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Note that the ISBN hyphenation rule-base is a living document. This is a maintenance category of articles with invalid ISBNs. It is often included by means of the template {{Please check ISBN}}. If you fix an ISBN please remove the template or category from the article. Many article/ISBN problems are listed at WikiProject Check Wikipedia.
checksum – ISBN has one or more incorrect digits; look for typos and transposition invalid character – ISBN has one or more 'digits' that is not in the allowed set appropriate to ISBN length invalid prefix – 13-digit ISBNs must begin with '978' or '979' invalid form – 10-digit ISBNs with the mis-positioned 'X' character
The invalid ISBN can be stored in html within the article for editors, and it can be stored on the talk page. Medium to long term, it'd be nice to have a way to display invalid ISBNs in the article that have been thoroughly checked by "us" since the invalid number will be what most readers see on the book in their hand or a website selling the ...
No description. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Month and year date no description Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} Unknown optional See also Category:Citation Style 1 templates, includes all Citation Style 1 templates Wikipedia:ISBN, describes how to add an ISBN to an ...
Please use the ISBN-13 if both are provided by the original work. The ISBN-13 is often found near the barcode and will start with either 978- or 979-. However, if an older work only lists an ISBN-10, use that in citations instead of calculating an ISBN-13 for it.
Some ISBNs may still have been printed correctly elsewhere in the same book or corrected in later editions; if further research shows that to be the case (and that the new ISBN still refers to an edition with the same information on the same pages), then the invalid# parameter should be moved or {{Listed Invalid ISBN}} should be replaced with {}.
The template takes as argument a valid ISBN and yields the formatted version of that ISBN. Any existing hyphens in the ISBN are ignored, whether or not they are correctly placed: {{format ISBN|97-8-1-57181655-9}} → 978-1-57181-655-9 {{Format ISBN}} is intended to be substituted so that the template call in wikitext is replaced with the ...
If an ISBN is added to a citation at a later date, its edition may differ from the edition originally used as the source in the article. Therefore, a risk arises that its page numbers or even its content may not match the citation. When in doubt, check with the main author(s) of the article or discuss on the article's talk page.