Template:Date missing
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{{Date missing}} (or {{date?}} for short) is an inline cleanup template flagging a broken source citation that is missing the date of publication of the cited source (or at least the specified fact that date is not available). "Date" here usually means "more information than just the year".
Many references are added with an access-date= but no publication date. This may be due to the use of citation tools that cannot identify a page's date, but of course the access-date= is always today. The lack of a publication date is clearly wrong, an error; but {{Citation}} documentation says clearly "Access dates are not required for links to published research papers, published books, or news articles with publication dates."
Usage[edit]
Do not place this template in any Citation Style 1 citation's |date= parameters. All text in |date= parameters is made part of the citation's metadata. The |date= parameters should include date data only.
For all free-form and citation template references ({{cite web}}, {{cite book}}, {{citation}}, etc.), place {{date missing}} at the end of the citation, typically just before the ending </ref> tag
TemplateData[edit]
TemplateData for Date missing
Use this inline template before a citation's </ref> tag to indicate that the citation is missing a full date where one is warranted. Not for use on events missing their date of occurrence; for this, use the template {{when}}.
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See also[edit]
- {{when}} – to ask (in regular article prose) for the date that an event occurred
