Template talk:USBill

message: Is it possible to add support for house reports and senate reports?  Cburnett (talk) 06:32, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's 12 years later, but this would still be a nice addition. Alternatively, you could make a separate template, but I think it makes sense to include support in this template. \langle Forbes72 | Talk \rangle 17:59, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

text: I went ahead and implemented this. I'm not an experienced template editor, but it seems to pass all the test cases. \langle Forbes72 | Talk \rangle 19:02, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: . You're experienced now!   —GoldRingChip 21:32, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: House and Senate reports

message: I've updated the template to reflect the new URL standard implemented by THOMAS, which provides permanent URLs. More information on the new URLs is available from THOMAS.
The new changes should properly format bills and resolutions in articles, e.g. S. X and H.R. X, and will avoid the complexity and risk of broken links caused by the old THOMAS syntax. I have tried to anticipate the older variables used by editors so that any current article that uses  should continue to work. If you find any broken links, please update the article as appropriate. Thanks.DCmacnut<> 19:35, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New THOMAS URL syntax

message: The links are not working. I don't know if it's due to an error with THOMAS itself, whether THOMAS has changed the way things link, or an error with this template.  I'm not good at the workings of templates, so I'll ask others to kindly check it out. ~PescoSo say•we all 17:10, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It must have been THOMAS.  Links are working now, and I see that no changes were made to the template.  I had noticed the problem on a number of pages that used this template.  Thanks for checking.  ~PescoSo say•we all 19:03, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: THOMAS not working

message: As of this posting, hdl.loc.gov is giving a "Handle System Error" for each example (and others). The error at the bottom is:
I'm hopeful that the errors will be fixed by morning. --Goldfndr (talk) 02:10, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: hdl.loc.gov not working

message: Help!  This template seems to be broken for the 112th Congress.  Can anyone figure out why?  Can anyone fix it?  Samples: ,  —Markles  16:00, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The Template works just fine, as do the links above. This is the opening week, and THOMAS does not have its database fully populated with the resolutions that were adopted yesterday. As THOMAS is updated, the links should work.DCmacnut<> 21:32, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  They didn't work when I posted my whine.  Really.  Maybe  I jumped the gun.  The bills were on Thomas (That I'd checked), but the links that  uses didn't work.—Markles  22:17, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Broken for the 112th Congress

message: It appears this template is broken in different ways. There is at least an extra leading space when a link is not present (it is not a recent bill.) Looking at the changelog there appear to possibly be other problems. The last changeset by Morphh and GoldRingChip after mine only appeared to revert my edit, and reintroduce the leading space. This causes, as can be seen in the template, the "boxed" preserved formatting style for that entire line. This will be in every article that starts a line with this template. Int21h (talk) 06:43, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry if I didn't reply! (This was not on my watchlist.) I'm sure it does. Int21h (talk) 03:10, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken 

message: THOMAS will redirect to Congress.gov in November 2013. I think our links will still work, but maybe we should think about changing to Congress.gov. Int21h (talk) 03:08, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Also see the Linking to Congress.gov webpage. Int21h (talk) 21:22, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  THOMAS will redirect to Congress.gov in November 

message: I propose we use Congress.gov instead of THOMAS, which is being transitioned and deprecated. I have updated  and the testcases. As an aside, we should probably check for required parameters and display a  usage message when they're missing. Int21h (talk) 09:13, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: sorta Int21h (talk) 02:32, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to use Congress.gov 

message: I updated this to use a citation template, since it's frequently used as a citation.  feel free to change the particular citation template or how the parameters are mapped.  I used , but there are others. Frietjes (talk) 15:02, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation template 

message: I see some issues with the template - mostly that it inserts several extra spaces afterwards. Also, if there are spaces between entries and separators, it can cause the template to behave oddly.--Larrybob (talk) 22:41, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extra spaces after use of template 

message: I wonder if there is a template for bills in state legislatures? I tried to use this one but it of course doesn't work. ImTheIP (talk) 19:59, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bills in state legislatures 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: no consensus. (non-admin closure) Vpab15 (talk) 16:23, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Template:USBill →  – Move will add spacing, fix capitalization, and use the more common punctuation format.  talk 23:20, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

text: This is a contested technical request (permalink).  talk 23:21, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 21 March 2021 

message: has associated page, but no link:
* https://www.congress.gov/bill/89th-congress/house-bill/8030
also, for:

which points to:
* https://uslaw.link/citation/stat/80/92
and mentions:
* https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/89/hr8030
should also point to:
* https://www.congress.gov/bill/89th-congress/house-bill/8030
: .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 16:38, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  <nowiki>{{USBill|89|HR|8030|which=89}}</nowiki> 

message: I propose that this template be modified to allow nominations as a new type, given that they seem to follow a similar URL structure. For example, I would like this template to be modified to replace citations like this:
* 
with something like this:
* 
I'm not sure where the bill type shortcodes originated, so I don't know if "pn" is appropriate or some other shortcode. I am furthermore unsure of the scope of the URL fragment "https://www.congress.gov/nomination/", but we should probably ensure that our bill types match, or are strict subsets of, the congress.gov URL scheme. Daask (talk) 20:03, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nominations