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==Cite book: Year of publication==
Year of publication states "Year of the source being referenced"
Shouldn't this be "Year of source"/"Year of writing" or something like this?

Publication date seems to already be used for date when something is published...I think cite book should be clearer about which fields are referring to Publication, and which fields are referring to Writing [[User:Lcporschen|Lcporschen]] ([[User talk:Lcporschen|talk]]) 07:36, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

:I've never understood why {{para|publication-date}} exists, {{para|date}} should be used for publication date and {{para|orig-date}} for original date. It seems overly complex to have a third field that needlessly complicates things. -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 12:56, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
::Since at least April 2020, I have believed that {{para|publication-date}} should go away ([[Help_talk:Citation_Style_1/Archive_65#c-Trappist_the_monk-2020-04-05T21:59:00.000Z-Francis_Schonken-2020-04-06T10:07:00.000Z|here]]).  Similarly, I hold that {{para|publication-place}} should go away.  There have been several discussions on this topic which are collected at {{slink|Help_talk:Citation_Style_1/Archive_86#place,_when_publication-place_is_redundant_with_work}}.
::—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 14:04, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
:::Agree, both simply confuse the matter and are redundant. -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 15:24, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
::Can it not be useful if there are several editions or versions of a work? {{para|date}} for the year of the edition quoted, {{para|orig-date}} for the 1st edition, {{para|publication-date}} for the publication date if it is a later re-edition, publication in another series etc. [[User:Keriluamox|Keriluamox]] ([[User talk:Keriluamox|talk]]) 16:51, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
:::References exist for verification, you only need to give details of the work you have not it's publication history. -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 17:15, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
::::Taking that argument to the extreme, the sole ISBN would suffice. I find it useful to give ''some'' information about the work. Dating a 1900 work from 2020 because that’s the edition used feels off, if not slightly misleading. [[User:Keriluamox|Keriluamox]] ([[User talk:Keriluamox|talk]]) 06:49, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
:::::The date is the date of the edition you are using. If the version from 2020 is a facsimile of the 1900 edition, you could cite it as 1900. Otherwise, if it's a new edition it will have new page numbers, etc. –[[user:jacobolus|jacobolus]] [[user_talk:jacobolus|(t)]] 17:48, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
::Take [[Crime and Punishment]] or many other books from around that time. They single volume is different than  when the installment was published. More so light novels which are often written in installments on a website, then bought and printed by a publisher. Given that many books take time to publish, especially anthologies, having all three are useful. date is for the creation, orig-date is for when it was originally released, and publication-date is for when this exact publication was made. [[User:Jerodlycett|Jerod Lycett]] ([[User talk:Jerodlycett|talk]]) 06:30, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
:::Wouldn't it then make sense to rename 'date' to 'creation-date'? [[User:Lcporschen|Lcporschen]] ([[User talk:Lcporschen|talk]]) 07:56, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
::::The use of {{para|publication-date}} is quite rare, in most cases {{para|date}} is used for current date and {{para|orig-date}} for the original publication date. So it wouldn't make sense to change {{para|date}}. -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 14:22, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
:This is about the <code>&lt;skeptical air quotes></code>documentation<code>&lt;/skeptical air quotes></code> at {{slink|Template:Cite_book#TemplateData}}?  The template's actual documentation for {{para|publication-date}} is at {{slink|Template:Cite_book#Date}}.  The template data are not protected so if you think that it can be improved, please improve it.
:—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 14:04, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
::It's actually at [[Template:Cite book#Publisher]], or more specifically, [[Template:Cite book#csdoc_publication-date]]. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 21:31, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
::{{replyto|ActivelyDisinterested}} {{para|publication-date}} is mainly for non-daily periodicals where the cover date is often later than the date when the periodical goes on sale. For example, a magazine with cover date August 2026 might be on sale already. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 21:01, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
:::In taxonomy, the date when a book or journal was first published can be very important to establish precedence. For various reasons the year/date on the title page is not always the year/date when the work was first distributed. In such cases I use date= for the date on the title page and publication-date= for the date when the work was first distributed. - [[User:Aa77zz|Aa77zz]] ([[User talk:Aa77zz|talk]]) 21:23, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
::::How do you know when it was first distributed? [[User:JMF|𝕁𝕄𝔽]] ([[User talk:JMF|talk]]) 22:05, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
::::Date/publication-date are exactly the same thing. If you want the original date use {{para|orig-date}}. &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 16:04, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
:::::This is also what I thought, when looking at the documentation ([[Template:Cite book#TemplateData]]):
:::::parameter 'date' = 'Date of publication'
:::::parameter 'publication-date' = 'Publication date'
