Template talk:Cite ADB

Older posts
For older posts see Template talk:ADB (now disambiguation template). --Kolja21 (talk) 18:04, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Template problem

 * moved from duplicate Template talk:Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

The template works fine in the German wiki, see Johann Lukas Boër, but malfunctions in the English wiki, see Johann Lucas Boër (Wikisource does not have a text with this exact name - follow the links there to get this message). Power.corrupts (talk) 06:21, 11 September 2008 (UTC)


 * In the article Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren, I had to add 20 to the page number to get to the correct link, i.e. band 9 page 638 was pointing to page 618 and band 9 page 658 was pointing to page 638, which is where Gren's biography actually is. Coyets (talk) 22:06, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Well, I have not mirrored the German template recently, so maybe something was or is wrong. Anyway, direct links to the scans are not needed anymore, as by now German Wikisource has all 26000 articles online (many still non-spellchecked OCR, though), so its much better to link to the German Wikisource text by adding the optional "|ADB:Gren, Friedrich Albert Carl". From there, the scans are linked, too. -- Matthead Discuß   22:36, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Subject name in italics

 * moved from duplicate Template talk:Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

Should the 4th parameter, the subject's name, really be emitted in italics by the template? Wouldn't enclosing it with quote signs be more in keeping with Wikipedia's MoS? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 04:59, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Bullet point and template:Cite ADB

 * moved from duplicate Template talk:Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

There were two near identical versions of this template this one and Cite ADB. The only difference appears to have been that this one places a bullet point at the start.

I have rewritten this template to call Cite ADB. This automatically near halves the maintenance time.

I have rewritten Cite ADB to convert the named parameters into named ones and then called the standard template Citation. This has three major advantages. -- PBS (talk) 14:24, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The display of the ordering of the parameters now matches what appears in Citation
 * This template will now work with the harv templates which allows the output of this template to be placed in the "References section" and directly linked to from short inline citations.
 * Separating out the parameters from one large block of code and attaching them to named parameters makes the template easier to maintain.

Cleanup needed
Imho we should turn the duplicate template Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie into a redirect.

We need only two templates:


 * 1) Cite ADB (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, 1875–1912); instead of ADB because of the AuDB (1957– )
 * 2) NDB (Neue Deutsche Biographie, 1953– ) with redirect Cite NDB

Existing redirects:
 * 1) De-ADB
 * 2) Cite Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

Unused and sandbox templates:
 * 1) Cite ADB/sandbox
 * 2) Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie/sandbox
 * 3) Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie poster
 * 4) Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie poster/sandbox

--Kolja21 (talk) 11:54, 13 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Duplicate No. 4: Cite-ADB (used with de-ADB in the same article). --Kolja21 (talk) 04:39, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ redirect created. Outdated and/or duplicate sandboxes, testcases, doc and talk pages deleted. --Kolja21 (talk) 18:27, 16 May 2015 (UTC)