Is there any blindingly-obvious-to-everyone-but-me reason why the templates on WP and Commons should be different? Indeed, one might be tempted to ask if templates themselves shouldn't be put on Commons rather than individual projects to ensure standardisation.
If there is a good reason that they should be different, I guess I go and ask the NLA to provide me with a Commons citation as well as a WP citation (expected likelihood of success: probably low). If there isn't a good reason, I guess I try to see if I can get the templates harmonised (expected likelihood of success: hell freezing over). Kerry _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig Franklin Sent: Saturday, 7 December 2013 10:59 PM To: Wikimedia-au Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] problem with Trove newspaper citations onCommons Templates can (and often are) different across different sites. In the case of Commons, it looks like {{cite news}} is just a wrapper for {{cite journal}}. Looking a bit more closely, it seems that the "newspaper" parameter is not used in the Commons version, so I moved the content from there to "journal" and it seems to work. Cheers, Craig Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 11:32:15 +1000 From: "Kerry Raymond" <[email protected]> To: "'Wikimedia Australia Chapter'" <[email protected]> Subject: [Wikimediaau-l] problem with Trove newspaper citations on Commons Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Can anyone advise me in relation to Trove newspaper citations on Commons? I use Trove's Wikipedia-formatted citations on Wikipedia all the time and all seems to work OK. However, when I upload a newspaper illustration for use on Commons, I use these same citations as the source field (which seems the most accurate way to refer to the source), the citations often (but not always) break. Here's an example of a broken one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mother_Mary_Aikenhead.JPG The problem seems to be that Commons wants a journal field and not the newspaper field provided. Kerry
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