This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS. |
This template should not be substituted. |
((ISBN missing)) is an inline cleanup template for flagging a reference that is missing the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) of the source document.
((ISBN missing|date=July 2024))
((Cite web))
, ((Cite book))
, ((Citation))
, etc.):((ISBN missing|date=July 2024))
outside the citation template|isbn=
parameter of a Citation Style 1 template. The inclusion of text other than the digits of an ISBN in |isbn=
corrupts the citation's COinS metadata and the citation's link to Special:BookSources.((ISBN missing|date=July 2024))
to the end of the citation.Do not remove the ((ISBN missing)) template without fixing the problem in one of the following ways:
|isbn=X-XXXX-XXXX-X
|isbn=<!-- ISBN unspecified -->
(you must use HTML <!-- -->
comment tags to hide the message from the citation processing software)((No ISBN))
outside the citation template((No ISBN))
to the end of the citation.If you remove the ((ISBN missing)) template without fixing the problem in one of the above ways, someone else will come along later and flag the reference with ((ISBN missing)) again!