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{{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=March 2024}}

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
    1. |place=XXX
    For a free-form citation
    :
    1. Just add the place as appropriate to the format of the citation; or...
    2. Better yet, convert the entire citation to {{Cite journal}}, {{Cite news}} or some other {{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.
    1. 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=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 {{Place missing}}.
  • If you don't know:
    1. 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}}-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
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