Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax
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This category contains individual pages and several subcategories. The individual pages are added by various Citation/core-based templates when they have been saved with incorrect syntax (further information at {{Citation error}}). To fix them, view the article and search for red text, including (but not limited to) phrases such as:
- Error: If you specify
|archive-date=, you must also specify|archive-url=. - Error: If you specify
|archive-url=, you must first specify|url=. - Error: You must specify |name= when using {{Cite gnis}}.
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Once found, then click the footnote marker (^) to see which citation is incorrectly specified and how. If you are the editor who used one of the citation templates and ended up with a broken citation, consider reading the relevant template's documentation.
Some subcategories here are populated by the various Module:Citation/CS1-based citation templates. Help for these error messages is at Help:CS1 errors, with direct links to the appropriate help text available from the error message in the article.
This category should not be confused with Category:Articles with broken or outdated citations, which is populated largely by the {{Citations broken}} template to indicate problems with the meaning or target of the underlying reference (rather than the wiki syntax of the citation template). Please do not add pages to this category directly.
The total current count of articles in subcategories of this category is 2 ( to refresh this count). This number involves some double-counting, since a single article may appear in multiple subcategories.
This category currently contains no pages or media.
