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This template links a page to the article on the commons, containing the gallery of images related to the page. Use this template in the style {{Commons|PAGENAME}}, where PAGENAME is the name of the page on the commons. -- Chris 73 Talk 00:54, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)
This template now uses a parameter to define the target page on Commons. The format is {{commons|page name on Commons}}. -- Netoholic @ 06:59, 2004 Nov 25 (UTC)
I am changing this so that the link order and placement match other sister project links. See
Wikipedia:Sister projects. --
Netoholic
@ 16:25, 2004 Nov 25 (UTC)
Is there any standard for insterting standard pronounciation of, say, famous people or places in their respective articles? Nationalencyklopedin has a very neat system in their web edition where they link to sound files with a person pronouncing the article title in the native language. Very handy (except that they do it with often malfunctioning .aif-files).
Is there any policy worked out for this? Is there a template or a project for it? - karmosin 21:32, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)
To curtail further edit-warring until a decision is reached, I've protected this template. Since I don't want to put the notice on the template itself:
— Dan | Talk 21:26, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
I just wanted to inform everyone who is as surprised as me about the reason why there is no Wikimedia Commons image in this template anymore. It is a procedure to lower the amount of requests to the server and make Wikipedia available again. See: m:Image server overload 2005-03
What's the point of having {{{1}}}|{{{1}}} ? -- User:66.46.85.162 [[WP:~~~~|forgot to sign]] at 16:17, Mar 28, 2005
and while i can't dispute the assertion that meta templates are a resource waste i get the feeling that a revert war on such a template is even worse. Plugwash 20:42, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
for a lot of items thier is a category on commons but not a normal page. (higher level taxa for example) right now the only way to use that with this template would be to rather messilly put the whole name including category in the parameter. Imo this template should be altered to provide seperate control over the page linked to and the displayed name on the link Plugwash 14:23, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Folks, I've read most of the 7-month discussion. Any chance of an up-to-date statement of the way(s) this can be used? Robin Patterson 00:42, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Seconded. And I strongly support Kevyn's plea from above. I'll copy it here:
In my opinion the current commons template is still ugly and seriously lacking in this respect. - Wikibob | Talk 2005 July 3 12:06 (UTC)
I'm in support of Kevyn as well. Changes are need. Swarve 07:22, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
Is it just me, or does anyone else find this template not very obvious when they are browsing an article? It really should make it plain that "hey you, yes you, if you click this link they you are going to get a gallery of images about X". Instead, it's often hard to notice, and when I do click the link, I am always slightly annoyed, in that I think "this content is really good! Why didn't they tell me this sooner and make it much clearer to me?". Let me outline the reasons why I think this template is has poor ease-of-use:
<rant>
Frankly, this template makes me want to grab a Usability or User Interface textbook, and repeatedly whack it against the head of the template's author, whilst shouting "Worst. Template. Usability. Ever!"
</rant>
-- All the best, Nickj (t) 04:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
<div class="infobox sisterproject">[[Image:Commons-logo.svg|left|45px| ]] <div style="margin-left: 60px;">[[Wikimedia Commons]] has media related to: <div style="margin-left: 10px;">'''''[[Commons:{{{1|Special:Search/{{PAGENAME}}}}}|{{{2|{{{1|{{PAGENAME}}}}}}}}]]'''''</div> </div> </div>
Please change the template as shown above. With this method, we can add more utility to this single template. See Template:Wiktionary for an example of how this method will work. -- Netoholic @ 17:59, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Can someone create this template? http://ur.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:Commons&action=edit evrik 22:17, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Please, add the next interwiki if it is possible: eu:Txantiloi:Commons. Thanks.-- Berria 21:30, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Is there some way to allow for a third parameter to change the word "media"? That word seems rather vague and I would like the ability to change it to something more specific. For example, in Johann Sebastian Bach, I would prefer that the box say something like "Wikimedia Commons has recordings, scores, and portraits related to: Johann Sebastian Bach". How feasible is this? - Sesquialtera II 20:15, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
The German Wikipedia's Commons template is called de:Vorlage:Commons, not de:Vorlage:Commons1. Please fix the interwiki link. TZM T ( de: T) 17:37, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Please add the following interwikis to the code [[af:Template:Commons]] [[ast:Template:Commons]] [[bs:Template:Commons]] [[fy:Template:Commons]] [[ga:Teimpléad:Cómhaoin]] [[hr:Template:Commons]] [[ia:Template:Commons]] [[is:Template:Commons]] [[ku:Template:Commons]] [[la:Template:Commons]] [[lb:Template:Commons]] [[lt:Template:Commons]] [[lv:Template:Commons]] [[ms:Template:Commons]] [[nds:Template:Commons]] [[nn:Template:Commons]] [[oc:Template:Commons]] [[scn:Template:Commons]] [[sq:Template:Commons]] [[su:Template:Commons]] [[tr:Template:Commons]] [[tt:Template:Commons]]
Interwikis found using http://vs.aka-online.de/globalwpsearch/
Thanks in advance -- elwikipedista 16:36, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
One month later, I again urge you to update you interwikis [[af:Template:Commons]] [[ast:Template:Commons]] [[bs:Template:Commons]] [[fy:Template:Commons]] [[ga:Teimpléad:Cómhaoin]] [[hr:Template:Commons]] [[ia:Template:Commons]] [[is:Template:Commons]] [[ku:Template:Commons]] [[la:Template:Commons]] [[lb:Template:Commons]] [[lt:Template:Commons]] [[lv:Template:Commons]] [[ms:Template:Commons]] [[nds:Template:Commons]] [[nn:Template:Commons]] [[oc:Template:Commons]] [[scn:Template:Commons]] [[sq:Template:Commons]] [[su:Template:Commons]] [[tr:Template:Commons]] [[tt:Template:Commons]]
af:Template:Commons ast:Template:Commons bs:Template:Commons fy:Template:Commons ga:Teimpléad:Cómhaoin hr:Template:Commons ia:Template:Commons is:Template:Commons ku:Template:Commons la:Template:Commons lb:Template:Commons lt:Template:Commons lv:Template:Commons ms:Template:Commons nds:Template:Commons nn:Template:Commons oc:Template:Commons scn:Template:Commons sq:Template:Commons su:Template:Commons tr:Template:Commons tt:Template:Commons —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Elwikipedista ( talk • contribs) .
