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 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,426 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Lafayette College
- Lambda Chi Alpha
- Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force
- Larissa railway station
- Larry Jones (basketball)
- Latin influence in English
- Lautaro Martínez
- Leadership opinion polling for the next Spanish general election
- Lee Jung-eun (actress)
- Legality of Israeli settlements
- Lewis University Airport
- Liberal Party of Australia
- Line 2 (Riyadh Metro)
- Lions Club of Yorke Peninsula Rail
- List of 2024–25 Premiership Women's Rugby transfers
- List of action films of the 2020s
- List of active Russian Air Force aircraft
- List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1859
- List of armed factions in the Syrian Civil War
- List of assets owned by Lionsgate
- List of Australian street artists
- List of best-selling girl groups
- List of British Muslim politicians
- List of caliphs
- List of Caribbean islands by area
- List of centenarians (sportspeople)
- List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
- List of comedy anime
- List of controversies of recent U.S. Presidents
- List of countries by spending on education as percentage of GDP
- List of countries with overseas military bases
- List of Delta Chi chapters
- List of earthquakes in 2022
- List of earthquakes in Kosovo
- List of editiones principes in Latin
- List of entertainment events at Civic Arena (Pittsburgh, PA)
- List of equipment of the United States Army
- List of equipment of the Vietnam People's Air Force
- List of Family Guy episodes
- List of fascist movements by country U–Z
- List of Goin' Bulilit cast members
- List of government-owned airlines
- List of governors of Córdoba (Colombian department)
- List of highest-grossing concert tours
- List of highest-grossing South Indian films
- List of international goals scored by Eran Zahavi
- List of Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign congressional endorsements
- List of Kazakhstan football transfers summer 2024
- List of Knights of Columbus members
- List of longest-running American television series
- List of Major League Baseball hit records
- List of Mexican football transfers summer 2024
- List of mountains in the Philippines
- List of National Premier Leagues NSW Men's honours
- List of nearest stars by spectral type
- List of Orenstein & Koppel steam locomotives
- List of people killed for being transgender
- List of people on the postage stamps of the United States
- List of people with ME/CFS
- List of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in 2024
- List of Rajya Sabha members from Bihar
- List of rosters for GreenEDGE–AIS and its successors
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Sanskrit
- List of semiconductor fabrication plants
- List of Shanghai Metro rolling stock
- List of Spanish football transfers summer 2024
- List of star systems within 30–35 light-years
- List of star systems within 500-1000 light-years
- List of STM bus routes
- List of tallest buildings in Kolkata
- List of the oldest people by country
- List of third-party and independent performances in Montana state legislative elections
- List of top-division football clubs in AFC countries
- List of top-division football clubs in UEFA countries
- List of United States tornadoes in June 2023
- Lithuanian Wars of Independence
- Loess Plateau
- Loveless (American duo)
- Loyola College, Manvi
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod
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- Mai Mihara
- Malapert (crater)
- Malay trade and creole languages
- Malaysian United Indigenous Party
- Malcolm Grimston
- Malik ul Ashtar Shujauddin
- Manchester derby
- Manchester–Boston Regional Airport
- Mangalloy
- Maple syrup urine disease
- Marcos Palmeira
- Marcus Haber
- Marie T. Huhtala
- Mark Finchem
- Mark Green (Tennessee politician)
- Martha's Vineyard (band)
- Marvel Studios Special Presentations
- Matt Ward (footballer)
- Matty Taylor (footballer, born 1990)
- Maurice Evans (actor)
- Maya Miriga
- Mbacké
- MC Binn
- MC El Bayadh
- Me Estoy Enamorando (album)
- Melanie McGuire
- Melbourne Metro 2
- Menalamba rebellion
- Talk:Menasseh Ben Israel
- Mercer County Technical Schools
- Meryl Swanson
- Miccosukee Resort & Gaming
- Michael Boyle (archbishop of Armagh)
- Michal HaCohen
- Michelle Salzman
- Milang railway station
- Millennium Actress
- Million Dollar Baby (Ava Max song)
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction
- Minneapolis
- Miss E... So Addictive
- MLW Never Say Never
- Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
- Monica Iozzi
- Monmouthshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Monster of Florence
- Morrisson (rapper)
- Mount Eden
- Moussa Diaby
- Mubarkh Al-Saiari
- Murad Ramazanov (fighter)
- Muriel Steinbeck
- Murusade
- Musaylima
- Mymoorapelta
- Myokine
- Myself (Jolin Tsai album)
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- Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu
- Rajavolu, Guntur district
- Rajkot
- Ralph Abercromby
- Rambha Rural Municipality
- Religion in Europe
- Republic of Sudan (1985–2019)
- Ricardo Zonta
- Richard Chase
- Richard Gomez
- Rivals (album)
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign
- Robinhood Markets
- Rodri (footballer, born 1996)
- Ronnie Archer-Morgan
- Royel Otis
- Ruby McCollum
- Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast
- Ruth Zukerman