Template talk:Cite mailing list/Archive 1

Hide the access date
We have a consensus that access dates for online copies of offline sources, while helpful as a comment in the source, should be hidden from the reader. While mailing lists are online sources posts have an "official" post date after which they typically don't change. Therefore, I believe the updated policy applies here as well. Could somebody who is competent to adapt the citation templates please do so? The idea is to keep the access date as a template parameter but remove the code that displays it. Thanks, --EnOreg (talk) 09:41, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Object. In that conversation, there was mention of the value of the date for when the content may change.  There was also mention of content that was likely to become unavailable.  I think mailing list content is more likely to be ephemeral than physical content, so do not see any consensus to remove the parameter from this template at this time. --Karnesky (talk) 13:16, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, let's have this discussion for newsgroups and mailing lists here. --EnOreg (talk) 13:37, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Consistency with other Citation templates
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Please replace the template with the Sandbox. The output doesn't change (see below), but COinS metadata is added, and consistency with other citation templates is future-proofed. Martin  (Smith609 – Talk)  19:13, 14 December 2008 (UTC)


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Please replace {{Citation/core/sandbox with {{Citation/core at first line. The former is not protected. --fryed-peach (talk) 17:41, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * {{Done}} The former was actually protected due to cascade protection of this template. Ruslik (talk) 19:13, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Centralised archival
A recent update to Template:Citation/core has made an improvement possible in the way that archive details are handled; please replace Template:Cite mailing list with the current sandbox, removing the sandbox notice.

The improvements are: better error handling (e.g. mark when archivedate specified but archiveurl blank); correction of punctuation and capitalisation; and centralising functionality to minimise future template drift. No change in appearance will be observed (except if 'Archived on' comes after a comma, in which case it will no longer be incorrectly capitalised). Examples are available at Template:Citation/testcases/archive (they will affect cite mailing list in the same way as they do Citation). Thanks, Martin  (Smith609 – Talk)  13:53, 8 February 2009 (UTC)


 * ✅ Thanks, Peter Symonds ( talk ) 01:22, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Problems with template
I am having trouble with this template. The url does not appear to be linked to the title. That is, I am not getting a clickable link as shown in the example - when using this template. Article in question is Lars Pearson. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. -   Hydroxonium (talk) 05:04, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I figured out the problem. If the "archiveurl" and "archivedate" paramaters are included, but left blank, the link won't appear. -   Hydroxonium (talk) 05:10, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Updates

 * Update documentation to include undocumented parameters.
 * Fix IncludedWorkURL = archiveurl
 * Add OCLC et. al.

---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 12:05, 10 September 2011 (UTC)