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I don't know much about templates, however Around the World in Eighty Days had the following line:
{ {gutenberg|no=3456|name=Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours}} ( French)
Whish translates as:
Should there be a line break at the end of the template? Paul Weaver 07:55, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Andrew Sly 22:54, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
The example at the beginning of this section appends additional information to show the language of the text in question. In case it's of interest to people using this template, I've found Language icons are a good way to indicate this. For the example above, it would simply be {{fr icon}}
Andrew Sly 23:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Am I the only one who finds {{gutenberg|no=2383|name=The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems ''by Geoffrey Chaucer'}} rather awkward? Is this a misfeature of the template? If so, and if anyone is working on the template, I would suggest syntax like: {{gutenberg|no=2383|name=The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems|author=Geoffrey Chaucer}}. In case of multiple authors, comma separated or else mulitple 'author=' attributes accepted? — AdamDiCarlo 21:27, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Is there any advice for citing a title in gutenberg which is also a wikipedia article? Or is the answer "don't do that, leave the etext link in to wikipedia article"? — AdamDiCarlo 04:23, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
I removed the "of", for use in cases where the title was already mentioned (all Gutenberg titles are also available in printed form; the links will typically appear in bibliographies where title, author, year, ISBN etc. were just mentioned. dab (ᛏ) 17:03, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Currently the template looks like this:
I'd like to suggest a change to look like this:
Or another alternative:
It is common practice in external link sections to highlite the title of the book, with other descriptive information afterwards. It looks cleaner, is easier to read, and is more standard. Highlite the title only is standard practice not only on Wikipedia but everywhere in citations. The fact that it is "free" and an "e-book" and "Project Gutenberg" is just descriptive information that should not be part of the title. For example see the external links section of David Copperfield (novel), the Gutenberg doesn't fit in with the others. There are many other examples like this where this template doesn't fit in with other standard formating. Note the above wording is just a suggestion, but the key is to have only the title of the book as the external link, and have the title come first. I assume the mention of a "free e-book" is there for newbies, so wikilinking e-book would be in line with helping newbies as well. -- Stbalbach 15:38, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
I'd much prefer it read something like "Full text of Pinocchio, available from Project Gutenberg". Somehow I find myself unhappy with the word 'free'. -- Tagishsimon (talk)
{{gutenberg|no=2383|name=The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems ''by Geoffrey Chaucer'}}
should perhaps have another apostrophe at the end?
{{gutenberg|no=2383|name=The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems ''by Geoffrey Chaucer''}}
Are they even necessary at all? --
Bensin
14:26, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
This template adds a blank before the period. Example (link 2). -- Subfader ( talk)
The template could really do without a bullet. It does not look right when used outside a bulleted list, e.g. in an inline reference. GregorB ( talk) 11:35, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
|bullet=no
for use in the inline instances. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
13:35, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
|bullet=none
), and a good thing too, I was wondering why it was making a line break when used within <ref></ref> tags...
Herostratus (
talk)
05:47, 27 March 2016 (UTC)|bullet=none
should be the default behavior, with |bullet=yes
adding the bullet. In an "External list", an editor is expected to bullet the cites. I suspect the extra linefeed was a coding flaw.
User-duck (
talk)
21:56, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
|bullet=none
and preceded by a bullet, the template and the preceding bullet render as an extra blank bulleted line before the bulleted template. I have created ‹The
template
Category link is being
considered for merging.›
Category:Pages with Gutenberg book template using bullet in order to see how many templates are using "none"; with 2,400 transclusions, the category may take a few days to populate. We may need to modify those |bullet=none
pages when we fix the template. Editors are welcome to experiment in the template's sandbox and on the testcases page. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
22:43, 19 April 2021 (UTC)The template needs an override to turn off italicization for works which shouldn't be italicized.-- JFH ( talk) 18:13, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
It seems like gutenberg changed their URL from etext to ebooks (where I've seen it so far, including the templates doc), causing the template to break, someone with editing privileges please modify the template 8ya ( talk) 14:52, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
[[gutenberg:
to make its links, which can't be fixed at this template. I'll ask at
WP:VPT. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
16:19, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
{{Gutenberg |bullet= |ref= |no= |name= |year= |author= |first= |last= |authorlink= |origdate= |origyear= |chapter= |format= |others= |edition= |series= |language= |publisher= |pages= |doi= |id= |isbn= |oclc= |access-date= |quote= }}
This came up because I edited the Sam Slick page to add a Project Gutenberg link to Thomas Chandler Haliburton -- which is only partly helpful since he wrote other books too. There's a "Sam Slick" subject in PG, but there is no "subject" parameter in the template that lets me point to it. Can it be added?
(That's assuming it shouldn't be a template by itself, of course, in which case I could write { {Gutenberg subject | id=9673 | name=Sam Slick} }). John Gamble ( talk) 04:49, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
{{Gutenberg book|no=subject/9673|name={{noitalic|Books about Sam Slick}}}}
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