Requesting some of the features like in ((1911)) template are taking and applied to the ((DNB)) template. Also, the ability to link through to the transcriptions that are very slowly taking place over at DNB @ Wikisource. Thx. billinghurst (talk) 04:39, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Do we still need the text , a publication now in the public domain. with the reference. It is pretty arcane these days, and less than ideal. I would also like to be looking to updating the template to better reflect a modern reference. The style here looks old. billinghurst sDrewth 09:01, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
I have recently upgraded the ((1911)) and ((Catholic)) templates. I would like to do the same to this one and minor changes to template talk:DNB Cite so that this one can call template talk:DNB Cite instead of calling directly ((cite encyclopedia)).
To do this I propose
Comment welcome -- PBS (talk) 02:02, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Done 1 and 2 -- PBS (talk) 11:48, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Done 3 4 5 -- PBS (talk) 11:56, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Should more features be added, so as with ((1911)), this can be used for a number of purposes, including combining attribution with citations? (See the first table at Template:1911/doc.) —innotata 14:18, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Done -- PBS (talk) 11:50, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Appear to get problems when using template without the first/last entry in getting an appropriate harv link for the short references. Is there a way to get this to work or does the template need tweaking to pass a harvid though, if set, rather than the default harv. Keith D (talk) 23:55, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
Recently I was looking at the maintenance category Category:Articles incorporating DNB template with an unnamed parameter there were about half a dozen entries. In every case the entries were there because there is a template on German Wikipedia called DNB (The functionality of the template is reproduced on English Wikipedia with ((German National Library portal))), because the text containing ((DNB)) had been used as part of a translation from German wikipedia. Currently there is no warning message when this happens.
There is a similar problem with ((ADB)) this is handled with:
I do not think this is a desirable solution for this template as this template is used in nearly 8,000 instances and the number of mistaken entries was only about half a dozen out of nearly 3,000 using the template ((German National Library portal)), so instead I propose that this template handle an unnamed parameter by passing it on through to ((cite encyclopedia)) which puts out an error message which involves no overhead for this template:
((cite encyclopedia|1234567))
: ((cite encyclopedia))
: Empty citation (help)as some of the fields are filled automatically what will appear is:
((DNB|1234567))
: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. ((cite encyclopedia))
: Missing or empty |title=
(help)If that error message appears and the person who has ported the text from a German article, looks a this template for guidance they will see a sentence at the to of the documentation pointing them to ((German National Library portal)).
-- PBS (talk) 17:10, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
I have added a "section" parameter as an option. This is because if the Wikisource DNB articles had followed the EB1911 article format and made all the articles sub articles of "DNB00/", instead of "article name (DNB00)", then all that would be needed was to add "#section name to the wstitle=name (wstitle=name#section name) but that will not work because the template would construct that as "s:name#section name (DNB00)" not what is wanted s:name (DNB00)#section name. This is now possible by using the new section parameter:
((cite DNB|last=Thomas |first=Daniel Lleufer |wstitle=Wynn, John |section=Wynn, Richard |volume=63 |page=258–259))