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{{Author incomplete}} is<includeonly>-wrapped so that the template itself is not categorized by the meta-template that it calls.This template is just a variant of{{Author missing}}, and shares the same documentation.

This templateshould not be used incitation templates such asCitation Style 1 andCitation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute theCOinS metadata they produce; seeWikipedia:COinS.

This template shouldnot besubstituted.

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{{author?Template:Author?}}

{{Author missing}} (or{{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

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For all citations, append the tag to the end of the citation (usually just before the closing reference tag</ref>):
{{author missing|date=October 2025}}

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^{[author incomplete]} using:
{{author missing|partial=yes|date=October 2025}}
or
{{author incomplete|date=October 2025}}

How to fix the problem flagged by this template

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Do not remove the template without fixing the problem one of the following ways.

If youknow 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:
1. |last=Familyname|first=Given Name(s)
  or, for multiple authors:
2. |last1=Familyname1|first1=Given Name1(s)|last2=Familyname2|first2=Given Name2(s), etc
  or for a committee, working group, etc., instead of individual author names:
3. |author=Organizational author
For a free-form citation:
1. Just add the name(s) 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 xxx}}-series template, as appropriate for the work in question.

If youknow that no author was specified by the original source, as in common in many newswires, explicitly state this with:
1. |author=
  or for free-form citations:
2. 
Donot use question marks.
Donot just repeat the publisher, work (publication/site) name, or other field.
Donot leave the information blank and untag it, or someone else will just come along later and flag this with{{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).
Donot use|author=none
Donot use|author=unknown,|author=not sure or anything else vague; any implication other than thatthe source itself did not specify an author is simply a signal to other editors to re-tag it with{{author missing}}.

If youdon't know:
Donot use question marks.
1. 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{{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{{author missing}} as well.

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