Category:Pages with broken reference names
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Pages are placed in this category when any of the following cite errors are generated on the page:
- The named reference
$1
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
Please do not delete the ref nor comment it out. This error usually occurs because someone deleted another ref with that same name that had text in it. To fix these errors, look in the page history to find the deleted ref and copy its text into the remaining ref with the error message. To find the first entry of a ref use WikiBlame. AnomieBOT does some fixes and often leaves helpful suggestions on an article's Talk page.
Other reasons this error can occur:
- Someone copied the ref when copying text from another article (or from another language version of Wikipedia), but didn't move the part where the ref was defined.
- Solution: Copy the ref text from that other article.
- Someone edited the ref name (maybe an attempted copyedit or vandalism).
- Solution: Change the ref name back to what it was before, or in more complex situations, copy the ref text.
- The ref is transcluded from another page, but the passage where it's defined isn't transcluded.
- Solution (usually): Edit the transcluded page so that the ref is defined in the portion that's transcluded.
- A numeral was automatically added to the ref name when a user pasted wikitext into Visual Editor.
- Solution: Remove the numeral (but make sure that it really is intended to be the same ref, rather than two unrelated refs that happen to have similar names).
- Someone updated information and changed the ref name in a systematic way (for instance, changing the year) without realizing that that isn't sufficient to produce a citation to an updated source. (Often happens in infoboxes and tables.)
- Solution (usually): Remove the ref and find a citation or add a citation needed tag. Copying the ref text is not adequate, because the old ref probably doesn't support the updated information.
- The ref name is spelled inconsistently (for instance, sometimes with a capital letter and sometimes with a lowercase letter, or with different punctuation or spacing).
- Solution: Edit the ref names to be consistent.
- Someone copied the ref as part of a long piece of complex wiki syntax such as an infobox or table, without realizing that it was a citation.
- Solution (usually): Remove the ref – it was being used to support information about the article that the syntax was copied from, and is unlikely to be relevant to this article.
- The article is missing a closing
</ref>
tag.- Solution: Add the missing tag.
- It's clear what source is intended, but the syntax is wrong (for instance, a URL used as a ref name).
- Fix the syntax.
- References invoked after the reflist.
- Solution: Varies. Often the ref is not needed that far down in the article and can be removed. In other cases the reflist needs to be moved to below the passage with the reference, or the footnotes need to be split into groups.
The pages Template:Broken ref, Help:Cite errors and subpages contain deliberate errors and do not need to be repaired.
If you fix an error, you can leave this edit summary if you wish:
Fixed broken reference names – [[:Category:Pages with broken reference names|You can help!]]
Pages in this category are sorted by namespace; articles are sorted by their first letter (A-Z), and pages in other namespaces are sorted using Greek letters so that they are listed after all of the articles.
Pages in category "Pages with broken reference names"
The following 146 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,439 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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A
- A Light for Attracting Attention
- A Quiet Monastery
- Aaron McGruder
- Abbie Jane Hunter
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Samura
- Aboubakar Gakou
- Abraham Yates Jr.
- Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
- Ackera Nugent
- Acyl chloride
- Adam Parfrey
- Adam Rippon
- Adi Shankar's Bootleg Universe
- Adoration of the Shepherds (Caravaggio)
- Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery
- Agriprocessors
- Aikawa, Kanagawa
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg
- Airbus A220
- Al-Dalu family killing
- Al-Nusra Front–SRF/Hazzm Movement conflict
- Alan Devonshire
- Alba Party
- Aleksandr Livshits
- Alessandra Cernuschi
- Álex Grimaldo
- Alexander Gregory Barmine
- Alexandria Governorate
- Ali Aden Lord
- Aline Barros
- Alison Milbank
- Alloparenting
- Amar Fashi Chai
- American tea culture
- Amide
- Amou Haji
- Anam Ramanarayana Reddy
- Ancient Egyptian technology
- Andrea Shaw
- Andrzej Lepper
- Angus R. McDonald
- Annapolis Mall
- Anne Finucane
- Anthony Contreras
- Antonio Rüdiger
- Armed Forces of Ukraine
- Army Cadet College
- Army Emergency Relief
- Army Transport Service
- Ashish Goyal
- Ashley Fletcher
- Ashok Leyland FAT
- Attacks on schools during the Israeli invasion of Gaza
- Atterson W. Rucker
- August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
- Augustów
- Australian Catholic University
- Autopia
- Average Joe
- Avianca Group
- Ayung River
B
- Ba 'Alawi sada
- Babinda
- Bangor, Gwynedd
- Barbara Nowacka
- Barney Miller
- Barun Goyot Formation
- Battle of Al-Regeai
- Battle of Berne (1954 FIFA World Cup)
- Battle of Damascus (2012)
- Battle of Derna (2018–2019)
- Battle of Nakhchivan (1919)
- Batwoman (TV series)
- Beaumont Smith
- Begümhan Doğan Faralyalı
- Beijing Hyundai
- Benzylamine
- Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
- BET Media Group
- Bettina Heinen-Ayech
- Beyoncé singles discography
- Bids for the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Bilohorivka, Luhansk Oblast
- Biodiversity banking
- Bjorn Olson
- Boarders
- Bodo Sperling
- Bonin Islands
- Boston, Lincolnshire
- Brain Salad Surgery
- Brainspotting
- Bréguet 393T
- Brendan Carr (lawyer)
- Brian Follett
- Bridlington
- Brno metropolitan area
- Brother (1997 film)
- Bruno Labbadia
- Bullett Raja
- Business simulation
- Butwal Solar PV Project
C
- C. V. Ananda Bose
- Callum O'Hare
- Capital of Sri Lanka
- Carbazole
- Carbon emission trading
- Carl Crack
- Carmel Arts and Crafts Club
- Carnival Cruise Line
- Catarina Dutilh Novaes
- Caucasus campaign
- Central Military District
- Chandler Municipal Airport
- Changan X7
- Charles Boli
- Children's rights in New Zealand
- Chimariko people
- Chimbu people
- CHIN (AM)
- Chinese people in Myanmar
- Chualar, California
- Cinderella at 2 AM
- Clan Strange
- Clearview AI
- Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
- Columbine effect
- Coney Island (Cincinnati, Ohio)
- Congo national football team
- Controversial Reddit communities
- Crab-eating macaque
- Cranbrook School, Sydney
- Croatian–Romanian–Slovak friendship proclamation
- Cross Road (album)
- Cuisine of Antebellum America