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How am I supposed to cite this letter? The fact that it is from the U.S. Dept. of Education seems much more relevant than that it was written by Dale Rhines, but I don't see any parameter for the author organization. Klortho (talk) 18:57, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
|publisher=
for the originating organization, corporation or agency. I would then cite your example as:
How should I cite a letter to a journal (or to its editor)? I'd like to publish a letter written to the "Technical Correspondence" section of Communications of the ACM. However, this template doesn't support parameters such as journal, volume, issue and doi. Should I use ((cite journal))
instead? EdwardH
(talk) 16:44, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
A lot of letters have no subject or title, just a salutation. This template would work better if it accounted for that. Ibadibam (talk) 21:41, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
((cite letter))
, and then copy that and do it manually. As is done in the first example in Help:Footnotes#Footnotes:_the_basics there's no specific requirement to use a template, so that could be seen as just being a sort of convenience.One of the examples renders as:
Anduze, Harry (February 28, 1995). "RE: P. de la C. 1422". Letter to Leo Díaz.
Do we need the redundancy in "(Letter). Letter to..."? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:58, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
|type=Letter
.There is an upcoming change in Module:Citation/CS1 that will cause this template to emit an error message because it uses ((cite news))
, a periodical template. The message will look like this (example from the ~/doc page rewritten to directly call the sandbox version of ((cite news))
):
((cite news/new
| first = Harry
| last = Anduze
| others = Letter to Leo Díaz
| title = RE: P. de la C. 1422
| date = ((date|1995-02-28|mdy))
))
The error message above arises because periodical citations (((cite journal))
, ((cite magazine))
, ((cite news))
, ((cite web))
), should name the periodical that holds the 'article' so that readers can locate it.
In this template's sandbox, I have rewritten the template to use Module:template wrapper and to use ((cite press release))
to do the rendering. This is not a perfect solution (neither was the ((cite news))
version) but it renders correctly visually and the metadata aren't too screwed up (any |work=
alias is omitted from the metadata).
((cite letter/sandbox
| first = Harry
| last = Anduze
| recipient = Leo Díaz
| subject = RE: P. de la C. 1422
| date = ((date|1995-02-28|mdy))
))
Without objection, I shall update the live template to use this sandbox version.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 12:09, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
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The first line currently reads: ". Letter to. Missing or empty |title= (help)". I've retained the strange punctuation. Not sure why no title breaks it as it's not listed as required but whatever.Kylesenior (talk) 05:16, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
|title=
parameter is tied to the |subject=
parameter, which is required. So if the subject is missing, then the title-error message occurs. Editors hopefully preview their edits before saving, and this title error will show up on preview if the subject has not been entered. Example:((cite letter | first = Harry | last = Anduze | recipient = Leo Díaz | subject = | date = ((date|1995-02-28|mdy)) ))
((cite press release))
: Missing or empty |title=
(help)