Template talk:Cite ADB

Older posts

For older posts see Template talk:ADB (now disambiguation template). --Kolja21 (talk) 18:04, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Template problem

moved from duplicate Template talk:Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

The template works fine in the German wiki, see de:Johann Lukas Boër, but malfunctions in the English wiki, see Johann Lucas Boër (Wikisource does not have a text with this exact name - follow the links there to get this message). Power.corrupts (talk) 06:21, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

In the article Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren, I had to add 20 to the page number to get to the correct link, i.e. band 9 page 638 was pointing to page 618 and band 9 page 658 was pointing to page 638, which is where Gren's biography actually is. Coyets (talk) 22:06, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Well, I have not mirrored the German template recently, so maybe something was or is wrong. Anyway, direct links to the scans are not needed anymore, as by now German Wikisource has all 26000 articles online (many still non-spellchecked OCR, though), so its much better to link to the German Wikisource text by adding the optional "|ADB:Gren, Friedrich Albert Carl". From there, the scans are linked, too. -- Matthead  Discuß   22:36, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Subject name in italics

moved from duplicate Template talk:Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

Should the 4th parameter, the subject's name, really be emitted in italics by the template? Wouldn't enclosing it with quote signs be more in keeping with Wikipedia's MoS? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 04:59, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Bullet point and template:Cite ADB

moved from duplicate Template talk:Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

There were two near identical versions of this template this one and {{Cite ADB}}. The only difference appears to have been that this one places a bullet point at the start.

I have rewritten this template to call {{Cite ADB}}. This automatically near halves the maintenance time.

I have rewritten {{Cite ADB}} to convert the named parameters into named ones and then called the standard template {{Citation}}. This has three major advantages.

• The display of the ordering of the parameters now matches what appears in {{Citation}}
• This template will now work with the {{harv}} templates which allows the output of this template to be placed in the "References section" and directly linked to from short inline citations.
• Separating out the parameters from one large block of code and attaching them to named parameters makes the template easier to maintain.

-- PBS (talk) 14:24, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Cleanup needed

Imho we should turn the duplicate template {{Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie}} into a redirect.

We need only two templates:

1. {{Cite ADB}} (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, 1875–1912); instead of {{ADB}} because of the AuDB (1957– )
2. {{NDB}} (Neue Deutsche Biographie, 1953– ) with redirect {{Cite NDB}}

Existing redirects:

1. {{De-ADB}}
2. {{Cite Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie}}

Unused and sandbox templates:

1. {{Cite ADB/sandbox}}
2. {{Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie/sandbox}}
3. {{Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie poster}}
4. {{Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie poster/sandbox}}

--Kolja21 (talk) 11:54, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Duplicate No. 4: {{Cite-ADB}} (used with de-ADB in the same article). --Kolja21 (talk) 04:39, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

 Done redirect created. Outdated and/or duplicate sandboxes, testcases, doc and talk pages deleted. --Kolja21 (talk) 18:27, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikisource icon

I think it's better to make the template display the Wikisource icon when you link to German Wikisource. Unfortunately I'm not a great template editor though. Can anyone do it? WafflesInvasion (talk) 03:38, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

I broadly agree, and I implemented a solution at Template:Cite ADB/sandbox. However, I'm not completely happy with that solution because it shows the Wikisource icon within the quoted text of the article title (see Template:Cite ADB/testcases), but I don't know where else it would be more appropriate. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 06:02, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Is there a way to like, wrap {{Cite Wikisource}} when a Wikisource link is given? WafflesInvasion (talk) 10:24, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

That was a good hint. Inspecting {{Wikisource}} and especially {{Cite wikisource/make link}} revealed a much simpler solution: Special:diff/1329341781/1273307364. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:17, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Nice! WafflesInvasion (talk) 02:31, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

User:Daask, User:Jonesey95, do you have any objections to this proposal? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 04:33, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

The change on the testcases page looks reasonable to me. I have a vague memory of discussions to remove icons like this from similar templates, but I could definitely be wrong. Cite Wikisource does it, so it seems fine to do it here too. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:17, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

Done. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 02:03, 27 December 2025 (UTC)