This template seems to be a slightly different shape from the other similar ones. This is particularly notable at Da Vinci#External Links. Can someone with edit permission change this? Conrad.Irwin 21:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
What is odd is the following: *{{commons}} produces:
Why is that and how can we fix this? Kusma (討論) 09:52, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, please rearrange the interwikis by alphabet (so that one can see if the interwiki to xyz already exists or not). And please add iu:Template:Commons to that list. Thank you. -- Thogo (Talk) 02:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
You may want to copy and paste the updated list of interwiki links (more simple than adding each one individually):
<!-- interwiki --> [[af:Sjabloon:Commons]] [[als:Vorlage:Commons]] [[ar:قالب:كومنز]] [[ast:Plantilla:Commons]] [[az:Şablon:Commons]] [[be:Шаблон:Commons]] [[be-x-old:Шаблён:Commons]] [[bar:Vorlage:Commons]] [[bs:Šablon:Commons]] [[bg:Шаблон:Общомедия]] [[ca:Template:Commons]] [[cs:Šablona:Commons]] [[cy:Nodyn:Comin]] [[da:Skabelon:Commons]] [[de:Vorlage:Commons]] [[el:Πρότυπο:Commons]] [[et:Mall:Commons]] <!-- [[en:Template:Commons]] --> [[es:Plantilla:Commons]] [[eo:Ŝablono:Commons]] [[eu:Txantiloi:Commons]] [[fa:الگو:انبار]] [[fr:Modèle:Commons]] [[fy:Berjocht:Commons]] [[ga:Teimpléad:Cómhaoin]] [[gl:Template:Commons]] [[ko:틀:Commons]] [[hsb:Předłoha:Commons]] [[hr:Predložak:Commons]] [[io:Template:Commons]] [[ilo:Template:Commons]] [[id:Templat:Commons]] [[ia:Patrono:Commons]] [[iu:Template:Commons]] [[ik:Template:Commons]] [[is:Snið:Commons]] [[it:Template:Commons]] [[he:תבנית:Commons]] [[kn:ಟೆಂಪ್ಲೇಟು:Commons]] [[ku:Şablon:Commons]] [[la:Formula:Communia2]] [[lv:Veidne:Commons]] [[lb:Template:Commons]] [[lt:Šablonas:Commons]] [[li:Sjabloon:Commons]] [[hu:Sablon:Commons]] [[mk:Шаблон:Commons]] [[ms:Templat:Commons]] [[nl:Sjabloon:Commons]] [[ja:Template:Commons]] [[no:Mal:Commons4]] [[nn:Mal:Commons]] [[oc:Modèl:Commons]] [[nds:Vörlaag:Commons]] [[pl:Szablon:Commons]] [[pt:Predefinição:Commons]] [[ro:Format:Commons]] [[ru:Шаблон:Commons]] [[sq:Stampa:Commons]] [[scn:Template:Commons]] [[simple:Template:Commons]] [[sk:Šablóna:Commons]] [[sl:Predloga:Zbirka]] [[sr:Шаблон:Commons]] [[sh:Template:Commons]] [[fi:Malline:Commons]] [[su:Citakan:Commons]] [[sv:Mall:Commons]] [[tl:Template:Commons]] [[tt:Ürnäk:Commons]] [[vi:Tiêu bản:Commons]] [[tr:Şablon:Commons]] [[wa:Modele:Commons]] [[uk:Шаблон:Commons]] [[ur:سانچہ:Commons]] [[zh-yue:Template:同享]] [[zh:Template:Commons]]
They have all been checked. Regards. — Robin des Bois ♘ ➳ ✉ 19:52, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
Please remove or comment out the interwiki link "[[en:Template:Commons]]". Thanks! Korg ( talk) 00:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
and I would like to change it.
Why, you ask? Because just about every time I see it I click on the link that takes me to Commons main page instead of the specific article. Even though I know better, that's where I want to click. I'm not alone in this; in a random sample of 4 friends all of them did the same thing when asked to go look at the media on Commons from the template. (I know, I know, not scientific, but...)
The linked article needs to be the first link, because otherwise people click on the link going to the main page and are left totally confused about what to do next.
But I didn't want to change a highly-used template without comment. Is there any disagreement with changing it (other than consistency with the other sister project templates: they should be changed for the same reason)? If so, why? Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 05:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Image of box should be changed to reflect "media", like photo/speaker. Commons logo may also be kept with text, but smaller image. Thanks. Lara_bran 04:50, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Please add [[nap:Template:Commons]]
and [[rm:Template:Commons]]
.
Kazu89
ノート
15:57, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi all, I suggest that instead of putting the Commons link to a Commons article/category in a box at the bottom (where it, in my opinion, often breaks the layout), I suggest that the link should behave like a languuage interwiki-link. To make sure it isn't lost in a long list of language links, it could automatically preempt all language link versions and come first. For example, under "Cite this page" and above "Languages" Article X would have a "Commons" link. What do people think about the idea? Ingolfson ( talk) 06:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Template:Click (or something similar) should be added to the image. I'm sure this has been mentioned before so please don't link me to similar comments. - Indolences 21:49, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
{{commons}}
:would take you to
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Commons -
Indolences
03:23, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
This template seems unnecessarily bulky. I suggest a new look. Here is a comparison of what it could look like verses what it looks like now. It is about ten pixels wider, but it saves a lot of space vertically. Please leave your comments. TIM KLOSKE| TALK 23:49, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
How come the border around the table don't show up on some wikis, I copied the code from here and translated the message onto another wiki, but for some reason the border doesn't show up and it's left aligned see
pa:Template:Commons. It has same stuff as here but it's showing up different. It's not just this, but even when we add a table the borders don't show up, anyone know how to fix that.
