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This template has been added to Template:Infobox comic book title and to Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Writing guide, and these usages added to Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restrictions)#Italics_and_formatting. I can see no evidence there was any discussion of the issues. Whenever editors have removed this from these three pages (and when I removed this template from some pages, only a few of them journals), these edits have often been reverted. — innotata 22:12, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
If anyone can figure out how to use this template (or another one) to italicize the full title of On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration, please edit that article to show me how. Wareh ( talk) 17:17, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
The same problem was brought up here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Academic Journals/Writing guide. I fixed the problem articles using the "DISPLAYTITLE magic word". Is there any way to fix this template, or is it a more serious technical limitation? Justin W Smith talk/ stalk 01:05, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
I've had a few issues with this template with regard to using it at {{ Infobox album}}; see Template talk:Infobox album#Edit request to protected template. As I understand from the documentation:
{{
italic title|How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today}}
should italicise the title at
How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today, and{{
italic title|Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)}}
should italicise the full title at
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)But neither of these worked when I tried them. Bearing in mind the recent policy change at WP:ITALICTITLE, we could do to have this template working properly. I don't mind saying that I feel a little out of my depth with the code used here, so I would appreciate any input. Cheers! PC78 ( talk) 22:05, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
|force=
parameter that will force the full title to italicize (you should set it to a logical value). Don't try to pass force=false or force=no, though.
Intelligent
sium 23:20, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
And the other use case is:
{{
italic title|Enter the Wu-Tang|36 Chambers}}
So that is just a small misunderstanding on your part. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 23:31, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
{{
italic title|Enter the Wu-Tang|foo}}
, but the behaviour was no different to a plain {{
italic title}}
.
PC78 (
talk) 14:43, 28 September 2010 (UTC)I know there was an RfC (which I managed to miss) and, apparently, consensus was to italicise all. A couple of examples (and all similarly named articles) this template doesn't cater for would be:
Have things like this been considered, lots of episode articles will have a television series disambiguator. This whole thing was about consistency but is it feasible. I'm guessing we don't want lots of {{{DISPLAYTITLE}}}s everywhere. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 00:05, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:List of awards and nominations received by ''Lost''}}
or{{DISPLAYTITLE:Pilot (''Lost'')}}
?{{DEFAULTSORT:…}}
instead of the template {{
Defaultsort|…}}. --
Michael Bednarek (
talk) 04:59, 27 September 2010 (UTC){{
featured article}}
etc.
Rambo's Revenge
(talk) 11:41, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Cinematic Titanic has been improperly italicized by transcluding this template. I can't figure out how to remove it. Any ideas? Robert K S ( talk) 03:08, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
|name={{noitalic|Cinematic Titanic}}
.
PC78 (
talk) 18:17, 15 October 2010 (UTC)I've found another case in which neither the template nor DISPLAYTITLE works.
Stephen Colbert's book I Am America (And So Can You!) doesn't display fully in italics. I first did a preview with "italic title", and as expected, it only italicized I Am America. I then used DISPLAYTITLE, but it produced exactly the same result as "italic title".
Is there any way to display the entire title in italics? — Dale Arnett ( talk) 20:29, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
For reference, here are links to places where italic page titles have been discussed:
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 03:41, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 04:27, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Another somewhat related discussion related to title styling:
— Edokter • Talk • 12:08, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add a lowercase option to this template, for article titles that need to be both italicised and with the first letter decapitalised? PC78 ( talk) 19:21, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:…}}
; see
Wikipedia:Page name#Changing the displayed title. --
Michael Bednarek (
talk) 06:25, 4 February 2011 (UTC)We've been having a discussion at Template_talk:Infobox_television#Template:Infobox_television_season regarding articles which are named "List of X episodes", such as List of House episodes. For these it is not necessary for the whole article to be italicised, just the series name. So, for the example it would be "List of House episodes". There aren't any times when the whole of a "List of X episodes" article needs to be italicised (tell me if I'm wrong). This can be achieved using the DISPLAYTITLE magic word, but it would be great if this could be implemented within this template too (since this template is widely used, particularly in many infoboxes). This would then prevent the need to disable infoboxes from italicising the title on these articles, instead they would automatically be given the correct italicisation. I don't even know whether this is possible or not, but I was wondering if there's any way either this template (or {{ italic title infobox}}) could be modified so that articles in the format "List of X episodes" are italicised in the correct manner? Mhiji ( talk) 22:05, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
{{
str right}}
to not italicise episodes at the end but I think you'd then get examples like
List of The Office (U.S. TV series) episodes instead of
List of The Office (U.S. TV series) episodes. One could probably make a rule to excluse brackets within (like italic title) but it would be more complicated.
Rambo's Revenge
(talk) 14:10, 19 November 2010 (UTC){{
editprotected}}
Seriously? This thing uses {{
str len}} to find out if the page title is less than 50 characters long?
