Template talk:Harvard citation with colon text/archive 1

Include page number in link
Right now, the optional page number is not part of the link. That looks a bit odd. It would be nice if it were included. I had a look, but I’m afraid of doing things wrong, so could some better hacker do this? H. (talk) 14:42, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I too think it looks odd, and I too would like to fix it but am afraid of doing things wrong. Shreevatsa (talk) 13:45, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I too agree. Can someone with the know-how do this soon. – Marco79 15:20, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't agree. That it "looks a bit odd" I don't think is enough to change it.  — Æµ§œš¹  [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]  19:44, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * What would be? Is there any reason the current format is better having the page number linked? Shreevatsa (talk) 20:33, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Adding the page number to the link is like saying, "this is the link that will take you to the full citation of Lastname (2002) page 12 when, really, it only takes you to the full citation of Lastname (2002). — Æµ§œš¹  [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]  21:07, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

I could care less whether the page-numbers should be blue, but having one parenthesis inside the link and the other outside it does appear unusual and jarring. ⤺ms.⁴⁵ 14:08, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Shouldn't the usage be on the main page?
My section title kinda says it all... WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules: simple/complex 13:33, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

CharlesGillingham (talk) 20:55, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Difficulty with multiple authors
At Japanese speakers learning r and l, there is a source that has 5 authors and another that has 6. When I use Harvcoltxt to cite it, the fifth author is taken by the template to be the date. Not only does this look weird--Miyawaki et al. (Jenkins)-- but the link doesn't go to the citation and neither does taking out anything past the fourth author. Can someone address this please? — Æµ§œš¹  [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 22:42, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Print version
When printed in books, this template pollutes the index of books. This is because there is a section link somewhere in that template (aka Foobar ), and the index in generated using the links of articles. Would it be possible to create a version of this template without the section link? Aka, one that displays Smith 2006, p.25, rather than Smith 2006, p.25?

I can upload the code at Harvcoltxt/Print once it's written (or anyone else with user account creation rights, as these pages are blacklisted for the moment). Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:39, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Why is right parentheses outside of the link?
It is inconsistent to have the left parentheses inside the link but the right parentheses outside the link. Please fix this if possible. --131.179.32.214 (talk) 02:25, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree it looks a little weird, but I am not sure if this is intentional or not. In any case the editprotected is not required because this template is not protected. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:48, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Weird, I thought it was. Must have confused it with another (protected) harv template. I think the intended behavior is to link the name and year, but not link anything else. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:41, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Merging documentation.
I would like to merge the documentation for this template with harv (see Template talk:Harvard citation).

The last few lines of this template should be changed from }}

to }}

Thanks. CharlesGillingham (talk) 22:46, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

✅ CharlesGillingham (talk) 20:56, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

problem with some character sets?
Can someone look at the refs here:. The template does not seem to be working where there are special characters?--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 07:03, 29 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I can confirm that this is also not working for me. (I'm using Safari 5.1 with MacOS). I can't even see the character in edit mode. CharlesGillingham (talk) 23:22, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The problem was that there was the character � (U+FFFD Replacement character) several times in the article. I replaced it with the correct characters and the problem seems to have gone away. I'm not sure why, but MediaWiki doesn't like that character when used in a link: �. User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk; 22:38, 3 September 2011 (UTC)