Template:Place missing

Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]

This template should not be
Template:Place?
}}
This template is an in-line request for the place of a published source.

{{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=July 2025}}

With references in a Citation Style 1 template ({{Cite web}}, {{Cite book}}, {{Citation}}, etc.):
Place {{Place missing}} outside the citation template

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= (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:
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

{{
Place?
}}

{{
Place needed
}}

{{
Location missing
}}

{{
Location?
}}

{{
Location needed
}}

See also

{{Coord missing}}

Source citation guidelines

Wikipedia:Citing sources

Wikipedia:Reliable sources

Wikipedia:Verifiability

Citation repair templates

{{full citation needed}} – the catch-all

{{author missing}}

{{author incomplete}} – a variant for partial data

{{date missing}}

{{ISBN missing}}

{{place missing}}

{{publisher missing}}

{{title missing}}

{{title incomplete}} – a variant for partial data

{{year missing}}

Other

{{List years}}, for missing years in lists

v
t
e
Inline cleanup tags
Attribution

{{According to whom}}

{{Among whom}}

{{Attribution needed}}

{{By whom}}

{{From whom?}}

{{Like whom?}}

{{To whom?}}

{{Who}}

{{Whose}}

{{With whom}}

Clarity

{{Ambiguous}}

{{Circular definition}}

{{Clarify}}

{{Clarify span}}

{{Clarify timeframe}}

{{Context inline}}

{{Expand acronym}}

{{Incomprehensible inline}}

{{Incomprehensible span}}

{{Key needed}}

{{Non sequitur}}

{{Sentence fragment}}

{{Sic?}}

{{Which calendar}}

{{Which lang}}

Miscellaneous

{{AI-generated inline}}

{{Chinese script needed inline}}

{{Chinese script needed inline span}}

{{Cleanup inline}}

{{Copyright violation}}

{{Copyvio link}}

{{Data missing}}

{{Disambiguation needed}}

{{External links inline}}

{{Improve caption}}

{{Japanese script needed inline}}

{{MisleadingNameLink}}

{{Needs IPA}}

{{Not English inline}}

{{Not in body}}

{{Original research inline}}

{{Original research span}}

{{Pronunciation needed}}

{{Qualify evidence}}

{{Romanization needed}}

{{Script needed inline}}

{{Spam link}}

{{Synthesis inline}}

{{Synthesis span}}

{{Typo help inline}}

{{Under discussion inline}}

{{Verify spelling}}

{{Whose translation}}

Neutrality

{{Buzzword inline}}

{{Compared to?}}

{{Contentious label inline}}

{{Editorializing}}

{{Fact or opinion}}

{{Opinion}}

{{Peacock inline}}

{{POV statement}}

{{Promotion inline}}

{{Unbalanced opinion}}

{{Weasel inline}}

Precision

{{By how much}}

{{Definition}}

{{Definition span}}

{{Definition needed}}

{{Example needed}}

{{Example needed span}}

{{Explain}}

{{Explain-wrap}}

{{From where}}

{{How}}

{{How often}}

{{Misquoted}}

{{More detail needed}}

{{Of what}}

{{Quantify}}

{{Specify}}

{{Vague}}

{{When}}

{{Where}}

{{Where-geo}}

{{Which}}

{{Who else}}

{{Why}}

{{Year needed}}

Excessive

{{Duplication span}}

{{Globalize inline}}

{{Importance example}}

{{Importance inline}}

{{Infobox clutter}}

{{List entry too long}}

{{Long quote}}

{{Off topic paragraph}}

{{Off topic sentence}}

{{Overly detailed inline}}

{{Over-explained}}

{{Relevance inline}}

{{Undue weight inline}}

Time-sensitivity

{{Anachronism inline}}

{{As of?}}

{{Clarify timeframe}}

{{Current event inline}}

{{Is this date calibrated?}}

{{Outdated statistic}}

{{Until when}}

{{Update after}}

{{Update inline}}

{{Update span}}

Verifiability
Dubious

{{Contradictory inline}}

{{Discuss}}

{{Disputed inline}}

{{Dubious}}

{{Dubious span}}

{{Inconsistent}}

{{Needs independent confirmation}}

{{Speculation inline}}

Bare URLs

{{Bare URL inline}}

{{Bare URL AV media}}

{{Bare URL DOC}}

{{Bare URL image}}

{{Bare URL non-HTML}}

{{Bare URL PDF}}

{{Bare URL plain text}}

{{Bare URL spreadsheet}}

Incomplete or broken citation

{{Author incomplete}}

{{Author missing}}

{{Broken footnote}}

{{Date missing}}

{{Dead link}}

{{Dead YouTube link}}

{{Edition needed}}

{{Episode needed}}

{{Full citation needed}}

{{Incomplete short citation}}

{{ISBN missing}}

{{Missing long citation}}

{{Moved resource}}

{{Page needed}}

{{Pages needed}}

{{Permanent dead link}}

{{Place missing}}

{{Publisher missing}}

{{Season needed}}

{{Time needed}}

{{Title incomplete}}

{{Title missing}}

{{Unused source}}

{{Volume needed}}

{{Year missing}}

Missing or problematic reference

{{Additional citation needed}}

{{Better source needed}}

{{Better source needed example}}

{{Check quotation}}

{{Chronology citation needed}}

{{Circular reference}}

{{Circular reporting}}

{{Citation needed}}

{{Citation needed span}}

{{Citation not found}}

{{Close paraphrasing inline}}

{{COI source}}

{{Deprecated inline}}

{{Excessive citations inline}}

{{Failed verification}}

{{Failed verification span}}

{{Image reference needed}}

{{Independent source inline}}

{{Irrelevant citation}}

{{Medical citation needed}}

{{Medical citation needed span}}

{{Misplaced footnote}}

{{Nonspecific}}

{{Not verified in body}}

{{Obsolete source}}

{{Page range too broad}}

{{Primary source inline}}

{{Promotional source}}

{{Quote without source}}

{{Request quotation}}

{{Request quotation span}}

{{Retracted}}

{{Scientific citation needed}}

{{Self-published inline}}

{{Shallow reference inline}}

{{Tertiary source inline}}

{{Text-source inline}}

{{
Third-party inline
}}

{{Unreliable source?}}

{{Unreliable fringe source}}

{{Unreliable medical source}}

{{Unreliable scientific source}}

{{User-generated inline}}

{{User-generated source}}

{{Verify quote}}

{{Verify source}}

{{Whose quote}}

Wording

{{Buzzword inline}}

{{Colloquialism}}

{{Copy edit inline}}

{{Idiom}}

{{Neologism inline}}

{{Technical inline}}

{{Tone inline}}

General advice

Citing sources

Reliable sources

Maintenance template removal

Citation needed

Find sources

Combining sources

Referencing styles

Inline cleanup templates

WikiProject Inline Templates

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Place missing/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Place_missing&oldid=818171595"

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article: Template:Place missing. Articles is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license; additional terms may apply.Privacy Policy