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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

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

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

I'm just trying to give credit to the donor of a prominent Boston landmark. Thanks, EJR ElizaJRich (talk) 17:08, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ElizaJRich: Assuming that you mean Japanese Lantern (Boston), you need to put the reference after the text that it supports, and not in the References section. See Help:Referencing for beginners. By the way, this is not a good place to ask for help - it is the talk page for discussing improvements to the page Help:Cite errors. Better places would be Wikipedia:Teahouse or Wikipedia:Help desk. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:51, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help. I read the instructions for beginners again and used only the superscripts, but now they don't show in the References list. I will try the Help Desk. Thanks for your efforts to improve the documentation, which is complex for an occasional user who is just trying to rectify the record. ElizaJRich (talk) 13:17, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ElizaJRich: I think that Another Believer (talk · contribs) fixed it with this edit. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 13:47, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to you both. I also re-edited to remove the citations from the Reference list (and just left them as superscripts). At first it looked wrong but eventually the list reappeared, perhaps due to her efforts. As a librarian, I'm used to entering the citations in the bibliography in a MS or say, in WordPress, so your system is not obvious. The Help for Citing Sources is elaborate and the one clue it gave directed me to a section I couldn't find.

Herein lay my problem, in case you know to the person in charge of maintaining that documentation.

I read on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources under Inline Citations

"It will also be necessary to generate the list of footnotes (where the citation text is actually displayed); for this, see the previous section."

I hope this helps another weekend editor. Thanks again! ElizaJRich (talk) 14:11, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

hello I created this pages because I had enough to see people considering my language as an only language,so I made the page by my own. Mikayèl Chavriyakouti (talk) 23:58, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I thought there was a tool or bot that would search articles that link into/out of this "broken" article looking for references with the same "name", to fix it? Like right now I'm looking at <ref name="naut"/> and thought there was a quick way to see if a related article uses that terminology? Fundy Isles Historian - J (talk) 01:17, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]