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category harv and sfn template errors wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 displaying error messages 2 error messages 3 resolving errors 4 current limitations and false positive errors toggle current limitations and false positive errors subsection 4 1 brief explanation 4 2 details toggle the table of contents category harv and sfn template errors 17 languages العربية беларуская भोजपुरी کوردی eesti فارسی gaeilge ગુજરાતી bahasa indonesia ilokano 한국어 bahasa melayu simple english slovenščina shqip српски srpski 粵語 edit links category talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide help from wikipedia the free encyclopedia this is a tracking category it is used to build and maintain a list or lists of pages primarily for the sake of the lists themselves and their use in article and category maintenance it is not part of the encyclopedia s categorization scheme more information 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 subcategories into a larger more efficient list discriminated by classifications typically tracking categories are automatically populated by templates invoked in pages or by the mediawiki software see special trackingcategories for an overview of the latter administrators please do not delete this category as empty this category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time this category holds articles that use any of the short cite templates harv and sfn template families and harvc where one or more of those short cite templates do not properly link to a full citation the target or where multiple full cites can be the target of a single short cite template due to technical limitations category harv and sfn no target errors contains many articles with false positive errors no target error messages are hidden by default articles with multiple target errors are listed in category harv and sfn multiple target errors multiple target errors are not susceptible to false positive errors so those errors are not suppressed several options to view error messages are detailed below as well as possible ways to resolve errors displaying error messages edit currently two user scripts relatively reliably detect errors user svick harverrors js errors only user trappist the monk harverrors js errors warnings about potential errors when short footnote templates are used this has substantially fewer pointless warnings than ucucha s old script as well as a third experimental method based on customizing a css page the three methods are method 1 automatic script installation go in the gadgets tab of your preferences and select the install scripts without having to edit javascript files option at the bottom of the advanced section click on the install button in at the top of either user svick harverrors js or user trappist the monk harverrors js method 2 manual script installation go to special mypage common js and add any of importscript user svick harverrors js backlink user svick harverrors js importscript user trappist the monk harverrors js backlink user trappist the monk harverrors js in your skin page like this alternatively you can go to special mypage skin js to make the script apply only to your current skin method 3 css code for error messages emitted by the short cite templates error messages are emitted by the various short cite templates via module footnotes and module harvc because of technical limitations the modules can emit false positive error messages along with valid error messages for this reason no target error messages are hidden by default to show these hidden error messages include the following text in your common css page or your specific skin css page harv error display inline important display module footnotes errors error message display may be enabled in the future error messages edit if short cite template error messages are enabled editors can see these messages harv sfn error no target anchor id short cite template cannot find anchor id so cannot link to a full cite target causes for this can be the article does not have full cite target with anchor id the matching full cite target is a cs1 or cs2 template that has ref none uses a redirect name when that redirect does not begin with cite or cita these two forms cover most of the cs1 2 redirects the full cite target does not use exactly the same author or editor surnames and or date as listed in anchor id the short cite template links to a full cite target that is a wrapper template see false positive errors below harv sfn error multiple targets n anchor id short cite template found more than one full cite target with a matching anchor id causes for this can be authors writings from different sources produced in the same year cited without disambiguation date 2020a date 2020b redundant use of the full cite where one full cite target might be in a references section and a duplicate might be in a further reading section similar although not identical messages are emitted by the user scripts see the script documentation resolving errors edit ways of resolving legitimate no target errors include adding a missing full citation when short citations are copied from one article to another without a full citation you can sometimes find the full citation in a related article using wikipedia s search feature correcting the author and or editor names in either the short or full citation so that they match each other correcting or adding dates in either the short or full citation so that they match each other remember that date ranges are separated with an ndash character converting a plain text full citation into a templated citation using one of the cs1 2 families of templates e g cite book change cs1 2 template redirect names that do not begin with cite or cita to the target of the redirect e g change encyclopedia to cite encyclopedia create and use cite redirects for citation wrapper templates whatever cite whatever consider renaming the wrapper template so that its canonical name is cite whatever because there are automated processes out there that rename redirects to their canonical names once renamed by these drones false positive error messaging may reappear wrapping a plain text citation inside wikicite and setting ref or id as appropriate to match the value expected by the short cite template placing anchor adjacent to the plain text citation set the anchor parameter value to the value expected by the short cite template set the short cite parameter ref none to suppress anchor id link creation ways of resolving false positive no target errors include adding the citeref to module footnotes whitelist use this when many articles use the same long form citation a sfn whitelist template in the article ways of resolving multiple targets errors include adding ref none to cs1 2 templates adding disambiguation letters to date and to the sfn template when there are multiple full citations to works in the same year by identical authors or editors converting redundant full citations into short citations using sfn leaving only one full citation to the referenced work in the article entirely removing a redundant full citation e g identical full citations in a bibliography section and in further reading no advice is given for resolving false positive errors current limitations and false positive errors edit brief explanation edit when a short cite template links to a full citation that is rendered by a template that wraps a cs1 template like cite dnb which wraps cite encyclopedia a no target error may be displayed even when the short cite template is valid and the link works that is a false positive error if you find what looks like a false positive error please report it on the talk page for this category and another editor will either fix the article or add the template in question to module footnotes whitelist details edit the short cite templates employ an article reader to read the article s raw wikitext the same text that you see in the source editor s edit window while reading the wikitext the article reader looks for a variety of templates that can create anchor ids for each such template found the article reader attempts to extract the necessary information to determine the template s anchor id if it produces one for cs1 2 the most common long form citation templates the article reader looks for the default anchor id created by the template automatically up to four author editor contributor surname s and the year portion of the date ref sfnref the anchor id generated by sfnref or its redirect harvid ref plain text the anchor id is the plain text the article reader extracts similar information from other templates as appropriate for those templates each long form citation anchor id is saved in a list along with a tally indicating how many of that id the article reader found when the short cite template renders its output it looks for its target anchor id in the anchor id list anchor id found and the tally is 1 short cite template is rendered without error message anchor id found and the tally is 2 or more short cite template is rendered with a multiple target error message and the article is added to category harv and sfn template errors anchor id not found short cite template is rendered with a no target error message and the article is added to category harv and sfn template errors the no target errors may be true errors or may be false positive errors for true errors there is no anchor id in the article to match the anchor id expected by the short cite template a false positive error occurs because the article reader can only read the article s raw wikitext it cannot burrow into wrapper templates wrapper templates enclose the template that creates the anchor id this enclosure hides the necessary details so the article reader cannot determine that wrapper template s anchor id for example cite dnb is a wrapper template that encloses cite encyclopedia the values assigned to the cite dnb parameters year and supplement tell cite dnb how to set editor names and date in its call to the enclosed cite encyclopedia which uses them to create the wrapper template s anchor id when a wrapped template creates a matching anchor id that the article reader cannot see the link from short cite to long form citation works but is marked with a no target false positive error message subcategories this category has the following 2 subcategories out of 2 total h harv and sfn multiple target errors 483 p harv and sfn no target errors 5 098 p retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title category harv_and_sfn_template_errors oldid 1300800086 hidden categories hidden categories tracking categories automatic category toc generates no toc articles with incorrect citation syntax this page was last edited on 16 july 2025 at 13 29 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license additional terms may apply by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy 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