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December 18

Cite the Page Link Information

I have few old articles of WP without "Cite the Page" link information. What do I do in order to retrieve the information?103.230.107.10 (talk) 19:24, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

The "Cite This Page" link is only available for articles in mainspace. If you know the name of the page, you can go directly to Special:CiteThisPage and enter the name in the search box - this will give you the citation details for the latest version of the page. If the page has been deleted, then you won't be able to access it. Do you know what the name of the page is? Tevildo (talk) 20:07, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

I've checked and used as you guided. I'm looking for the exact old article's version, not the most recent's one. 103.230.104.12 (talk) 18:56, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

In that case, you'll need to look at the revision history. If you can get to the current version of the page, click on the "History" tab at the top - this will list all the previous versions of the page (apart from very old revisions, before about 2004). You can then select the one you want by clicking on the date in the list. Tevildo (talk) 20:52, 19 December 2016 (UTC)