Gman124
talk
20:28, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
{{ edit protected}} Please add Category:Wikimedia Commons templates to this and {{ Commons cat}}. Richard001 ( talk) 09:48, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
{{
edit protected}}
please add: [[pa:ਨਮੂਨਾ:ਕਾਮਨਜ਼]]
Gman124
talk
16:33, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I think the wording of these two templates should be changed to show that the first relates to a gallery and the second to a category. "Wikimedia Commons has a gallery of images related to Ivan the Terrible" and "Wikimedia Commons has a category of images related to Ivan the Terrible" would help to differentiate. At the moment they appear identical in an article. ciao Rotational ( talk) 20:19, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
Please add |position={{{position|}}}
after {{sister
, so this template can be used on the left side too. Thanks. —
Ms2ger (
talk)
18:14, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have the box centered or left-aligned? With it being right-aligned, it often gets forced way out of sight down the page in articles that have long boxes on the right side. Alternatively, some way of adjusting the position so that it can appear on the right adjacent to the box, rather than having to go below it. Anyone know how to do this? - MPF 17:16, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The syntax in all these templates should appear the same:
Fix 174.3.110.108 ( talk) 05:35, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm rather surprised this hasn't been fixed yet, but perhaps it's only affecting me for some odd reason. Anyway, the Commons logo has been failing to render on this template for several days now (see this screenshot). Thought I'd point it out. 75.154.67.41 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:16, 19 June 2010 (UTC).
This should probably be moved to Template:Commonspar, to conform with other sister project templates. -- Itai 17:57, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
bvmbvmb,mn ,m —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.97.40.241 ( talk) 15:18, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}} 1. Request addition of Arthur Erickson to list of architects. He was a modernist architect of great significance. There is a Wikipedia article on him and the website www.arthurerickson.com has more information.
2. Request addition of Fred Bassetti to list of architects. He is a modernist architect of significance. His work is as noteworthy and recognized as being as influential as the work of Wendell Lovett, an architect who is included in the list.
Architectsea ( talk) 11:38, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I wish to inform you that I asked here the approval for a bot able to add, in few very obivious cases and after appropriate checks on Wikimedia Commons, the templates {{ commons}} and {{ commons category}}. For details or questions please check Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 6. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 10:39, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Please take a look at Template talk:Commons category#Commons / Commons cat vs. Sister project links. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 18:50, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I propose a change in the wording from the current Wikimedia Commons has media related to
to the following: Wikimedia Commons may have media related to.
With the additions of thousands of pictures daily to Wikipedia Commons an editor could dutifully check for a related picture on Commons and not find any and therefore not add the template. A minute/day/month later someone could upload a picture to Commons that is related to the article, but have no idea that it would make a contribution to this particular article. If this simple word change was integrated then an editor could in good faith add the template to any article that he/she has a reasonable expectation of future media being made available on Commons. Then any future editor looking at the article could then with one click do a check to see if a picture is available.
I work with Communities (neighborhoods, boroughs, townships, cities, counties, states, countries) all have a reasonable expectation of pictures being added in the future. I am sure there are 100's (if not more) other topics in the same situation. Offhand I can think of these applications - films, food, roads, all transportation types, any article that a US government photo may be taken that is related, as they are in the public domain, animals. I could go on but I hope I have made my point.
--
RifeIdeas
Talk
16:16, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_March_16#Link_templates_for_other_Wikimedia_projects. ASCIIn2Bme ( talk) 14:49, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Is it possible to introduce a second short form for aligning the template left? Instead of
{{Commons|pagename|position=left}}
I'd like to have something like this:
{{Commons||left}}
(The to pipes "||" representing the default pagename.) -- Jesus Presley ( talk) 10:16, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
{{Commons||left}}
means exactly the same as {{Commons|1=|2=left}}
, (Or {{Commons|2=left}}
) and {{{2}}} or |2=
already has an assigned function in the template.
| position =
is retained, (and without looking at how it will impact any underlying parserfunction tests in the sub-template) the closest I could suggest would be:
{{Commons||3=left}}
as a suitably short call form sans pesky ambiguities and lacking nasty side effects... | position = {{{position|}}}
to | position = {{{3|{{{position|}}}}}}
, or | position = {{{position|{{{3|}}}}}}
, as presumably, position= is passed to a parserFunction switch function and the default already checks for erroneous input. |3=left
??? Perhaps a kind and benevolent forward thinking template coder with sysop privileges would see merit in allowing 'l' and 'L' so 3=l and 3=L and 3=LEFT and 3=left... all work the same way. I know I would. <BSEG> I can only think of 2 or three ways to do that elegantly.
| position = {{#switch:{{{3|}}}|LEFT|L|left|l=left|default={{{position|}}}}}
should do, iirc.Best regards // Fra nkB 15:44, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
re:
Caterpillar D9
Since the commons has matured there are more and more special articles, not simple media galleries on the commons, so the template is at times inappropriate or inappropriately unclear. Notice for example: {{
Commonscat|Caterpillar D9}}
and {{
commons|Caterpillar D9}}
(above) have an identically worded message... and in the one case, an erroneous lead message; the commons 'gallery' of assumption is more of an article, than a media collection without meat (as are many pages such as the many atlas pages and those on special in-depth topics looks, and so forth).
Hence request the 'alt-text' parameter be added creating a more flexible text form of the template. Specifically request a code change from:
| text = Wikimedia Commons has media related to: to | text = Wikimedia Commons has {{{alt-term|media related to}}}:
... which I've helpfully written into the test {{
commons|Caterpillar D9}}
You might want to incorporate the code change I worked out above for the OP as well in the light green div section above, as well. A two-fer enhancing your towering productivity for today! <lol> Test the switch though, it's been a few years since I did serious template coding... Again, like this request, the suggested/requested code changes which don't affect the status quo ante.