Please change it to use {{ Str ≥ len}} so that this massive waste can be avoided. Thanks. -- Yair rand ( talk) 05:02, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Is there an automated or semi-automated way to implement italic titles on articles in Category:Latin words and phrases? Or, even further, through most of Category:Words and phrases by language? Thanks, - M.Nelson ( talk) 23:43, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), the title of a play. My attempt does nothing. Varlaam ( talk) 06:12, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Why is the title of this article italicised? I can't work it out. I assume it's something to do with the album infoboxes. J Milburn ( talk) 00:12, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
|italic title=no
to avoid italics in the article's title. --
Michael Bednarek (
talk) 00:57, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
|italic title=no
didn't work... I've fixed it by adding {{DISPLAYTITLE:Jim Neversink}}
underneath the infoboxes though.|Italic title=no
with a capital "I" in the word "Italic".Please see the thread I just started at Template talk:Lowercase title#Incompatibility with Template:Italic title. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 16:56, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
I know this template has a "force" parameter, but it is undocumented and its purpose remains unclear. Can someone who knows please document the parameter's purpose and use? thanks. -- Muhandes ( talk) 13:30, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
28-Jan-2011: I see now that {Italic_title} is using 4 {Str_find} and hence, 5 {Str_len} for each name having a left parenthesis "(" in the title. Meanwhile, {Str_find} has not been optimized, and always uses 99 calls to parser function {padleft:|}, regardless of title length. That comes to 450 calls to {padleft} for each name with "(" in the title. So, with over "353,026" pages using Template:Italic_title to italicize films, books, albums (etc.), that uses over 35,302,600 (35 million) calls to {padleft}, plus 350 calls for each name with "(" in the title. Perhaps more than 50 million {padleft}. I think we need to rewrite Template:Italic_title to use fewer calls to {padleft}, as a step towards conserving resources, some day. Meanwhile, let's handle titles longer than 50 characters (perhaps 70?), while rewriting the template markup as more efficient. An easy step would be to make {Str_find} invoke a choice of new subtemplates {Str_find/20}, {Str_find/40} or {Str_find/60} depending on {str_len} of the title, rather than always check {padleft} repeated 50*2-1=99 times for shorter titles. More later. - Wikid77 19:52, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
02-Feb-2011: I have created a proposed, streamlined version as Template:Italic_title/sandbox2, to process titles 10x faster, while allowing longer titles to have "(xx)" such as up to 70 characters long (or perhaps 99). I realize other people are also busy, so this is just an announcement of the proposed new version. The optimization is based on passing the string location of the parenthesis "(" into optimized string-handling templates, to avoid the repeated steps which would re-find the "(" and re-count the length of a title. If a parser function is added as "{Italicname:xx}" than that can be used instead. This new version is an interim step, to quickly provide 10x times faster processing. - Wikid77 15:12, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Proposal: As shown in version Template:Italic_title/sandbox2, for the #switch branch "101" (expecting parenthesis, non-forced, length<50), the #switch will use new Template:Strloc_insert to insert the end-italic tag "</i>" at the location of "(" or append to end of title, when no "(" is found. The new markup logic, using {strloc_insert} is:
<i>{{strloc_insert|{{PAGENAME}}|</i>| strloc={{strfind_short|{{PAGENAME}}|(|1| lenstr={{strlen_quick|{{PAGENAME}} }} }} }}
That starts with italic font using "<i>" and then inserts the end-italic tag before "(" or at end of the title. It uses new template {{ Strfind_short}} to find the "(" only once, but 3x times faster by only checking the actual string length (such as 15 long), not the always 50-length search in {str_find}, which had been used 4 times. Plus, it counts title length by new {{ Strlen_quick}} to count the length 2x times (twice) as fast, using #switch branches prioritized by common title lengths, knowing most titles are 17/18 long. The actual article title lengths are typically 8-29 long, almost never 1-3 characters, so length 9 is checked earlier, being 19x more common than length 3; similarly, title length 5 is checked later, as almost as rare as length 31, 32, 33, etc. A length > 90 occurs only 1-in-10,000 titles, such as rare title " Astro Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head". Combining all those improvements, the speed will average 10x faster, although some short titles might italicize 20x faster. If the length is increased (from 50) to 70 or 99, then a suffix of "(film)" can be processed easier. Perhaps only 35 titles are over 90 characters long, so they could default to all-italic. - Wikid77 16:31, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
{{
italic title}}
should be processed at most once per page, per parse. Does this provide a tangible performance improvement?
Happy‑
melon 16:58, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
{{padleft:...}}
calls in use on the Wikimedia cluster (don't forget that as far as the sysadmins are concerned, all 850 WMF wikis are just slightly varied manifestations of the same software instance, they all run on top of one another) is probably well into the billions, so this is not a particularly noticeable reduction in that sense. Optimising in order to provide new functionality, however, is unquestionably beneficial.
Happy‑
melon 10:54, 5 February 2011 (UTC)Template:Italic title does not appear to italicize the title for the article: Guillaume Tell (Grétry). Could the diacritic in the parenthetic expression be a problem? There aren't any similar examples of this problem that I have been able to find. -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 04:49, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Using {{str sub}}
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Using {{substr any}}
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Substitute {{str sub}}
calls with {{substr any}}
as comments above, to support diacritic chars after brackets to be correctly italicized. —
Fitoschido //
Leave me a shout! 16:07, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion about the use of this template at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#The italics issue (article titles) -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 22:57, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Is there any reason why we shouldn't restrict this to main space? I can't currently think of a case in other name spaces where we would want to put the title in italics using this template. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:27, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
at Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language (59 characters). — kwami ( talk) 02:09, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
|italic title = force
(as I just did). --
Muhandes (
talk) 07:23, 17 May 2011 (UTC)Hi, I've been trying to get this template to work on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) (currently today's featured article) to get it to display as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series), but I can't get it to work. I assume it has something to do with having greater than 50 characters, but I've tried the suggestions in the documentation and even tried using DISPLAYTITLE and I still can't get it to work. I assume I'm probably missing something obvious, but any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Jenks24 ( talk) 08:17, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
I am trying to fix the italicization of the article Enteng Kabisote 2: Okay Ka Fairy Ko: The Legend Continues, Enteng Kabisote 3: Okay Ka, Fairy Ko: The Legend Goes On and On and On, and Enteng Kabisote 4: Okay Ka Fairy Ko...The Beginning of the Legend but no matter what ways it don't works. Please HELP ME! j3j3j3 ... pfH0wHz 14:05, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
When an article with an italic title is displayed in a Wikipedia book, the whole title is italicised, including anything in brackets. Is there any way to fix this? McLerristarr | Mclay1 09:14, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
When I load a Wikipedia article that has an italicized title in Firefox 8, the title flashes for a split second correctly (showing bold and italicized) then shows the angle brackets etc. of the ... tags around the title, in bold, but no longer italicized.
Is this merely a browser quirk or is there an underlying flaw in the template?
Infoaddicted ( talk) 16:08, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is an Template:Infobox album issue, but considering that it involves italics, I figure I should come here.
