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Cite error: The named reference btva was invoked but never defined.

Hi, I was editing Gabrielle Carteris to add birth date and when I did, I got the Cite error: The named reference btva was invoked but never defined error. What's this error? Kartagis (talk) 16:22, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You broke the page's formatting by removing the code -->, which signals the end of an HTML comment. As a result, most of the page was processed as a comment, including the definition of that reference. See MOS:COMMENT for more information. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 02:14, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was very careful to remove that part and that part only but it seems I wasn't that careful. Thanks. Kartagis (talk) 06:10, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Protected edit request on 30 August 2025

This edit request to MediaWiki:Cite error ref too many keys has been answered. Set the |answered= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

Please update the system message so that it resembles the updated default message more by using the new parameters $1 and $2. The new message should be updated to look something like this:

{{broken ref
|msg=Unknown parameter "$1" in <code><ref></code> tag; supported parameters are $2
|lang=en
|help=Cite error ref too many keys
|nocat={{{nocat|}}}
}}

Documentation for the message can be found at translatewiki.net here. Eyesnore ^talk💬 20:39, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how localization here works exactly, but there are five subpages for different languages: Special:PrefixIndex/MediaWiki:Cite error ref too many keys, including en-ca and en-gb for two varieties of English. —⁠andrybak (talk) 21:18, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

They will have to be updated manually. This is the English-language Wikipedia by the way, so having foreign-language localizations of Cite error messages is pointless. Eyesnore ^talk💬 21:42, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am just trying to understand how "unknown parameter ?? in ref tag; supported parameters are ??" could be an equivalent to The ref tag has too many names — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:11, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The default message has changed since then; it currently appears as:

Invalid parameter "$1" in <code><ref></code> tag. The supported parameters are: $2.

This is because this error is also shown if unknown parameters are passed to the ref tag. Eyesnore ^talk💬 17:54, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:58, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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This edit request to MediaWiki:Cite error references no backlink label has been answered. Set the |answered= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

Message was dropped from the Cite extension (gerrit:1088295) and should be deleted; exhausting custom backlink labels will now fall back to the numeric backlink labels instead of showing an error. Also delete all pages in Special:PrefixIndex/MediaWiki:Cite error references no backlink label/. Eyesnore ^talk💬 21:16, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Sohom (talk) 03:52, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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