I request that an additional field(s) be added - for the date of the particular biography. For example, the Yudell Luke biography is dated October 1998 (see version for printing). — ERcheck ( talk) 00:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone else think it would be better if this template used {{ citation}} instead of {{ cite encyclopedia}}? The MacTutor archive isn't really an encyclopedia, and using {{ citation}} would enable this template to be used with {{ Harv}} to provide links from Harvard references. Geometry guy 12:20, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
Would there be anyway of linking up John and Edmund's articles up?-- Brittish incompetance ( talk) 10:12, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
In the
FAC for Speed of light, I was asked to add a publisher (I suppose it'd be
University of St Andrews) and access date (this should be a parameter in the template) for two citations produced by this template.
See here. Could you do that? Thanks in advance―
A._di_M.
2nd Dramaout (formerly Army1987)
20:00, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
Please add the following two lines before the }}
:
|publisher=[[University of St Andrews]] |accessdate={{{accessdate|}}}
(Excluding the nowiki tags, of course; copy from the rendered page.) Thanks. ― A._di_M. 2nd Dramaout (formerly Army1987) 09:33, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
This template is confusing when it is used for an external link. In that case, it should just produce the link to the article with a little blurbed saying it's at the MacTutor archive. We do not have to link O'Conner and Robertson and, for sure, they should not be linked before the external link itself. Jason Quinn ( talk) 23:20, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
format=reference
or format=external
parameter should be added? —
Ruud
21:28, 8 January 2012 (UTC)Hello, I have a proposal for this template: would it be possible to add a author(s) field(s) and also a author-link field? I know that the major part of the biographies are written by John J O'Connor and Edmund F Robertson, but non all of them are: for example see the Renato Caccioppoli and Giacinto Morera external link sections. It would be interesting to specify and refer the exact author. Thank you for your attention. Daniele.tampieri ( talk) 09:40, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
{{
citation}}
template.
Daniele.tampieri (
talk)
15:34, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
{{
citation}}
, to the {{
MacTutor}}
and also to the {{
MathWorld}}
(which behaves nearly exactly the way I like, placing the constant
Weisstein, Eric W. in the author field when the author is not specified) templates should help us doing the job: however an admin's eye would be helpful (consider also that the
Template:MacTutor page cannot be edited by normal user, since it's protected]], and maybe again
Oleg can suggest us the right names, or we can find out looking at the editing history of the referring page who are the ones who control it. I would like the template to show up like in the following example.{{
citation}}
: CS1 maint: date and year (
link).This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
The URL for the archive apparently changed from Biographies to HistTopics. I get "The page could not be found. Please check your URL" for the former and the article itself for the latter. The page I want is http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Zero.html using {{MacTutor|id=Zero|title=A history of Zero}}. — Joe Kress ( talk) 18:02, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
They apparently rearranged their indices. "A history of Zero" now resides in three subindices at MacTutor History of Mathematics History Topics Index, Ancient Babylonian, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic, and Indian. — Joe Kress ( talk) 22:39, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
I tried using this template for: Miller, Jeff (n.d.). "Earliest Uses of Symbols of Calculus". In O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (eds.). MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. University of St Andrews. Retrieved 2023-06-15., but couldn't because the url only contains subdirs, nothing ending in an HTML filename.
I'd suggest the easiest fix (it appears, I'm not good with template invoke/etc.) would be to add an _alias-map=url:contribution-url
so that people can just give something like: {{MacTutor |last= Miller |first= Jeff |title= Earliest Uses of Symbols of Calculus |url= https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathsym/calculus/}}
, and not have to parse/faff with the |id=
or |class=
stuff. —
sbb (
talk)
15:41, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
I request that an additional field(s) be added - for the date of the particular biography. For example, the Yudell Luke biography is dated October 1998 (see version for printing). — ERcheck ( talk) 00:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone else think it would be better if this template used {{ citation}} instead of {{ cite encyclopedia}}? The MacTutor archive isn't really an encyclopedia, and using {{ citation}} would enable this template to be used with {{ Harv}} to provide links from Harvard references. Geometry guy 12:20, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
Would there be anyway of linking up John and Edmund's articles up?-- Brittish incompetance ( talk) 10:12, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
In the
FAC for Speed of light, I was asked to add a publisher (I suppose it'd be
University of St Andrews) and access date (this should be a parameter in the template) for two citations produced by this template.
See here. Could you do that? Thanks in advance―
A._di_M.
2nd Dramaout (formerly Army1987)
20:00, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
Please add the following two lines before the }}
:
|publisher=[[University of St Andrews]] |accessdate={{{accessdate|}}}
(Excluding the nowiki tags, of course; copy from the rendered page.) Thanks. ― A._di_M. 2nd Dramaout (formerly Army1987) 09:33, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
This template is confusing when it is used for an external link. In that case, it should just produce the link to the article with a little blurbed saying it's at the MacTutor archive. We do not have to link O'Conner and Robertson and, for sure, they should not be linked before the external link itself. Jason Quinn ( talk) 23:20, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
format=reference
or format=external
parameter should be added? —
Ruud
21:28, 8 January 2012 (UTC)Hello, I have a proposal for this template: would it be possible to add a author(s) field(s) and also a author-link field? I know that the major part of the biographies are written by John J O'Connor and Edmund F Robertson, but non all of them are: for example see the Renato Caccioppoli and Giacinto Morera external link sections. It would be interesting to specify and refer the exact author. Thank you for your attention. Daniele.tampieri ( talk) 09:40, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
{{
citation}}
template.
Daniele.tampieri (
talk)
15:34, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
{{
citation}}
, to the {{
MacTutor}}
and also to the {{
MathWorld}}
(which behaves nearly exactly the way I like, placing the constant
Weisstein, Eric W. in the author field when the author is not specified) templates should help us doing the job: however an admin's eye would be helpful (consider also that the
Template:MacTutor page cannot be edited by normal user, since it's protected]], and maybe again
Oleg can suggest us the right names, or we can find out looking at the editing history of the referring page who are the ones who control it. I would like the template to show up like in the following example.{{
citation}}
: CS1 maint: date and year (
link).This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
The URL for the archive apparently changed from Biographies to HistTopics. I get "The page could not be found. Please check your URL" for the former and the article itself for the latter. The page I want is http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Zero.html using {{MacTutor|id=Zero|title=A history of Zero}}. — Joe Kress ( talk) 18:02, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
They apparently rearranged their indices. "A history of Zero" now resides in three subindices at MacTutor History of Mathematics History Topics Index, Ancient Babylonian, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic, and Indian. — Joe Kress ( talk) 22:39, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
I tried using this template for: Miller, Jeff (n.d.). "Earliest Uses of Symbols of Calculus". In O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (eds.). MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. University of St Andrews. Retrieved 2023-06-15., but couldn't because the url only contains subdirs, nothing ending in an HTML filename.
I'd suggest the easiest fix (it appears, I'm not good with template invoke/etc.) would be to add an _alias-map=url:contribution-url
so that people can just give something like: {{MacTutor |last= Miller |first= Jeff |title= Earliest Uses of Symbols of Calculus |url= https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathsym/calculus/}}
, and not have to parse/faff with the |id=
or |class=
stuff. —
sbb (
talk)
15:41, 16 June 2023 (UTC)