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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)[reply]

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)[reply]