Template talk:Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography

message: Given that there really is an Australian Dictionary of Biography, which is completely different from the Dictionary of Australian Biography, this redirect is extremely problematic. Hesperian 12:27, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I now replaced the redirect with source code of Template:Dictionary of Australian Biography plus a warning sign encouraging a migration to the proper Template:Dictionary of Australian Biography. This should hopefully reduce the use of this template. Then, a similar migration should take place from Template:ADB to here, freeing ADB for a disamb of the three properly named templates. -- Matthead  DisOuß   07:37, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As the first step, the depopulation of wrong use of this template here was successful, I now encourage a move from the abbreviated from ADB to the full Australian Dictionary of Biography. -- Matthead  DisOuß   17:25, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Differentiation

message: The parameter  doesn't seem to work. Here's an axample from the article Douglas MacArthur#General Headquarters:
 which renders as:
:
No wikilink for David Horner is produced. Someone more versed in template matters than me should fix this. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:52, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that, I think it should be fixed now. —3mta3 (talk) 16:57, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Authorlink

message: The ADB's URL no longer includes an ID field in the way in which this template has been set up to look for. While the old links still  work (for now at least), this seems to make the template pretty useless. For instance, I have no idea how to use it to link to the entry on Harry Gullet. Nick-D (talk) 09:52, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Great work - thanks again Nick-D (talk) 10:47, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Not so great work by the ADB – the old links don't seem to work anymore. Now what? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 11:25, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

text: No.  That was my fault.  There was a typo in my fix.  Should be OK now. Tested it, but copied the wrong one :-(.  Billingd (talk) 11:36, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Much better now; thanks. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:06, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  ID field no longer useful? 

message: Would it be possible to add a ref= so it can generate an anchor in the references? Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:48, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anchor 

message: This template has been subject to numerous changes and additions to cope with the demands of CS1-based templates. As the template is merely a repackaging of Template:Cite encyclopedia, the obvious permanent solution is to use the existing mechanism of Module:Template wrapper to make it a proper wrapper template. This way, any additional parameters that may be required in particular circumstances will always be accommodated. I converted this template a few days ago, and my testing didn't show any adverse effects. Today, User:Vortex3427 reverted my change without any edit summary. I would be most interested in his reasoning for that revert. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 09:56, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: For those following this, see Vortex3427's edit of 06:43 [ET], 6 February 2023‎. —DocWatson42 (talk) 05:56, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrapper template