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Usage
To be used to flag broken footnotes with {{broken footnote}}. For instance
This is a sentence with a working footnote.[1] This is another sentence, this one with a broken footnote.[2][broken footnote] This is a third sentence, again with a broken footnote.[3][broken footnote]
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- Smith, John (2008). Book of Stuff. Foobar.
- Smith, John; Hunter, Sally (2010). Another Book of Stuff. Foobar.
The cause of the issue can be varies. Often times, it will be due to
- The authors or year are missing/mismatched, or the footnote template is wrongly used. For example,
{{sfn|Smith & Hunter (2010)|p=12}}should (in most cases) be{{sfn|Smith|Hunter|2010|p=12}}. The exact syntax varies with the templates used, so some investigation might be required. - The full citation is completely missing
See also
- User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js – a user script which detects several classes of Harvard citation errors. It will, however, throw additional warnings, which are not errors.