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 1,324 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- 537th Airlift Squadron
- 1970 in the Vietnam War
- 2016 Wisconsin Republican presidential primary
- 2023–24 in German football
- 2023–24 in Spanish football
- 2023–24 UEFA Champions League
- 2023–24 UEFA Champions League knockout phase
- 2024 Red Bull Bragantino season
- 2024–25 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season
- 2024–25 Fehérvár FC season
A
- A Quiet Monastery
- Aamir Khan
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Samura
- Aboubakar Gakou
- Abraham Yates Jr.
- Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
- Acorn Archimedes
- 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
- Al-Dalu family killing
- Alan Devonshire
- Alba Party
- Álex Grimaldo
- Ali Aden Lord
- Aline Barros
- Alison Milbank
- All Elite Wrestling
- American Motors Corporation
- American tea culture
- Amou Haji
- Anairis Quiñones
- Anam Ramanarayana Reddy
- Ancient Egyptian technology
- Andrzej Lepper
- Angus R. McDonald
- Anthology series
- Anthony Contreras
- Anthony J. Resta
- Antonio Rüdiger
- Apple M4
- Area (LDS Church)
- Armed Forces of Ukraine
- Ashish Goyal
- Atlantic Coast Conference
- Atterson W. Rucker
- Average Joe
- Avianca Group
- Ayung River
B
- B'z
- Ba 'Alawi sada
- Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
- Babinda
- Ballot access in the 2024 United States presidential election
- Bangor, Gwynedd
- Barbara Nowacka
- Barbary slave trade
- Barun Goyot Formation
- Battle of Derna (2018–2019)
- Batwoman (TV series)
- Beaumont Smith
- Begümhan Doğan Faralyalı
- Ben Bradshaw
- BET Media Group
- Bettina Heinen-Ayech
- Beyoncé singles discography
- Bilohorivka, Luhansk Oblast
- Biodiversity banking
- Bjorn Olson
- Blood transfusion
- Borden, Texas
- Brain Salad Surgery
- Brainwashing
- Bréguet 393T
- Brian Follett
- Bridlington
- Brno metropolitan area
- Brother (1997 film)
- Butwal Solar PV Project
C
- C. V. Ananda Bose
- Calcutta Tram Users Association (CTUA)
- Capital of Sri Lanka
- Carbazole
- Carl Crack
- Catarina Dutilh Novaes
- Chase Oliver 2024 presidential campaign
- Chiisana Koi no Uta
- Chimbu people
- Chinese people in Myanmar
- Church of St. Johns, Vilnius
- Clan Strange
- Clarkson University
- Classless Inter-Domain Routing
- Clearview AI
- Cloudburst
- Concerns and controversies at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Controversial Reddit communities
- Cross Road (album)
- Cuisine of Antebellum America
G
H
- Hadith of black flags
- Hamilton Island (Queensland)
- Hans Wahlgren
- Harehills
- Heart's Cry (horse)
- Henri Giraud
- Henri Korn
- Henry Harrison (Irish politician)
- Herman Aguinis
- High Street Kensington tube station
- Hisham ibn Urwah
- Historicity of Rama
- History of Dundalk F.C. (2002–present)
- History of MTV
- History of Poland (1989–present)
- History of Somaliland
- History of the Taliban
- Hollywood Boulevard
- Homosexuality in Japan
- Hornsby Shire
- Hugh Trevor-Roper
- Human shields in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Humberto Carrão
I
- I Can Do It with a Broken Heart
- I Wanna Love You Forever
- I'm Good (Blue)
- Ice Lake (microprocessor)
- Ikot-Abasi
- Indian mathematics
- Indian termination policy
- Indiana State Road 37
- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
- Insurgency in Aceh
- International law and Israeli settlements
- International Shooting Sport Federation
- Talk:International Space Station/Archive 16
- Islamic State
- Island Blossom
L
- Lady Jane Grey
- 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)
- Lenín Moreno
- Levdeo
- Liberal Party of Australia
- Limerence
- 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 best-selling girl groups
- List of British Jewish writers
- List of Canadian flags
- List of Caribbean islands by area
- List of centenarians (sportspeople)
- List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
- List of countries by spending on education as percentage of GDP
- List of countries with overseas military bases
- List of country subdivision flags in Europe
- List of Democrats who opposed the Joe Biden 2024 presidential campaign
- List of diplomatic missions in Madagascar
- List of East Bengal FC records and statistics
- List of entertainment events at Civic Arena (Pittsburgh, PA)
- List of equipment of the Vietnam People's Air Force
- List of exhibitions at the Castlemaine Art Museum
- List of extreme weather records in Pakistan
- List of fascist movements by country U–Z
- List of fictional lesbian characters
- List of films based on manga
- List of forms of government
- List of Goin' Bulilit cast members
- List of government-owned airlines
- List of governors of Córdoba (Colombian department)
- List of Gravity Falls episodes
- List of highest-grossing animated films
- List of Hollyoaks characters (2024)
- List of Hungarian Nobel laureates
- List of Jewish American politicians
- List of Knights of Columbus members
- List of largest land carnivorans
- List of LGBT sportspeople
- List of longest-living organisms