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If there is a problem with a work (or other page) on Wikisource that cannot be remedied immediately, it should be tagged with a maintenance template. Select the most appropriate template from those listed below. This will mark the page as needing attention, so other users can try to resolve it, and the tag lets readers know that some element of the page is incorrect in some way.

Note that in some cases, more than one tag may apply.

General

These templates are intended for use on more than one namespace.

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..pages with no licence template.

Category:Works with no license template,
Category:Author pages with no license template
OR Category:Files with no license template

..pages with no licence applicable under United States law.

See {{No license}}

..works that require a new license to be created.

Category:New license required

This page does not provide sufficient license information.

If you'd like to help, see Help:Copyright tags or comment.

..pages with missing images and illustrations.

Category:Texts with missing images

An image should appear at this position in the text.
If you are able to provide it, see Wikisource:Image guidelines and Help:Adding images for guidance.

..pages with missing tables.

Category:Texts with missing tables

A table should appear at this position in the text.
See Help:Table for formatting instructions.

..pages with no list of works.

Category:Authors with no works, OR
Category:Empty categories, OR
Category:Empty portals.

Error: The page contains a template that does not work in this namespace. Please use an appropriate template, or discuss this template.

..pages to integrated with other existing pages.

Category:Pages to be merged

..pages with no header template.

Category:Works with no header template,
Category:Subpages with no header template OR
Category:Author pages with no header template

This page does not provide {{Header}} information. If you'd like to help, add a comment, or edit the page and replace "{{no header}}" with the following and fill in at least the title and author fields:

{{header
 | title       = 
 | author      = 
 | translator  = 
 | section     = 
 | previous    = 
 | next        = 
 | year        = 
 | notes       = 
}}

Main namespace

Text

Tag code Use this template for... Tracking category Visible template

..works that are missing text or subpages.

Category:Incomplete texts OR
Category:Incomplete texts without a source

..works containing OCR errors and/or page breaks but without a page scan.

Category:Texts requiring OCR fixes

..works containing OCR errors from a transcluded page scan.

Category:Mainspace pages with transcluded OCR errors

..works containing page breaks from the original work, but not other OCR errors.

Category:Texts with page numbers

This work has been imported with its original pagebreaks intact
Please take a moment to help condense the text into simple, readable paragraphs without these [p. 172] remnants. For guidance please refer to proofreading instructions

..works with references that are not in the wiki <ref> format.

Category:Texts requiring reference fixes

..works that don't match the style guidelines.

Category:Nonstandard texts

..works with errors that are backed by a scan.

Category:Migrated texts requiring clean up

..pages that need to make better use of Wiki markup

Category:Needs wikifying

..user-generated translations in the main namespace.

Category:Works to be moved to the Translation namespace

This is a candidate to be moved to the Translation namespace because it appears to be user-generated translation of a non-English work.
If this work is a published translation, please consider adding the {{textinfo}} template to the talk page and removing this template.

Source

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..complete works that need to be matched to a scan.

Category:Texts to be migrated to scans

..works with no declared source.

Category:Texts without a source

..doubts about the accuracy of the source.

Category:Suspected hoax pages

..doubts about the accuracy of a work.

Category:Doubtful Fidelity

..works with no evidence of publication.

Category:Works with no evidence of publication

Page

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..works that need to be split into sections or chapters.

Category:Texts to be split

..pages that need to be split into different works.

Category:Pages to be split

..pages that are not linked from any other page

Category:Unlinked

Subpage

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..works that need to be split into sections or chapters.

Category:Texts to be split

..pages that should be subpages of another work.

Category:Texts to be moved to subpages

..works whose sections should be collected into subpages

Category:Texts requiring subpages

It has been suggested that the chapters or sections of this work become subpages of this basepage.
The chapters or sections of this work are currently on Wikisource as individual basepages. These chapters or sections should be moved to become subpages of this basepage. If you'd like to help, see Help:Subpages.

Metadata

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Tracking category

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..translations with no stated translator.

Category:Translations without translator information specified

Author namespace

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Tracking category

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..author pages with initials in the pagename.

Category:Authors with unidentified initials

This Author page uses initials in the subject's name, rather than fully spelling out each name.

Additional research is required to move this Author page to its full proper title, at which point we can remove this notice.

Translation namespace

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Wikisource translations that have not been finished.

Category:Incomplete translations

Information

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Tracking category

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..works currently being cleaned up.

Category:Cleaning

This page is in the process of being cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality.
Until it is completed, you may see numerous OCR errors and incorrect formatting. See How to Edit and the style guide for help, or this article's talk page.

..pages on which work is currently being done.

Category:Articles actively undergoing construction

This page is under construction.
This help page or section is currently in the middle of an expansion or major revamping.

More Information and Options

However, you are welcome to assist in its construction by editing it as well.

Please consult the edit history should you wish to contact the person who placed this template.

If this article has not been edited in several days, please remove the under construction notice.
Please don't tag with a deletion tag unless the page hasn't been edited within several days after notice tag's removal.

While actively editing, consider adding {{inuse}} to reduce edit conflicts.