Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax

This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the HandWiki project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories. This is a tracking category. It builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. They are not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme. This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (appearance → show hidden categories) is set. These categories are used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience. These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or sub-categories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).

Administrators: Please do not delete this category even if it is empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.

This category contains individual pages and several subcategories. The individual pages in Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax are added by various citation/core-based citation templates when they use 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 |archivedate=, you must also specify |archiveurl=
• Error: If you specify |archiveurl=, you must first specify |url=
• Error: You must specify |name= when using {{cite gnis}}

(you can do this in many web browsers with CTRL+F). 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 in this category 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 This category should not be confused with Category:Articles with broken or outdated citations, which is added with the {{Citations broken}} template to indicate problems with the meaning or target of the ref (rather than the technical syntax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 3,691 (update this page to refresh this count). This number involves some double-counting, since a single article may appear in multiple subcategories.