Template talk:MacTutor

message: I request that an additional field(s) be added - for the date of the particular biography.  For example, the Yudell Luke biography is dated October 1998 (see version for printing). — ERcheck (talk) 00:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. —Ruud 23:26, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks. — ERcheck (talk) 03:09, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request

message: Does anyone else think it would be better if this template used  instead of ? The MacTutor archive isn't really an encyclopedia, and using  would enable this template to be used with  to provide links from Harvard references. Geometry guy 12:20, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Quiet around here. I will make the change. Geometry guy 19:42, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation? 

message: Would there be anyway of linking up John and Edmund's articles up?--Brittish incompetance (talk) 10:12, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. You're in luck, I actually knew how to do that one without needing to bounce it back and whine for exact syntax.  ;) --Elonka 22:30, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links 

message: In the FAC for Speed of light, I was asked to add a publisher (I suppose it'd be University of St Andrews) and access date (this should be a parameter in the template) for two citations produced by this template. See here. Could you do that? Thanks in advance― A._di_M.2nd Dramaout (formerly Army1987) 20:00, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:32, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publisher and access date? 

message: This template is confusing when it is used for an external link. In that case, it should just produce the link to the article with a little blurbed saying it's at the MacTutor archive. We do not have to link O'Conner and Robertson and, for sure, they should not be linked before the external link itself. Jason Quinn (talk) 23:20, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I also find this distracting/confusing: the whole line is blue, but where is the part I'm supposed to click? CRGreathouse (t | c) 04:45, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Perhaps a format=reference or format=external parameter should be added? —Ruud 21:28, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  That sounds (to me) like a good idea. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 20:20, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

text: This problem still exists. (Geez, I don't even remember of making my original comment. Came here to write the same thing and noticed I had already done it.) At the very least the template documentation should be updated to say that usage in the external links section is discouraged. Jason Quinn (talk) 20:12, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template is confusing when used as external link.

message: The URL for the archive apparently changed from Biographies to HistTopics. I get "The page could not be found. Please check your URL" for the former and the article itself for the latter. The page I want is http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Zero.html using . — Joe Kress (talk) 18:02, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  URL 

message: I tried using this template for: , but couldn't because the url only contains subdirs, nothing ending in an HTML filename.
I'd suggest the easiest fix (it appears, I'm not good with template invoke/etc.) would be to add an _alias-map=url:contribution-url so that people can just give something like: , and not have to parse/faff with the  or  stuff.  — sbb (talk) 15:41, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doesn't work when URL doesn't end in HTML filename