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 1,610 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- 2012–13 in Algerian football
- 2013 in Kenyan football
- 2013–14 Rákospalotai EAC season
- 2014 Wisconsin State Treasurer election
- 2015–16 Rákospalotai EAC season
- 2016–17 Rákospalotai EAC season
- 2017–18 FC Dinamo București season
- 2017–18 FC Vitosha Bistritsa season
- 2017–18 PFC Beroe Stara Zagora season
- 2017–18 PFC Cherno More Varna season
- 2017–18 PFC CSKA Sofia season
- 2017–18 PFC Levski Sofia season
- 2017–18 PFC Ludogorets Razgrad season
- 2018 attacks on the northern border of Ecuador
- 2020–21 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season
- 2021–22 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season
- 2022–23 Süper Lig
- 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum
- 2023 Women's Premier League (cricket) final
- 2023–24 Croatian Women's First Football League
- 2023–24 FIBA West Asia Super League
- 2023–24 in English football
- 2023–24 Liverpool F.C. season
- 2023–24 PWHL Boston season
- 2024 FC Tobol season
- 2024 Hartlepool Borough Council election
- 2024 Meath County Council election
- 2024 NFL draft
- 2024–25 Saudi Pro League
A
- A Quiet Monastery
- Äänekoski
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Samura
- Abortion in China
- Abuja
- Adam Rippon
- Adi Shankar's Bootleg Universe
- Adrian Bennett
- Ähtäri
- Ai Fen
- Aizawl
- Al Maktoum International Airport
- Alexa Knierim
- Alice Cooper: The Nightmare
- Alpena, Michigan
- Alpha Kappa Alpha
- Alta Airport
- American Airlines Flight 320
- American Horror Story
- Andaman Tamils
- Angus R. McDonald
- Animal (Muppet)
- Anuel AA discography
- Apple M2
- Arcfox
- Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
- Arrondissements of Paris
- Asian Argentines
- Atanasio Ballesteros
- Attock District
- Aurora (singer)
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Ayung River
B
- Ba 'Alawi sada
- Bailout bottle
- Barun Sengupta metro station
- Battle of Derna (2018–2019)
- Battle of Missionary Ridge
- Becky Lynch
- Bedouin
- Believe women
- Bell 412
- Belvedere of Literary Profundity
- Benoît Saint Denis
- Black people
- Brazen Serpent (Bruni)
- Bréguet 393T
- Bridlington
- British Council
- British Rail Class 465
- Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall/Chambers Street station
- Brother (1997 film)
C
- Camille de Chantereine
- Canada at the Women's Rugby World Cup
- Canecão Mineiro nightclub fire
- Catherine Gfeller
- Cheena Trophy
- Cherrie (singer)
- China Airlines
- China Railway High-speed
- Chris Culver
- Chris Jedi
- Christianity and Judaism
- Classic of Poetry
- Cliona celata
- Console war
- Coritiba Foot Ball Club
- Cyberethics
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H
I
- I-X Center
- Ibn Taymiyya
- Idris El Mizouni
- Ilocos Region
- Imran Khan government
- Individual Neutral Athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Indo-Greek wars
- 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
- ISU World Standings and Season's World Ranking
- Izabela Stahelin
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K
- Kate Hollern
- Kelurahan Barurambatkota
- Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball
- KHAD-KGB campaign in Pakistan
- Khairpur Tamiwali
- Khamenlok clash
- Kill Bill (SZA song)
- Kim Jee-woon
- Kim Kyu-tae
- KMW+Nexter Defense Systems
- Kolkata district
- Koreans in Japan
- Kraken (company)
- Krauss-Maffei Wegmann
- Kumanovo
- Kurdistan
- Kushan coinage
- Kushite religion
- Kuwaiti political gridlock
- KwaMashu
- Kyle Gibson