Template talk:WPauthor

Comment

Sharp template, Alek. :-) Stephen Ewen 02:49, 17 April 2007 (CDT)

I think "portions of" is fine. It implies you imported those portions and are not mirroring the WP article.  —Stephen Ewen (Talk) 13:59, 13 August 2007 (CDT)

Bug

If one attempts to include a hyperlink (e.g. to a specific version of an article on Wikipedia) in the first argument, this doesn't work. J. Noel Chiappa 21:13, 5 March 2008 (CST)

Turns out that this is because '=' is a no-no in a template argument (see here), and a lot of the URL's people were trying to use included an =. I'll work out a work-around, and document it. J. Noel Chiappa 15:06, 6 March 2008 (CST)

Try the ascii character code? --Robert W King 15:07, 6 March 2008 (CST)

Yeah, that did it - but I followed Wikipedia practise and stuck it in a template to make it easier to do. I tried just sticking an ASCII '=' in there, and that didn't work (I was hoping it would delay evaluation for long enough, but no soap). I have updated the instructions here, and will fix places that call it problematically. J. Noel Chiappa 15:34, 6 March 2008 (CST)

Well, I fixed many, but probably not all, problematic uses (there's just too many to look at every use to make sure it works OK). J. Noel Chiappa 17:18, 6 March 2008 (CST)