:::::To me, this looks exactly the same.
:::::Given that other people have already expressed that 'publication-date' should go away, I'm just not gonna use 'publication-date' anymore (I don't care this much about dates of book publishing), and try to put the info I have in the fields 'date' and 'orig-date'. Thanks for clearing this up. [[User:Lcporschen|Lcporschen]] ([[User talk:Lcporschen|talk]]) 16:57, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
:::::{{ec}}
:::::Just to be pedantic, {{para|date}} and {{para|publication-date}} are {{em|only}} {{tq|exactly the same thing}} when they are used alone.  Then both are used in the same template they are treated as the same thing when they hold the same value in which case, {{para|publication-date}} is ignored:
::::::<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="1">{{cite book |title=Title |date=2026 |publication-date=2026}}</syntaxhighlight> → {{cite book |title=Title |date=2026 |publication-date=2026}}
:::::when {{para|date}} and {{para|publication-date}} hold different values:
::::::<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="1">{{cite book |title=Title |date=2026 |publication-date=2025}}</syntaxhighlight> → {{cite book |title=Title |date=2026 |publication-date=2025}}
:::::Do we really, {{em|really}}, need both?  I think that we don't and that we should make {{para|date}} and {{para|publication-date}} exact aliases of one another {{small|({{para|location}} / {{para|place}} and {{para|publication-place}} should also be exact aliases of one another)}}.
:::::—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 17:12, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
::::::+1 support for that. &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 17:38, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
::::::I agree 'date' and 'publication-date' should be aliases of each other [[User:Lcporschen|Lcporschen]] ([[User talk:Lcporschen|talk]]) 14:27, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
::::::As for <code>location</code>/<code>place</code> and <code>publication-place</code>, that's what I came here for.<br/>
::::::The [[Template:Cite_book/doc]] is quite complex, probably contradictory… <br/>
::::::But in [[Template:Cite_book/doc#Publisher|#Publisher]] it says "Place: In earlier versions was the publication place; for compatibility will be treated as such if publication-place is absent"<br/>
::::::So aliasing those will be OK for older{{when?}} entries, but possibly not for newer; could we count{{how many?}} newer with both present?
:::::::So paralleling with <code>date</code> and <code>publication-date</code>, which I suppose would have been introduced at the same time, how much will it fudge?
::::::[[User:Ponken|Ponken]] ([[User talk:Ponken|talk]]) 09:02, 19 August 2026 (UTC)
:::::::I like the idea of creation-date. Isn't the template not all about this? 
:::::::"Title (published 2025). 2026" - is just not clearly understandable, instead rather a wtf (the postscript would be place for such curiosities when they are specifically relevant).
:::::::Sorry, if the discussion here is already closed. I just saw now how long the page goes down, wow. (There I will ask a question, for which I am here.) [[User:MenkinAlRire|MenkinAlRire]] 14:10, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
::::::::"Isn't the template not all about this?" I don't think so. The template, and citations in academic works generally, are about identifying the publication that is mentioned in the citing work. If the source says "July 2026" on the cover, that's what someone who wants to read the source will check to make sure they picked up the right issue of the magazine. If some Wikipedian in the magazine business happens to know it was printed April 15, 2026, and first offered for sale May 2, 2026, WE DON'T CARE! [[User:Jc3s5h|Jc3s5h]] ([[User talk:Jc3s5h|talk]]) 14:33, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
:::::::::That wasn't my point (that I find irrelevant, too). The template is called speech, and there are several date one could consider: when it was written (there is only a ''location'' for this which translates to "written at"), when the speech was held, and when the text was published (better printed). With "all about this" I meant that a speech was once spoken, I guess, and that is its prime date. Historically, in many, if not the most cases, the impact of a speech came with its distribution in print. But today many lectcures ar recorded and published online. They are preserved as original oral documents as video or audio. So the event where the speech happened gains more importance versus its printed form (if there is one). (Below I discussed some points.) [[User:MenkinAlRire|MenkinAlRire]] 15:54, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
::::::::::"The template is called speech" – You should be aware that this talk-page serves as the talk-page of several templates which use *this* (sub-)template "Citation Style 1". That is: if you click these templates' talk-page link, you end up here. ''edit'' ALSO you are in the thread [[#Cite_book:_Year_of_publication]] here. / [[User:Ponken|Ponken]] ([[User talk:Ponken|talk]]) 09:46, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
:::::::::::I also don’t get why this one talk page serves for several templates, instead of each template just having it’s own talk page [[User:Lcporschen|Lcporschen]] ([[User talk:Lcporschen|talk]]) 09:54, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

== Stripmarkers in titles with template mathematics ==

It used to be the case that reference titles containing mathematical formulas should (when possible for the formula) use template-math {{tl|math}} in preference to LaTeX-math &lt;math&gt;, because when the reference title has an external link the template-math formula is properly blue-colored but the LaTeX-math formula is not. Now I am getting stripmarker errors from template-math whose only fix is to use html-formatting for the formula (very bad from the point of view of mathematical typesetting) or to use LaTeX-math (ok typesetting but wrong color for linked titles). Is there any explanation for why this broke and for whether there is any hope of ever getting properly blue-colored linked formulas in titles?

