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).
- Where $1 is the
<ref>
tag name.
- Where $1 is the
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 first entry of 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.
- 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.)
- 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.
If you fix it you can leave this edit summary if you wish:
Fix broken reference name – You can help! [[:Category:Pages with broken reference names]]
The pages Template:Broken ref, Help:Cite errors, and subpages contain deliberate errors and do not need to be repaired.
Pages in category "Pages with broken reference names"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,047 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).
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- Baby Keem
- Banknotes of the pound sterling
- Bashkir alphabet
- Ben C. Sutton Jr.
- Bethlehem Moravian College
- Bharati Vidyapeeth
- Bhrigu
- Billy Sing
- Black women in American politics
- Blastobasis repartella
- Body image
- Bofors scandal
- Bolshevo
- Bosnia and Herzegovina national under-21 football team
- Bosniaks
- Bosnian genocide
- Brian Cornell
- Brin-Navolok
- British Hong Kong
- Bummed
- Burdwan division
- Burney Cup
- Bury a Friend
- Bus depots of MTA Regional Bus Operations
- Butanol fuel
- Buteshire (UK Parliament constituency)
C
- Cairo Metro
- Caitlynne Medrek
- California Department of Water Resources
- Camarines Sur's 1st congressional district
- Cambodian–Vietnamese War
- Camden Pulkinen
- Camila Morrone
- Camila Sosa Villada
- Camilo (singer)
- Camp Lejeune incident
- Canal 3 (Guatemala)
- Candidates in the 2019 Philippine Senate election
- Canton of Orléans-2
- Cão de Gado Transmontano
- Capital Connection
- Caramela
- Cardiology (album)
- Care Bears: Unlock the Magic
- Carlie Hanson
- Carlos Curbelo
- Carlos Morales (actor)
- Carlos P. Garcia
- Cassandra Lee Morris
- Cassava production in Nigeria
- Castell Moel
- Castile and León
- Castra of Cincșor
- Catholic Church in Hungary
- Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in Chile
- Cathy Davey
- Causes of income inequality in the United States
- Cédric Tiberghien
- Cédric Yambéré
- Celia Newman
- Cemetery of the Resurrection
- Ceres (dwarf planet)
- Chak Barbaria
- Champion (Chipmunk song)
- Change the World
- Channel Seven Perth Telethon
- Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Charlie Monroe
- Charminar
- Chas
- Cheat Codes (DJs)
- Cheek teeth
- Chernobyl New Safe Confinement
- Cheshire Bridge Road
- Chhun Yasith
- Chibok
- Chief of Defence Staff (India)
- Child abuse
- Chin (combat sports)
- China railway signalling
- China–Libya relations
- Chinese ghost marriage
- Chinese gold yuan
- Chinmoy Guha
- Chipa so'o
- Chloe Dzubilo
- Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
- Chonga
- Chongqing
- Chorleywood bread process
- Chosen people
- Choudhry Rahmat Ali
- Chris Abele
- Chris Brown discography
- Chris Young discography
- Christian community of Najran
- Christianity in Africa
- Christianity in the ante-Nicene period
- Christology
- Christophe Szpajdel
- Chrysler Hemi engine
- Chuck Bartowski
- Church attendance
- Church for the Malfunctioned
- Church of Saint Sava
- Church of the Nativity
- Cinderella (sports)
- Citgo
- City University of New York
- CityEngine
- CIVETS
- Claire Van Ummersen
- Clan badge
- Clan Crawford
- Clan Donnachaidh
- Clan MacGillivray
- Clandestine chemistry
- Clarence True
- Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
- Climate of Bihar
- Climate of Lahore
- Cloistered Emperor
- Clone Saga
- Closure (psychology)
- CNCO discography
- Coal India
- Cobra Skulls
- Cocktail (2012 film)
- Coimbra
- Coinage of India
- College Station, Texas
- Collide with the Sky
- Colours (Michael Learns to Rock album)
- Columbia University
- Combe Hay Locks
- Come See About Me
- Common Security and Defence Policy
- Commonly misspelled English words
- Compaq
- Comparative religion
- Comparison of API simulation tools
- Comparison of orbital launch systems
- Comparison of the AK-47 and M16
- Computer Olympiad
- Con Calma
- Conan Gray
- Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
- Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis
- Constituency election results in the 1929 United Kingdom general election
- Constitution High School
- Continental NORAD Region
- Conyza feae
- Cool & Dre production discography
- Cool for Cats (album)
- Copper skink
- Council of Representatives (Bahrain)
- Counterculture of the 1960s
- County (United States)
- Court of Disputed Returns (Australia)
- Court-martial of Breaker Morant
- COVID-19 pandemic in Australia statistics
- COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
- COVID-19 pandemic in Greece
- COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
- Crab Rangoon
- Cream of Wheat
- Credit risk
- Cresent Hardy
- Crew Dragon Demo-2
- Crime of apartheid
- Crisis in Venezuela
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
- Criticism of The Walt Disney Company
- Croatan
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young discography
- Cryonics
- Cuba–United States relations
- Cultural Muslim
- Custer, South Dakota
- Cyclone Bebe
- Cyclone Kyrill
- Cyhi the Prynce discography
- Cypress County
- Cyrus Vance Jr.