Template talk:Date missing

Can/should this be used in |accessdate=?

Editors often forget the |accessdate= parameter of {{Cite web}} templates. {{Date missing}}'s documentation only mentions the |date= field. Can it also be used in the |accessdate= parameter? Should it be used in that parameter? Blevintron (talk) 00:45, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

A belated response: note that |access-date= is often not required. I added the following to the documentation, though it may be reverted or changed:

Many references are added with an access-date= but no publication date. This may be due to the use of citation tools that cannot identify a page's date, but of course the access-date= is always today. The lack of a publication date is clearly wrong, an error; but {{Cite}} documentation says clearly "Access dates are not required for links to published research papers, published books, or news articles with publication dates."

Best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 22:16, 3 October 2021 (UTC)