Example:
*With template-math and stripmarker errors:
**<code><nowiki>{{citation
 | last = Atneosen | first = Gail Adele
 | series = Ph.D. thesis
 | mr = 2617705
 | page = 79
 | publisher = [[Michigan State University]]
 | title = On the embeddability of compacta in {{mvar|n}}-books: intrinsic and extrinsic properties
 | url = http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:6905835
 | year = 1968}}</nowiki></code>
**{{citation
 | last = Atneosen | first = Gail Adele
 | series = Ph.D. thesis
 | mr = 2617705
 | page = 79
 | publisher = [[Michigan State University]]
 | title = On the embeddability of compacta in {{mvar|n}}-books: intrinsic and extrinsic properties
 | url = http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:6905835
 | year = 1968}}
*With LaTeX-math and improperly colored title link:
**<code><nowiki>{{citation
 | last = Atneosen | first = Gail Adele
 | series = Ph.D. thesis
 | mr = 2617705
 | page = 79
 | publisher = [[Michigan State University]]
 | title = On the embeddability of compacta in <math>n</math>-books: intrinsic and extrinsic properties
 | url = http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:6905835
 | year = 1968}}</nowiki></code>
**{{citation
 | last = Atneosen | first = Gail Adele
 | series = Ph.D. thesis
 | mr = 2617705
 | page = 79
 | publisher = [[Michigan State University]]
 | title = On the embeddability of compacta in <math>n</math>-books: intrinsic and extrinsic properties
 | url = http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:6905835
 | year = 1968}}
*Manually formatted using template-math (what I would like to see):
**<code><nowiki>Atneosen, Gail Adele (1968), ''[http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:6905835 On the embeddability of compacta in {{mvar|n}}-books: intrinsic and extrinsic properties]'', Ph.D. thesis, [[Michigan State University]], p. 79, {{mr|2617705}}</nowiki></code>
**Atneosen, Gail Adele (1968), ''[http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:6905835 On the embeddability of compacta in {{mvar|n}}-books: intrinsic and extrinsic properties]'', Ph.D. thesis, [[Michigan State University]], p. 79, {{mr|2617705}}
For some other macros in reference titles such as {{tl|TeX wordmark}} the LaTeX-math option is not available and the only solution I found that produced proper formatting was to forgo using the citation templates altogether and format the reference manually. Do we maybe have to go to that length for all citation templates containing mathematical formulas as well?

Ping {{ping|Izno}} as I suspect they may know more about what is going on here. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 00:18, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

