Help talk:Cite errors

References to Delaware Valley Railway in the article Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

Hello, I used a method I thought was correct as it worked in other, smaller articles I've been editing. This time it did not and I'm at a loss for how to fix it. The errors relate to the ref tags for Images8 and Images9 on Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Kether83 (talk) 17:46, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Fixed. This is a bit obscure, but the answer is on the linked help page: Another type of problem that will cause this error to appear relates to the location of an invoked footnote within an article. If a footnote is added to an article anywhere below reflist, then that footnote will appear at the bottom of the article. Consequently, if a footnote used in the article is invoked ... anywhere after reflist in an article, the cite error will appear, because reflist is only a list of all the footnotes above the reflist. The references you were trying to use were defined below the {{reflist}} template in the article, which does not work. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:57, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Cite error

Reference page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%932026_Cricket_World_Cup_League_2

First of all, I wish to apologize for making a mistake, resulting the "edit" option being replaced with the message "Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).==Points table==" appearing in it's place. I wanted to make corrections on the points table. I did an error checking and pasted the first error from the points table into the line and edited this error. Then I saved the changes, resulting in this. Now I don't know how to fix it and I am feeling like 541t about what I've done. It was totally unintentional and an honest mistake on my part.

I am really terribly sorry for what happened. Please forgive me. I never meant for something like this to happen, but it did. I sincerely hope that the person who is responsible for updating this page, will firstly forgive me, secondly, fix my mistake and thirdly and hopefully teach me the "how to's" of this page.

In advance, I would like to thank you for understanding and fixing my mistake. BIAREN (talk) 07:26, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

@BIAREN: You accidentally inserted the text <ref></ref> at the start of a section. It's very easy to do this by mistake, since some of the editing interfaces have a button that inserts exactly this text. It's not a big problem, and you shouldn't worry about it. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:35, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi John

Can you fix this for me? 102.32.121.150 (talk) 11:56, 13 January 2025 (UTC)