When browsing tonight, I discovered that the title for
The Boys (Girls' Generation album) is not italicized using Italic title = force
italicizes the whole thing rather than just the portion outside of brackets, but such a short title should be italicized anyway. What's wrong with the coding there? I've even removed the infobox and just put in this template and it still does nothing. I had to do
this to fix it, but I should not even have to have done that.—
Ryulong (
竜龙) 12:07, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Is it possible to use this code on other wikis? I have tried copying the code into my own "Template:Italic title", but suspect that I need a number of other templates (perhaps far too many) as it isn't working at the moment. Google hasn't had any useful results, and I have had similar problems trying to get slightly advanced features to work on another wiki. Hoping someone with the know-how will be willing to help. -- xensyria T 02:26, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, Can you please change the title of "I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later" to "I Dream of Jeannie...Fifteen Years Later" because I watched some of it recently and the latter is the correct title. Thanks, Joemcphilly1960
Joemcphilly1960 ( talk) 00:13, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
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The template shortcut, Italictitle, that resulted from a page move, needs redirect categories. Please edit the shortcut as follows:
#REDIRECT [[Template:Italic title]]
#REDIRECT [[Template:Italic title]]
Please leave one line blank
{{Redr|move|tsh|protected}}
"Redr" is a shortcut for the {{ This is a redirect}} template. Thank you in advance! – PAINE ELLSWORTH C L I M A X ! 08:54, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
While editing, I came across an article titled Redemption (2012 film), about a short documentary film. The title wasn't italicized, so I proceeded to edit the article. I found this template ({{ Italic title}}) already on the page, but it was placed down below the categories. I placed this template at the TOP of the edit page, but it still would not italicize the word "Redemption" in the article title. I tried to use {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and that worked; the word "Redemption" was italicized in the title. From there I performed three brief experiments:
So there must be something in that article title that is disabling this template. I just can't figure out what it is. Even if you type in the article title, plain keyboard letters, numbers and parentheses (no apostrophes or other special characters), this template does not italicize it. What's up with that? – PAINE ELLSWORTH C L I M A X ! 07:42, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Given this edit, I've updated Template:Auto italic title to no longer warn about the old 50-character restriction. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 20:06, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
There is an Rfc at Talk:Wikipedia#RfC: Wikipedia in italics? that may interest you. Please come and read the summary, then include your !vote if you would like to do so. Thank you in advance for your consideration. – PAINE ELLSWORTH CLIMAX! 18:40, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
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This is nit-picky, but something I stumbled over. {{ Italic title/doc}} inconsistently used the word "brackets" (and variations) to mean "parentheses". Unless I misunderstand, since brackets [], braces {}, and "angle brackets" <> cannot actually be part of titles – the only issue being dealt with in this template is the presence of parentheses (). I fixed the template doc, but the comments (and variable name) in this Module may still cause confusion if someone reads them. I suggest editing as follows:
—[ AlanM1( talk)]— 08:56, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
I wanted to use the {{italictitle}} template on the Rahona page (actually to side-step a larger issue about how the {{automatic taxobox}} was working). If I put {{italictitle}} after the taxobox, as suggested here, it works fine. But if I put it before, I get a large amount of extra whitespace. Why should this make any difference at all? All this template should do is cause the title to be italic. There should be no side effects whatsoever or it is a bug. Is Mediawiki really designed such that there's no easy way too accomplish that without hacking together a solution that will have side-effects? Jason Quinn ( talk) 05:14, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
{{Automatic taxobox
or does it happen with other constructs? If the latter, please give examples. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 13:47, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
{{italicstitle}}{{Automatic taxobox
all on one line to avoid the extra carriage return. (
revision link).
Rkitko (
talk) 15:08, 5 April 2013 (UTC)Hello template gurus. I have a recent example from that diff. Any ideas? Ping to User:Redrose64 perhaps! Best. Biosthmors ( talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{ U}}) when u sign ur reply, thx 15:59, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
{{
Use dmy dates}}
{{
Italic title}}
or both in the last section, where any superfluous blank space doesn't matter. Somewhere between the navboxes and the {{DEFAULTSORT}}
, see
WP:FOOTERS - that is, among the other items that produce nothing visible at the point of inclusion such as {{
coord}}
and {{
persondata}}
. --
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change
if title.nsText and title.nsText ~= "" then result = title.nsText .. ':' .. result end
to
if title.nsText and title.nsText ~= "" then result = title.nsText:gsub('_', ' ') .. ':' .. result end
because normally shown title has no underscore (e.g. User talk:Nullzero/sandbox), but title.nsText has underscore in it (e.g. User talk:Nullzero/sandbox2).
Thank you -- Nullzero ( talk) 15:44, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
@ Mr. Stradivarius: Could you extend the module so that {{ Italic_title_prefixed}}, {{ Lcfirstitalictitle}} can be switched to use this module instead? Thank you -- Nullzero ( talk) 17:46, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
This template's documentation says it should be placed "normally at the very top" of an article. It isn't mentioned in the list of "Order of article elements" at WP:ORDER. I've started a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Layout#Order_of_article_elements:_what_about_Italic_title.2C_Use_DMY_dates.2C_etc_.3F: do join in if you have views. Thanks. Pam D 14:54, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
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Please apply
this change to the module because prior to lua implementation,
there was a parameter called force
(which now is renamed to all
). The 'force' parameter is still in use, such as in
Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun), so it's better to restore its functionality back.
Thank you -- Nullzero ( talk) 16:53, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Seems to me that The Man and The Journey should be italicised in the The Man and The Journey article, but "and" shouldn't be. Is there a way to do this? Popcornduff ( talk) 19:22, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Man'' and ''The Journey''}}
. The point of {{
Italic title}} is for a template to automatically italicise and that works well for hundreds of thousands of uses so it's far from useless. There is no way a template can guess on its own that "and" shouldn't be italicised in
The Man and The Journey. If you could specify it with a parameter then you may as well use DISPLAYTITLE directly.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 02:13, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}
is a very useful one, but {{
italic title}} in taxons is not. For the past 4-5 years I was trying to figure out why should it be used in taxons if the title there is already italicized. I came up with the filling that with or without it, the title remains italicized.--
Mishae (
talk) 23:46, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:}}
with a colon is a magic word listed at
mw:Help:Magic words. {{
italic title}} works by using {{DISPLAYTITLE:}}
. Some infoboxes automatically italicise the title in some or all cases, see for example
Template:Taxobox#Italic page titles. And guess what: They do it by calling {{
italic title}}, because that's a practical template. Most of the around 600000 pages using {{
italic title}} probably do it via an infobox.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:02, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
''
in its genus and species I don't see a point of using it.--
Mishae (
talk) 03:43, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
|name =
parameter is absent) aren't met, often because there's a reference included in |binomial =
or the name parameter has a vernacular name displayed. I assure you that it is quite useful on these kinds of articles about taxa.
Rkitko (
talk) 04:06, 17 February 2015 (UTC){{italic title}}
directly to the article. For example, {{
Taxobox}} uses {{
Taxobox name}} which has {{italic title}}
in its code as you can see by clicking "
View source". If {{
italic title}} was deleted then hundreds of thousands of page names would suddenly lose their italics. And there are also many articles which do add the template directly and not via an infobox, for example articles which don't have an infobox at all. I get the impression your definition of "useless" is "I don't understand how it's used". Trust us, it's not useless.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 05:23, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
A minor limitation: The template doesn't currently italicize an initial or ending apostrophe. Compare
'47 (magazine)
before and
after a
fix with {{DISPLAYTITLE:''<nowiki/>'47'' (magazine)}}
. nowiki was used to avoid clashes of apostrophes. Other of the articles at
Special:PrefixIndex/' has the issue, for example
'Round Midnight (Kenny Burrell album). If there is both an initial and ending apostrophe (this appears very rare except for redirects) then nothing is italicized.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 18:14, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
<i>...</i>
instead of ''
for marking these things in italics would fix it probably. --
Izno (
talk) 18:22, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:<i>'47</i> (magazine)}}
also works when previewing
'47 (magazine).
