diff --git a/administrator/components/com_modules/layouts/toolbar/cancelselect.php b/administrator/components/com_modules/layouts/toolbar/cancelselect.php
index 5687325d07c90..8e930f21daa9e 100644
--- a/administrator/components/com_modules/layouts/toolbar/cancelselect.php
+++ b/administrator/components/com_modules/layouts/toolbar/cancelselect.php
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
  * @license     GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
  */
 
+// @deprecated  4.0 without replacement only used in hathor
+
 defined('_JEXEC') or die;
 
 $text = JText::_('JTOOLBAR_CANCEL');
diff --git a/administrator/components/com_modules/models/select.php b/administrator/components/com_modules/models/select.php
index 277f7dc32b88a..a372bbbc33e93 100644
--- a/administrator/components/com_modules/models/select.php
+++ b/administrator/components/com_modules/models/select.php
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
  * @license     GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
  */
 
+// @deprecated  4.0 without replacement only used in hathor
+
 defined('_JEXEC') or die;
 
 use Joomla\Utilities\ArrayHelper;
diff --git a/administrator/components/com_modules/views/preview/tmpl/default.php b/administrator/components/com_modules/views/preview/tmpl/default.php
index 3f0c43e336915..1033a6f25f976 100644
--- a/administrator/components/com_modules/views/preview/tmpl/default.php
+++ b/administrator/components/com_modules/views/preview/tmpl/default.php
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
  * @license     GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
  */
 
+// @deprecated  4.0 not used for a long time
+
 defined('_JEXEC') or die;
 
 JFactory::getDocument()->addScriptDeclaration(
diff --git a/administrator/components/com_modules/views/preview/view.html.php b/administrator/components/com_modules/views/preview/view.html.php
index 661c3b3ee5d64..05c7387953f8f 100644
--- a/administrator/components/com_modules/views/preview/view.html.php
+++ b/administrator/components/com_modules/views/preview/view.html.php
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
  * @license     GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
  */
 
+// @deprecated  4.0 not used for a long time
+
 defined('_JEXEC') or die;
 
 /**
diff --git a/administrator/components/com_modules/views/select/tmpl/default.php b/administrator/components/com_modules/views/select/tmpl/default.php
index bdf61d42a5500..1acf236567932 100644
--- a/administrator/components/com_modules/views/select/tmpl/default.php
+++ b/administrator/components/com_modules/views/select/tmpl/default.php
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
  * @license     GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
  */
 
+// @deprecated  4.0 without replacement only used in hathor
+
 defined('_JEXEC') or die;
 
 JHtml::addIncludePath(JPATH_COMPONENT . '/helpers/html');
diff --git a/administrator/components/com_modules/views/select/view.html.php b/administrator/components/com_modules/views/select/view.html.php
index 93489fc147065..36e63ec4b36d3 100644
--- a/administrator/components/com_modules/views/select/view.html.php
+++ b/administrator/components/com_modules/views/select/view.html.php
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
  * @license     GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
  */
 
+// @deprecated  4.0 without replacement only used in hathor
+
 defined('_JEXEC') or die;
 
 /**