Requesting some of the features like in {{1911}} template are taking and applied to the {{DNB}} template. Also, the ability to link through to the transcriptions that are very slowly taking place over at DNB @ Wikisource. Thx. billinghurst ( talk) 04:39, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Do we still need the text , a publication now in the public domain. with the reference. It is pretty arcane these days, and less than ideal. I would also like to be looking to updating the template to better reflect a modern reference. The style here looks old. billinghurst sDrewth 09:01, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
I have recently upgraded the {{ 1911}} and {{ Catholic}} templates. I would like to do the same to this one and minor changes to template talk:DNB Cite so that this one can call template talk:DNB Cite instead of calling directly {{ cite encyclopedia}}.
To do this I propose
Comment welcome -- PBS ( talk) 02:02, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Done 1 and 2 -- PBS ( talk) 11:48, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Done 3 4 5 -- PBS ( talk) 11:56, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Should more features be added, so as with {{ 1911}}, this can be used for a number of purposes, including combining attribution with citations? (See the first table at Template:1911/doc.) — innotata 14:18, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Done -- PBS ( talk) 11:50, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Appear to get problems when using template without the first/last entry in getting an appropriate harv link for the short references. Is there a way to get this to work or does the template need tweaking to pass a harvid though, if set, rather than the default harv. Keith D ( talk) 23:55, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
Recently I was looking at the maintenance category Category:Articles incorporating DNB template with an unnamed parameter there were about half a dozen entries. In every case the entries were there because there is a template on German Wikipedia called DNB (The functionality of the template is reproduced on English Wikipedia with {{ German National Library portal}}), because the text containing {{ DNB}} had been used as part of a translation from German wikipedia. Currently there is no warning message when this happens.
There is a similar problem with {{ ADB}} this is handled with:
I do not think this is a desirable solution for this template as this template is used in nearly 8,000 instances and the number of mistaken entries was only about half a dozen out of nearly 3,000 using the template {{ German National Library portal}}, so instead I propose that this template handle an unnamed parameter by passing it on through to {{ cite encyclopedia}} which puts out an error message which involves no overhead for this template:
{{cite encyclopedia|1234567}}
: {{
cite encyclopedia}}
: Empty citation (
help)as some of the fields are filled automatically what will appear is:
{{DNB|1234567}}
: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. {{
cite encyclopedia}}
: Missing or empty |title=
(
help)If that error message appears and the person who has ported the text from a German article, looks a this template for guidance they will see a sentence at the to of the documentation pointing them to {{ German National Library portal}}.
-- PBS ( talk) 17:10, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
I have added a "section" parameter as an option. This is because if the Wikisource DNB articles had followed the EB1911 article format and made all the articles sub articles of "DNB00/", instead of "article name (DNB00)", then all that would be needed was to add "#section name to the wstitle=name (wstitle=name#section name) but that will not work because the template would construct that as " s:name#section name (DNB00)" not what is wanted s:name (DNB00)#section name. This is now possible by using the new section parameter:
{{cite DNB|last=Thomas |first=Daniel Lleufer |wstitle=Wynn, John |section=Wynn, Richard |volume=63 |page=258–259}}