PrimeHunter (
talk) 12:49, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
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Per
this discussion, I made
this change to the sandbox. It resolved the bug as expected (tested on
'47 (magazine)). (It could also use mw.html but I didn't see a need for that here since the <i>
is not complex.) --
Izno (
talk) 17:44, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
In talk namespaces with a space, {{ Italic title}} displays an underscore. On subpages the whole title is italicised. This gives poor formatting on many pages, for example AfC pages where Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Chulo Magazine displays as Wikipedia_talk:Articles for creation/Chulo Magazine. Maybe italic title should simply be ignored in some namespaces. PrimeHunter ( talk) 04:12, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
I have added italic title here: and now the title of this page is template_talk: <title in italic>. It should not add the _ Christian75 ( talk) 12:05, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
I see this issue has been reported several times in the past. (Merged thread with User:PrimeHunter's.) Pinging module creator Mr. Stradivarius to see if these namespaces can be excluded by default. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 08:30, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
The shortcuts Template:Italic and Template:Italics are currently being discussed at Redirects for discussion. Uanfala ( talk) 00:53, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
I suggest an optional parameter like |dab=yes
to only apply italics to a disambiguation, i.e. inside ending parentheses if there are any. It would for example be useful for television episodes like
Epic Fail (House) and fictional characters like
John Black (Days of Our Lives). Such cases currently use DISPLAYTITLE directly but a recent feature adds an ugly red warning if a DISPLAYTITLE doesn't match the page name due to a move or whatever (
example with our/OUR). A template would be simpler and more reliable. A new template like {{
italic dab}} would be even simpler.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:57, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
<i>Page title</i> (<i>Dab text</i>)
. If so, I think we might want to consider two parameters, |title=
for the title and |dab=
for the dab, both of which can be set to yes
or no
. (Of course, if they are both "no", there's no need to use DISPLAYTITLE in the first place.) —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 23:29, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
|title=
and |dab=
parameter are available then I would want the default for |title=
to be no when |dab=
is yes, but the default for title is yes when there are no parameters, so such a |title=
parameter could be confusing.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:46, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
|dab=
as a parameter name for what you are suggesting, though, as to me it would indicate that both the title and the dab text would be italicised. How about something like |dabonly=
? —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 01:48, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
|dabonly=
sounds fine. Do you support the suggested |string=
parameter to specify the italicised substring? Another name with the same functionality would be OK. It would enable nearly all cases that aren't covered by the yes parameters.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 02:34, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
|string=
parameter sounds like a good idea. I'll have a go at implementing both of those in the sandbox now. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 02:40, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
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{{Redr}} is deprecated. Please replace it with:
{{Redirect category shell| {{R from move}} {{R from template shortcut}} }}
It doesn't need proteced; "protection levels are automatically sensed, described and categorized." and the current template has "Fully protected" twice. Christian75 ( talk) 17:20, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi, could someone with permissions to edit this template please consider removing a space that is transcluded onto every page with this template? This causes the text in the lead section/lede to start one line lower compared to other pages. Thanks. --Qwerty Binary ( talk) 07:41, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
{{pp-protected|reason=Persistent [[WP:Disruptive editing|disruptive editing]]|expiry=19:04, 1 October 2016|small=yes}} {{italic title}} {{Infobox website <!-- snip --> }}
[[Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates|Drudge Report]] <table class="infobox vcard" style="width:22em"><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center"> <!-- snip -->
<nowiki />
tag directly before {{
italic title}}. (There is some documentation about the latter technique at
WP:NOWIKI.) Hope this helps. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 08:53, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Talking for a Template used in 759,000+ pages about how to trick the MediaWiki parser is not so productive. The problem will persist since the Template may be used later by tens or hundreds of other templates or modules included (later) in many of these 759,000+ pages. (ok I exaggerate a little -about hundreds- but I think I still have a point here...) -- Xoristzatziki ( talk) 04:56, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
This
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Please remove the italics from the title of the article Ultimate Marvel. Ultimate Marvel is not the name of a specific publication, but is an imprint, and imprints are not italicized. Nightscream ( talk) 02:03, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
{{
Italic title}}
. If possible, please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. If you cannot edit the article's talk page, you can instead make your request at
Wikipedia:Requests for page protection#Current requests for edits to a protected page. —
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C) 02:18, 4 January 2018 (UTC)This
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Please remove this from the article ResurrXion. That name refers to a relaunch of comic book series, and is NOT the name of any particular book. It therefore should not be italicized. Nightscream ( talk) 03:33, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
{{
Italic title}}
. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. —
JJMC89 (
T·
C) 03:48, 4 September 2018 (UTC)Why is is there no obvious way to remove the italic title once it has been installed? This article about author Mark Tavener is in incorrectly displaying in italics and I cannot fix it. —Мандичка YO 😜 20:44, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
First, needs to be support |string2=
and perhaps |string3=
. Second, it is always taking the last occurrence of the string as the one to italicize, and this may not be correct. For example, it is not possible with this template and module to correctly italicize a title like "WP:In versus of in article titles", which will come out as "WP:In versus of in article titles", which is doubly wrong. One like "WP:in, of, and from in article titles" is an example that would use three italicized parameters. —
SMcCandlish
☏
¢ 😼 11:59, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Wikipedia:''In'' versus ''of'' in article titles}}
. It's usually easier than it would be to call {{
Italic title}} with multiple parameters, and separate italic strings are so rare you had to make up an example (
WP:In versus of in article titles is red). I have only seen it once or twice and don't recall ever seeing an italic string occur twice.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 12:15, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:}}
. I just ran into this issue myself (at
Pars destruens and pars construens) and would have been completely stuck were it not for finding this thread.
142.160.89.97 (
talk) 05:32, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
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Australian Museums and Galleries Association somehow got an italicised title after a page move, I think. I can't work out how to undo this, so am hoping that this is the place to ask! Laterthanyouthink ( talk) 03:54, 13 August 2019 (UTC) Laterthanyouthink ( talk) 03:54, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
|italic title=no
to {{
infobox magazine}} is the fix for that article. —
JJMC89 (
T·
C) 04:30, 13 August 2019 (UTC)Template:Lower case first letter italic title has been nominated for deletion. Comments are welcome in the TFD. – Uanfala (talk) 18:00, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
I've updated this outdated documentation that still told editors that the template should be placed "normally at the very top" of the article. That was correct originally, but has not been accurate since the introduction of short descriptions to all articles. MOS:ORDER explicitly puts the {{ short description}} template, where it exists, right at the top. Admittedly, the MOS does not consider {{ Italic title}} to be important enough to state explicitly where that should go, but other (recent) documentation makes it very clear that now {{ short description}} always takes first position: see for example the guidance at Wikipedia:Short_description#Format_and_placing and the template documentation at Template:Short description which says "at the very top of the article, above everything else". MichaelMaggs ( talk) 11:51, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
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Archive 1 | Archive 2 |
This template has been added to Template:Infobox comic book title and to Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Writing guide, and these usages added to Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restrictions)#Italics_and_formatting. I can see no evidence there was any discussion of the issues. Whenever editors have removed this from these three pages (and when I removed this template from some pages, only a few of them journals), these edits have often been reverted. — innotata 22:12, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
If anyone can figure out how to use this template (or another one) to italicize the full title of On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration, please edit that article to show me how. Wareh ( talk) 17:17, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
The same problem was brought up here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Academic Journals/Writing guide. I fixed the problem articles using the "DISPLAYTITLE magic word". Is there any way to fix this template, or is it a more serious technical limitation? Justin W Smith talk/ stalk 01:05, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
I've had a few issues with this template with regard to using it at {{ Infobox album}}; see Template talk:Infobox album#Edit request to protected template. As I understand from the documentation:
{{
italic title|How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today}}
should italicise the title at
How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today, and{{
italic title|Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)}}
should italicise the full title at
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)But neither of these worked when I tried them. Bearing in mind the recent policy change at WP:ITALICTITLE, we could do to have this template working properly. I don't mind saying that I feel a little out of my depth with the code used here, so I would appreciate any input. Cheers! PC78 ( talk) 22:05, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
|force=
parameter that will force the full title to italicize (you should set it to a logical value). Don't try to pass force=false or force=no, though.
