Template talk:Cite act

change apparently breaks a lot of articles
This edit, with the inscrutable edit summary: correction with a lot of duplicated code that does what was done before (mediawiki flag), by Editor SamuelRiv appears to have broken a bunch of articles. which see. Editor SamuelRiv should either fix the template or fix the articles in the category.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:34, 25 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm doing the AWB run in a minute. The title-wikilink url-link conflict is a CS1 thing that I didn't want to squeeze in compatibility for (but maybe I should if CitationBot doesn't have a script for it). The edit that changed it was my complete overhaul of the template, not the after-edit reversion and tweak that I did because of a mw error flag (for which I submitted a phabricator request).
 * While I'm sure many would like to see CS1 allow simultaneous use of title-link and url to be supported, I believe the requests have been shot down before. The only reason it worked in this template is because this template previously improperly overloaded the title= field (among others) which gives improper metadata. SamuelRiv (talk) 01:20, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Running AWB after sanitizing in the code, almost all errors seem to have come from an identically-formatted citation to the same section of Terrorism Act 2000. The citation put a wikilink inside the title field, and because the original code of redefined   and   separate from CS1, none of this would get flagged (and   wouldn't have done anything in the original code). That's why I am updating the semantics on some of these CS1 wrapper templates, and hopefully getting new or changed styles in the CS1 module itself. SamuelRiv (talk) 18:39, 26 April 2024 (UTC)