https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69964
Bug ID: 69964
Summary: No error given for duplicate Cite template parameters
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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There are various ways that a Cite template could end up with the same
parameter name coded more than once. I don't know of a legitimate reason for
doing this, so as far as I know any such duplication would be unintentional and
would produce undesirable results.
I have tested multiple first= and last= parameters, and the software ignores
all but the last occurrence and does not throw an error. I may be wrong, but I
assume that the same would be true for all Cite parameters.
I have been cleaning up refs, starting each ref by copy-and-pasting an empty
Cite template from Notepad. This contained "|first= |last=", which I filled in
with the author's name. If there were multiple authors, I first copy-and-pasted
the "|first= |last=" string to duplicate it as many times as needed. Then, due
to ADD, I sometimes neglected to change the added parameter names to first2,
last2, etc.
I don't know of a legitimate reason for duplicate parameter names, so as far as
I know any such duplication would be unintentional and would yield undesirable
results. So it would seem that principles of good software design would suggest
throwing an error. Yes, I was negligent in forgetting to change the parameter
names, but people will make mistakes and the software could tell them that they
did rather than allowing the error to remain.
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