Template talk:Wikisource authorpar

Use this template when the page name on Wikipedia does not coincide with the author name on Wikisource. The example that prompted the creation of this template was James Stirling (Australian governor) versus Wikisource:Author:James Stirling. A better example, if I could think of one, would be a person who was best known by their real name (hence Wikipedia article under that name), but who published under a pseudonym (Hence Wikisource article under pseudonym). Hesperian 5 July 2005 03:54 (UTC)


 * At the time of their creation, this was brought up. The conclusion was that it will be a very rare occurance that an author (notable enough for Wikisource) would not hold the primary title here on Wikipedia.  It is a simple matter to create redirects on Wikisource to cover this, or disambiguate the Wikisource page just like the Wikipedia one (i.e. Wikisource:Author:James Stirling (Australian governor)).  You could also use Wikisourcepar which would make it only slightly less well-worded, but functional.
 * Do you still feel there is a need for this? I'd prefer to reduce the number of templates to the fewest necessary. -- Netoholic @ 5 July 2005 08:11 (UTC)


 * Okay with me. I saw a problem, and creating a new template seemed like the best way to fix it.  I considered and rejected your solution, because of the usual preference against knowingly linking through redirects.  But I'm happy to conform to consensus opinion.  Might I suggest that we document the consensus solution on Sister_projects?  Hesperian 5 July 2005 23:41 (UTC)