I'll leave the hard part for you... figuring out how to change the documentation! Best regards and thanks, //
Fra
nkB
15:44, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
|alt-term=
parameter for you. Please remember to update the documentation. I haven't added the short form of position=left
, though. To me it seems like an awful lot of work to avoid typing a few characters, and "position=left" doesn't seem all that long to me. Maybe a simpler change would be to allow "pos=left" as well? Feel free to reopen the edit request again if you want this change to be made. Best —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
06:37, 24 August 2013 (UTC)I propose that the colon be removed and a full stop (period) added to the end of the sentence.
The present punctuation dates from when the text was in a list format. When it was reformatted to a plain sentence in this edit, the colon should have been removed and a full stop added.
This change, if made, should also be made to similar templates that follow the same format. Examples are:
Nurg ( talk) 22:39, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
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Please remove the colon and add a full stop (period) to the end of the sentence, as proposed above and tested at Template:Commons/sandbox. Thanks. Nurg ( talk) 10:40, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
hello;
i've noticed that the display of (at least some of) the commons-link templates doesn't seem to work properly on the mobile version of the site.
which is obviously a problem, in that .m. viewers can't see or access the links to supplementary wm materials.
the problem doesn't seem to be entirely consistent, but if you look @ the .m. version of this section of the talk page /info/en/?search=Template_talk:Commons#commons_and_commonscat you will see the problem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Commons#commons_and_commonscat
i first noticed it here:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._S._Lowry
where the commonscat link seems to disappear entirely, compared with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._S._Lowry
i haven't tested it with other "button" templates, so i don't know how extensive it is, & i'm not a coder, so i have no idea what's wrong (nor could i patch it anyway, when the template is protected), so i leave this matter in your hands.
Lx 121 ( talk) 02:58, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Template:Commons has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
I believe Wikimedia Commons is now encyclopedic enough to be wikilinked in this template. Mark Hurd ( talk) 16:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
{{
edit protected}}
template. I think it is great that you think that, however, I expect this to be a controversial change for some and you will need to have started a discussion somewhere that shows others think that
Wikimedia Commons is now encyclopedic enough. I might suggest
WP:VPR for such a thing or some other Villiage pump or noticeboard of that type. Good luck!
Technical 13 (
talk)
17:11, 1 February 2014 (UTC)This
edit request to
Template:Commons has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
In line 1, replace "sister" with "Sister project" to avoid a redirect within the template. Avoid redirects to save CPU cycles. Save CPU cycles to save energy. Save energy to save the planet. — Quicksilver T @ 04:30, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello, would it possible to adjust formatting of the template, so names in the introductory text will be displayed as follows
as also recently processed on the similar template such as Sister project links, please? As the moment in most cases the names result in appearing in two separate lines with first names of authors being displayed at the end of one line, while their surnames at the beginning of the following, for a change ( see an example). MiewEN ( talk) 09:37, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
{{
Sister project links}}
does not display centred; and few other boxes (other than navboxes and succession boxes) are centred either. I don't see why this should be an exception to the normal right-floated position. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
10:21, 8 November 2014 (UTC)<br />
(which isn't a parameter, it's a HTML tag): it said "displayed as follows", which was vague; the most obvious difference was the centring (I could also have objected to the lost icon and border). Please put your proposal into
the template's sandbox, so that it may be properly understood, demonstrated and tested, see
WP:TESTCASES. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
13:06, 8 November 2014 (UTC)It might seem like a silly question but why is this a template, and in the form of a little box that can be easily lost on a page. Wouldn't any inter-project linking be better placed between the Toolbox and Languages menus over to the left of the article, as with links to non-english wikipedias. What are other people's thoughts? Claret Ash 11:34, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
At the risk of upsetting people by re-opening an age-old debate...
At present the rules about placement state:
Do not place this template in a section all by itself.
Do not place this template in a section containing columns.
Then it goes on to suggest placing it at the top of the External links section at the end of an article, if the article has a section for
external links. If no such section exists, then at the top of the last section in the article, or to consider using {{
Commons-inline}}
instead.
All fine, except that with no External links section, the last section is usually the References section. This means that {{
reflist}}
cannot be used with its columns option if the Commons template is also present, because the latter template then usurps a whole column all to itself. But, it does that only if it's placed at the top of the References section in accordance with the rule book, in other words, with the {{
commonscat}}
template above the {{
reflist|2}}
template.
Since {{
commonscat}}
is in fact an external link and should therefore logically follow after the reference list, I've tried it with the {{
commonscat}}
template below the {{
reflist|2}}
template. That solves the columns problem nicely, but since it's not spelled out as such in the above rules, some editors won't accept such misplacement of the template without making a fuss, in effect limiting one to only the inline method. I've tried it with
Cape Town Railway & Dock 0-4-0T and a couple of other locomotive articles and the result is not offensive to the eye or to page layout, in my opinion.
I therefore suggest that, when {{
commonscat}}
is placed in a References section with columns, it should be allowed to be placed at the bottom of the section, as in my example above. -- Comment by
User:Cabayi at 23:07, 17 April 2017
{{
commons category}}
template above the {{
Reflist|30em}}
template. -
André Kritzinger (
talk)
09:19, 18 April 2017 (UTC)Links to Commons now appear in the left margin in the desktop version. See, as just one example, Aloidendron dichotomum. So, just as we stopped adding links to other language wikis to articles, leaving these to be picked up from Wikidata, we should do the same for links to Commons (and Wikispecies), and no longer add templates to articles – they are redundant. Peter coxhead ( talk) 17:50, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
This template should not display the link in italics, nor should it end with a period ("."). — Hugh ( talk) 03:01, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Template:Commons has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Per the above, this template should not display PAGENAME in italics, nor should it conclude with a full stop (.
).
