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m References in video game infoboxes aren't joined up: clean up, replaced: vgrelease new → Video game release (4) using AWB
m References in video game infoboxes aren't joined up: clean up, replaced: The Exiled Realm of Arborea → TERA (video game) (2), TERA (video game)]] → TERA (video game)|TERA]] (2) using AWB
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I'm confused. I've found two articles with the error message <code><nowiki>"Cite error: <ref> tag with name "<whatever>" defined in <references> is not used in prior text; see the help page"</nowiki></code>, yet the references with those names ''are'' used within the infobox. But the reference markers within the infoboxes have the wrong numbers and don't jump you down to the footnotes section.
 
At [[TheTERA Exiled(video Realm of Arboreagame)|TERA]], there is an error message about an unused footnote named "distributor", and the footnote marker next to the "Distributor" field in the infobox is broken. At [[The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings]] the infobox has references numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 1 which don't work, and then two references for the "Ratings" numbered 1, 2 which ''do'' jump to references 1 and 2 in the footnotes section.
 
I'm fairly sure that this problem is new since 19th April. On that date I fixed a cite error in [[The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings]] by commenting out an unused reference, and, I hope, I would have noticed the other three error messages if they had been there on that date. Very little has happened to the article since then. -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 10:36, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 
:There is some odd interaction with {{tl|Video game release}}. I commented it out of [[TheTERA Exiled(video Realm of Arboreagame)|TERA]] to fix the problem for now. ---'''''—&nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|<span style="color:gray">Gadget850&nbsp;(Ed)</span>]]<span style="color:darkblue">&nbsp;'''''</span><sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|''talk'']]</sup> 11:32, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 
::Removing the months and days makes the problem disappear too - <code><nowiki>{{Video game release|KOR|2011|NA|2012|EU|2012}}</nowiki></code>. The year-only case is handled specially by the first test in {{tp|Date sortable}}, so it must be the following block beginning "#iferror". This doesn't look good. Could this be a side-effect of the MediaWiki upgrade? -- [[User:John of Reading|John of Reading]] ([[User talk:John of Reading|talk]]) 12:08, 27 April 2012 (UTC)