Template talk:USGS

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Should websites be replaced with publications? Vsmith (talk) 12:40, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Update to use source parameter
This template calls Include-USGov, which now has a source parameter. That parameter allows us to pass in formatting templates, such as cite web. The sandbox version of USGS now converts its arguments to cite web and passes them along to Include-USGov. This will promote uniformity in formatting of PD references and in reference metadata. Please see the test cases to see how this affects the formatting.

Admins: please copy the sandbox version of the template to the main template. Thank you. —hike395 (talk) 19:10, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Padlock-bronze-slash2.svg Not done: is not required for edits to  unprotected pages, or pending changes protected pages. Assuming there is consensus, you should be able to make the change yourself. Anomie⚔ 04:24, 27 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Face-blush.svg Gosh, I'm embarrassed. So many templates have been admin-protected that I thought this one had been, too! I'll go ahead and make the change. —hike395 (talk) 04:32, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

sandbox
Blue Mountains (ecoregion) has this:

This template misuses author by including more than one author-name and by including explicit 'et al.' text. In cs1|2, author is used to name a single author and 'et al.' is controlled by display-authors. The live version of supports an extremely limited subset of the  parameters. I have modified the to use Module:template wrapper so that editors don't need to abuse those parameters that  currently supports.

Rewriting the example above:

This change will allow editors to provide more complete referencing.

As its use shows in Blue Mountains (ecoregion), this attribution template is used as a reference template. Because editors will misapply this template, it would, perhaps, be sensible to provide a mechanism to inhibit the rendering of the attribution text and icon:
 * PD-icon.svg This article incorporates public domain material from ...

perhaps no?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 12:18, 19 February 2019 (UTC)