Template talk:Citation Style documentation/author
list of params from 1 to 9
As it is now, we have:
- Aliases: authorlink, authorlink1, author-link, author1-link; authorlink2, author2-link; ... authorlink9, author9-link.
Would it be clearer with one more in the series:
- Aliases: authorlink, authorlink1, author-link, author1-link; authorlink2, author2-link; authorlink3, author3-link; ... authorlink9, author9-link?
What about a different format, like this:
- Aliases: authorlink, authorlink1, author-link, author1-link; authorlink[n], author[n]-link (where [n] is 1 through 9)?
What about trying this vertically:
- Aliases:
- authorlink, authorlink1, author-link, author1-link;
- authorlink2, author2-link;
- authorlink2, author2-link;
- ...
- authorlink9, author9-link
- Aliases:
Any other ideas? Coastside (talk) 20:13, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
- I understand that discussion, but I don't see why you are linking to it here. The question is how to handle aliasing of authorlink paramaters in this sub template. Are you saying that discussion answers the question? If so, I'm confused, because it shows the way this was done when I originally added the authorlink parameters to this sub template on July 14 (they weren't documented prior to that). So it seems we've come round in a circle.Coastside (talk) 23:13, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Thought you might want to participate in that discussion.
This part does not make sense to me:
authorlink2, author2-link; ... authorlink9, author9-link
The semicolon separates a series, the ellipsis indicates an omission. I am going to make one more stab at this, then I have other things to do. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 12:21, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
- The semicolon doesn't separate a series. It separates elements in a series. Everything within a set of semicolons is an alias of the same thing. In the above, authorlink2 and author2-link are aliases, which is why they are not separated by semicolons. The semicolon sets off the next group of aliases. The ellipses does represent an omission. The sequence [2] throuh [8] is omitted for brevity.Coastside (talk) 21:09, 17 July 2012 (UTC)