— Hugh (
talk)
20:31, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 |
This template links a page to the article on the commons, containing the gallery of images related to the page. Use this template in the style {{Commons|PAGENAME}}, where PAGENAME is the name of the page on the commons. -- Chris 73 Talk 00:54, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)
This template now uses a parameter to define the target page on Commons. The format is {{commons|page name on Commons}}. -- Netoholic @ 06:59, 2004 Nov 25 (UTC)
I am changing this so that the link order and placement match other sister project links. See
Wikipedia:Sister projects. --
Netoholic
@ 16:25, 2004 Nov 25 (UTC)
Is there any standard for insterting standard pronounciation of, say, famous people or places in their respective articles? Nationalencyklopedin has a very neat system in their web edition where they link to sound files with a person pronouncing the article title in the native language. Very handy (except that they do it with often malfunctioning .aif-files).
Is there any policy worked out for this? Is there a template or a project for it? - karmosin 21:32, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)
To curtail further edit-warring until a decision is reached, I've protected this template. Since I don't want to put the notice on the template itself:
— Dan | Talk 21:26, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
I just wanted to inform everyone who is as surprised as me about the reason why there is no Wikimedia Commons image in this template anymore. It is a procedure to lower the amount of requests to the server and make Wikipedia available again. See: m:Image server overload 2005-03
What's the point of having {{{1}}}|{{{1}}} ? -- User:66.46.85.162 [[WP:~~~~|forgot to sign]] at 16:17, Mar 28, 2005
and while i can't dispute the assertion that meta templates are a resource waste i get the feeling that a revert war on such a template is even worse. Plugwash 20:42, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
for a lot of items thier is a category on commons but not a normal page. (higher level taxa for example) right now the only way to use that with this template would be to rather messilly put the whole name including category in the parameter. Imo this template should be altered to provide seperate control over the page linked to and the displayed name on the link Plugwash 14:23, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Folks, I've read most of the 7-month discussion. Any chance of an up-to-date statement of the way(s) this can be used? Robin Patterson 00:42, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Seconded. And I strongly support Kevyn's plea from above. I'll copy it here:
In my opinion the current commons template is still ugly and seriously lacking in this respect. - Wikibob | Talk 2005 July 3 12:06 (UTC)
I'm in support of Kevyn as well. Changes are need. Swarve 07:22, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
Is it just me, or does anyone else find this template not very obvious when they are browsing an article? It really should make it plain that "hey you, yes you, if you click this link they you are going to get a gallery of images about X". Instead, it's often hard to notice, and when I do click the link, I am always slightly annoyed, in that I think "this content is really good! Why didn't they tell me this sooner and make it much clearer to me?". Let me outline the reasons why I think this template is has poor ease-of-use:
<rant>
Frankly, this template makes me want to grab a Usability or User Interface textbook, and repeatedly whack it against the head of the template's author, whilst shouting "Worst. Template. Usability. Ever!"
</rant>
-- All the best, Nickj (t) 04:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
<div class="infobox sisterproject">[[Image:Commons-logo.svg|left|45px| ]] <div style="margin-left: 60px;">[[Wikimedia Commons]] has media related to: <div style="margin-left: 10px;">'''''[[Commons:{{{1|Special:Search/{{PAGENAME}}}}}|{{{2|{{{1|{{PAGENAME}}}}}}}}]]'''''</div> </div> </div>
Please change the template as shown above. With this method, we can add more utility to this single template. See Template:Wiktionary for an example of how this method will work. -- Netoholic @ 17:59, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Can someone create this template? http://ur.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:Commons&action=edit evrik 22:17, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Please, add the next interwiki if it is possible: eu:Txantiloi:Commons. Thanks.-- Berria 21:30, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Is there some way to allow for a third parameter to change the word "media"? That word seems rather vague and I would like the ability to change it to something more specific. For example, in Johann Sebastian Bach, I would prefer that the box say something like "Wikimedia Commons has recordings, scores, and portraits related to: Johann Sebastian Bach". How feasible is this? - Sesquialtera II 20:15, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
The German Wikipedia's Commons template is called de:Vorlage:Commons, not de:Vorlage:Commons1. Please fix the interwiki link. TZM T ( de: T) 17:37, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Please add the following interwikis to the code [[af:Template:Commons]] [[ast:Template:Commons]] [[bs:Template:Commons]] [[fy:Template:Commons]] [[ga:Teimpléad:Cómhaoin]] [[hr:Template:Commons]] [[ia:Template:Commons]] [[is:Template:Commons]] [[ku:Template:Commons]] [[la:Template:Commons]] [[lb:Template:Commons]] [[lt:Template:Commons]] [[lv:Template:Commons]] [[ms:Template:Commons]] [[nds:Template:Commons]] [[nn:Template:Commons]] [[oc:Template:Commons]] [[scn:Template:Commons]] [[sq:Template:Commons]] [[su:Template:Commons]] [[tr:Template:Commons]] [[tt:Template:Commons]]
Interwikis found using http://vs.aka-online.de/globalwpsearch/
Thanks in advance -- elwikipedista 16:36, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
One month later, I again urge you to update you interwikis [[af:Template:Commons]] [[ast:Template:Commons]] [[bs:Template:Commons]] [[fy:Template:Commons]] [[ga:Teimpléad:Cómhaoin]] [[hr:Template:Commons]] [[ia:Template:Commons]] [[is:Template:Commons]] [[ku:Template:Commons]] [[la:Template:Commons]] [[lb:Template:Commons]] [[lt:Template:Commons]] [[lv:Template:Commons]] [[ms:Template:Commons]] [[nds:Template:Commons]] [[nn:Template:Commons]] [[oc:Template:Commons]] [[scn:Template:Commons]] [[sq:Template:Commons]] [[su:Template:Commons]] [[tr:Template:Commons]] [[tt:Template:Commons]]
af:Template:Commons ast:Template:Commons bs:Template:Commons fy:Template:Commons ga:Teimpléad:Cómhaoin hr:Template:Commons ia:Template:Commons is:Template:Commons ku:Template:Commons la:Template:Commons lb:Template:Commons lt:Template:Commons lv:Template:Commons ms:Template:Commons nds:Template:Commons nn:Template:Commons oc:Template:Commons scn:Template:Commons sq:Template:Commons su:Template:Commons tr:Template:Commons tt:Template:Commons —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Elwikipedista ( talk • contribs) .