:{{tl|math}} (and most templates) have never been supported in this template series. I made a change to the template today which assumed this fact (and {{tl|mvar}} which uses {{tlx|COinS safe|n}} which says not to use that template in CS1) in service of making it so that <code>.texhtml</code> [[MediaWiki talk:Common.css/to do#description|is controllable by The People at large]] rather than the gatekeepers of [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] (this is slightly tongue-in-cheek as I am one of those).
:{{tl|mvar}} can be trivially replaced with italics IMO. {{tl|math}}-the-template (not what it's wrapping) can be removed.
:I'm slightly surprised no error is raised for the &lt;math> version as last I checked there were issues with that. I haven't been following this talk page closely though for some time so perhaps a change was made in the meantime to make that not error. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 00:36, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
::Your opinion that {{tq|{{tl|mvar}} can be trivially replaced with italics}} mostly shows off your ignorance of mathematical typesetting. Variables should be set consistently in the same font as the rest of the mathematical formulas, which in general should be a serif font to properly distinguish symbols Il|1 (there are four different symbols in that block). Using plain html does not cut it. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 00:39, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
:::No, not ignorance. I knew precisely what your opinion would be and what my opinion on the point is. I also knew you would focus on that point rather than attempting to find a solution. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 00:41, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
::::Ok, not ignorance, then: a deliberate disregard for mathematics. Not an improvement.
::::As for the idea that &lt;math&gt; should raise an error in titles: as advice for people titling their publications I would agree, but we have no time machine to do that. There are many titles where it is impossible to format the title without &lt;math&gt;. Here's one: {{citation | last1 = Benjamin | first1 = Arthur T. | author1-link = Arthur T. Benjamin | last2 = Orrison | first2 = M. E. | title = Two quick combinatorial proofs of <math>\textstyle \sum k^3 = {n+1\choose 2}^2</math> | journal = [[College Mathematics Journal]] | year = 2002 | volume = 33 | issue = 5 | pages = 406–408 | url = http://www.math.hmc.edu/~orrison/research/papers/two_quick.pdf| doi = 10.2307/1559017 | jstor = 1559017 }}. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 00:44, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
:::::NB I don't want &lt;math> to error, if it works that is excellent since my impression is that we prefer that version of things in general. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 00:46, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
::::::(Turns out &lt;math> still corrupts the metadata.) [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 00:48, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
:::::::I'm sure there are people who care about the [[COinS]] metadata but I've never been one of them. The citation templates mostly exist as a convenience to editors and a way to make citations more likely to be consistent and accurate; if they stop serving that function then we should stop using them and if COinS metadata gets in the way of providing that function then my preference would be to stop trying to make the cart drive the horse. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 00:56, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
::::::::I've honestly stopped caring either way. I think there is continued value in emitting COinS. I think there are better things to do than to continue to be one of the people who sees it. It is among the reasons I toodled off from this talk page A While Ago. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 01:01, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
::A solution could be at least for TemplateStyles tokens etc. they are hoisted outside the template and then we return to templates that still break the metadata but at least emit no errors on that point. We do something similar at [[Module:Navbox#L-526]]. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 00:50, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
:I can revert while this is sorted as easily as anything but the category being emitted is nice to be able to find what pages are impacted by this (as it's hard to do so with [[Special:Search]] given timeouts and whatnot). [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 00:38, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
::Suggestion: rather than giving up on metadata altogether, add a {{para|coins|no}} parameter to the citation templates, so that we can still use citation templates on references that for whatever reason need to use coins-unsafe templates, instead of having to resort to manual formatting in such cases. I don't think the metadata was ever really correct for most of these, and it certainly wouldn't be present if the reference were forced to use manual formatting, so losing it wouldn't be much loss even for the people who use metadata. That would also make the cleanup much easier: instead of figuring out how to change the formula to use &lt;math&gt;, manually reformatting, or breaking the formatting by stripping the templates, just add the parameter. (I've written the parameter lowercase both for consistency with other citation parameters and because I can never remember how to capitalize cOiNs.)
::Alternative suggestion, with even easier cleanup: automatically fall back to {{para|coins|no}} when an error would be generated. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 02:11, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
:See also:
:*{{slink|Wikipedia_talk:COinS#the_COINS_warning:_where_not_to_use,_exactly?}} and
:* {{slink|Help_talk:Citation_Style_1/Archive_100#COinS_pollution_shouldn't_be_a_problem}}.
:I proposed that, if we want to avoid metadata pollution, we should have a way of explicitly writing a machine-friendly version of the title separate from the human-friendly title (basically a separate non-rendering template to add inside any citation template which would replace the machine-readable COINS metadata with its content, while leaving the rest of the content of that attribute as human-visible rendered output). Telling users that they can't use any other templates or math tags etc. inside the parameters of citation templates seems like a generally bad setup. There's in my opinion no good way to write these citation titles without a math tag:
:* {{cite journal |last=Cayley |first=Arthur |author-link=Arthur Cayley |year=1862 |title=On the transcendent <math display=inline>\operatorname{gd} u = \tfrac{1}{i}\log \tan \bigl(\tfrac14\pi + \tfrac12 ui\bigr)</math> |journal=Philosophical Magazine |series=4th Series |volume=24 |issue=158 |pages=19–21 |url=https://archive.org/details/londonedinburg4241862lond/page/19 |doi=10.1080/14786446208643307 }}
:* {{cite journal |last1=Euler |first1=Leonhard |year=1786 |title=De miris proprietatibus curvae elasticae sub aequatione <math display=inline>y = \int xx\,\mathrm{d}x \big/ \sqrt{1-x^4}</math> contentae |trans-title=On the amazing properties of elastic curves contained in equation <math display=inline>y = \int xx\,\mathrm{d}x \big/ \sqrt{1-x^4}</math> |journal=Acta Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae |volume=1782 |issue=2 |pages=34–61 |language=la|url=https://archive.org/details/actaacademiae82impe/page/34/ }} E [https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/euler-works/605/ 605].
: In the second of those links, several other people pointed out that nobody apparently uses COINS for anything or cares about it, and recommended that instead we just ignore the problem and drop warnings about it.
: As an immediate step, I'd recommend reverting the recent template warning. If the folks working on COINS stuff want something better, ideally they should work on doing a better job parsing the template output to make something machine readable. If they can't do so for some technical reason, then they should provide an alternative opt-in mechanism for human editors to provide separate human- and machine-readable outputs (and can e.g. try to recruit volunteer effort from someone else who cares to write the machine-readable translations of templates with corrupted metadata). But we should not sacrifice human legibility for the sake of unknown future scraper bots, or even force every Wikipedia editor who adds a citation that would benefit from internal template use to think about it. –[[user:jacobolus|jacobolus]] [[user_talk:jacobolus|(t)]] 05:01, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
::I think it is possible to safely remove strip markers from COinS. While conforming to [[MOS:TE]] and [[MOS:CONFORMTITLE]] is important, treating {{tag|templatestyles|open}} as an error seems to merely overlook improper markup while flagging valid markup (like math formulas) as erroneous. (Correctly identifying improper markup would likely require parsing the attributes of {{tag|span|open}}.) [[User:FlatLanguage|FlatLanguage]] ([[User talk:FlatLanguage|talk]]) 14:13, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
:::Personally I think [[MOS:CONFORMTITLE]] should be amended to allow the use of formatting templates inside citation templates, and we should figure out how to make that work technically instead of telling people not to do it. The most useful example I personally know that is currently recommended against is the {{t|ill}} template, which would be extremely useful to sometimes include in citation templates. –[[user:jacobolus|jacobolus]] [[user_talk:jacobolus|(t)]] 19:05, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Please revert this error message ASAP. It is already leading editors such as [[User:Mojtabakd]] to uglify equations and violate [[MOS:MATH]] by replacing templated mathematics by plain-html with superscript characters: [[Special:Diff/1368753122]]. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 23:25, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

