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{{selfref|This template is an in-line request '''for the place of a published source'''.}}

{{Tl|Place missing}} is an inline cleanup template flagging a broken source citation that is missing the place of publication of the cited source.

==Usage==
{{Tld|Place missing|date&#61;{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}

*With references in a {{cs1}} template ({{Tlx|Cite web}}, {{Tlx|Cite book}}, {{Tlx|Citation}}, etc.):
**Place {{Tlx|Place missing<!--|{{grey|<nowiki>{{subst:DATE}}</nowiki>}}-->}} outside the citation template
*With a free-form reference citation, just append {{Tlx|Place missing<!--|{{grey|<nowiki>{{subst:DATE}}</nowiki>}}-->}} to the end of the citation.
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If you're really lazy, you can omit the optional date stuff: {{Tlx|Place missing}}

If you're weird, you can do the date manually: {{Tlx|Place missing|{{grey|date&#61;{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}}}
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==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:
*#{{para|place|<var>XXX</var>}}
*;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 {{Tl|Cite journal}}, {{Tl|Cite news}} or some other {{Tl|Cite}}-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:
*#:{{para|Place|<nowiki><!-- Place unspecified --></nowiki>}} (''you must use HTML'' <code><nowiki><!--  --></nowiki></code> ''comment tags to hide the message from the citation processing software'')
*:For free-form citations:
*:::<code>No place specified.</code>
*: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 {{Tl|Place missing}} again!
*:Do ''not'' use {{para|Place|none}}, {{para|Place|unknown}} or 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 {{Tl|Place missing}}.

*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 {{Tl|Citation}}/{{Tl|Cite}}-type template's documentation for use of {{para|archiveurl}} and {{para|archivedate}} parameters). If no archive copy is available, use {{Tl|Dead link}} after the citation, but leave {{Tl|Place missing}} as well.

== Redirects ==
* {{Tl|Place?}}
* {{Tl|Place needed}}
* {{Tl|Location missing}}
* {{Tl|Location?}}
* {{Tl|Location needed}}

==See also==
*{{tl|Coord missing}}
{{Citation repair}}
;Other
* {{Tl|List years}}, for missing years in lists

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