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Your recent edits to a few articles have been reverted due to the addition of {{citation needed}} inside the <ref> tags. This breaks the reference and creates pointless busywork for other editors to correct. Please go back and revert your edits that break these tags. SounderBruce 18:43, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I believe you have caught them all. Should these references be left broken until a reference is added in its place? Just so I understand what the correct procedure is for the future. Springy Moose (talk) 18:55, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A bot can usually fix "orphaned" references (e.g. those without content due to a prior edit removing them). For citations where the source does not back up what it is cited to, add {{failed verification}} outside of the reference tags, like so: foo<ref name="bar"/>{{failed verification}}SounderBruce 19:53, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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