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Bug 18800 - <ref> without <references/> error isn't especially helpful
<ref> without <references/> error isn't especially helpful
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
Cite (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal minor (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2009-05-14 20:58 UTC by Jesse Ruderman
Modified: 2009-05-14 21:21 UTC (History)
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Description Jesse Ruderman 2009-05-14 20:58:36 UTC
On en.wikipedia.org, the error message I get when I leave out <references/> isn't very helpful.  It mentions the page "Help:Cite error", but that isn't a link, and "Help:Cite error" isn't specifically about this problem or especially helpful.

I think it would be best if the error message offered directly to stick in the following code:

==References==
{{reflist}}
Comment 1 FunPika 2009-05-14 21:08:27 UTC
Closed as INVALID. I recommend that you make a request over at [[MediaWiki talk:Cite error refs without references]] on enwiki for this. 
Comment 2 Jesse Ruderman 2009-05-14 21:21:20 UTC
That redirects to a generic talk page that isn't about this topic at all.  But I guess http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cite_errors#Links addresses my first complaint, making it sort of a dup of bug 17865.

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