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

== Parent Occupation ==

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)

This is my first report of unverified details, and I didn't want to "muck-up". Although details in "Wiki" is said to be given publicly by the subject, date of birth and occupation of father differ from fairly reliable source - although not given. Source of Detail for "James Cassius Williamson", Actor-Manager, b.1844or1845-d.1913, Father's Occupation given as "Doctor". My Source: 1850 US Census, enumerated 24 Oct 1850, Mercer, PA, "J.H. Williamson" (James Hezlap Williamson), age 30, Occupation: "Farmer", (not doctor), wife, Selina C. Williamson, age 29, son "Cassius J. Williamson" (Later James Cassius Williamson), age 6. 1860 US Census in Milwaukee, Wisconsin records "Selina C. Williamson", age 36, estimated 1824 birth without husband (presumed deceased), J.H., and with 16yo son, Cassius J. and some siblings included in 1850 Census. What should I do with new Information, including an earlier Marriage (1866) for Cassius J.to Mary Mitchell in New York before 1873 marriage to Margaret Sullivan in Califormia in 1873? [[User:Annan32|Annan32]] ([[User talk:Annan32|talk]]) 05:46, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

: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 ==

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

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:

<pre>

{{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|}}}

}}

</pre>

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)