Template talk:Discogs artist

message: In the spirit of similar templates ( and ), I think that the display should read:
* The Postal Service at Discogs
This eliminates the .com at the end.  I think it works better with the other templates and looks better.  – Heaven's Wrath   Talk  22:36, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *And the name parameter - if what is now the artist string equals the name string, then it shouldn't be necessary to type both - Chsf 09:50, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done, added support for both numbered parameters to both the template and its documentation, maintaining support for the existing parameter names and not requiring the name string.   — Jeff G.  ツ 16:49, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[Discogs]].com" -> "[[Discogs]]" 

message: Is the template of Discogs necessary? Discogs.com shouldn't necessarily be an external link (excluding the casual exception). The site adds no new information to articles. In biographies, external links to discographies should not be included, as musicians tend to have discography sections or articles all their own. Also, Discogs.com isn't necessarily a reliable source, as it's based on users submitting information, much like Wikipedia and IMDb. Considering these two factors, it's rare that Discogs.com should be linked, therefore, the existence of this template isn't justified. I looked over a few articles that use this template and those articles are tragically suffering from excessive external links, so they shouldn't necessarily be there either. Thoughts? — Σxplicit 23:16, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this template necessary? 

message: Could you simplify this template

to

- with the +'s automatically hidden?
- and the name section only to add as the  need  arises?
(E-Kartoffel (talk) 11:02, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, added support for both numbered parameters to both the template and its documentation, maintaining support for the existing parameter names.    — Jeff G.  ツ 16:46, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  simplified version? 

message: By entering  this creates:
Please could someone change this so that it produces  (so that it is not necessary to enter artist=)? Mhiji (talk) 15:28, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, added support for both numbered parameters to both the template and its documentation, maintaining support for the existing parameter names.    — Jeff G.  ツ 16:45, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 

message: Could you please change to display as: 
* Discogs artist discography at Discogs
This is much clearer text describing what is on the page being linked to (a "discography"), and furthermore is what many users are using when manually adding links not using this template, as it is what they understand the link description logically should say. Jimthing (talk) 05:32, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Now makes more sense as link info. Jimthing (talk) 22:16, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  More precise please 

message: I updated this template to behave more closely to . In particular, we no longer need to (or should) use plus signs "+" in the artist name. Very often, we can now just use the "no-parameter" version of the template and for simple page names, it will work OK.
I had add a hack the template and conver up to two plus signs out of the string so that the urlencode will work OK. If there are more than that, the link is broken until we update it. If the actual name has a plus sign in it, then those links will be broken until fix update all 1400 uses and can remove the plus-sign-to-spaces hack. If you simply have a fix a page and it is one of these odd cases, then stop using the template and provide a direct link for now. If the "artist" string has any URL encoding (of the form percent-hexnumber-hexnumber), then it will be broken until we fix it.--Lashuto (talk) 21:56, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Have replaced back the word 'discography' for obvious reasons as per my original explanation above (as that is what it links to!) for artist and label Discogs templates. I respect your other changes though may make adding them easier. Jimthing (talk) 10:26, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry about that. Bad judgement on my part.--Lashuto (talk) 11:25, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  No plus signs needed anymore 

message: There are problems. Qbli2mHd (talk) 00:03, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apostrophe 

message: Please rewrite the instructions, they are dreadfully confusing. Is the whole point that the pluses should be replaced with spaces? trespassers william (talk) 18:47, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  instructions 

message: Wikidata now has Property:P1953 for Discog artist IDs (note that it uses numerical IDs, not band names). This template should now be made to call them from there, and the data should be transferred across by a bot. It may be better to merge this template into . Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:06, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't know much about this process personally, so has this been done? Sounds pretty logical, thought "labels", "master releases", and "releases" need the same. Jimthing (talk) 20:02, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikidata  

message: On Collide (band) I tried  expecting the same effect as for  (cf. diff): The 10661 can be derived from the WikiData item. 
I'm not sure why that failed, Collide vs. Collide (band) could derail a lookup on Discogs, but the "Discogs artist ID is 10661" statement on d:Q164537 already goes to the relevant Discogs record. Whatever is wrong, I'm not tempted to look into any Scribunto here. –84.46.53.129 (talk) 19:55, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikidata fail 

message: It would be good to add an option to disable linking of the Discogs article, per MOS:DL. —Hugh (talk) 00:23, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  discogslink=no 

message: In the source code, please remove the space before {{EditAtWikidata, as this causes a double space to be indicated in transclusions (before the pencil symbol) when using the browser text search (at least in Firefox). Hildeoc (talk) 08:43, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Same on Safari/Chrome. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 11:30, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 26 August 2020