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List-defined reference?
help-me Sorry to have to ask such a noobie question after so many years but I don't understand why I have got this error at History of Milton Keynes: Cite error: A list-defined reference with group name "" is not used in the content (see the help page). as I don't see any such group (and I have simplified all refs of the style  to drop the quotes. Also, AFAICS, there is no use of the horrible (template:efn is easier to use and easier on the eye). It is not a technique that I have ever used so I don't know what I should be looking for. Advice please? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:33, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Looks like you fixed it yourself.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 18:07, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , I wish! No, it is still there, at the end of the References section, just above History of Milton Keynes. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:36, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I saw the "fix" edit summary and didn't see the error. Let me take another look...  — jmcgnh (talk)  (contribs) 20:11, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Looks like the error first appeared after this edit. Nothing obvious to me just now. Let's turn the help me batsignal back on and I'll aim to look at it later, when I have more time, if nobody else has found the issue before then.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 20:37, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , thank you, that was the clue I needed and should have thought of first. My prejudice against quoted ref names blocked my lateral thinking. The issue (which has zero to do with the error message) is that I used a sfn inside another ref, thus creating a nested reference. Taking that out fixed the problem. I have switched off the bat-light. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 22:04, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * The help page associated with the error says: "The message appears if you mistakenly embed sfn or sfnp (rather than harv, harvnb, or harvp) inside  . The page indeed used  within   tags; you removed it, I put harv instead. That works. Huon (talk) 22:07, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * . I did a knee-jerk "I never used no ^*(&"%£ quoted references" so OF COURSE the help page was going to be TOTALLY irrelevant. My apologies to you both for time wasting, I'll go stand in the corner. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 22:12, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

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