User:Knife-in-the-drawer/ISBN fix templates

Proposed new categories
✅ Catalog lookup templates
 * ✅ with categories: Book templates, External link templates

Inline templates
(citations and sources overall article)

(overall article) Template:ASIN Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current

Template:Google books Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current

Template:EAN Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current

Template:Discogs master Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates
 * ✅ (automatic)
 * ✅ (automatic)

Current
 * (automatic)

Template:Discogs release Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates
 * ✅ (automatic)
 * ✅ (automatic)

Current
 * (automatic)

Template:Itunes Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current
 * none

Template:Doi Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current

Template:Doi-inline
 * Should be combined with Doi, then rename every instance of Doi-inline to Doi

Template:ISBNT Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates
 * ✅ (automatic)
 * ✅ (automatic)

Current
 * (automatic)

Template:ISSN Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current

Template:ISSN search link
 * Should be combined with ISSN, then rename every instance of ISSN search link to ISSN

Template:OCLC Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current

Template:OCLC search link
 * Should be combined with OCLC, then rename every instance of OCLC search link to OCLC

Template:UPC Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current

Template:UPC search link
 * Should be combined with UPC, then rename every instance of UPC search link to UPC

Template:LCCN Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current

Template:LoC catalog record Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current

Template:Bibcode Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current

Template:PMID Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current
 * 440 transclusions
 * 440 transclusions

Template:PMID2
 * Should be combined with PMID, then rename every instance of PMID2 to PMID
 * Only 19 transclusions
 * Only 19 transclusions

Template:PMID3
 * Should be combined with PMID, then rename every instance of PMID3 to PMID
 * Should be deleted because it violates the principles of a magic link. See Help:Magic links. Only 62 transclusions.

Template:BibISBN
 * What to do with this template? Development stopped in August 2014. I vote convert to an article (or merge info if article already exists) and delete template.
 * I asked its creator about the status User talk:Bermicourt

Template:ChoralWiki Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current

Template:COBISS Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates
 * Eventually add other country categories after all countries in COBISS net work with this template.
 * Eventually add other country categories after all countries in COBISS net work with this template.
 * Eventually add other country categories after all countries in COBISS net work with this template.

Current

Template:GKDLink Proposed
 * Creator wants it deleted
 * history
 * Need a working example from User talk:Bermicourt
 * Probably add External link templates

✅ In, some articles can be added to  WHEN I ADD AN ARTICLE to, ADD IT TO "SEE ALSO" LIST  Proposed
 * ✅ Add template category
 * ✅ Put brief explanatory paragraph at top of --why templates such as ASIN are included
 * ✅ Put brief explanatory paragraph at top of --why templates such as ASIN are included

ISBN error messages
Message Template:Lacking ISBN Proposed

Current

Template:Biblio Proposed
 * ✅ Find all templates that link to Biblio and update any documentation that only refers to ISBNs.
 * ✅ (automatically included)
 * ✅ (automatically included)
 * ✅ (automatically included)

Current
 * (automatically included)
 * (automatically included)

Inline Template:Please check ISBN Proposed
 * ✅ (automatic)
 * ✅ (automatic)
 * ✅ (automatic)

Current
 * (automatic)

Template:Please check ISSN Proposed
 * ✅ (automatic)
 * ✅ (automatic)

Current
 * (automatic)

Template:ISBN missing Proposed

Current

Template:Listed Invalid ISBN Proposed
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current
 * This category is wrong. The template does not produce an external link.
 * This category is wrong. The template does not produce an external link.
 * This category is wrong. The template does not produce an external link.

'''Template:Listed Invalid ISSN Proposed
 * ✅ Need to write its documentation--it doesn't even have a /doc page or link to /doc page; similar to Listed Invalid ISBN
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Current

Template:No ISBN Proposed
 * ✅ Need to write its documentation--it doesn't even have a /doc page or link to /doc page

Current

All new inline templates that I create
Template:BnF
 * ✅ Catalog lookup templates

Notes to myself about fixing categories

 * ✅ Need a new subcategory under "Book templates" for catalog lookup templates
 * ✅ Need a subcategory under "External link templates" for catalog lookup templates
 * should be grouped with other catalog search templates
 * ✅ In, replace with Category:Catalog lookup templates
 * ✅ For every article in, replace with Category:Catalog lookup templates
 * Not a good idea. Each article already appears in Category:Catalog lookup templates via the subcategory.


 * ❌ Why does belong to ? Give it some better categories.
 * "Websites templates" is a stupid category, but it's not my problem to fix.


 * ✅ The Discogs templates are not intricate.
 * ✅ COBISS is not a Specific-source template.
 * ✅ The Library of Congress templates are not attributions. Use a different U.S. government category.
 * ✅ is overused

Merger requests
For the following sets of templates:


 * 1) Each template is simplistic
 * 2) Each template requires the same parameter
 * 3) The templates differ only in format of the output

I think the templates in each set should be consolidated into one template; I don't see the need for multiple templates. The template that should remain is bold red. Output format should be controlled by a new parameter in the remaining template.

I will gladly perform the "grunt" work involved (for example, changing every instance of a no-longer-used template with the consolidated template). I'm only asking

Set #1


 * Template:Doi (23 January 2015‎, 17187)
 * Template:Doi-inline (10 May 2015‎, 123)

Set #2


 * Template:ISSN (3 March 2014, 3499)
 * Template:ISSN search link (3 March 2014‎, 9547)

Set #3


 * Template:OCLC (12 November 2013, 6841)
 * Template:OCLC search link (8 November 2013‎, 5085)

Set #4


 * Template:UPC (4 May 2011, 94)
 * Template:UPC search link (4 May 2011, 3)

Set #5


 * Template:LCCN (1 April 2012‎, 905)
 * Template:LoC catalog record (10 August 2013, 21)

Set #6 (Discussion finished with no consensus. Try again later.  See archived discussion. Next time, begin with "Merge" proposal.)


 * Template:PMID (21 August 2014, 439)
 * Template:PMID2 (20 August 2014, 19)
 * Template:PMID3 (20 August 2014, 56)
 * Quite frankly, I think the functionality of this template should be eliminated. The colon is unnecessary and violates Wiki's rules for creating a magic link (see Help:Magic links)