Template:Location missing
{Place missing} is an inline cleanup template flagging a broken source citation that is missing the place of publication of the cited source.
Usage
{Place missing|date=January 2025}
- With references in a Citation Style 1 template (
{Cite web},{Cite book},{Citation}, etc.):- Place
{Place missing}outside the citation template
- Place
- With a free-form reference citation, just append
{Place missing}to the end of the citation.
How to fix the problem flagged by this template
Do not remove the template without fixing the problem one of the following ways.
- If you know the place, fill in the needed information, and remove the template.
- For a template-formatted citation, add the place
|place=XXX
- For a free-form citation
- :
- Just add the place as appropriate to the format of the citation; or...
- Better yet, convert the entire citation to {cite journal}, {cite news} or some other {cite xxx}-series template, as appropriate for the work in question.
- If you know that no place was specified by the original source, as is common with older books, you have the following option.
- Explicitly state that the location was unspecified:
|Place=<!-- Place unspecified -->(you must use HTML<!-- -->comment tags to hide the message from the citation processing software)
- For free-form citations:
No place specified.
- Do not use question marks.
- Do not leave the information blank and untag it, or someone else will just come along later and flag this with {Place missing} again!
- Do not use
|Place=none,|Place=unknownor anything else vague; any implication other than that the source itself did not specify an ISBN is simply a signal to other editors to re-tag it with {Place missing}.
- Explicitly state that the location was unspecified:
- If you don't know:
- Check the source, and add the necessary information, as above.
- Do not use question marks.
- If the source is a dead link, check archive.org for a backup copy (see your {citation}/{cite xxx}-type template's documentation for use of
|archiveurl=and|archivedate=parameters). If no archive copy is available, use {Dead link} after the citation, but leave {Place missing} as well.
Redirects
See also
- Source citation guidelines
- Citation repair templates
- {full citation needed} – the catch-all
- {author missing}
- {author incomplete} – a variant for partial data
- {title incomplete} – a variant for partial data
- Other
- {List years}, for missing years in lists
