Hi Alex - Open Library doesn't distinguish first/last name, so we can't do that split.
Be great to have this info linked to from Wikipedia in spite of that, if possible! Cheers, george On 3/16/11 2:02 PM, Alex Stinson wrote: > Very cool, I started a discussion at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Citing_sources#Using_open_library_to_get_a_book_citation > . I > think there is consensus that it is useful to be linked somewhere on > Wikipedia, > but that the citation style which you chose is unconventional and maybe > Template:Cite book [1] would be a better format to export citations in. Also, > the order of names should be reversed or if you decide to change to cite book, > you should you the "|first =" and "|last =" parameters to distinguish between > last name and the rest of the name, so that citations would read last name > first. I don't know what technical limitations you have, but before I pepper > all > the help and policy pages with instructions on how to pull citations from Open > Library, I think the output should conform more with the standard practice. > > Alex Stinson > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:46 PM, George Oates <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi Alex - > > We did that about... 6 months ago! > > g > > On 3/13/11 7:09 AM, Alex Stinson wrote: > > Out of curiosity when did the Wikipedia Citation option become part of > every > > page? That is a really cool feature and I am going to make sure it gets > > mentioned in a couple of different places, > > > > Alex Stinson > > User:Sadads > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ol-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