This template seems to be a slightly different shape from the other similar ones. This is particularly notable at Da Vinci#External Links. Can someone with edit permission change this? Conrad.Irwin 21:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
What is odd is the following: *{{commons}} produces:
Why is that and how can we fix this? Kusma (討論) 09:52, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, please rearrange the interwikis by alphabet (so that one can see if the interwiki to xyz already exists or not). And please add iu:Template:Commons to that list. Thank you. -- Thogo (Talk) 02:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
You may want to copy and paste the updated list of interwiki links (more simple than adding each one individually):
<!-- interwiki --> [[af:Sjabloon:Commons]] [[als:Vorlage:Commons]] [[ar:قالب:كومنز]] [[ast:Plantilla:Commons]] [[az:Şablon:Commons]] [[be:Шаблон:Commons]] [[be-x-old:Шаблён:Commons]] [[bar:Vorlage:Commons]] [[bs:Šablon:Commons]] [[bg:Шаблон:Общомедия]] [[ca:Template:Commons]] [[cs:Šablona:Commons]] [[cy:Nodyn:Comin]] [[da:Skabelon:Commons]] [[de:Vorlage:Commons]] [[el:Πρότυπο:Commons]] [[et:Mall:Commons]] <!-- [[en:Template:Commons]] --> [[es:Plantilla:Commons]] [[eo:Ŝablono:Commons]] [[eu:Txantiloi:Commons]] [[fa:الگو:انبار]] [[fr:Modèle:Commons]] [[fy:Berjocht:Commons]] [[ga:Teimpléad:Cómhaoin]] [[gl:Template:Commons]] [[ko:틀:Commons]] [[hsb:Předłoha:Commons]] [[hr:Predložak:Commons]] [[io:Template:Commons]] [[ilo:Template:Commons]] [[id:Templat:Commons]] [[ia:Patrono:Commons]] [[iu:Template:Commons]] [[ik:Template:Commons]] [[is:Snið:Commons]] [[it:Template:Commons]] [[he:תבנית:Commons]] [[kn:ಟೆಂಪ್ಲೇಟು:Commons]] [[ku:Şablon:Commons]] [[la:Formula:Communia2]] [[lv:Veidne:Commons]] [[lb:Template:Commons]] [[lt:Šablonas:Commons]] [[li:Sjabloon:Commons]] [[hu:Sablon:Commons]] [[mk:Шаблон:Commons]] [[ms:Templat:Commons]] [[nl:Sjabloon:Commons]] [[ja:Template:Commons]] [[no:Mal:Commons4]] [[nn:Mal:Commons]] [[oc:Modèl:Commons]] [[nds:Vörlaag:Commons]] [[pl:Szablon:Commons]] [[pt:Predefinição:Commons]] [[ro:Format:Commons]] [[ru:Шаблон:Commons]] [[sq:Stampa:Commons]] [[scn:Template:Commons]] [[simple:Template:Commons]] [[sk:Šablóna:Commons]] [[sl:Predloga:Zbirka]] [[sr:Шаблон:Commons]] [[sh:Template:Commons]] [[fi:Malline:Commons]] [[su:Citakan:Commons]] [[sv:Mall:Commons]] [[tl:Template:Commons]] [[tt:Ürnäk:Commons]] [[vi:Tiêu bản:Commons]] [[tr:Şablon:Commons]] [[wa:Modele:Commons]] [[uk:Шаблон:Commons]] [[ur:سانچہ:Commons]] [[zh-yue:Template:同享]] [[zh:Template:Commons]]
They have all been checked. Regards. — Robin des Bois ♘ ➳ ✉ 19:52, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
Please remove or comment out the interwiki link "[[en:Template:Commons]]". Thanks! Korg ( talk) 00:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
and I would like to change it.
Why, you ask? Because just about every time I see it I click on the link that takes me to Commons main page instead of the specific article. Even though I know better, that's where I want to click. I'm not alone in this; in a random sample of 4 friends all of them did the same thing when asked to go look at the media on Commons from the template. (I know, I know, not scientific, but...)
The linked article needs to be the first link, because otherwise people click on the link going to the main page and are left totally confused about what to do next.
But I didn't want to change a highly-used template without comment. Is there any disagreement with changing it (other than consistency with the other sister project templates: they should be changed for the same reason)? If so, why? Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 05:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Image of box should be changed to reflect "media", like photo/speaker. Commons logo may also be kept with text, but smaller image. Thanks. Lara_bran 04:50, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Please add [[nap:Template:Commons]]
and [[rm:Template:Commons]]
.
Kazu89
ノート
15:57, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi all, I suggest that instead of putting the Commons link to a Commons article/category in a box at the bottom (where it, in my opinion, often breaks the layout), I suggest that the link should behave like a languuage interwiki-link. To make sure it isn't lost in a long list of language links, it could automatically preempt all language link versions and come first. For example, under "Cite this page" and above "Languages" Article X would have a "Commons" link. What do people think about the idea? Ingolfson ( talk) 06:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Template:Click (or something similar) should be added to the image. I'm sure this has been mentioned before so please don't link me to similar comments. - Indolences 21:49, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
{{commons}}
:would take you to
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Commons -
Indolences
03:23, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
This template seems unnecessarily bulky. I suggest a new look. Here is a comparison of what it could look like verses what it looks like now. It is about ten pixels wider, but it saves a lot of space vertically. Please leave your comments. TIM KLOSKE| TALK 23:49, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
How come the border around the table don't show up on some wikis, I copied the code from here and translated the message onto another wiki, but for some reason the border doesn't show up and it's left aligned see
pa:Template:Commons. It has same stuff as here but it's showing up different. It's not just this, but even when we add a table the borders don't show up, anyone know how to fix that.
