I just now created a template for citations where the references display incorrectly because of the size limit. I think it would be a good idea to put it on the article so the many people who read this at least understand the reason why some of the references are missing and how they can find them. I'm just posting this here to get consensus to add it in such a heavily trafficked article. Zoozaz1 ( talk) 21:02, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|veaction=edit}} link text]
, you can bring up the visual editor when the link is clicked; I'll add it to the template. —
Tenryuu 🐲 (
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23:46, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
Currently, this template categorises undated articles into
Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded, which pages are automatically added to if they exceed the size limit. Dated templates will get placed into monthly subcategories of this category, e.g.
Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded from July 2020. I feel that a separate category would be more appropriate for this purpose, as it allows us to tell more easily where this template is needed, by keeping the automatic category sepereate from the category applied by this template. Sorry if I make no sense, I will see if I can do better in the morning, bu tl;dr, the |cat=
parameter should be changed to something like
Articles where template include size is exceeded. --
Danski454 (
talk)
01:40, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for making this template.
However, the main value of this template is to alert users that there is a problem with the page.
It really should be added and removed from pages - or perhaps just "article" pages - which are in the automatically-applied tracking category Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded. I don't see any value to having pages that use this template being in a date-category, as we already have https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Pages_where_template_include_size_is_exceeded&cmprop=title%7Ctimestamp&cmlimit=500&cmnamespace=0&format=xml&cmsort=timestamp&cmdir=desc which is a newest-first list of article pages in that category.
Come to think of it, an even better idea would be to change the underlying Wikimedia code so that if a page was in certain categories, there would be a message at the very top of the page saying "this page may not display correctly, click here for more information" or something like that. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 19:00, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
I just now created a template for citations where the references display incorrectly because of the size limit. I think it would be a good idea to put it on the article so the many people who read this at least understand the reason why some of the references are missing and how they can find them. I'm just posting this here to get consensus to add it in such a heavily trafficked article. Zoozaz1 ( talk) 21:02, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|veaction=edit}} link text]
, you can bring up the visual editor when the link is clicked; I'll add it to the template. —
Tenryuu 🐲 (
💬 •
📝 )
23:46, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
Currently, this template categorises undated articles into
Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded, which pages are automatically added to if they exceed the size limit. Dated templates will get placed into monthly subcategories of this category, e.g.
Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded from July 2020. I feel that a separate category would be more appropriate for this purpose, as it allows us to tell more easily where this template is needed, by keeping the automatic category sepereate from the category applied by this template. Sorry if I make no sense, I will see if I can do better in the morning, bu tl;dr, the |cat=
parameter should be changed to something like
Articles where template include size is exceeded. --
Danski454 (
talk)
01:40, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for making this template.
However, the main value of this template is to alert users that there is a problem with the page.
It really should be added and removed from pages - or perhaps just "article" pages - which are in the automatically-applied tracking category Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded. I don't see any value to having pages that use this template being in a date-category, as we already have https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Pages_where_template_include_size_is_exceeded&cmprop=title%7Ctimestamp&cmlimit=500&cmnamespace=0&format=xml&cmsort=timestamp&cmdir=desc which is a newest-first list of article pages in that category.
Come to think of it, an even better idea would be to change the underlying Wikimedia code so that if a page was in certain categories, there would be a message at the very top of the page saying "this page may not display correctly, click here for more information" or something like that. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 19:00, 11 August 2020 (UTC)