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This help page is a how-to guide. It explains concepts or processes used by the Wikipedia community. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines and may reflect varying levels of consensus.

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

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

• If you have read this help page and find something missing or confusing, please discuss it at the main talk page.
• Please reference this page and the page where you have the problem so we can understand your issues.
• For basic information on the footnotes system, see Referencing for beginners; for advanced help, see Footnotes.

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.

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

The labels were defined without a space separating each label.

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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.^{[error-test 4]}

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.

• 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