Gman124
talk
20:28, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
{{ edit protected}} Please add Category:Wikimedia Commons templates to this and {{ Commons cat}}. Richard001 ( talk) 09:48, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
{{
edit protected}}
please add: [[pa:ਨਮੂਨਾ:ਕਾਮਨਜ਼]]
Gman124
talk
16:33, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I think the wording of these two templates should be changed to show that the first relates to a gallery and the second to a category. "Wikimedia Commons has a gallery of images related to Ivan the Terrible" and "Wikimedia Commons has a category of images related to Ivan the Terrible" would help to differentiate. At the moment they appear identical in an article. ciao Rotational ( talk) 20:19, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
Please add |position={{{position|}}}
after {{sister
, so this template can be used on the left side too. Thanks. —
Ms2ger (
talk)
18:14, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have the box centered or left-aligned? With it being right-aligned, it often gets forced way out of sight down the page in articles that have long boxes on the right side. Alternatively, some way of adjusting the position so that it can appear on the right adjacent to the box, rather than having to go below it. Anyone know how to do this? - MPF 17:16, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The syntax in all these templates should appear the same:
Fix 174.3.110.108 ( talk) 05:35, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm rather surprised this hasn't been fixed yet, but perhaps it's only affecting me for some odd reason. Anyway, the Commons logo has been failing to render on this template for several days now (see this screenshot). Thought I'd point it out. 75.154.67.41 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:16, 19 June 2010 (UTC).
This should probably be moved to Template:Commonspar, to conform with other sister project templates. -- Itai 17:57, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
bvmbvmb,mn ,m —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.97.40.241 ( talk) 15:18, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}} 1. Request addition of Arthur Erickson to list of architects. He was a modernist architect of great significance. There is a Wikipedia article on him and the website www.arthurerickson.com has more information.
2. Request addition of Fred Bassetti to list of architects. He is a modernist architect of significance. His work is as noteworthy and recognized as being as influential as the work of Wendell Lovett, an architect who is included in the list.
Architectsea ( talk) 11:38, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I wish to inform you that I asked here the approval for a bot able to add, in few very obivious cases and after appropriate checks on Wikimedia Commons, the templates {{ commons}} and {{ commons category}}. For details or questions please check Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FrescoBot 6. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 10:39, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Please take a look at Template talk:Commons category#Commons / Commons cat vs. Sister project links. -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 18:50, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I propose a change in the wording from the current Wikimedia Commons has media related to
to the following: Wikimedia Commons may have media related to.
With the additions of thousands of pictures daily to Wikipedia Commons an editor could dutifully check for a related picture on Commons and not find any and therefore not add the template. A minute/day/month later someone could upload a picture to Commons that is related to the article, but have no idea that it would make a contribution to this particular article. If this simple word change was integrated then an editor could in good faith add the template to any article that he/she has a reasonable expectation of future media being made available on Commons. Then any future editor looking at the article could then with one click do a check to see if a picture is available.
I work with Communities (neighborhoods, boroughs, townships, cities, counties, states, countries) all have a reasonable expectation of pictures being added in the future. I am sure there are 100's (if not more) other topics in the same situation. Offhand I can think of these applications - films, food, roads, all transportation types, any article that a US government photo may be taken that is related, as they are in the public domain, animals. I could go on but I hope I have made my point.
--
RifeIdeas
Talk
16:16, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_March_16#Link_templates_for_other_Wikimedia_projects. ASCIIn2Bme ( talk) 14:49, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Is it possible to introduce a second short form for aligning the template left? Instead of
{{Commons|pagename|position=left}}
I'd like to have something like this:
{{Commons||left}}
(The to pipes "||" representing the default pagename.) -- Jesus Presley ( talk) 10:16, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
{{Commons||left}}
means exactly the same as {{Commons|1=|2=left}}
, (Or {{Commons|2=left}}
) and {{{2}}} or |2=
already has an assigned function in the template.
| position =
is retained, (and without looking at how it will impact any underlying parserfunction tests in the sub-template) the closest I could suggest would be:
{{Commons||3=left}}
as a suitably short call form sans pesky ambiguities and lacking nasty side effects... | position = {{{position|}}}
to | position = {{{3|{{{position|}}}}}}
, or | position = {{{position|{{{3|}}}}}}
, as presumably, position= is passed to a parserFunction switch function and the default already checks for erroneous input. |3=left
??? Perhaps a kind and benevolent forward thinking template coder with sysop privileges would see merit in allowing 'l' and 'L' so 3=l and 3=L and 3=LEFT and 3=left... all work the same way. I know I would. <BSEG> I can only think of 2 or three ways to do that elegantly.
| position = {{#switch:{{{3|}}}|LEFT|L|left|l=left|default={{{position|}}}}}
should do, iirc.Best regards // Fra nkB 15:44, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
This
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re:
Caterpillar D9
Since the commons has matured there are more and more special articles, not simple media galleries on the commons, so the template is at times inappropriate or inappropriately unclear. Notice for example: {{
Commonscat|Caterpillar D9}}
and {{
commons|Caterpillar D9}}
(above) have an identically worded message... and in the one case, an erroneous lead message; the commons 'gallery' of assumption is more of an article, than a media collection without meat (as are many pages such as the many atlas pages and those on special in-depth topics looks, and so forth).
Hence request the 'alt-text' parameter be added creating a more flexible text form of the template. Specifically request a code change from:
| text = Wikimedia Commons has media related to: to | text = Wikimedia Commons has {{{alt-term|media related to}}}:
... which I've helpfully written into the test {{
commons|Caterpillar D9}}
You might want to incorporate the code change I worked out above for the OP as well in the light green div section above, as well. A two-fer enhancing your towering productivity for today! <lol> Test the switch though, it's been a few years since I did serious template coding... Again, like this request, the suggested/requested code changes which don't affect the status quo ante.
