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 1,537 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu
- Rajavolu, Guntur district
- Rajkot
- Ralph Abercromby
- Rambha Rural Municipality
- Religion in Europe
- Renewable energy in India
- Republic of Sudan (1985–2019)
- Ricardo Zonta
- Richard Gomez
- Rivals (album)
- River Line (NJ Transit)
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign
- Robinhood Markets
- Rodri (footballer, born 1996)
- Ronnie Archer-Morgan
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Royel Otis
- Ruby McCollum
- Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast
- Ruth Zukerman
S
- S7 (classification)
- Sa'sa' Massacre
- Sabah Tshung Tsin Secondary School
- Sagi Burton
- Salafi movement
- Salah times
- Salyut programme
- Sam Kendricks
- Sam McCallum
- Sam Morril
- Sam Nombe
- Samia Aouni
- San Diego County, California
- Sanaâ Mssoudy
- Sarikoli language
- Saturday Night Live season 12
- Saville Theatre
- School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal
- Schostal
- Scott Fischer
- Sean Paul discography
- Seascape Beach Resort
- SeaTac, Washington
- Second Kuomintang-Communist Civil War
- See You on the Other Side (Korn album)
- Semperit
- Sena Kobayakawa
- Shahajibapu Patil
- Shahid
- Share Ross
- Shijiazhuang Zhengding International Airport
- Shin-Ei Animation
- Shirley Shen
- Shizuoka Broadcasting System
- Shortage
- Shufersal
- Side Impact Protection System
- Sidhant Mohapatra
- Siege of Derry
- Sigma Pi
- Silver bromide
- Silverstoneia erasmios
- Sivaji Ganesan
- SK Brann
- Slavery in Asia
- Smallcreep's Day (album)
- Smart city
- Social Democratic Movement
- Soka Gakkai International
- Solar eclipse of December 3, 1899
- Somali language
- Somali languages
- Somali phonology
- Sota Fukushi
- South African Army
- South African Rugby League
- Southam Inc.
- Space Capital
- Spanish West Indies
- Spidey and His Amazing Friends
- Spoiler effect
- Spotsylvania County, Virginia
- Srettha Thavisin
- St Benet's Abbey
- Stafford County, Virginia
- Stag (Melvins album)
- Stanley Floyd
- Stapp Lakes
- State of the Comoros
- Step Up Revolution
- Sterlitamak
- Stevan Jovetić
- Steven Cheung (political advisor)
- Structure of the United States Army
- Structure validation
- Stuntman (2018 film)
- Subarctic climate
- Sugar Cosmetics
- Suhas Subramanyam
- Sukeban (professional wrestling)
- Sullivan & Cromwell
- Sundus Global
- Superman & Lois
- Superman & Lois season 4
- Swaminarayan Akshardham (New Jersey)
- Synagogue Church of All Nations
- Syrian Army
- Syrian civil war
T
- T. A. Pai Management Institute
- Taiping, Perak
- Tajikistan national under-23 football team
- Takana, Afghanistan
- Talal Hamiyah
- TaleSpin
- Tallapoosa River
- Tallest extant birds
- Talwinder Singh Parmar
- Taman Johor Jaya
- Tamil Muslim
- Tamil Thai Valthu
- Tan Chin Hwee
- Tân Phước Khánh
- Tanagra railway station
- Tank Man
- Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service
- Tarn Taran district
- Taro Kono
- Taskmaster New Zealand
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences
- Tatars in Lithuania
- Tawam (region)
- Taylor Lorenz
- Tecozautla
- Ted Byfield
- Ted McMinn
- Teezo Touchdown
- Tehran
- Tekor Church
- Tele2
- Télécom Physique Strasbourg
- Television closedown routines in the United Kingdom
- Ten-bell salute
- Teng Chie
- Tennessee Volunteers football statistical leaders
- Tennis Wales
- Tenth of Tevet
- Terms for Palestinian citizens of Israel
- Textus Receptus
- Thalía (2002 album)
- Thangam Debbonaire
- The Action Network
- The Antlers (band)
- The Battle for Wesnoth
- The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
- The Blacklist season 10
- The Bloodline (professional wrestling)
- The Brazen Serpent (Bruni)
- The Butcher and the Blade
- The Calling (band)
- The Cheerleading Worlds
- The Doctor and the Devils
- The Elite (professional wrestling)
- The Emily Post Institute
- The Great North
- The Indian High School, Dubai
- The Little Prince (2015 film)
- The Mack
- The Masked Singer Vietnam
- The Outrun (film)
- The Party Boys
- The Republicans (France)
- The Tower (2012 German film)
- The Wytches
- The X-Files
- Thieves' Highway
- Third Bhattacharjee ministry
- Third-party and independent candidates for the 2024 United States presidential election
- Thiri Yaza Dewi
- Thomas Dutronc
- Thomas Midgley Jr.
- Thoothukudi
- Thrasher (wrestler)
- Tigray Defense Forces
- Tikal