:It has been reverted, but I think this is only a temporary measure and doesn't solve the long-term problem. The new template styles system appears to make it unworkable merely to subst coins-problematic templates in titles. Can we maybe get a wider sample opinions on whether we should do one or more of the following?
:A. Stop generating coins metadata altogether, and stop forbidding stripmarkers in titles
:B. Stop generating coins metadata for references with stripmarkers, automatically, but emit a maintenance category; continue generating coins metadata for references for which this is not problematic
:C. Allow a parameter choice like coins=no that avoids generating coins metadata, and allows stripmarkers, for an individual citation
:D. Add parameters to the citation templates to allow overriding the coins metadata, and require that they be present for any title containing stripmarkers (likely incurring significant extra initial and ongoing programmer effort, relative to the other choices)
:E. Continue the current behavior of forbidding stripmarkers in titles, possibly to include all mathematics formulas in the event that impending wikimedia changes to mathematics change the stripmarkers in incompatible ways. Force people who want titles with those things in them to format them manually instead of by template.
:My own preference ordering is roughly alphabetical. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 01:38, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
:: I would be fine with A or B. But two other possibilities:
:: B2. Make the metadata parser smarter, so authors could add templates inside their citation parameters and have the parser still figure out how to extract more or less meaningful metadata while discarding parts not useful for machine consumption
:: D2. Make a new template that could be optionally added to the content of any arbitrary citation metadata parameter, into which template a machine-readable version of the content could be written, which the coins metadata parser would use, but would not be rendered in a way visible to humans. To take my previous example, this could be something like:
:: <syntaxhighlight lang=wikitext>{{cite journal
| last = Euler | first = Leonhard [...]
| title = De miris proprietatibus curvae elasticae sub aequatione <math display=inline>y = \int xx\,\mathrm{d}x \big/ \sqrt{1-x^4}</math> contentae
{{machine-readable-parameter|1= De miris proprietatibus curvae elasticae sub aequatione y = ∫xx dx / √(1 − x⁴) contentae}}
[...]}}</syntaxhighlight>
:: If this template were omitted, the citation should display as normal and the metadata parser could ignore the citation, try to make the most it could from it, produce corrupted output, or whatever, but the author should not be troubled, and if it needs manual intervention it could be left to someone who cares.
:: As another example, an author might be to be able to write something like:
:: <syntaxhighlight lang=wikitext>{{cite journal | mode = cs2
| author = {{ill|Giuseppe Cesàro|lt=Cesàro, Giuseppe|de|Giuseppe Raimondo Pio Cesàro|fr|Giuseppe Raimondo de Cesàro}}
{{machine-readable-parameter|Cesàro, Giuseppe}}
| year = 1905 [...] }}</syntaxhighlight>
:: And get as output:
::: {{ill|Giuseppe Cesàro|lt=Cesàro, Giuseppe|de|Giuseppe Raimondo Pio Cesàro|fr|Giuseppe Raimondo de Cesàro}} (1905), [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/310817#page/452/mode/1up "Nouvelle méthode pour l'établissement des formules de la trigonométrie sphérique"]] [New method for establishing the formulas of spherical trigonometry], ''Académie royale de Belgique: Bulletins de la Classe des sciences'', ser. 4 (in French), '''7''' (9–10): 434–454
:: –[[user:jacobolus|jacobolus]] [[user_talk:jacobolus|(t)]] 03:02, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
:::<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="1">{{cite journal |last=Cesàro |first=Giuseppe |author-mask={{ill|Giuseppe Cesàro|lt=Cesàro, Giuseppe|de|Giuseppe Raimondo Pio Cesàro|fr|Giuseppe Raimondo de Cesàro}} |date=1905 |title=Nouvelle méthode pour l'établissement des formules de la trigonométrie sphérique |trans-title=New method for establishing the formulas of spherical trigonometry |journal=Académie royale de Belgique: Bulletins de la Classe des sciences |series=ser. 4 |volume=7 |issue=9–10 |pages=434–454 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/310817#page/452/mode/1up |mode=cs2}}</syntaxhighlight>
::::{{cite journal |last=Cesàro |first=Giuseppe |author-mask={{ill|Giuseppe Cesàro|lt=Cesàro, Giuseppe|de|Giuseppe Raimondo Pio Cesàro|fr|Giuseppe Raimondo de Cesàro}} |date=1905 |title=Nouvelle méthode pour l'établissement des formules de la trigonométrie sphérique |trans-title=New method for establishing the formulas of spherical trigonometry |journal=Académie royale de Belgique: Bulletins de la Classe des sciences |series=ser. 4 |volume=7 |issue=9–10 |pages=434–454 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/310817#page/452/mode/1up |mode=cs2}}
:::—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 11:40, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
::::Is this considered reasonable to do? The {{t|ill}} template has a banner at the top which says: {{tqb|This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS.}} –[[user:jacobolus|jacobolus]] [[user_talk:jacobolus|(t)]] 17:23, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
:::::See {{slink|Template:Cite_journal|COinS metadata is created for these parameters}}; {{para|author-mask{{var|n}}}} is not listed there.
:::::—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 18:58, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
::::::This seems like a bit of an abuse of 'author-mask', but I'm happy to use it if it's unlikely to break in the future. {{pb}} I can also imagine wanting to use {{t|ill}} from other parameters (like title), though I don't have any concrete examples; an author link seems like the most common and useful one to support –[[user:jacobolus|jacobolus]] [[user_talk:jacobolus|(t)]] 20:00, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
:::::::See [[Template:Cite journal#csdoc_author-mask|{{para|author-mask}} documentation]].
:::::::—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 01:02, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
::@[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] I'm out of the loop, what's the "new template styles system"? –[[user:jacobolus|jacobolus]] [[user_talk:jacobolus|(t)]] 20:06, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
:::See [[WP:TemplateStyles]]. I think that for instance [[User:Izno]] hopes to migrate the {{tl|mvar}} and {{tl|math}} templates to this system (and I think this is a good idea, but we just need it to interoperate better with the citation templates first). —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 02:12, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