I'll leave the hard part for you... figuring out how to change the documentation! Best regards and thanks, //
Fra
nkB
15:44, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
|alt-term=
parameter for you. Please remember to update the documentation. I haven't added the short form of position=left
, though. To me it seems like an awful lot of work to avoid typing a few characters, and "position=left" doesn't seem all that long to me. Maybe a simpler change would be to allow "pos=left" as well? Feel free to reopen the edit request again if you want this change to be made. Best —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪
06:37, 24 August 2013 (UTC)I propose that the colon be removed and a full stop (period) added to the end of the sentence.
The present punctuation dates from when the text was in a list format. When it was reformatted to a plain sentence in this edit, the colon should have been removed and a full stop added.
This change, if made, should also be made to similar templates that follow the same format. Examples are:
Nurg ( talk) 22:39, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
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Please remove the colon and add a full stop (period) to the end of the sentence, as proposed above and tested at Template:Commons/sandbox. Thanks. Nurg ( talk) 10:40, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
hello;
i've noticed that the display of (at least some of) the commons-link templates doesn't seem to work properly on the mobile version of the site.
which is obviously a problem, in that .m. viewers can't see or access the links to supplementary wm materials.
the problem doesn't seem to be entirely consistent, but if you look @ the .m. version of this section of the talk page /info/en/?search=Template_talk:Commons#commons_and_commonscat you will see the problem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Commons#commons_and_commonscat
i first noticed it here:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._S._Lowry
where the commonscat link seems to disappear entirely, compared with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._S._Lowry
i haven't tested it with other "button" templates, so i don't know how extensive it is, & i'm not a coder, so i have no idea what's wrong (nor could i patch it anyway, when the template is protected), so i leave this matter in your hands.
Lx 121 ( talk) 02:58, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
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I believe Wikimedia Commons is now encyclopedic enough to be wikilinked in this template. Mark Hurd ( talk) 16:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
{{
edit protected}}
template. I think it is great that you think that, however, I expect this to be a controversial change for some and you will need to have started a discussion somewhere that shows others think that
Wikimedia Commons is now encyclopedic enough. I might suggest
WP:VPR for such a thing or some other Villiage pump or noticeboard of that type. Good luck!
Technical 13 (
talk)
17:11, 1 February 2014 (UTC)This
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In line 1, replace "sister" with "Sister project" to avoid a redirect within the template. Avoid redirects to save CPU cycles. Save CPU cycles to save energy. Save energy to save the planet. — Quicksilver T @ 04:30, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello, would it possible to adjust formatting of the template, so names in the introductory text will be displayed as follows
as also recently processed on the similar template such as Sister project links, please? As the moment in most cases the names result in appearing in two separate lines with first names of authors being displayed at the end of one line, while their surnames at the beginning of the following, for a change ( see an example). MiewEN ( talk) 09:37, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
{{
Sister project links}}
does not display centred; and few other boxes (other than navboxes and succession boxes) are centred either. I don't see why this should be an exception to the normal right-floated position. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
10:21, 8 November 2014 (UTC)<br />
(which isn't a parameter, it's a HTML tag): it said "displayed as follows", which was vague; the most obvious difference was the centring (I could also have objected to the lost icon and border). Please put your proposal into
the template's sandbox, so that it may be properly understood, demonstrated and tested, see
WP:TESTCASES. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
13:06, 8 November 2014 (UTC)It might seem like a silly question but why is this a template, and in the form of a little box that can be easily lost on a page. Wouldn't any inter-project linking be better placed between the Toolbox and Languages menus over to the left of the article, as with links to non-english wikipedias. What are other people's thoughts? Claret Ash 11:34, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
At the risk of upsetting people by re-opening an age-old debate...
At present the rules about placement state:
Do not place this template in a section all by itself.
Do not place this template in a section containing columns.
Then it goes on to suggest placing it at the top of the External links section at the end of an article, if the article has a section for
external links. If no such section exists, then at the top of the last section in the article, or to consider using {{
Commons-inline}}
instead.
All fine, except that with no External links section, the last section is usually the References section. This means that {{
reflist}}
cannot be used with its columns option if the Commons template is also present, because the latter template then usurps a whole column all to itself. But, it does that only if it's placed at the top of the References section in accordance with the rule book, in other words, with the {{
commonscat}}
template above the {{
reflist|2}}
template.
Since {{
commonscat}}
is in fact an external link and should therefore logically follow after the reference list, I've tried it with the {{
commonscat}}
template below the {{
reflist|2}}
template. That solves the columns problem nicely, but since it's not spelled out as such in the above rules, some editors won't accept such misplacement of the template without making a fuss, in effect limiting one to only the inline method. I've tried it with
Cape Town Railway & Dock 0-4-0T and a couple of other locomotive articles and the result is not offensive to the eye or to page layout, in my opinion.
I therefore suggest that, when {{
commonscat}}
is placed in a References section with columns, it should be allowed to be placed at the bottom of the section, as in my example above. -- Comment by
User:Cabayi at 23:07, 17 April 2017
{{
commons category}}
template above the {{
Reflist|30em}}
template. -
André Kritzinger (
talk)
09:19, 18 April 2017 (UTC)Links to Commons now appear in the left margin in the desktop version. See, as just one example, Aloidendron dichotomum. So, just as we stopped adding links to other language wikis to articles, leaving these to be picked up from Wikidata, we should do the same for links to Commons (and Wikispecies), and no longer add templates to articles – they are redundant. Peter coxhead ( talk) 17:50, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
This template should not display the link in italics, nor should it end with a period ("."). — Hugh ( talk) 03:01, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Template:Commons has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Per the above, this template should not display PAGENAME in italics, nor should it conclude with a full stop (.
).
— Hugh (
talk)
20:31, 15 August 2018 (UTC)