Template talk:USGS gazetteer

I'm planning to use this template on descriptions of Antarctic features, from the gazetteer available at http://geonames.usgs.gov/stategaz/. I assume that this gazetteer is public domain, as a work of the US government. Eugene van der Pijll 16:46, 27 September 2005 (UTC)


 * This template seems to be broken- it gives a weird web citation. Lurker  (said · done) 11:12, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I've made an attempt at a fix. Lurker  (said · done) 11:41, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Most uses of it need "|sourceURL=". nnn can be found in the Antarctic search at http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic. Finavon (talk) 13:58, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * now changed to "|id=nnn|name= " . It would be good if the name attribute could default to the pagename. I will stop editing pages using this template until I know it is stable. Although probably not in use, the template also had access to the rest of the US GNIS (ie non-Antarctic); presumably that would no longer work. Finavon (talk) 15:39, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

The name and id fields should remain optional, since many of the pages on which the template is used predate this innovation. Silly rabbit (talk) 17:23, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Edit request from Pointillist, 29 October 2010
edit protected

Problem: Substitution of the id parameter is broken: instead of ending with the id (e.g. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:15753) the URL ends with. The links on Commonwealth Glacier and Mount Ulla are examples. Not sure whether the bug is in this template or GNIS 3 which this uses.

Tentative solution: Remove  from the template, so the id parameter to gnis3 is unnamed (e.g.  which seems to work (e.g. ) rather than , which doesn't (e.g. ).

Pointillist (talk) 15:49, 29 October 2010 (UTC)


 * done. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 19:05, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 12 November 2014
Please add  both above and below the template so as to produce lines to better differentiate it from the article text. It would appear like this:

Thank you, G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 01:29, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. Do other attribution templates, such as  and  have these lines? -- Red rose64 (talk) 15:43, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, it needs some kind of alternation to differentiate it from the actual article content. As it is now, it's in no way clear that it's not just part of the article. Italics and indentation, as we do with most templates that are attached at the end of an article, would help. /Julle (talk) 00:38, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I see what happened. This template uses Include-USGov. Until 2013, if any PD-related USGov attribution template was used standalone, it was automatically italicized. User:PBS proposed stripping italics from all such templates. Since then, none of these templates have had formatting to make them stand out from the article content.
 * I support adding some sort of formatting to make it stand out: I would suggest that italics is preferable to lines, because it is milder. If you agree, then I would recommend going to Template talk:Include-USGov and proposing a revert of the 2013-05-07 edit. —hike395 (talk) 09:19, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Use Wikidata
Please change from the form

into the form

Thank you! Jeblad (talk) 12:33, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Izno (talk) 12:55, 17 April 2016 (UTC)