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Another generic author name

I've just cleaned up a few articles where the author field ended with "(View posts)" (sample diff) -- John of Reading (talk) 09:26, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Translated Quote Parameter

Since there is a parameter for "translated title", and there is a parameter for "quote", I suggest a parameter for "translated quote". Currently I tend to write a translation of the quote in brackets after the quote, but this is probably not optimal, since the source itself is not the source of the translation (just as we usually cannot attribute a "translated title" to the source). Thiagovscoelho (talk) 12:26, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

If the quotation is important to the article, put it in the article body and cite it. Quotations require citations; citations do not require quotations. But, if you must: |trans-quote=.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 12:49, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't know we actually had this. I guess it was because it's not available from the visual editor 😅. Sometimes I used |quote= to give a fuller version of a quotation from the article itself, and sometimes it was to make clear how a source supported a claim, since it was a large webpage source and I can't give page numbers. Thiagovscoelho (talk) 13:30, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Istro-Romanian-language sources

Hello. I frankly have no idea if this is the appropriate venue for this.

Istro-Romanian is one of the Balkan Romance languages. The others are Romanian, Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian. Adding a parameter |language=ro/rup/ruq in a citation template will produce (in Romanian/Aromanian/Megleno-Romanian), but |language=ruo does not produce (in Istro-Romanian). An example is reference 50 at Istro-Romanians. I fixed it manually with |version= but I don't see why Istro-Romanian should be excluded from Wikipedia's technical code, or whatever the root of this is. Note that there is already Template:Lang-ruo so it's not a problem of "ruo" or of the language not being integrated anywhere within Wikipedia's code.

Can this be fixed? Super Dromaeosaurus (talk) 20:17, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Staff

Can "staff" be added to generic author names? There are 63 articles citing "Staff, Ars". 93.72.49.123 (talk) 06:39, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

in "cite magazine", how do I cite an issue name such as "Spring 2022"?

If I put this in the 'issue' field, it renders as "No. Spring 2022" which doesn't really seem correct. But it doesn't really seem like it should be in the date field like that either. –jacobolus (t) 15:49, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Since you didn't say what magazine you are thinking of, I will suppose this is a typical magazine. Typically, "Spring 2022" would be the date of the issue and would be specified in the date parameter. The publisher may or may not specify an issue number, which for a quarterly magazine would probably be a number from 1 through 4. That may be specified with the issue parameter. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:00, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

I see from your edit history that the magazine in question seems to be Caltech Magazine. When accessing the issue online, there is an option to see the print version. In the online reproduction of the print version, on page 2, where the "masthead" is, it states "Spring 2023 Volume LXXXVI, Number 1". I would regard this as the official date, and the date at the top of the article as a garbage date. I would write a complaint letter to the magazine about providing a date other than the official date without explaining what it means. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:08, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Great, thanks! –jacobolus (t) 16:09, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Unix epoch

I'm wondering whether it would make sense to show an error when a date of 1 January 1970 (the Unix epoch) is supplied. Of course there would be false positives, but from a quick search most articles appear to be using this date in error. 93.72.49.123 (talk) 06:46, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Perhaps it would be better to run the search for that date and recruit help to go check them all. –jacobolus (t) 15:50, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Simple search results:

• 1 January 1970 – ~745
• January 1, 1970 – ~500
• 1970-01-01 – ~905

—Trappist the monk (talk) 17:13, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Is there a project for correcting issues? It would seem like a good place to organise something like this. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 18:22, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Judging from a spot check, Category:CS1 maint: date eauals unix epoch may be indicated. I'll hit up mw:Citoid and see if they'd be willing to throw out this date for web sources. Folly Mox (talk) 20:35, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Warning when adding duplicate arguments?

I fix a lot of script-generated citations, and about once every twenty or thirty, I'll end up duplicating a parameter that was actually already included but I didn't notice, causing the page to be added to Category:Articles using duplicate arguments in template calls and creating additional work as other editors User:Davemck and User:Ira Leviton clean up after me.

Is there a way for this to generate a warning message / for me to enable display of a warning message that is already generated? I am sometimes able to notice the category being added to the page on preview, but this typically only displays if I'm editing the full page rather than just a section, which accounts for maybe 5% of my edits. Folly Mox (talk) 13:14, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

No. MediaWiki can and does detect duplicate parameters but Module:Citation/CS1 gets only one of them (the last):

{{cite book |title=Title1 |title=Title2}}

Title2.

I use the generic text editor. When I preview this section, I see a warning message that looks something like this:

Warning: Help talk:Citation Style 1 (edit) is calling Template:Cite book with more than one value for the "title" parameter. Only the last value provided will be used. (Help)

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:34, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Oh, I do remember seeing warnings of that genre, but only in desktop mode. They must be restricted to that interface. Folly Mox (talk) 13:54, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

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