Template talk:ISSN

message: I am not at all happy with ISSNs in general, starting with the problem that the managing company doesn't release the list of ISSNs for public download/parse/review.
But I'm also none too happy with being shunted off to a German library for my ISSN work - especially since many of the articles have Wikipedia articles, homesites with useful info, or both.
In my dreams, it would be possible to define an  template for the journal's article, and have the  template link to the journal when available, or a "bridge page" when not - similar to how the  template works.
Does anyone know if this magic is even possible? --Alvestrand 11:54, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I posted ISSN support wanted to wikitech-l. --LA2 20:20, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wishful thinking about ISSN 

message: I am sorry for spamming but found no better place to ask. There is some tweak implemented in Wikipedia that allows automatic linking of an ISBN but for ISSN it does not happen and, therefore, one has to use this template. Consider this example:
*Isaac Babel, 1920 Diary, Yale, 2002, ISBN 0300093136
produces the following output: 
*Isaac Babel, 1920 Diary, Yale, 2002, 
Please note that no template, like  is used to produce the link above near ISBN.
At the same time, to have an ISSN linked, one needs to add a template. Why is that so? --Irpen 18:44, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, it's a good question.  I was sort of wondering the same thing, but I had no idea that ISBN is magic like that.  I was thinking that ISBN might be a magic word, but it's not listed there.  But look here. I think this is our answer.  Wasn't immediately obvious.  I think ISBN needs to be wikilinked to this page on some the cite help pages.  --KeithB 05:07, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: why template for ISSN but not needed for ISBN

message: More specific than (or rather, along with) :Category:External link templates, :Category:Arts and culture-related templates might be considered- though it's true not every magazine falls under this category, not every book does either, yet OCLC is in a subcat of this, so... dunno... (yes, I'm an admin and the protection isn't a barrier to my doing this myself, but common sense- what little I possess of it - suggests I not make this change unilaterally.) Schissel | Sound the Note! 05:52, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggested category

message: 
I noticed that this template creates links to WorldCat using http://worldcat.org/... rather than http://www.worldcat.org/...  Given that http://worldcat.org/... redirects to the http://www.worldcat.org/... version and is now the recomended format: , could this template please be changed to point to the www.worldcat.org version in the first place? :) -Paul1337 (talk) 00:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Cancel that editprotected request; I hadn't realised that this template used the ISSN search link template so the change only needs to be made there. -Paul1337 (talk) 02:05, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WorldCat URL format change 

message: Simply replace the current template with this. It'll help clean up PDFs and Books.
{{only in print|ISSN 


Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 21:22, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This should probably be done for  instead and a slew of other identifiers such as doi, PMID, PMC and other identifiers. It should also be for all forms of print probably, and not just for PDF/book print. I suggest discussing this shortly at Village Pump Proposals to make sure the community agrees. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 22:14, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Discussion started at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Tweak of identifier in print. Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 22:58, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Alright, well there seems to be consensus for this, so might as well make that edit now. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 01:53, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

text:    Ronhjones  (Talk) 22:48, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks, much appreciated. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:51, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Please revert the edit or correct the HTML comment end tag. (Line 7: ->>}}
replies: text: Hopefully fixed now? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:14, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Appear to work now. I don't know if the  works. Thank you. – allen四names 01:45, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tweak for print 

message: I believe this edit accidentally removed two brackets and the template is now rendering incorrectly. Thanks.— TAnthonyTalk 06:02, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Something wrong

message: At the moment the link to Worldcat is too specific. For example  links to http://www.worldcat.org/issn/0028-0836 which is one hit for this ISSN. I would like someone to change it to http://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0%3Ajrnl&q=n2%3A0028-0836 which gives more hits. It's all the same journal but at many different libraries in different countries plus eJournals. What do you think? --91.22.200.127 (talk) 20:03, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: What is the "n2" in your url for and is it necessary? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:03, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: "n2" is the code for ISSN numbers. "bn" is for ISBN, "kw" for keyword etc. You can find this out via advanced search. --91.22.183.145 (talk) 15:08, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay I tried it and it didn't work. Can you test it out in the /sandbox version and then when it's working reactivate the request. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:32, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That was hard work. The problem was the equal sign in the template as I found out in the end. Solution and final code see here. --91.22.183.145 (talk) 17:00, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah yes, of course! Well done for finding that out. All updated. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:28, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, it is working. Thanks, much appreciated! --91.22.183.145 (talk) 18:32, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change request 

message: Since worldcat websites support HTTPS, I suggest switching the link to protocol-relative URL. The change is "http://www.worldcat.org" -> "//www.worldcat.org". Thanks! Chmarkine (talk) 05:33, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Jackmcbarn (talk) 13:18, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 3 March 2014: Use protocol relative URL 

message: See
* Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access locks: Visual Design RFC
* Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access Locks: Citation Template Behaviour RFC
Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:06, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  RFCs on citations templates and the flagging free-to-read sources 

message: Hi! Does anyone know if there's presently a way to suppress the ISSN label in this template, in order to produce the WorldCat-linked ISSN without the ISSN prefix? Though I don't have a specific example of this, I imagine this function might be useful in lists of publications in which ISSN would become repetitive:
Journal title                          	ISSN (present)	ISSN (desired format)
Journal of Apple Pie Studies           	              	1158-1360
Journal of Pies that Are Made of Apples	              	0733-9496
Thanks, BobAmnertiopsis∴ChatMe! 00:24, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Try . Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:47, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  That looks like the thing I'm looking for. Thanks! BobAmnertiopsis∴ChatMe! 02:22, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suppressing ISSN label? 

message: Please change "//www.worldcat.org/" to "https://www.worldcat.org/". When using Special:LinkSearch to search for HTTP links, relative links are caught in there as well giving an inaccurate list of articles using http links. Jon Kolbert (talk) 04:09, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Done — JJMC89 (T·C) 06:37, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 16 September 2017 

message: Can you please create, or remove the :Category:International Standard Series Number templates? Rathfelder (talk) 14:46, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:54, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 12 October 2017 

message: I've added an ISSN to Contemporary Culture Index as , but when I click on it Worldcat shows a failed search for "n2:1944-4621". If I remove the "n2:", all is well and I get to the right page. This seems to be the problem described above. I wonder if someone could please fix it, or point out what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. PamD 09:02, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "n2:" added to Worldcat search, which then fails to find record 

message: As previously discussed (, , ), I think there should be a page analogous to Special:BookSources for ISSNs; perhaps it could be called Special:SerialSources.
Here are some links I think it should include:
* ISSN Portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/{}
* WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:{}
* Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISSN{}
* HathiTrust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor={}&searchtype=isn
Solomon Ucko (talk) 17:11, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems like a good topic for Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). There is nothing we can do on this template talk page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:10, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea, thanks. I've started WP:VPR#Special:SerialSources. Solomon Ucko (talk) 21:53, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Special:SerialSources 

message: None of the examples overleaf work. The response is every time "Oops, something went wrong | WorldCat.org We are unable to connect to this page, please try again" -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:33, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It works here.  Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:25, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Kaputt