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== trying to add reference ==

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 [[User:ElizaJRich|ElizaJRich]] ([[User talk:ElizaJRich|talk]]) 17:08, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
:{{replyto|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 [[Help:Talk pages|talk page]] for discussing improvements to the page [[:Help:Cite errors]]. Better places would be [[Wikipedia:Teahouse]] or [[Wikipedia:Help desk]]. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 20:51, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
::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. [[User:ElizaJRich|ElizaJRich]] ([[User talk:ElizaJRich|talk]]) 13:17, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
:::{{replyto|ElizaJRich}} I think that {{user|Another Believer}} fixed it with {{diff|Japanese Lantern (Boston)|prev|1288560599|this edit}}. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 13:47, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
::::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! [[User:ElizaJRich|ElizaJRich]] ([[User talk:ElizaJRich|talk]]) 14:11, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

== Creole languages  ==

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. [[User:Mikayèl Chavriyakouti|Mikayèl Chavriyakouti]] ([[User talk:Mikayèl Chavriyakouti|talk]]) 23:58, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

==Rescue Refs==
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 <nowiki><ref name="naut"/></nowiki> and thought there was a quick way to see if a related article uses that terminology? [[User:Fundy Isles Historian - J|Fundy Isles Historian - J]] ([[User talk:Fundy Isles Historian - J|talk]]) 01:17, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

== How to resolve issue on ''[[My Name Is Earl]]''? ==

In [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=My_Name_Is_Earl&diff=1290052337&oldid=1286162232 this edit], I copied some note definitions to ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' from [[List of My Name Is Earl episodes|List of ''My Name Is Earl'' episodes]]. Now I see '''Cite error: A list-defined reference named "4.25" is not used in the content''' for three of the embedded references. The article I copied from does not have the same issue, so I'm perplexed! = [[User:Paul2520|paul2520]] [[User talk:Paul2520|💬]] 15:03, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
:{{replyto|Paul2520}} [[My Name Is Earl]] was not previously using [[WP:LDR]]; but per [[WP:CITEVAR]], you should not have altered it to that style without first obtaining consensus at [[Talk:My Name Is Earl]]. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 20:27, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
::Hi {{u|Redrose64}}. I think there's been a misunderstanding. I reverted my edit [[Wikipedia:Assume good faith|in good faith]].
::Note that the page has an error about a missing <code><nowiki>{{notelist}}</nowiki></code> because the section {{section link|My Name Is Earl|Episodes}} transcludes a table from [[List of My Name is Earl episodes|''List of My Name is Earl'' episodes]]. It looks like {{u|TheDoctorWho}} recently added footnotes with the [[WP:LDR]] format. TheDoctorWho, would you be able to help with the notes list on ''[[My Name Is Earl]]''? = [[User:Paul2520|paul2520]] [[User talk:Paul2520|💬]] 00:16, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
:::{{ping|paul2520}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_My_Name_Is_Earl_episodes&diff=prev&oldid=1290169782 I solved this] another way by shifting the defined references to be inside the transclusion tags on the List of Episodes page. This way they still pull into ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' without needing to add an additional 88 references into that article. As for what actually caused the issue in the first place however, I'm not quite sure. [[User:TheDoctorWho|<span style="color:#0000ff;">'''The'''</span><span style="color:#0000ff">'''Doctor'''</span><span style="color:#0000ff;">'''Who'''</span>]] [[User talk:TheDoctorWho|(talk)]] 05:48, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

== Draft:I Still Believe (Hayden Panettiere song) ==

Excuse me, but if you would go to the [[Draft:I Still Believe (Hayden Panettiere song)]] article, I have a little confusing error:

5.^abc Cornelius, David (February 6, 2007). "Cinderella III - A Twist in Time". DVD Talk. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2022. Cite error: The named reference "dvdtalk" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). [[Special:Contributions/2601:401:4300:3720:9CA3:EA88:253A:A028|2601:401:4300:3720:9CA3:EA88:253A:A028]] ([[User talk:2601:401:4300:3720:9CA3:EA88:253A:A028|talk]]) 18:30, 18 May 2025 (UTC)
:The first one has {{para|access-date|April 20, 2022}} whereas the other two have {{para|access-date|April 27, 2022}}. On a different matter, using {{para||reflist}} and {{para|group|"lower-alpha"}} in a {{tag|ref|o}} tag is invalid. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 13:42, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
::Well, do you think you could correct that for me, or at least, make it so that the "ref tag 'dvdtalk' cannot be previewed because it is defined outside of the article or it is not defined in the article" message doesn't appear or get in the way, please? [[Special:Contributions/2601:401:4300:3720:75E0:FB19:E287:2095|2601:401:4300:3720:75E0:FB19:E287:2095]] ([[User talk:2601:401:4300:3720:75E0:FB19:E287:2095|talk]]) 20:48, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
:::Never mind. I took care of it myself. [[Special:Contributions/2601:401:4300:3720:75E0:FB19:E287:2095|2601:401:4300:3720:75E0:FB19:E287:2095]] ([[User talk:2601:401:4300:3720:75E0:FB19:E287:2095|talk]]) 21:04, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
::::Hey, excuse me, but I have another problem:
::::16.^ Cite error: The named reference apple music was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
::::18.^ Cite error: The named reference animatedviews was invoked but never defined (see the help page). [[Special:Contributions/2601:401:4300:3720:81DF:81AF:6126:3E91|2601:401:4300:3720:81DF:81AF:6126:3E91]] ([[User talk:2601:401:4300:3720:81DF:81AF:6126:3E91|talk]]) 20:56, 20 May 2025 (UTC)
:::::See [[Help:Footnotes#Footnotes: using a source more than once]]. References of the form {{tag|ref|s|params=name="something"}} must have something to connect with, of the form {{tag|ref|params=name="something"|content=full reference text}}. {{diff|Draft:I Still Believe (Hayden Panettiere song)|1291439766|1291377230|These edits}}, collectively, fixed it. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 07:22, 21 May 2025 (UTC)