Intelligent
sium 23:20, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
And the other use case is:
{{
italic title|Enter the Wu-Tang|36 Chambers}}
So that is just a small misunderstanding on your part. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 23:31, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
{{
italic title|Enter the Wu-Tang|foo}}
, but the behaviour was no different to a plain {{
italic title}}
.
PC78 (
talk) 14:43, 28 September 2010 (UTC)I know there was an RfC (which I managed to miss) and, apparently, consensus was to italicise all. A couple of examples (and all similarly named articles) this template doesn't cater for would be:
Have things like this been considered, lots of episode articles will have a television series disambiguator. This whole thing was about consistency but is it feasible. I'm guessing we don't want lots of {{{DISPLAYTITLE}}}s everywhere. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 00:05, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:List of awards and nominations received by ''Lost''}}
or{{DISPLAYTITLE:Pilot (''Lost'')}}
?{{DEFAULTSORT:…}}
instead of the template {{
Defaultsort|…}}. --
Michael Bednarek (
talk) 04:59, 27 September 2010 (UTC){{
featured article}}
etc.
Rambo's Revenge
(talk) 11:41, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Cinematic Titanic has been improperly italicized by transcluding this template. I can't figure out how to remove it. Any ideas? Robert K S ( talk) 03:08, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
|name={{noitalic|Cinematic Titanic}}
.
PC78 (
talk) 18:17, 15 October 2010 (UTC)I've found another case in which neither the template nor DISPLAYTITLE works.
Stephen Colbert's book I Am America (And So Can You!) doesn't display fully in italics. I first did a preview with "italic title", and as expected, it only italicized I Am America. I then used DISPLAYTITLE, but it produced exactly the same result as "italic title".
Is there any way to display the entire title in italics? — Dale Arnett ( talk) 20:29, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
For reference, here are links to places where italic page titles have been discussed:
-- David Göthberg ( talk) 03:41, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 04:27, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Another somewhat related discussion related to title styling:
— Edokter • Talk • 12:08, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add a lowercase option to this template, for article titles that need to be both italicised and with the first letter decapitalised? PC78 ( talk) 19:21, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:…}}
; see
Wikipedia:Page name#Changing the displayed title. --
Michael Bednarek (
talk) 06:25, 4 February 2011 (UTC)We've been having a discussion at Template_talk:Infobox_television#Template:Infobox_television_season regarding articles which are named "List of X episodes", such as List of House episodes. For these it is not necessary for the whole article to be italicised, just the series name. So, for the example it would be "List of House episodes". There aren't any times when the whole of a "List of X episodes" article needs to be italicised (tell me if I'm wrong). This can be achieved using the DISPLAYTITLE magic word, but it would be great if this could be implemented within this template too (since this template is widely used, particularly in many infoboxes). This would then prevent the need to disable infoboxes from italicising the title on these articles, instead they would automatically be given the correct italicisation. I don't even know whether this is possible or not, but I was wondering if there's any way either this template (or {{ italic title infobox}}) could be modified so that articles in the format "List of X episodes" are italicised in the correct manner? Mhiji ( talk) 22:05, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
{{
str right}}
to not italicise episodes at the end but I think you'd then get examples like
List of The Office (U.S. TV series) episodes instead of
List of The Office (U.S. TV series) episodes. One could probably make a rule to excluse brackets within (like italic title) but it would be more complicated.
Rambo's Revenge
(talk) 14:10, 19 November 2010 (UTC){{
editprotected}}
Seriously? This thing uses {{
str len}} to find out if the page title is less than 50 characters long?
