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# Managing a Source Not in a Story

## Options for managing sources who appear incorrectly in a story

If you encounter a name that isn’t actually a source in the story, you can select the **“remove from story”** button. Below we can see a recent story where The World Health Organization comes up in the “sources to categorize” field. You can probably guess, but the WHO isn’t directly a source for the story. To investigate further, you can always pull up the story itself to double check.

In this case, the WHO is not a source, so go ahead and click on the yellow, **“Not a Source”** button to remove it.

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