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If you see this warning on an article, it is because the book you are trying to cite is an anthology and is therefore a collection of other works. You cannot cite the book directly; you must instead cite the anthology and an individual work within it, for example:

Often, if you do not provide a specific page number, the page range of the work within the anthology will appear automatically, but, as always, it is best to be as specific as possible. You need to provide the name of the anthology and the name of the work, because the same work might appear within multiple anthologies, so its name alone is not enough.

Rectification
If you have encountered this warning on a page you have edited, please specify which work within the anthology you are referencing. To do this, you can examine the template documentation for the template you were trying to use. For example, Template:Cite book/The Best of the Realms contains a list of links to valid citation templates that refer to specific works within it, so choose the appropriate template from that list and alter your citation to use it.

Often, there might not be a list of works on the template documentation. If the article lacks this information, please try to add it.

If you have encountered this warning on a page you did not edit, it might be difficult to summize exactly what was being referenced within the anthology as a whole. Please do not simply guess – you could easily introduce further inaccuracies. If you have the anthology in question, you can try to find the pages for an accurate citation. You might also be able to contact the editor who introduced the inaccurate citation and ask if he or she remembers. If not, there will be no choice but to remove it.