Please change it to use {{ Str ≥ len}} so that this massive waste can be avoided. Thanks. -- Yair rand ( talk) 05:02, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Is there an automated or semi-automated way to implement italic titles on articles in Category:Latin words and phrases? Or, even further, through most of Category:Words and phrases by language? Thanks, - M.Nelson ( talk) 23:43, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), the title of a play. My attempt does nothing. Varlaam ( talk) 06:12, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Why is the title of this article italicised? I can't work it out. I assume it's something to do with the album infoboxes. J Milburn ( talk) 00:12, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
|italic title=no
to avoid italics in the article's title. --
Michael Bednarek (
talk) 00:57, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
|italic title=no
didn't work... I've fixed it by adding {{DISPLAYTITLE:Jim Neversink}}
underneath the infoboxes though.|Italic title=no
with a capital "I" in the word "Italic".Please see the thread I just started at Template talk:Lowercase title#Incompatibility with Template:Italic title. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 16:56, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
I know this template has a "force" parameter, but it is undocumented and its purpose remains unclear. Can someone who knows please document the parameter's purpose and use? thanks. -- Muhandes ( talk) 13:30, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
28-Jan-2011: I see now that {Italic_title} is using 4 {Str_find} and hence, 5 {Str_len} for each name having a left parenthesis "(" in the title. Meanwhile, {Str_find} has not been optimized, and always uses 99 calls to parser function {padleft:|}, regardless of title length. That comes to 450 calls to {padleft} for each name with "(" in the title. So, with over "353,026" pages using Template:Italic_title to italicize films, books, albums (etc.), that uses over 35,302,600 (35 million) calls to {padleft}, plus 350 calls for each name with "(" in the title. Perhaps more than 50 million {padleft}. I think we need to rewrite Template:Italic_title to use fewer calls to {padleft}, as a step towards conserving resources, some day. Meanwhile, let's handle titles longer than 50 characters (perhaps 70?), while rewriting the template markup as more efficient. An easy step would be to make {Str_find} invoke a choice of new subtemplates {Str_find/20}, {Str_find/40} or {Str_find/60} depending on {str_len} of the title, rather than always check {padleft} repeated 50*2-1=99 times for shorter titles. More later. - Wikid77 19:52, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
02-Feb-2011: I have created a proposed, streamlined version as Template:Italic_title/sandbox2, to process titles 10x faster, while allowing longer titles to have "(xx)" such as up to 70 characters long (or perhaps 99). I realize other people are also busy, so this is just an announcement of the proposed new version. The optimization is based on passing the string location of the parenthesis "(" into optimized string-handling templates, to avoid the repeated steps which would re-find the "(" and re-count the length of a title. If a parser function is added as "{Italicname:xx}" than that can be used instead. This new version is an interim step, to quickly provide 10x times faster processing. - Wikid77 15:12, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Proposal: As shown in version Template:Italic_title/sandbox2, for the #switch branch "101" (expecting parenthesis, non-forced, length<50), the #switch will use new Template:Strloc_insert to insert the end-italic tag "</i>" at the location of "(" or append to end of title, when no "(" is found. The new markup logic, using {strloc_insert} is:
<i>{{strloc_insert|{{PAGENAME}}|</i>| strloc={{strfind_short|{{PAGENAME}}|(|1| lenstr={{strlen_quick|{{PAGENAME}} }} }} }}
That starts with italic font using "<i>" and then inserts the end-italic tag before "(" or at end of the title. It uses new template {{ Strfind_short}} to find the "(" only once, but 3x times faster by only checking the actual string length (such as 15 long), not the always 50-length search in {str_find}, which had been used 4 times. Plus, it counts title length by new {{ Strlen_quick}} to count the length 2x times (twice) as fast, using #switch branches prioritized by common title lengths, knowing most titles are 17/18 long. The actual article title lengths are typically 8-29 long, almost never 1-3 characters, so length 9 is checked earlier, being 19x more common than length 3; similarly, title length 5 is checked later, as almost as rare as length 31, 32, 33, etc. A length > 90 occurs only 1-in-10,000 titles, such as rare title " Astro Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head". Combining all those improvements, the speed will average 10x faster, although some short titles might italicize 20x faster. If the length is increased (from 50) to 70 or 99, then a suffix of "(film)" can be processed easier. Perhaps only 35 titles are over 90 characters long, so they could default to all-italic. - Wikid77 16:31, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
{{
italic title}}
should be processed at most once per page, per parse. Does this provide a tangible performance improvement?
Happy‑
melon 16:58, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
{{padleft:...}}
calls in use on the Wikimedia cluster (don't forget that as far as the sysadmins are concerned, all 850 WMF wikis are just slightly varied manifestations of the same software instance, they all run on top of one another) is probably well into the billions, so this is not a particularly noticeable reduction in that sense. Optimising in order to provide new functionality, however, is unquestionably beneficial.
Happy‑
melon 10:54, 5 February 2011 (UTC)Template:Italic title does not appear to italicize the title for the article: Guillaume Tell (Grétry). Could the diacritic in the parenthetic expression be a problem? There aren't any similar examples of this problem that I have been able to find. -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 04:49, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Using {{str sub}}
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Using {{substr any}}
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Substitute {{str sub}}
calls with {{substr any}}
as comments above, to support diacritic chars after brackets to be correctly italicized. —
Fitoschido //
Leave me a shout! 16:07, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion about the use of this template at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#The italics issue (article titles) -- Robert.Allen ( talk) 22:57, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Is there any reason why we shouldn't restrict this to main space? I can't currently think of a case in other name spaces where we would want to put the title in italics using this template. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:27, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
at Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language (59 characters). — kwami ( talk) 02:09, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
|italic title = force
(as I just did). --
Muhandes (
talk) 07:23, 17 May 2011 (UTC)Hi, I've been trying to get this template to work on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) (currently today's featured article) to get it to display as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series), but I can't get it to work. I assume it has something to do with having greater than 50 characters, but I've tried the suggestions in the documentation and even tried using DISPLAYTITLE and I still can't get it to work. I assume I'm probably missing something obvious, but any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Jenks24 ( talk) 08:17, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
I am trying to fix the italicization of the article Enteng Kabisote 2: Okay Ka Fairy Ko: The Legend Continues, Enteng Kabisote 3: Okay Ka, Fairy Ko: The Legend Goes On and On and On, and Enteng Kabisote 4: Okay Ka Fairy Ko...The Beginning of the Legend but no matter what ways it don't works. Please HELP ME! j3j3j3 ... pfH0wHz 14:05, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
When an article with an italic title is displayed in a Wikipedia book, the whole title is italicised, including anything in brackets. Is there any way to fix this? McLerristarr | Mclay1 09:14, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
When I load a Wikipedia article that has an italicized title in Firefox 8, the title flashes for a split second correctly (showing bold and italicized) then shows the angle brackets etc. of the ... tags around the title, in bold, but no longer italicized.
Is this merely a browser quirk or is there an underlying flaw in the template?
Infoaddicted ( talk) 16:08, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is an Template:Infobox album issue, but considering that it involves italics, I figure I should come here.