I've edited sandbox. Now the sandbox module doesn't emit error when a parameter has {{tag|templatestyles|single}}. Also COinS isn't broken by {{tag|templatestyles|single}}.

I didn't deal with other [[mw:Extension:HTML Tags|HTML Tags]]. For example, if it becomes possible to exclude {{tag|span|attribs=class=noprint}} from COinS, it would likely become acceptable to use {{tlx|ill}} within citation templates. [[Module:Plain text]] might serve as a useful reference.

By the way, how about {{tag|ref|open}} inside {{para|quote}}? I think there could be legitimate footnotes, such as translator's notes. And also {{tag|poem|open}} in {{para|quote}}

--[[User:FlatLanguage|FlatLanguage]] ([[User talk:FlatLanguage|talk]]) 15:01, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

== Cite Web issue ==

Moved from the Teahouse...<br/><br/>
<nowiki>== Cite web? ==</nowiki>

This page [[:Category:CS1 errors: access-date without URL]] 
recently jumped from ~100 pages to over 1,100 pages over a couple days. That seems to be caused by a template or something of the sort.

Cite web possibly? I checked one of the listed pages [[Twenty-fifth_Amendment to the United States Constitution#cite ref-A2essayPS 22-0]]

which shows the error <nowiki>{{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)</nowiki>

and the reference being listed as an error has both the <nowiki> |access-date= AND the |url=</nowiki> listed

[[User:Quebec99|Quebec99]] ([[User talk:Quebec99|talk]]) 12:51, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

