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{{tl|Author missing}} (or {{tl|author?}} for short) is an inline cleanup template flagging a broken source citation that is missing author information (or at least the specified fact that author information is not available).

==Use==

*For all citations, append the tag to the end of the citation (usually just before the closing reference tag <code><nowiki></ref></nowiki></code>):
*:{{tnull|author missing|date{{=}}{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}

*In the occasional case of a partial name (e.g. just a family name, or some construction such as "Dr. Falstaff" or "Reagan and Parkes" or "VNEA" without the full information being provided in a "Notes", "References" or "Bibliography" section elsewhere on the page), you can change the displayed text to <sup>[[[Wikipedia:Citing sources|author incomplete]]]</sup> using:
*:{{tnull|author missing|partial=yes|date{{=}}{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}
*::or
*:{{tnull|author incomplete|date{{=}}{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}

==How to fix the problem flagged by this template==
{{strong|Do not remove the template without fixing the problem one of the following ways.}}

*If you ''know the author(s)'', fill in the needed information, and remove the template.
*;For a template-formatted citation, there are three basic ways to do this::
*#{{para|last|<var>Familyname</var>}}{{para|first|<var>Given Name(s)</var>}}
*#:or, for multiple authors:
*#{{para|last1|<var>Familyname1</var>}} {{para|first1|<var>Given Name1(s)</var>}} {{para|last2|<var>Familyname2</var>}} {{para|first2|<var>Given Name2(s)</var>}}, etc
*#:or for a committee, working group, etc., instead of individual author names:
*#{{para|author|<var>Organizational author</var>}}
*;For a free-form citation::
*#Just add the name(s) 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 {{Cite xxx}}-series template, as appropriate for the work in question.

*If you ''know that no author was specified'' by the original source, as in common in many newswires, explicitly state this with:
*#{{para|author|}}
*#:or for free-form citations:
*#<code></code>
*:Do ''not'' use question marks.
*:Do ''not'' just repeat the publisher, work (publication/site) name, or other field.
*:Do ''not'' leave the information blank and untag it, or someone else will just come along later and flag this with {{tl|author missing}} again! The citation templates know how to properly format a citation to something with no specified author (thus the HTML comment formatting above).
*:Do ''not'' use {{para|author|none}}
*:Do ''not'' use {{para|author|unknown}}, {{para|author|not sure}} or anything else vague; any implication other than that ''the source itself'' did not specify an author is simply a signal to other editors to re-tag it with {{tl|author missing}}.

*If you ''don't know'':
*:Do ''not'' use question marks.
*#Check the source, and add the necessary information, as above.
*:If the source is a dead link, check archive.org for a backup copy (see your {{tl|citation}}/{{Cite xxx}}-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|author missing}} as well.

==See also==
{{Citation repair}}
{{Inline tags}}

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