Template talk:UN document

message: There is a new - more official - way to access UN documents, using DocBox. The URL for DocBox is: http://doc.un.org/DocBox/docbox.nsf/GetAll?OpenAgent&DS=<symbol> , for example: DocBox for A/64/L.44/Rev.1
The advantage of DocBox is that it shows both PDF and MSWord/Original format for all 6 languages at once rather than just for English pages. It is also, obviously, up to date, since it connects to the original document repository.
The disadvantage of DocBox as compared to undemocracy is that it does not allow to display specific page within a document or highlight a specific area on the page. It is also not validating symbols, so putting a wrong symbol in will just return a page of dead links. 
I don't know whether/how DocBox should be coded into the template.
--/Alex/ (talk) 02:35, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This site doesn't seem to be functional anymore, either.—D'Ranged 1 VTalk 14:53, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: New way to access UN documents 

message: Entering "General Assembly" in the body field generates a link to General Assembly, which is a redirect to a disambiguation page.  Entering "Security Council" generates a link to Security Council, which is a redirect.  Can we fix it so that entering "GA" renders United Nations General Assembly, and entering "SC" renders United Nations Security Council?  Cheers, Sideshow Bob Roberts 05:11, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Links

message: As of 20th November 2007 the external site (undemocracy.com) that supported this template seems to be broken ("on strike"), see here. What shall we do? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  23:40, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Broken?

message: When Georgia is added to the speakernation field in this template, it generates a link to Georgia, which is a disambiguation page. It should generate a link to Georgia (country). Thank you. DuncanHill (talk) 09:33, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.--Patrick (talk) 10:48, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. DuncanHill (talk) 10:50, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is an interesting issue I'm going to need to deal with in the system which generates these links when I get the time.  Possibly it should be done by removing the automatic double brackets around that field.Goatchurch (talk) 15:23, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Georgia is the only country for which the  country name is   a disambiguation page, so it seemed easiest to treat it separately in the template.--Patrick (talk) 22:45, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links - country 

message: 
Please add an interwiki link to the Vietnamese version of this template:
 vi:Tiêu bản:Chú thích tài liệu LHQ
Thanks.
 – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 21:21, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: SkierRMH (talk) 00:30, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki link to Vietnamese Wikipedia 

message: There should be no bold print in this template. Thanks. Str1977 (talk) 13:23, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bold

message: I want to link to A/RES/S-23/3 in Feminization of poverty, but the template doesn't seem able to handle session numbers with a dash in them.  —Chris Capoccia  T⁄C 11:52, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can't link to Special Sessions 

message: Does anyone know the status of undemocracy.com? Seems like it's not updated anymore. – Danmichaelo (talk) 11:05, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It's dead, Jim.—D'Ranged 1 VTalk 14:44, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status of undemocracy.com 

message: I've put a notice on the documentation page not to use the template for now and posted at one of the template editors talk pages to see if it can be fixed. undemocracy.org is dead; the template now links to completely blank pages.—D'Ranged 1 VTalk 14:55, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template non-functional in its current form 

message: graciously updated the template and it's fully functional again, linking directly to the documents at the United Nations website. He managed to edit the code so that currently transcluded versions of the template now point to the right place. Many thanks!—D'Ranged 1 VTalk 21:49, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  It's fixed! 

message: Currently this template does not recognize the quote= parameter, so no piece of text can be quoted when using this template. Could somebody kindly update the template? Thank you.(talk) user:Al83tito  4:04, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: user:Al83tito, added. Frietjes (talk) 14:42, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request: Introduce the quote parameter 

message: It would be helpful to have  to augment or override the link generated by the template using . For example the following citation links to a PDF containing page images without accessible text:
: 
However, an accessible HTML version of this resolution is also available on the UN website. The behavior might be similar to that of  when it is used with both  and . —Shelley V. Adams ‹blamecredit› 18:23, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  URL parameter 

message: I think this line is causing problems:
:V = 'Verbatim report |
The superfluous quote messes up the formatting. The result can be seen here. Uglemat (talk) 17:53, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:50, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 16 January 2018 

message: Currently the links produced with this template lead to missing pages (e.g., http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/520/Rev.18), perhaps they should link undocs.org instead (e.g., https://undocs.org/Home/Mobile?FinalSymbol=A%2F520%2Frev.18, or some other way to search those). Defanor (talk) 15:37, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I echo the same happening to me today. Thank you. Al83tito (talk) 19:28, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Still broken today.  Will replace usage of it with "cite web", which works. Perhaps kludging a |url= parameter into this template would at least let articles continue using this otherwise-unmaintained template while still making the documents accessible.  Gnuish (talk) 18:34, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This template should never have been TE-protected anyway, since it's used in less than 1000 pages.  is an appropriate CS1 wrapper (although I should change it to fit the correct metadata) that you can use as an alternative to  [edit: or  may be better]. SamuelRiv (talk) 19:05, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken links