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Help:Cite errors/Cite error no link label group

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This page will help you to fix the cite error message:

Ran out of custom link labels for group "$1" (see the help page).

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Overview

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In-text cite link labels can be customized by using a group name that calls a custom label page. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (footnotes)/Cite link labels for details.

Issues and resolution

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The number of references using the group name exceeds the number of labels.


The labels were defined without a space separating each label.

Examples

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This example uses the label style "error-test", a style used only for testing. As "error-test" has three labels defined, the fourth use of the same label with content "Reference 4" returns an error message:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.[first] Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.[second] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.[last!] Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.[<span class="error mw-ext-cite-error" lang="en" dir="ltr">{{broken ref |prefix=Cite error: {{broken ref |msg=Ran out of custom link labels for group "error-test" |lang=en |help=Cite error no link label group |nocat={{{nocat|}}} }} |lang=en |nocat={{{nocat|}}} }}</span>]

  1. ^ Reference 1
  2. ^ Reference 2
  3. ^ Reference 3
  4. ^ Reference 4

Technical

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Pages with this error message are placed into Pages with incorrect ref formatting. The system message page is at Cite error no link label group.

Bugs

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  • T24265
    • The error message at MediaWiki:Cite error no link label group gets classed as a reference, so you can't use a wikilink in the message to link to a help page
    • The reference list is an ordered list and uses numbers that don't match the in-text cite labels