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.
- 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:
Fixed 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 1,311 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).
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- 1st Forfarshire Artillery Volunteers
- 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division
- 1931 in animation
- 1986–87 Arsenal F.C. season
- 1986–87 Manchester United F.C. season
- 1998 FIFA World Cup
- 1998 FIFA World Cup knockout stage
- 2009 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix
- 2012–13 UEFA Champions League
- 2012–13 UEFA Champions League knockout phase
- 2015 Ole Miss Rebels football team
- 2017 in Norwegian football
- 2017 Norwegian Football Cup
- 2018–19 ŠK Slovan Bratislava season
- 2020 GT World Challenge America
- 2020 Kansas House of Representatives election
- 2020–21 in Spanish football
- 2020s in African political history
- 2020s in political history
- 2021–22 Liga de Expansión MX season
- 2022 Algoma District municipal elections
- 2022 EFL Championship play-off Final
- 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
- 2022 in UFC
- 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
- 2022 Nigerian gubernatorial elections
- 2022 North Carolina judicial elections
- 2022 Southampton City Council election
- 2022 U.S. Open Cup
- 2022 United States House of Representatives elections
- 2022 United States Senate election in Vermont
- 2023 in spaceflight
A
- A-ha discography
- Aayush Sharma
- Abdul Samad Ismail
- Abdullah Al-Khaibari
- Abortion in China
- Achmad Yurianto
- Afro–Latin Americans
- Agriculture in California
- Aimol language
- Akiyuki Shinbo
- Al Souk Al Kabir
- Al-Nabi Yunus Mosque
- Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
- Aldi Gjumsi
- Alexandru Chipciu
- Alexis Denisof
- American Idol controversies
- Amrita Rao
- Anderson Esiti
- Andover High School (Massachusetts)
- Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory
- Andy Sneap
- Antisemitism in the United States
- Anupriya Goenka
- Ányos Jedlik
- Apple ID
- Apportionment
- Arthur V. Evans
- Asia's Got Talent (season 1)
- Asif Sultan
- Assam Don Bosco University
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management
- Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022
- Austria-Hungary
- Avinash Mukherjee
B
- Badr bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Balmoral (District Electoral Area)
- Barbodes amarus
- Barry Callebaut
- Basilan State College
- Baton twirling
- Battle of Berlin
- Battle of Rubizhne
- Battle of Slivova
- Batu Gajah
- Beacon Hill, Boston
- Ben Fox
- Bessie Surtees House
- Betsy Brandt
- Bibras Natkho
- Big Brother (Danish TV series)
- Billy Steel
- Birdman discography
- Black Mountain (District Electoral Area)
- Bo Burnham discography
- Boppard
- Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 15
- Brennon Lund
- Bridge program
- Bristol Motor Speedway
- Brody (name)
- Bushido
C
- Cameron (wrestler)
- Canada convoy protest
- Cannabis in California
- Castle (District Electoral Area)
- Castore (brand)
- Centre line (football)
- Chemical synapse
- Cheyenne Frontier Days
- Chinese government response to COVID-19
- Clackmannanshire Central
- Claremont Riding Academy
- Climate change and children
- Climate movement
- Climate of China
- Collón Curá Formation
- Columbus Circle (Syracuse, New York)
- Common flameback
- CommScope
- Communist Party of Greece
- Comparison of memory cards
- Comparison of X window managers
- Conclusion of the American Civil War
- Cora Jade
- Counties of Hungary
- Cour d'assises
- Court (District Electoral Area)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
- COVID-19 pandemic in South America
- Craig of the Creek
- Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022
- Cunningham C-1
- Cunningham C2-R
- Cynthia Hesdra
D
E
- E-Estonia
- Early 2011 Telangana protests
- Eastwind Airlines Flight 517
- Economy of Somalia
- Economy of South Africa
- Eddy Pascual
- EDHEC Business School
- Ekstraliga (speedway)
- Elections in South Ossetia
- Electricity sector in Finland
- Ellen Barkin
- Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid
- Energy in South Africa
- Ervin Omić
- Escapology (album)
- Estadio Cuscatlán
- Everrette Thompson
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