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 1,532 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Ba 'Alawi sada
- Babinda
- Bangor, Gwynedd
- Barbara Nowacka
- Barun Goyot Formation
- Batman
- Battle Arena Toshinden 2
- Battle Arena Toshinden 3
- Battle of Al-Regeai
- Battle of Berne (1954 FIFA World Cup)
- Battle of Derna (2018–2019)
- Battle of Nakhchivan (1919)
- Batwoman (TV series)
- Beaumont Smith
- Beelzebufo
- Begümhan Doğan Faralyalı
- Beijing Hyundai
- Ben Bocquelet
- Benzylamine
- Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
- BET Media Group
- Bettina Heinen-Ayech
- Bids for the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Billy Lau
- Bilohorivka, Luhansk Oblast
- Biodiversity banking
- Bjorn Olson
- Blast beat
- Boarders
- Bob Katter
- Bodo Sperling
- Bonin Islands
- Boston, Lincolnshire
- Brain Salad Surgery
- Brainspotting
- Bréguet 393T
- Brian Follett
- Bridlington
- Brno metropolitan area
- Brother (1997 film)
- Bruno Labbadia
- Bullett Raja
- Bus rapid transit in New Jersey
- Business simulation
- Butwal Solar PV Project
C
- C. V. Ananda Bose
- Cairo International Airport
- Callum O'Hare
- Capital of Sri Lanka
- Carbazole
- Carbon emission trading
- Carl Crack
- 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
- Class de 2-ban Me ni Kawaii Onna no Ko to Tomodachi ni Natta
- Clearview AI
- Cleveland Torso Murderer
- College of Cardinals
- Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
- Columbine effect
- Coney Island (Cincinnati, Ohio)
- Congo national football team
- Controversial Reddit communities
- Cornel West 2024 presidential campaign
- Crab-eating macaque
- Cranbrook School, Sydney
- Crime in Sweden
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Criticism of Awami League
- Croatian–Romanian–Slovak friendship proclamation
- Cross Road (album)
- Cuisine of Antebellum America
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G
H
- Hamilton Island (Queensland)
- Hand in Hand International
- Hans Wahlgren
- Harehills
- Harvest Time (Croppers)
- Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents in Massachusetts
- Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents in Ohio
- Henri Giraud
- Henri Korn
- Henry Harrison (Irish politician)
- Heyington railway station
- High Street Kensington tube station
- Higher Power (Coldplay song)
- Hisham ibn Urwah
- History of civil rights in the United States
- History of concubinage in the Muslim world
- History of Dundalk F.C. (2002–present)
- History of MTV
- History of Poland (1989–present)
- History of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- History of Somaliland
- History of the Taliban
- Holy Cross Crusaders women's basketball
- Holy Rosary Church (Manhattan)
- Hornsby Shire
- Hugh Trevor-Roper
- Human shields in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Humberto Carrão
- Hurley Medical Center
- Hurricane (Luke Combs song)
- Hurricane Cleo
- Hurricane Felicia (2009)
- Hush (2016 film)
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- I Wanna Love You Forever
- I'm Good (Blue)
- Ida A. Johnson
- IIT Delhi
- IIT Jodhpur
- IJmuiden
- Ikot-Abasi
- Imamate in Twelver doctrine
- Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam
- Indian termination policy
- Infrared photography
- INS Talwar (F40)
- INS Trishul (F43)
- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
- Insurgency in Aceh
- International Shooting Sport Federation
- Talk:International Space Station/Archive 16
- Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology
- Irish Senior Cup (cricket)
- Iryna Farion
- Island Blossom
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip