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:
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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 1,533 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- 1927 VFL grand final
- 1936 in animation
- 1980 Pakistan coup attempt
- 2012–13 in Algerian football
- 2013 in Kenyan football
- 2013–14 Rákospalotai EAC season
- 2015–16 Rákospalotai EAC season
- 2018 attacks on the northern border of Ecuador
- 2022–23 Süper Lig
- 2023–24 FIBA West Asia Super League
- 2023–24 Liverpool F.C. season
- 2023–24 Luxembourg Cup
- 2023–24 San Jose Sharks season
- 2024 FC Tobol season
- 2024 Hartlepool Borough Council election
- 2024 in Canadian television
- 2024 Meath County Council election
- 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado
- 2024–25 Saudi Pro League
- 2025 NFL draft
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- A. S. Rao
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Samura
- Abortion in China
- Adam Rippon
- AJR discography
- Alcoholic beverage
- All's Well (EP)
- Alpena, Michigan
- Alpha Kappa Alpha
- Alta Airport
- Andaman Tamils
- Animal (Muppet)
- Apple M2
- Ariel Henry
- Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
- Arrondissements of Paris
- Asian Argentines
- Atanasio Ballesteros
- Attock District
- Ayung River
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- Camille de Chantereine
- Candida Moss
- Canecão Mineiro nightclub fire
- Catherine Gfeller
- Cheena Trophy
- Cherrie (singer)
- China Airlines
- China Railway High-speed
- Chris Culver
- Christianity and Judaism
- Christianity in the United States
- Class 95 (radio station)
- Competition between Airbus and Boeing
- Console war
- Coritiba Foot Ball Club
- Corruption in Botswana
- Cossacks Motorcycle Club
- Cyberethics
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- I-X Center
- Ibn Taymiyya
- Idiopathic chronic fatigue
- Ilocos Region
- Imran Khan government
- Indian Institute of Information Technology, Ranchi
- Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Inflammatory cytokine
- Inner Mongolia
- International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war
- Talk:International Space Station/Archive 16
- Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe
- Isaac Olaofe
- Islamic Resistance in Iraq
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip (2023–present)
- ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking
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- Lanzarote
- Lara Aishah
- Larry Jones (basketball)
- Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev
- Legado Del Fantasma
- Lemba people
- Lenape High School
- Les Otten
- Leticía Frota
- LGBT rights in Chechnya
- Li Zhi (footballer)
- Liberal Party (Brazil, 2006)
- Lights (BTS song)
- Like a Virgin (album)
- Lina Bo Bardi
- Lipocarpha micrantha
- List of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1793
- List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1859
- List of Amazon Prime Video original programming
- List of American Civil War generals (Acting Confederate)
- List of animated feature films of 2023
- List of animated series with LGBT characters: 2010–2014
- List of Arrowverse cast members
- List of awards and nominations received by Jyothika
- List of Bea Alonzo performances
- List of best-selling girl groups
- List of British Jewish writers
- List of child prodigies
- List of contestants from the UK national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest
- List of countries by traffic-related death rate
- List of cult films: I
- List of current champions in Ring of Honor
- List of current UFC fighters
- List of Delta Delta Delta chapters
- List of designated terrorist groups
- List of diplomatic missions of Switzerland
- List of Disney+ Hotstar original programming
- List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present)
- List of editiones principes in Latin
- List of equipment of the Algerian Land Forces
- List of ethnic cleansing campaigns
- List of Eurodance songs
- List of European association football families
- List of exhibitions at the Castlemaine Art Museum
- List of fictional lesbian characters
- List of films with post-credits scenes