Category:Articles with missing files

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gallery pages with broken file links.

This category has a backlog that requires the attention of willing editors. This notice will hide itself when this category has fewer than 25 items. (recount)

This category is not shown on its member pages unless the appropriate user preference (appearance → show hidden categories) is set.

Administrators: Please do not delete this category as empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.

Here are some tips for assisting with clearing this category:

• Check the history of the article. An article may have had a redlinked image added recently in which case it can be rolled back or undone. If detected the MediaWiki software will use a tag in the edit history.
• Use tools like Wiki File Helper to view a file's past history on en.wp and commons to see if it was deleted.
• Sometimes the hidden category flag is not cleared if images are added that are used by a template. Doing a null edit to the article clears the flag.
• When removing an image from an infobox template be sure to remove the caption as well. There is no guarantee that a replacement image would use the same caption.
• Highway marker related images will often add numerous pages to this category. Please request any US markers at Wikipedia:USRD/S/R and any markers for the rest of the world at Wikipedia:HWY/RM instead of attempting to remove the missing graphics from articles.
• If an image is called by an intricate template, and the image is deleted on Commons, it may be a good idea to WP:HIDE the template and hope the image can be uploaded locally under fair use.

Example for temporary hiding issues...

c:File:Guangzhou Metro icon.svg was deleted on Commons 11 July 2021. The file is
  a. Called by {{Rail-interchange}}, and
  b. Called by {{Infobox station}}
and resulted in 300+ articles showing up here in CAT:MISSFILE.

In case a. instead of finding instances of {{rint|guangzhou|metro}} and deleting them, opt for hiding them: <!-- {{rint|guangzhou|metro}} -->
and use an edit summary like:
Hiding {{rint|guangzhou|metro}} for now, [[c:File:Guangzhou Metro icon.svg]] was [[:c:Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:SVG logos of China|deleted on Commons]]. Could a substitute be uploaded locally?
Case a. example in Special:Diff/1032052729/1033227215
Using WP:AWB or WP:JWB in such a case saves a lot of time.

In case b. instead of finding instances of | symbol_location = guangzhou and | symbol = metro and deleting their values, opt for hiding them: <!-- | symbol_location = guangzhou --> and <!-- | symbol = metro -->
and use an edit summary like:
Hiding symbol_location and symbol in the infobox for now as they depend on [[c:File:Guangzhou Metro icon.svg]] that was [[:c:Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:SVG logos of China|deleted on Commons]]. Could a substitute be uploaded locally?
Case b. example in Special:Diff/1033227215/1033244213.

• Templates in Category:Templates with missing files can add large numbers of articles to this category – As of March 4, 2024 there were 0 templates with missing files and the current number is 58.

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