:You're saying that the reference ''does'' have a valid url, but Cite web is giving an error for missing url? [[User:TooManyFingers|TooManyFingers]] <small>([[Wikipedia:Editors' pronouns|''he/him'']] · [[User talk:TooManyFingers|talk]])</small> 13:57, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
:::@[[User:TooManyFingers|TooManyFingers]], Exactly... and when/if you go to edit the citation to fix the error, it appears perfectly fine when you "preview" any changes, but the error reappears when you save. [[User:Quebec99|Quebec99]] ([[User talk:Quebec99|talk]]) 21:50, 15 August 2026 (UTC)
:@[[User:Quebec99|Quebec99]]: {{welcometea}} I'm not sure if it's because <code>heritage.org</code> and <code>archive.today</code> were blacklisted, or if it's because {{para|url-status}} was set to <code>unfit</code>. —[[User:Tenryuu|<span style="color:#556B2F">Tenryuu&nbsp;🐲</span>]]&nbsp;(&nbsp;[[User talk:Tenryuu|💬]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Tenryuu|📝]]&nbsp;) 14:37, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
:@[[User:Quebec99|Quebec99]], there was a major update to the citation templates and modules two days ago, which is probably what caused this. The best place to report this issue is probably at [[WT:CS1]], the combined talk page for all of those Cite templates. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">--[[User:Rchard2scout|rchard2scout]]</span> ([[User talk:Rchard2scout|talk]]) 12:29, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
::Thank you. I will move the discussion. [[User:Quebec99|Quebec99]] ([[User talk:Quebec99|talk]]) 12:52, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
:This is the example template:
::<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="1">{{cite web|last=Feerick|first=John|title=Essays on Article II: Presidential Succession|work=The Heritage Guide to the Constitution|url=https://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/2/essays/83/presidential-succession|publisher=The Heritage Foundation|access-date=June 12, 2018|archive-date=August 22, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200822232208/https://www.heritage.org/constitution/%23!/amendments/8/essays/161/cruel-and-unusual-punishment#!/articles/2/essays/83/presidential-succession|url-status=unfit}}</syntaxhighlight>
:What a mess.  {{para|url}} does not match the url given in {{para|archive-url}}.  That the original url redirects to the site's home page does not mean that the original url is {{para|url-status|unfit}} – that parameter/value pair suppresses original urls; archive.today urls are suppressed because that archival service is deprecated; see [[WP:ARCHIVETODAY]].  And, heritage(dot)org is blacklisted.
:
:It is time for editors to step up and make editorial decisions.  There are, apparently, two essays related to 'Article II: Presidential Succession':
:*Essay No. 97: The Presidential Succession—Devolve Clause (Feerick) <nowiki>https://constitution.heritage.org/essays/a2-s1-c6-a/</nowiki>
:*Essay No. 98: The Presidential Succession—Congress Clause (Blackman and Tillman) <nowiki>https://constitution.heritage.org/essays/a2-s1-c6-b/</nowiki>
:But because of the blacklist, neither of those can be used to support the article's text.
:—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 13:46, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
::If I've understood this discussion correctly, the <nowiki>|access-date</nowiki> error is a result of archive.today being deprecated.
::On [[Lesley Vainikolo]], the following reference shows both a red error and a green error when viewing the page, but when I open it in the source editor, only the maintenance/green error appears? It is currently #11. Are you seeing the same thing?
::* {{tq|<nowiki>{{cite web |url=http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-3-2006-90303.asp |title=Rugby League: Knee Forces Lesley Out |work=The Guardian |date=3 March 2006 |access-date=11 January 2008 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120720170929/http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-3-2006-90303.asp |archive-date=20 July 2012}}</nowiki>}}
::Is this behaviour definitely functioning correctly? I haven't done any other testing, so sorry if I've missed something obvious. I'm asking specifically about the disappearing/appearing red error.
::Also, ignore the horrendous state of the article! I'm going to do my best to improve it.
::Thanks, [[User:JordyGrey|<span style="color:#3b3b3b">'''JordyGrey'''</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:JordyGrey|<span style="color:#3b3b3b">talk</span>]][[Special:Contributions/JordyGrey|🧸]]</sub> 14:33, 20 August 2026 (UTC)
:::This morning, I answered a similar question at the [[Special:Permalink/1370334019#False_positive_CS1_error|help desk]] (permalink).  Does that answer your question?
:::—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 14:52, 20 August 2026 (UTC)
::::Absolutely! Thank you so much! :) [[User:JordyGrey|<span style="color:#3b3b3b">'''JordyGrey'''</span>]] <sub>[[User talk:JordyGrey|<span style="color:#3b3b3b">talk</span>]][[Special:Contributions/JordyGrey|🧸]]</sub> 00:03, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

==False positive check url error==
I've come across the below ref on the page [[Leon Henry]], which is throwing a <code>Check |url= value</code> error even though the link itself is correct. 

