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 1,560 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala
- Maia Shibutani
- Mainfreight
- Maisie Peters discography
- Malapert (crater)
- Malay trade and creole languages
- 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
- Martha's Vineyard (band)
- Martin Amis
- Martin Guleski
- Marvel Studios Special Presentations
- Mass sexual assault in Egypt
- Matt Ward (footballer)
- Matty Taylor (footballer, born 1990)
- Max Blumenthal
- Maya Miriga
- MC Binn
- MC El Bayadh
- MCST-R1000
- Me Estoy Enamorando (album)
- Megan Massacre
- Melbourne Metro 2
- Talk:Menasseh Ben Israel
- Mercer County Technical Schools
- Meryl Davis
- Meryl Swanson
- Mexicans
- Mica Burton
- Miccosukee Resort & Gaming
- Michael Boyle (archbishop of Armagh)
- Microsoft Research
- Mike Burns (soccer)
- Milang railway station
- Millennium Actress
- Million Dollar Baby (Ava Max song)
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- Mirek Smíšek
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- Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
- Monera
- Mongol invasion of Java
- Monica Iozzi
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- Monmouthshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Monster of Florence
- Morbid Angel
- Move Me No Mountain (film)
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- Multiple citizenship
- Muriel Steinbeck
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- Myokine
- Myself (Jolin Tsai album)
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- Pabna District
- Paganism
- Page of Honour
- Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
- Peace and Freedom Party
- Penang Island City Council
- Petersham railway station
- Petersham, New South Wales
- Philadelphia Phillies minor league players
- Phthalates
- Pokhara International Airport
- Popular Resistance of Sudan
- Potamolithus
- Potassium nitrite
- Pradeep Kumar (politician)
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- Raam Punjabi
- Radoslav Kratina
- Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu
- Raheem Conte
- Railways in Adelaide
- Railways in Melbourne
- Rajavolu, Guntur district
- Ralph Abercromby
- Rambha Rural Municipality
- Rape in India
- Rashid Lucman
- Real Racing (racing team)
- Religion in Europe
- Religious clothing
- Republic of Sudan (1985–2019)
- Reverse mathematics
- Rezang La
- Ricardo Zonta
- Richard Gomez
- Richard Parkes (piper)
- Ring laser
- Rita Lee
- Rivals (album)
- Robert McGrath
- Robert Stott
- Rodri (footballer, born 1996)
- Romanian record charts
- Ron Keel
- Ron Tarver
- Ruby McCollum
- Rudder
- Rugby Colorno
- Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast
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- S Cephei
- S. S. Rajamouli
- S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series)
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- Sabellida
- Sagi Burton
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- Salzburg Airport
- Sam Kendricks
- Sam McCallum
- Samia Aouni
- Sanaâ Mssoudy
- Sarikoli language
- Satanism
- Saturday Night Live season 12
- Saville Theatre
- Schostal
- Scott Fischer
- Seascape Beach Resort
- Seberang Perai City Council
- Secondary championships in All Elite Wrestling
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- Sena Kobayakawa
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- Share Ross
- Sharia
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- Shin-Ei Animation
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- Shufersal
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- Sidhant Mohapatra
- Siege of Derry
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- Silverstoneia erasmios
- Skyfall (song)
- Slavery in Asia
- Smallcreep's Day (album)
- Smoke Rise (community)
- Social Credit System
- Social Democratic Movement
- Social Democratic Party (Romania)
- Social Democrats (Ireland)
- Solar power in the United Kingdom
- Solastalgia (album)
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- Somali language
- Somali languages
- Somali phonology
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- Sota Fukushi