Template talk:Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography

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Differentiation

Given that there really is an Australian Dictionary of Biography, which is completely different from the Dictionary of Australian Biography, this redirect is extremely problematic. Hesperian 12:27, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I now replaced the redirect with source code of Template:Dictionary of Australian Biography plus a warning sign encouraging a migration to the proper Template:Dictionary of Australian Biography. This should hopefully reduce the use of this template. Then, a similar migration should take place from Template:ADB to here, freeing ADB for a disamb of the three properly named templates. -- Matthead  DisOuß   07:37, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

As the first step, the depopulation of wrong use of this template here was successful, I now encourage a move from the abbreviated from ADB to the full Australian Dictionary of Biography. -- Matthead  DisOuß   17:25, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

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Authorlink

The parameter |authorlink= doesn't seem to work. Here's an axample from the article Douglas MacArthur#General Headquarters:

  {{Australian Dictionary of Biography    |last=Horner    |first=David    |authorlink=David Horner   |year=2000   |id=A150186b   |title= MacArthur, Douglas (1880-1964)   |accessdate=March 6, 2010  }}  

which renders as:

Horner, David (2000). "MacArthur, Douglas (1880-1964)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved March 6, 2010. 

No wikilink for David Horner is produced. Someone more versed in template matters than me should fix this. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:52, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for that, I think it should be fixed now. --3mta3 (talk) 16:57, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

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ID field no longer useful?

The ADB's URL no longer includes an ID field in the way in which this template has been set up to look for. While the old links still work (for now at least), this seems to make the template pretty useless. For instance, I have no idea how to use it to link to the entry on Harry Gullet. Nick-D (talk) 09:52, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes. The web site has moved from http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/ to http://adb.anu.edu.au and the naming convention has changed. One could, for example, as another id field - perhaps id2 - that generates a url to the new location. Billingd (talk) 05:29, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

OK. I've added an id2 to use for the new format. This overrides the id field. Billingd (talk) 10:40, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Great work - thanks again Nick-D (talk) 10:47, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Not so great work by the ADB - the old links don't seem to work anymore. Now what? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 11:25, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

No. That was my fault. There was a typo in my fix. Should be OK now. Tested it, but copied the wrong one :-(. Billingd (talk) 11:36, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Much better now; thanks. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:06, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

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Anchor

Would it be possible to add a ref={{ref}} so it can generate an anchor in the references? Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:48, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

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Multiple authors

A number of articles have multiple authors, could the coding be changed to allow this? Hack (talk) 06:32, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

That seems to be quite simple. This template calls {{Cite encyclopedia}} which seems to deal with any number of authors, so all that's required is to pass on |first2=, |last2=, etc.:

   |last2 = {{{last2|}}}   |first2 = {{{first2|}}}   . . .  

-- Michael Bednarek (talk) 07:22, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

There may be more to it than that. I updated the template as suggested, however when used on Susie O'Reilly, a cite error appears in the reflist. Hack (talk) 10:51, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

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