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== tryingCite toerror: addThe 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 <code>btva</code> was invoked but never defined error. What's this error? [[User:Kartagis|Kartagis]] ([[User talk:Kartagis|talk]]) 16:22, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

I only see only error message, which has renamed my ref#2 as ref#0. I read the help for beginners to no avail. If you can't fix this

:You broke the page's formatting by removing the code <code>--></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. —[[User:Mx. Granger|Mx. Granger]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Mx. Granger|talk]] '''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Mx. Granger|contribs]]) 02:14, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

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

== Protected edit request on 30 August 2025 ==

Here's the reference to a journal article in the UCB library scanned by Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/promamerinter00hepbrich/page/n3/mode/2up

{{edit fully-protected|MediaWiki:Cite error ref too many keys|answered=no}}

"Prominent Americans interested in Japan and prominent Japanese in America" 90-91. Japan and America, January 1903.

Please update the system message so that it resembles the [{{fullurl:Special:AllMessages|prefix=Cite+error+ref+too+many+keys}} updated default message] more by using the new parameters $1 and $2. The new message should be updated to look something like this:

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I'm just trying to give credit to the donor of a prominent Boston landmark.

{{broken ref

Thanks, EJR [[User:ElizaJRich|ElizaJRich]] ([[User talk:ElizaJRich|talk]]) 17:08, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

|msg=Unknown parameter "$1" in <code><ref></code> tag; supported parameters are $2

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|help=Cite error ref too many keys

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Documentation for the message can be found at translatewiki.net [[translatewiki:MediaWiki:Cite error ref too many keys/qqq|here]]. '''[[User:Eyesnore|Eyesnore]]''' ^{[[User talk:Eyesnore|''talk''&#128172;]]} 20:39, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

: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. —⁠[[User:Andrybak|andrybak]] ([[User talk:Andrybak|talk]]) 21:18, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

::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. '''[[User:Eyesnore|Eyesnore]]''' ^{[[User talk:Eyesnore|''talk''&#128172;]]} 21:42, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

== Protected edit request on 30 August 2025 (2) ==

{{edit fully-protected|MediaWiki:Cite error references no backlink label|answered=no}}

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/]]. '''[[User:Eyesnore|Eyesnore]]''' ^{[[User talk:Eyesnore|''talk''&#128172;]]} 21:16, 30 August 2025 (UTC)