Template talk:Cite Q

Please make setting of display-authors and display-editors optional to avoid "Category:CS1 maint: overridden setting"
Please make setting of display-authors and display-editors optional to avoid "Category:CS1 maint: overridden setting", as there is currently no way to set it. Please make it via an argument and by looking go the "cs1 config" template, if specified in the article, on whether it contains display-authors or display-editors already set for the whole article, in this case, the Cite Q should not generate these attributes.

As seeing in some pages that use "Cite Q", such as Civilization, the "display-authors" are set in the "cs1 config" header, there is no need to overwrite the display-authors in particular templates, for consistency. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 21:38, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Ummm, what? In Civilization we have:
 * and:
 * This is where the overridden setting comes from; nothing to do with display-authors. To fix Civilization delete cs1 from the  template.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 21:58, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your explanation. I removed "|mode=cs1" from "cite Q" and it worked. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 00:22, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 21:58, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your explanation. I removed "|mode=cs1" from "cite Q" and it worked. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 00:22, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Reminder for title-trans
Just a reminder that as asked on 30 Jan 2022 and I asked on 23 July 2023, it would be nice to be able to use something like  so that an article such as d:Q24293504 or d:Q125941907 automatically shows up with the |trans-title= parameter in the en.Wikipedia including the English translation of the title if that is available with P2441, or the equivalent template in ja.Wikipedia shows the Japanese translation in addition to the English original if P2441 is used there (currently Q24293504 using the preferred ranking vs the normal ranking). A temporary workaround is to add |trans-title=Whatever the Translation is as an override in. Boud (talk) 22:23, 15 May 2024 (UTC) (use WDP Boud (talk) 17:43, 1 June 2024 (UTC))
 * I guess for the moment we'll have to stick with the workaround |trans-title=Whatever the Translation is as an override in ... Boud (talk) 14:15, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

How do I fix two errors?
Greetings and felicitations. In the article "Egyptian Arabic" two references are generating errors due to the use of this template: Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred (2018); and Borg, Gert (2007). Both have the error ": |journal= ignored". How do I fix this? —DocWatson42 (talk) 13:15, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Convert to regular refs instead of this template? Fram (talk) 13:46, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I could—I was just hoping to fix the root of the problem. :-/ —DocWatson42 (talk) 14:13, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * The root of the problem is that this template started out as an interesting idea but has turned out to have many flaws and nobody willing to write code to fix or work around those flaws. Sometimes you need to use a better-maintained template, like cite book. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:04, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay. The vast majority of the references in that section use this template, so I was just going to use it. —DocWatson42 (talk) 15:07, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Best to convert at least Watson, Janet C. E. as well, as the link to the book is, as far as I can tell, a copyright violation link (I see no reason to believe that the uploader has the right to distribute the book like that in any case). Converting all of them would be even better, but might take some time... Fram (talk) 15:33, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * "Converting all of them would be even better, but might take some time..." It did.  How does it look now? —DocWatson42 (talk) 07:11, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Nice work! I removed the remaining Wikidata links, as they didn't add anything, some didn't work anyway, and it is more consistent now. Fram (talk) 08:44, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you. ^_^ I was uncertain about discarding the Wikidata links. Please verify the rest of my work to make certain I didn't make any mistakes. —DocWatson42 (talk) 09:44, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
 * That's just your opinion. Cite Q is immensely useful for many reasons. Just because it doesn't do everything doesn't mean we should abandon it. — Jon (talk) 21:19, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't think I wrote any opinions above, except the part about it being an interesting idea. Nor did I say it should be abandoned. I said that sometimes it is an invalid tool for the job, as is true for the citation described above, and other templates need to be used instead. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:58, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I looked at Behnstedt and Woidich (didn't bother with the other one).  doesn't support citing a chapter qid; see .  You might cite the book qid and then add chapter, chapter-url, and doi parameters or whatever to get what you want.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 14:20, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

work with template:sfn?

 * duplicate (closed) discussion at
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 00:10, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello: Could someone please modify either template:cite Q or template:sfn so they work properly together by default?

See recent edits to Gwendolyn Grant (activist) for examples of the problem.

Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 21:54, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * This is a perennial topic. Please peruse the archives for more information. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:30, 5 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply. I've fixed so all the links now work. However, I'm getting "  : |author= has generic name (help)" from:
 * I believe if I assigned "CNN Newsource" to the right property, this notice would disappear. However, I've so far been unable to find the right property to which to assign it.
 * Suggestions? Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 23:32, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Suggestions? Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 23:32, 5 July 2024 (UTC)


 * User:ActivelyDisinterested said, "CNN News Source is not a valid author name ... . The correct field in this case would be |agency= but [that is not] supported by Wikidata / Cite Q." I've experimented with assigning "CNN Newsource" to different properties, so far without finding one that makes this complaint disappear.
 * This is a moderately common occurrence, where a news agency disseminates a story without giving a byline, and a news outlet publishes it. In that case, it seems sensible to specify the news agency as the "author" for the purposes of AND keep both the news agency and the outlet in Wikidata in some way.
 * Suggestions?
 * Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 23:47, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * The error is triggered by .  CNN is not the author (just as Reuters, Associated Press, etc. are not authors). These entities are agencies so agency is the correct  parameter.  There is a work around if you really, truly, absolutely  use author in : ((CNN News Source)).  It would be better to cite the source correctly and avoid such work arounds by expanding the  template (yes) and replacing the  with a corrected form of the expansion.  All of these fiddly bits to fix this and fix that and the attendant wasted time in conversation are just not worth the effort.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 00:02, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
 * If a news agency has disseminated a news story without a byline the are the 'agency' not the 'author'. Rather than misusing the author field you can setup the ref field in the cite using sfnref. -- LCU A ctively D isinterested  «@» °∆t° 09:10, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Please see also query at d:Wikidata:Project chat Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:05, 11 July 2024 (UTC)