Template talk:Cite DAB

the unnamed parameter depreciated
I have remove the unnamed parameter as an option in line with how Lua Module:Citation/CS1 expects parameters to be used. Before I did so, I went through all pages that incorporated this template and changed all the instances of an unamed parameter to a named parameter called "title=". -- PBS (talk) 15:52, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
 * When you removed the unnamed parameter you added the line  to the template with the comment "pass on for error handling".  I've just removed it again, since it was causing the CS1 module to emit "empty unknown parameter" errors.  I am rather conscious, though, that I don't really know what I'm doing!  Is there any reason why this line should be retained, or anything that it should be replaced with?  Thanks, Wham2001 (talk) 20:09, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * @User:Wham2001 please demonstrate what you mean. I have created a copy of the template with the line you deleted in the sandbox: and it does not seem to show any such problem:
 * No unnamed parameter
 * with an unnamed parameter
 * without the parameter's inclusion as with the current version unnamed parameters are just swallowed silently:
 * -- PBS (talk) 18:24, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * without the parameter's inclusion as with the current version unnamed parameters are just swallowed silently:
 * -- PBS (talk) 18:24, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * -- PBS (talk) 18:24, 25 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Display of these error messages is suppressed by default, which is why you can't see the message being generated by the sandbox (it appears for me - the two sandbox examples generate the Cite has empty unknown parameter and Text "UnnamedParameter" ignored errors whereas the example calling Cite DAB does not generate an error message). I had forgotten this wrinkle which is why I neglected to mention it; sorry about that.  I don't know why some of the CS1/2 error messages are suppressed by default; possibly because there are currently very many pages that generate them.  The message in question is described at Help:CS1_errors and there are instructions about how to enable its display at Help:CS1 errors.  Best, Wham2001 (talk) 10:23, 26 November 2020 (UTC)