Template talk:USStat

message: I added Google Books links for 19-21; there are probably more available there. I know that 18 is strange with several volumes (is there a standard way to disambiguate?), but is there a reason 17 doesn't link to the LOC scans? --NE2 19:57, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Books 

message: Fwiw... scans of United States Statutes at Large volumes 1 thru 45, 65 thru 121 have been uploaded to Commons and made available via Wikisource for template/interlink use as needed. Indexing and Page: creation is currently in progress and nearly complete.
Direct links to all the volumes currently hosted over on Wikisource can be found in the table that follows...
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George Orwell III (talk) 20:08, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  USSaL Volumes available on WikiSource 

message: When attempting to cite to the Patent and Trademark Office Efficiency Act, 113 Stat. 1501A-572 (which is referring to page 572 of the set of appendices to 113 Stat. 1501, inserted after page 1537), the template chokes on the 'A':
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resolves to:
:113 Stat. 
Any workarounds? What I did was to use Special:ExpandTemplates to generate the subst'd code without the offending character, which I then edited and copied into the article. (Actually, I was using , but it invoked , which did the actual choking). TJRC (talk) 00:36, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken code when page number includes alpha character 

message: Because there doesn't seem to have been any action on the linking issues above, I boldly changed the template to link to the GPO FDsys for volumes 65 and higher. (I did look at Wikisource, but there doesn't seem to be any way currently to translate page and volume to the correct Wikisource page name). It may not satisfy the people that want searchable/accessible/whatever, but for the vast majority of users who just want to read the text of the law from the cite link, it does the job. If the Google books version of the couple of volumes in that range is really superior, we could add a couple more switches to handle going there instead, but it seemed unnecessary at this point. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 09:02, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Boldness is acceptable, as long as it improves matters! ;) Wikisource Statutes at Large indexes (PDF page<->Stat. page mappings) still need to be completed. After they are, I think we can use those offsets for linking. I also note that many if not most Wikisource pages have not been correctly OCR'd and thus are not searchable (or machine-readable), so Google Books may be a better alternative unless someone can rip that Google OCR text somehow. (Hint hint hackers out there!) Int21h (talk) 11:40, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to GPO FDsys 

message: I propose we use LegisWorks.org. LegisWorks.org can be used used for all USSAL, not just the current smorgasbord of links. LegisWorks.org appears to use Government Printing Office works as appropriate, and I note that many, if not all, of the Google Books links are not available in all states outside the United States, e.g., Germany, whereas LegisWorks.org is not limited so. I also think we should plan on eventually incorporating all this material into the Wikisource effort and linking there.  and  have been updated. Int21h (talk) 21:26, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Int21h (talk) 02:20, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  URL replacement proposal 

message: Doesn't this perpetuate inline external links which are supposed to be avoided as mentioned on Wikipedia:External links? Would it be better to have the template create a ref or similar? --Slivicon (talk) 15:59, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avoiding inline external links 

message: The LegisLink site is broken for the appendix volumes (68A, 70A, 76A, or 77A), so I modified this template to link to the GPO directly for them.
While I was at it, I added the ability to get the entire volume by specifying only the volume (1st) parm. I wasn't clear on what notation to use, so in the case of the appendix volumes, I used e.g. "", which is the page number used in the GPO link. For the rest, I used e.g. "". Please fix or yell if there's a better notation, or if there are any other issues. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 01:15, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your work on this. These are very useful templates. Will  automatically pick up this edit as well? TJRC (talk) 02:14, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appendix volumes 

message: goes to:
* https://uslaw.link/citation/stat/80/92
and mentions:
* https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/89/hr8030
it needs to also point to:
* https://www.congress.gov/bill/89th-congress/house-bill/8030
also, is there a template for congress bills ?
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: ....  0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 04:48, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  <nowiki>{{usstat|80|92}}</nowiki> 

message: The resolver used by the template, namely Legislink , has not been working for the last few weeks. Based on the archive.org captures, its been down since at least Jan 17th . The problem has been noted on the GitHub page , but no response/fix yet. If the site doesn't come back up, we should consider pointing somewhere else, as the template is currently sending readers to a 502 error. 〈 Forbes72 | Talk 〉 03:02, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, see main discussion at Template talk:USPL. 〈 Forbes72 | Talk 〉 03:34, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: LegisLink is down