source is dependent on Wikipedia to prevent circular references.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Certain?	certain	Are you certain that the source is dependent on Wikipedia for it's information? Default no Example yes	Boolean	optional
Source	source	A citation, possibly using a citation template.	Content	required
Date of writing or creation	authorship-date	A free-form date describing when the source was written or created. This is often useful to determine which revision of Wikipedia it might be based on. Example between January-June 2013	Line	suggested
Date of authorship certain?	authorship-date-certain	Is the date of authorship certain? If not, it is described as probable. Default no Example yes	Boolean	optional
Source is textual?	text-source	Is the source a text that was written? If not, it will be described as being "created" rather than "written". Default yes Example no	Boolean	optional
Authorship date explanation	authorship-date-explanation	Evidence to support the date of writing or creation provided.	Content	suggested
Description	description	Description of the similarities between the source and specific Wikipedia articles and evidence of dependence.	Content	suggested

Format: block

See also

• {{Backwards copy}}, for when a Wikipedia is copied by another work and the Wikipedia article might be incorrectly regarded as a copyright violation of the other work.