Wikipedia talk:RefToolbar

Perhaps the access-date should be autofilled
Autofill is a highly convenient feature and I am thankful for it. However, I suggest that it also fills access-date. While clicking the "Insert current date" is no major inconvenience, I can't think of a reason not to autofill access-date. Elominius (talk | contributions) 00:10, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Web citation (RefToolbar) - asking for Additional fill-in
Asking for change to Web citation (RefToolbar) popup box.

At the URL box, when the magnify glass is clicked, and it fills in additional (such as Title and Website name), can it also fill the Access date? This will be a time-saver as one-less thing to click on.

Asking here instead of at VPT, as I am clueless of how to make the change myself. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 15:46, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

page and pages parameter info
The page and pages parameter info icons are both very small and also give incorrect documentation. Yes, HELP:CS1 is confusing as all hell on this, but pages is basically exclusively for citing a journal article or book chapter where the bibliographic info says that the entire piece is located within the publication under the range of these pages. Wheres page is used when one wants to cite, in the article, a specific page or pages within the source to support a given piece of prose. These are semantically entirely different things (and you'd think as such that CS1 would allow both to be used in the same template call, and have clear aliases, but no).

RefTemplate's current documentation makes virtually universal mistake (imo entirely the fault of CS1 documentation) of asserting that page is for citing one page and pages is for citing a range or multiple pages. Unfortunately, bots cannot correct this. But you can at least change the information popup (and make it slightly bigger, and allow both hover and click for ease of mobile use). SamuelRiv (talk) 21:05, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Update the available fields
Two requests: Cite news already has the "Archive URL" and "Archive date" fields available, but without the "URL status" field, it always defaults to showing the archived page vice the live page once the citation is generated unless "url-status=live" is manually added. (This seems like it might the be easier of the requests since this field is already present in cite web.) This one does not appear to be present in any of the RefToolbar options, so it might be more labor intensive and a lower need. I can always use the "Agency" field (or any other field) and change  to   manually. Pinging as the only semi-active maintainer left listed on https://toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/tools/id/reftoolbar, and  as the last editor to update the tool per Special:History/MediaWiki:RefToolbar.js. -2pou (talk) 17:29, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) Is it possible to add the "URL status" field that is present in "cite web" into the "cite news" window?
 * 1) Is it possible to add a "Via" field to both "cite web" and "cite news" to generate a "via=" parameter in the generated citation?