Template talk:Cite WoRMS

2011
Thank you for creating this template! I will start using it beginning today. bondolo (talk) 17:29, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

AlgaeBase
The template did say ask. :P So I'm requesting AlgaeBase to be included. Thanks!-- O BSIDIAN  †  S OUL  14:34, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

CS1-style parameters
If the authors are to be included (and looking at some current entries on WoRMS I'm not actually sure they ought to be—most seem to just cite "WoRMS" as the "author") should we not be using and  properly, so as to generate proper COinS data? —Phil | Talk 10:58, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Usage
What does this statement mean? To use as an external link, omit the accessdate= field. KaiKemmann (talk) 01:57, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * leaving out accessdate makes the template generate an acceptable #External links entry. The only difference is that it doesn't display the access date, which isn't necessary for an external link as no information is being cited.
 * And without:
 * I'm not really sure the authors/editors are necessary though for an external link… I prefer to write it as "Teleostei at the World Register of Marine Species" or something similar. Rhinopias (talk) 21:07, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your examples, Rhinopias.
 * Although now I have to ask what you mean by "generate an acceptable #External links entry".
 * In your examples "Teleostei" is obviously displayed as an external link by the template. But to me this links appears exactly the same way in all three of your examples.
 * Also the "accessdate=" seems to make sense mostly only when used together with an external link.
 * Since printed sources do not change over time as references on the web often do, they should not really need to be accompanied by the accessdate statement.
 * best regards, KaiKemmann (talk) 00:38, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * My use and the template doc's use of "external link" is referring to the section for external links in articles—WP:ELCITE—and not saying that the link to the WoRMS page being cited is an external link. (It is, of course, but this: Fish.) Rhinopias (talk) 22:09, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks for clarifying.
 * I changed the description of the template in order to help others understand the context.
 * best regards, KaiKemmann (talk) 23:57, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I changed the description of the template in order to help others understand the context.
 * best regards, KaiKemmann (talk) 23:57, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

sandbox
Because someone wrote this template:

which improperly includes an explicit 'et al.' in author, I removed the explicit 'et al.' and added etal. That did not work. I came to this template to see how that should be fixed. The simple solution would have been to just add:

Instead, in the sandbox I rewrote the template to use Module:template wrapper so that any and all parameters may be used with. As part of that, I removed the case-sensitive switch test-values from the work and veditors parameters by forcing the switches to use lowercase versions of the value assigned to db.

Compare these live and sandbox versions of the rewritten example template above to which I have added etal, 0, and Porifera:

If there are no objections, I shall update the live template to use the code in the sandbox.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 12:03, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

There having been no objection, the live template is updated.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:39, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I played around with the sandbox a bit, but I don't know of an elegant way to fix the 100 or so templates that are using author1. The brute force method would be to edit all of those templates to change author1= to author=, and that is probably the best thing to do, but if has a cleverer way, I'm open to it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 10:58, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Does this do what you want?
 * There is also an issue with (there may be others) where that template uses editor but  sets veditors according to db.  This can be 'fixed' by adding 'editor' to _exclude though perhaps the better fix is to fix  so that it doesn't use editor.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 11:48, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that new code appears to work fine. As for the editors, the template sets the editor based on db, so I removed the redundant editor parameter from a few dozen Taxonomy template. All cleaned up now, as far as I can tell. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:54, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that new code appears to work fine. As for the editors, the template sets the editor based on db, so I removed the redundant editor parameter from a few dozen Taxonomy template. All cleaned up now, as far as I can tell. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:54, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

did not updated correctly for multiple authors on Iais pubescens
see reference 1 on Iais pubescens, it contains more than one author. instead of creating multiple authors, it created single entry, resulting in cs1 error. ideally i would prefer seperate entry for authors, editors, contributors, etc.. Leela52452 (talk) 03:39, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
 * For more than one author, use author2, author3, etc. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:01, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 15 May 2022
Please use SSL (i.e. change http:// to https://). Using HTTP automatically redirects to HTTPS, so we should bypass the redirect and keep the outbound traffic secure. Logan Talk Contributions 21:56, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:04, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Add DecaNet to the list of databases
Per the title, can DecaNet: World List of Decapoda be added to the database list? Thank you, &mdash;Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 12:49, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

db add request
Please add Ascothoracida as a db value for World Ascothoracida database. Thanks! - UtherSRG (talk) 18:19, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The template also provides editor information automatically. Can you please link to a sample page so that I can add editor information? – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:29, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Dendrogaster antarctica is the article where I wrapped a ref in cite WoRMS. Good enough? - UtherSRG (talk) 18:32, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I should have pinged you when I replied. - UtherSRG (talk) 21:02, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I think I've got it set up. Does it look right to you in that article? – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:35, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Perfect! Thanks! - UtherSRG (talk) 00:47, 26 October 2023 (UTC)