Template talk:OCLC

message: I have found that you must not put any spaces after the pipe symbol, or it doesn't work. (It duplicates the number, and doesn't create a link). If I knew more about templates, perhaps I could diagnose this. 
The following works correctly:  giving 
while the following fails:  giving 
EdJohnston 02:43, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's because of how external links are sensitive to spaces.  Let me see if I can hackaround to fix it. JesseW, the juggling janitor 09:33, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, that seems to fix it!  As you see, the example that I typed in above doesn't fail any more. EdJohnston 21:08, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Don't put any spaces after pipe symbol

message: I've inserted this template into  to add an explicit oclc=... field instead of id=, but, because of Bugzilla: 8446: Don't show conditionally included links on Whatlinkshere unless they're actually included, the What links here for Template:OCLC is useless.  So I'm going to substitute it.  
If you update this template, please also update  in the same way. — Omegatron 15:26, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cite book 

message: — Omegatron 00:45, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I wonder if Wikipedia should apply for its own ISSN. OCLC thinks we are published in Cambridge, MA but they are not sure. EdJohnston 03:59, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Woot!.  OCLC tells me that if ever wikipedia goes down, I can trust that I go down to either University of Queensland or University of South Australia to find a copy.  Both are a decent drive away, but at least Australia has two copies of this wonderful resource. John Vandenberg 04:45, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Apparently, "The Encyclopedia is the most popular biographical on the Network". — Omegatron 03:22, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Note that it thinks that the University of Queensland is in Canberra. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:03, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heh 

message: What do you think of improving the model as it is on the French Wikipedia (see :fr:Modèle:OCLC) ?
It allows the OCLC ref to look like that:
*Morón Villarreal, Jesus ; Gutiérrez and Magee, Tex-Mex heroes ; Houston, Tex. : J. Morón Villarreal, 1995. ()
rather than:
*Morón Villarreal, Jesus ; Gutiérrez and Magee, Tex-Mex heroes ; Houston, Tex. : J. Morón Villarreal, 1995.  
SalomonCeb (talk) 08:36, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template improvement (esthetical) 

message: Instead of transcluding the documentation page on to the template page using , please use  instead as this looks tidier, indicates to editors how they may edit the documentation, and is becoming the norm in Wikipedia. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 20:19, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you give examples of any other templates where this change has already been made?  I tried to test your proposed change but realized I didn't understand it well enough to know whether it was working right.  This template is transcluded between 500 and 1000 times, and I didn't want to make a mistake. EdJohnston (talk) 21:15, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I also added  Happy‑melon 21:29, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of {{tl|Documentation}} template 

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) 01:08, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: . — Huntster (t • @ • c) 01:56, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WorldCat URL format change 

message: Simply copy-paste this. (I've tested the code in my sandboxes and it works just fine)




This will cleanup the print version of articles (see explanation). Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 02:05, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: , but gods do I hate comment markup. — Huntster (t @ c) 05:39, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent. Thanks a bunch. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 08:36, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tweak for print 

message: Can we switch the URL for Worldcat from http://www.worldcat.org to //www.worldcat.org?
Chmarkine (talk) 02:36, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Please also update Template:ISSN search link, Template:ISSN. Thanks! Chmarkine (talk) 03:03, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Why? I was under the strong impression that protocol relative URLs were A Bad Thing™. Why should they be used here? — Huntster (t @ c) 04:10, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your reply! Because if users browse Wikipedia in HTTPS, by using protocol relative URLs, they will stay in HTTPS mode when they click external links. So this is beneficial for those who really care about security. So in my opinion, as long as a website supports both HTTP and HTTPS (in this case https://www.worldcat.org works fine), then we should use protocol relative URL. Why do you think it's a bad thing? Chmarkine (talk) 05:13, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've deactivated the request for now. This request isn't uncontroversial, so it will need a consensus before admins are authorised to enact it. If you find a consensus after further discussion, feel free to reactivate the request. If you don't get very much input to a discussion here, you can always try asking at WP:VPT. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 10:28, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps my question was a bit more terse than intended. I'd simply read somewhere(s) that PRUs should be discouraged and wondered what the benefit was here, and Chmarkine's explanation makes sense. Thanks for that. — Huntster (t @ c) 11:46, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

text: Done. Ok, I have carried out the request. Let me know if you spot any issues with the code. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 22:01, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, Mr. Stradivarius! Chmarkine (talk) 01:12, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  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} 17:07, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  RFCs on citations templates and the flagging free-to-read sources 

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) 04:13, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Done — JJMC89 (T·C) 06:33, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 16 September 2017 

message: creates  which goes to https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/%E2%80%8E894 (a 404), but https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/894 is a valid link. —howcheng  {chat} 17:29, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't reproduce the error. Biogeographist (talk) 22:21, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Odd, it seems to work now. Maybe there was a bug in a Lua script this was dependent on which got fixed. —howcheng  {chat} 17:17, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error with short OCLC numbers