When browsing tonight, I discovered that the title for
The Boys (Girls' Generation album) is not italicized using Italic title = force
italicizes the whole thing rather than just the portion outside of brackets, but such a short title should be italicized anyway. What's wrong with the coding there? I've even removed the infobox and just put in this template and it still does nothing. I had to do
this to fix it, but I should not even have to have done that.—
Ryulong (
竜龙) 12:07, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Is it possible to use this code on other wikis? I have tried copying the code into my own "Template:Italic title", but suspect that I need a number of other templates (perhaps far too many) as it isn't working at the moment. Google hasn't had any useful results, and I have had similar problems trying to get slightly advanced features to work on another wiki. Hoping someone with the know-how will be willing to help. -- xensyria T 02:26, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, Can you please change the title of "I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later" to "I Dream of Jeannie...Fifteen Years Later" because I watched some of it recently and the latter is the correct title. Thanks, Joemcphilly1960
Joemcphilly1960 ( talk) 00:13, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
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The template shortcut, Italictitle, that resulted from a page move, needs redirect categories. Please edit the shortcut as follows:
#REDIRECT [[Template:Italic title]]
#REDIRECT [[Template:Italic title]]
Please leave one line blank
{{Redr|move|tsh|protected}}
"Redr" is a shortcut for the {{ This is a redirect}} template. Thank you in advance! – PAINE ELLSWORTH C L I M A X ! 08:54, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
While editing, I came across an article titled Redemption (2012 film), about a short documentary film. The title wasn't italicized, so I proceeded to edit the article. I found this template ({{ Italic title}}) already on the page, but it was placed down below the categories. I placed this template at the TOP of the edit page, but it still would not italicize the word "Redemption" in the article title. I tried to use {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and that worked; the word "Redemption" was italicized in the title. From there I performed three brief experiments:
So there must be something in that article title that is disabling this template. I just can't figure out what it is. Even if you type in the article title, plain keyboard letters, numbers and parentheses (no apostrophes or other special characters), this template does not italicize it. What's up with that? – PAINE ELLSWORTH C L I M A X ! 07:42, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Given this edit, I've updated Template:Auto italic title to no longer warn about the old 50-character restriction. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 20:06, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
There is an Rfc at Talk:Wikipedia#RfC: Wikipedia in italics? that may interest you. Please come and read the summary, then include your !vote if you would like to do so. Thank you in advance for your consideration. – PAINE ELLSWORTH CLIMAX! 18:40, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
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This is nit-picky, but something I stumbled over. {{ Italic title/doc}} inconsistently used the word "brackets" (and variations) to mean "parentheses". Unless I misunderstand, since brackets [], braces {}, and "angle brackets" <> cannot actually be part of titles – the only issue being dealt with in this template is the presence of parentheses (). I fixed the template doc, but the comments (and variable name) in this Module may still cause confusion if someone reads them. I suggest editing as follows:
—[ AlanM1( talk)]— 08:56, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
I wanted to use the {{italictitle}} template on the Rahona page (actually to side-step a larger issue about how the {{automatic taxobox}} was working). If I put {{italictitle}} after the taxobox, as suggested here, it works fine. But if I put it before, I get a large amount of extra whitespace. Why should this make any difference at all? All this template should do is cause the title to be italic. There should be no side effects whatsoever or it is a bug. Is Mediawiki really designed such that there's no easy way too accomplish that without hacking together a solution that will have side-effects? Jason Quinn ( talk) 05:14, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
{{Automatic taxobox
or does it happen with other constructs? If the latter, please give examples. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 13:47, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
{{italicstitle}}{{Automatic taxobox
all on one line to avoid the extra carriage return. (
revision link).
Rkitko (
talk) 15:08, 5 April 2013 (UTC)Hello template gurus. I have a recent example from that diff. Any ideas? Ping to User:Redrose64 perhaps! Best. Biosthmors ( talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{ U}}) when u sign ur reply, thx 15:59, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
{{
Use dmy dates}}
{{
Italic title}}
or both in the last section, where any superfluous blank space doesn't matter. Somewhere between the navboxes and the {{DEFAULTSORT}}
, see
WP:FOOTERS - that is, among the other items that produce nothing visible at the point of inclusion such as {{
coord}}
and {{
persondata}}
. --
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change
if title.nsText and title.nsText ~= "" then result = title.nsText .. ':' .. result end
to
if title.nsText and title.nsText ~= "" then result = title.nsText:gsub('_', ' ') .. ':' .. result end
because normally shown title has no underscore (e.g. User talk:Nullzero/sandbox), but title.nsText has underscore in it (e.g. User talk:Nullzero/sandbox2).
Thank you -- Nullzero ( talk) 15:44, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
@ Mr. Stradivarius: Could you extend the module so that {{ Italic_title_prefixed}}, {{ Lcfirstitalictitle}} can be switched to use this module instead? Thank you -- Nullzero ( talk) 17:46, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
This template's documentation says it should be placed "normally at the very top" of an article. It isn't mentioned in the list of "Order of article elements" at WP:ORDER. I've started a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Layout#Order_of_article_elements:_what_about_Italic_title.2C_Use_DMY_dates.2C_etc_.3F: do join in if you have views. Thanks. Pam D 14:54, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
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Please apply
this change to the module because prior to lua implementation,
there was a parameter called force
(which now is renamed to all
). The 'force' parameter is still in use, such as in
Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun), so it's better to restore its functionality back.
Thank you -- Nullzero ( talk) 16:53, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Seems to me that The Man and The Journey should be italicised in the The Man and The Journey article, but "and" shouldn't be. Is there a way to do this? Popcornduff ( talk) 19:22, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Man'' and ''The Journey''}}
. The point of {{
Italic title}} is for a template to automatically italicise and that works well for hundreds of thousands of uses so it's far from useless. There is no way a template can guess on its own that "and" shouldn't be italicised in
The Man and The Journey. If you could specify it with a parameter then you may as well use DISPLAYTITLE directly.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 02:13, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}
is a very useful one, but {{
italic title}} in taxons is not. For the past 4-5 years I was trying to figure out why should it be used in taxons if the title there is already italicized. I came up with the filling that with or without it, the title remains italicized.--
Mishae (
talk) 23:46, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:}}
with a colon is a magic word listed at
mw:Help:Magic words. {{
italic title}} works by using {{DISPLAYTITLE:}}
. Some infoboxes automatically italicise the title in some or all cases, see for example
Template:Taxobox#Italic page titles. And guess what: They do it by calling {{
italic title}}, because that's a practical template. Most of the around 600000 pages using {{
italic title}} probably do it via an infobox.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:02, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
''
in its genus and species I don't see a point of using it.--
Mishae (
talk) 03:43, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
|name =
parameter is absent) aren't met, often because there's a reference included in |binomial =
or the name parameter has a vernacular name displayed. I assure you that it is quite useful on these kinds of articles about taxa.
Rkitko (
talk) 04:06, 17 February 2015 (UTC){{italic title}}
directly to the article. For example, {{
Taxobox}} uses {{
Taxobox name}} which has {{italic title}}
in its code as you can see by clicking "
View source". If {{
italic title}} was deleted then hundreds of thousands of page names would suddenly lose their italics. And there are also many articles which do add the template directly and not via an infobox, for example articles which don't have an infobox at all. I get the impression your definition of "useless" is "I don't understand how it's used". Trust us, it's not useless.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 05:23, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
A minor limitation: The template doesn't currently italicize an initial or ending apostrophe. Compare
'47 (magazine)
before and
after a
fix with {{DISPLAYTITLE:''<nowiki/>'47'' (magazine)}}
. nowiki was used to avoid clashes of apostrophes. Other of the articles at
Special:PrefixIndex/' has the issue, for example
'Round Midnight (Kenny Burrell album). If there is both an initial and ending apostrophe (this appears very rare except for redirects) then nothing is italicized.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 18:14, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
<i>...</i>
instead of ''
for marking these things in italics would fix it probably. --
Izno (
talk) 18:22, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:<i>'47</i> (magazine)}}
also works when previewing
'47 (magazine).
