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This template calls {{ Include-USGov}}, which now has a source parameter. That parameter allows us to pass in formatting templates, such as {{ cite web}}. The sandbox version of {{ USGS}} now converts its arguments to {{ cite web}} and passes them along to {{ Include-USGov}}. This will promote uniformity in formatting of PD references and in reference metadata. Please see the test cases to see how this affects the formatting.
Admins: please copy the
sandbox version of the template to the
main template. Thank you. —
hike395 (
talk) 19:10, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
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Anomie
⚔ 04:24, 27 February 2012 (UTC)Blue Mountains (ecoregion) has this:
{{USGS|author=Thorson, T.D., Bryce, S.A., Lammers, D.A., et al. | article=Ecoregions of Oregon|comment=color poster with map, descriptive text, summary tables, and photographs; with a [ftp://ftp.epa.gov/wed/ecoregions/or/or_back.pdf Reverse side]|url=ftp://ftp.epa.gov/wed/ecoregions/or/or_front.pdf}}
{{
citation}}
: Explicit use of et al. in: |author=
(
help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link) (color poster with map, descriptive text, summary tables, and photographs; with a
Reverse side).This template misuses |author=
by including more than one author-name and by including explicit 'et al.' text. In cs1|2, |author=
is used to name a single author and 'et al.' is controlled by |display-authors=
. The live version of {{
USGS}}
supports an extremely limited subset of the {{
cite web}}
parameters. I have modified the {{
USGS/sandbox}}
to use
Module:template wrapper so that editors don't need to abuse those parameters that {{USGS}}
currently supports.
Rewriting the example above:
{{USGS/sandbox |author=Thorson, T.D. |author2=Bryce, S.A. |author3=Lammers, D.A. |display-authors=etal |article=Ecoregions of Oregon |comment=color poster with map, descriptive text, summary tables, and photographs; with a [ftp://ftp.epa.gov/wed/ecoregions/or/or_back.pdf Reverse side] |url=ftp://ftp.epa.gov/wed/ecoregions/or/or_front.pdf}}
This change will allow editors to provide more complete referencing.
As its use shows in Blue Mountains (ecoregion), this attribution template is used as a reference template. Because editors will misapply this template, it would, perhaps, be sensible to provide a mechanism to inhibit the rendering of the attribution text and icon:
perhaps |attrib=no
?
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 12:18, 19 February 2019 (UTC)