PrimeHunter (
talk) 12:49, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Per
this discussion, I made
this change to the sandbox. It resolved the bug as expected (tested on
'47 (magazine)). (It could also use mw.html but I didn't see a need for that here since the <i>
is not complex.) --
Izno (
talk) 17:44, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
In talk namespaces with a space, {{ Italic title}} displays an underscore. On subpages the whole title is italicised. This gives poor formatting on many pages, for example AfC pages where Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Chulo Magazine displays as Wikipedia_talk:Articles for creation/Chulo Magazine. Maybe italic title should simply be ignored in some namespaces. PrimeHunter ( talk) 04:12, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
I have added italic title here: and now the title of this page is template_talk: <title in italic>. It should not add the _ Christian75 ( talk) 12:05, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
I see this issue has been reported several times in the past. (Merged thread with User:PrimeHunter's.) Pinging module creator Mr. Stradivarius to see if these namespaces can be excluded by default. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 08:30, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
The shortcuts Template:Italic and Template:Italics are currently being discussed at Redirects for discussion. Uanfala ( talk) 00:53, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
I suggest an optional parameter like |dab=yes
to only apply italics to a disambiguation, i.e. inside ending parentheses if there are any. It would for example be useful for television episodes like
Epic Fail (House) and fictional characters like
John Black (Days of Our Lives). Such cases currently use DISPLAYTITLE directly but a recent feature adds an ugly red warning if a DISPLAYTITLE doesn't match the page name due to a move or whatever (
example with our/OUR). A template would be simpler and more reliable. A new template like {{
italic dab}} would be even simpler.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:57, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
<i>Page title</i> (<i>Dab text</i>)
. If so, I think we might want to consider two parameters, |title=
for the title and |dab=
for the dab, both of which can be set to yes
or no
. (Of course, if they are both "no", there's no need to use DISPLAYTITLE in the first place.) —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 23:29, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
|title=
and |dab=
parameter are available then I would want the default for |title=
to be no when |dab=
is yes, but the default for title is yes when there are no parameters, so such a |title=
parameter could be confusing.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 00:46, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
|dab=
as a parameter name for what you are suggesting, though, as to me it would indicate that both the title and the dab text would be italicised. How about something like |dabonly=
? —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 01:48, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
|dabonly=
sounds fine. Do you support the suggested |string=
parameter to specify the italicised substring? Another name with the same functionality would be OK. It would enable nearly all cases that aren't covered by the yes parameters.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 02:34, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
|string=
parameter sounds like a good idea. I'll have a go at implementing both of those in the sandbox now. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 02:40, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Template:Italictitle has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
{{Redr}} is deprecated. Please replace it with:
{{Redirect category shell| {{R from move}} {{R from template shortcut}} }}
It doesn't need proteced; "protection levels are automatically sensed, described and categorized." and the current template has "Fully protected" twice. Christian75 ( talk) 17:20, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi, could someone with permissions to edit this template please consider removing a space that is transcluded onto every page with this template? This causes the text in the lead section/lede to start one line lower compared to other pages. Thanks. --Qwerty Binary ( talk) 07:41, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
{{pp-protected|reason=Persistent [[WP:Disruptive editing|disruptive editing]]|expiry=19:04, 1 October 2016|small=yes}} {{italic title}} {{Infobox website <!-- snip --> }}
[[Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates|Drudge Report]] <table class="infobox vcard" style="width:22em"><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center"> <!-- snip -->
<nowiki />
tag directly before {{
italic title}}. (There is some documentation about the latter technique at
WP:NOWIKI.) Hope this helps. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 08:53, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Talking for a Template used in 759,000+ pages about how to trick the MediaWiki parser is not so productive. The problem will persist since the Template may be used later by tens or hundreds of other templates or modules included (later) in many of these 759,000+ pages. (ok I exaggerate a little -about hundreds- but I think I still have a point here...) -- Xoristzatziki ( talk) 04:56, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
This
edit request to
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Please remove the italics from the title of the article Ultimate Marvel. Ultimate Marvel is not the name of a specific publication, but is an imprint, and imprints are not italicized. Nightscream ( talk) 02:03, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
{{
Italic title}}
. If possible, please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. If you cannot edit the article's talk page, you can instead make your request at
Wikipedia:Requests for page protection#Current requests for edits to a protected page. —
JJMC89 (
T·
C) 02:18, 4 January 2018 (UTC)This
edit request to
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Please remove this from the article ResurrXion. That name refers to a relaunch of comic book series, and is NOT the name of any particular book. It therefore should not be italicized. Nightscream ( talk) 03:33, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
{{
Italic title}}
. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. —
JJMC89 (
T·
C) 03:48, 4 September 2018 (UTC)Why is is there no obvious way to remove the italic title once it has been installed? This article about author Mark Tavener is in incorrectly displaying in italics and I cannot fix it. —Мандичка YO 😜 20:44, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
First, needs to be support |string2=
and perhaps |string3=
. Second, it is always taking the last occurrence of the string as the one to italicize, and this may not be correct. For example, it is not possible with this template and module to correctly italicize a title like "WP:In versus of in article titles", which will come out as "WP:In versus of in article titles", which is doubly wrong. One like "WP:in, of, and from in article titles" is an example that would use three italicized parameters. —
SMcCandlish
☏
¢ 😼 11:59, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Wikipedia:''In'' versus ''of'' in article titles}}
. It's usually easier than it would be to call {{
Italic title}} with multiple parameters, and separate italic strings are so rare you had to make up an example (
WP:In versus of in article titles is red). I have only seen it once or twice and don't recall ever seeing an italic string occur twice.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 12:15, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
{{DISPLAYTITLE:}}
. I just ran into this issue myself (at
Pars destruens and pars construens) and would have been completely stuck were it not for finding this thread.
142.160.89.97 (
talk) 05:32, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
This
edit request to
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Australian Museums and Galleries Association somehow got an italicised title after a page move, I think. I can't work out how to undo this, so am hoping that this is the place to ask! Laterthanyouthink ( talk) 03:54, 13 August 2019 (UTC) Laterthanyouthink ( talk) 03:54, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
|italic title=no
to {{
infobox magazine}} is the fix for that article. —
JJMC89 (
T·
C) 04:30, 13 August 2019 (UTC)Template:Lower case first letter italic title has been nominated for deletion. Comments are welcome in the TFD. – Uanfala (talk) 18:00, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
I've updated this outdated documentation that still told editors that the template should be placed "normally at the very top" of the article. That was correct originally, but has not been accurate since the introduction of short descriptions to all articles. MOS:ORDER explicitly puts the {{ short description}} template, where it exists, right at the top. Admittedly, the MOS does not consider {{ Italic title}} to be important enough to state explicitly where that should go, but other (recent) documentation makes it very clear that now {{ short description}} always takes first position: see for example the guidance at Wikipedia:Short_description#Format_and_placing and the template documentation at Template:Short description which says "at the very top of the article, above everything else". MichaelMaggs ( talk) 11:51, 10 April 2021 (UTC)