{{cite web|url=https://sodaho_ftp.sidearmsports.com/custompages/Men's%20Basketball/mediaguides/mensbb06_07.pdf|title=CSI Basketball 2006–07 media guide|work=[[College of Southern Idaho]]|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222054147/https://sodaho_ftp.sidearmsports.com/custompages/Men%27s%20Basketball/mediaguides/mensbb06_07.pdf|archivedate=22 December 2019}}

I've narrowed it down to the underscore, but I'm not fully sure how to resolve it given that's part of the actual url. Any suggestions would be much appreciated! [[User:Turnagra|Turnagra]] ([[User talk:Turnagra|talk]]) 20:34, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
:As I understand it, underscores are not allowed in 'labels' (the text between the dots) except in certain specific cases where the underscore must be the first character in the subdomain label (but not the second-level domain name).
:
:Still, where there is one, sooner or later there are likely to be others so, for the time being, in the sandbox I have tightened the test so that it ignores subdomains of the second-level domain:
::<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="1">{{cite web/new |url=//ex_ample.com |title=Title}}</syntaxhighlight>
:::{{cite web/new |url=//ex_ample.com |title=Title}}
::<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="1">{{cite web/new |url=https://sodaho_ftp.sidearmsports.com/custompages/Men's%20Basketball/mediaguides/mensbb06_07.pdf |title=CSI Basketball 2006–07 media guide |work=[[College of Southern Idaho]]}}</syntaxhighlight>
:::{{cite web/new |url=https://sodaho_ftp.sidearmsports.com/custompages/Men's%20Basketball/mediaguides/mensbb06_07.pdf |title=CSI Basketball 2006–07 media guide |work=[[College of Southern Idaho]]}}
:—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 23:24, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
::Thank you! Just double checking that it's okay to use the updated form in a live article, since you mentioned it being a sandbox thing? [[User:Turnagra|Turnagra]] ([[User talk:Turnagra|talk]]) 01:56, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
:::Currently the correct version is on sandbox and will only available to mainspace articles once the main module get updated. till then the error will be there. I would suggest you to wait until it's getting fixed meantime you can see details of [[#module suite update 8–9 August 2026|latest module update]] which also included similar problem with domain name.––[[User:KEmel49|<span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold; font-family: Georgia;">KE</span>mel<span style="color: red;">49</span>]]([[User talk:KEmel49|📝]],[[Special:Contributions/KEmel49|📋]]) 12:09, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
::::The false positive errors only occur when the page is saved. It also happens with the citation command... not just cite web. When you preview the edits, there is no error. [[User:Quebec99|Quebec99]] ([[User talk:Quebec99|talk]]) 23:47, 14 August 2026 (UTC)
::Hi, I can see you said this update isn't live yet, I just wanted to note that it is affecting other articles too (I found it in [[Crazy Leo]] which has a 'ra_2012.rally-america.com' url, the original site is dead but the archive works correctly). Thanks for your work. - [[User:Mitchea99|Mitchea99]] ([[User talk:Mitchea99|talk]]) 03:50, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
::You are correct.  According to RFCs [[rfc:952|952]] and [[rfc:1123|1123]] the only characters allowed in labels are the alphanumerics and '-' (minus), and a label cannot start with '-'.  I came across the problem on [[Oak Openings Preserve Metropark]] from a change made on 2022-01-19, but going by [[User:Mitchea99|Mitchea99]]'s example, DNS servers have been ignoring this rule for a long time now. - [[User:Wikkiwonkk|Wikkiwonkk]] ([[User talk:Wikkiwonkk|talk]]) 03:16, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

==Is it good to remove url-status=dead?==
If "archive-url" is used and no value is set for 'url-status', then 'url-status=dead' is assumed. So, omitting 'url-status=dead' makes no difference to the display. When an "archive-url" and 'url-status=dead' are both in a cite, is removing the 'url-status=dead' good, bad or other – and why? Thanks. [[User:Nurg|Nurg]] ([[User talk:Nurg|talk]]) 01:50, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

:url-status=dead means that some person has checked that the url is dead and deliberately flagged it as dead in the citation. url-status omitted means that we don't know whether or not it is dead and are following the default behavior, which is to treat it as if it is dead. The output of the template is the same but the meaning is different. So it should not be removed (unless the url really is not dead), and neither should it be automatically added. Both of these changes are pointless from the point of view of template output and destructive from the point of view of the intended meaning. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 02:11, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
:It's completely useless and encourages people to spend time checking "is the link dead?" for no reason. The template behaves the same way either way. There is an archived link, it's already being used as the main link. What purpose does flagging it as dead serve? None, save to tell others the link was dead. Which you shouldn't be checking for to begin with since you have an archive link. You are literally wasting time that benefits literally no one/no reader.
:The only useful result is the opposite. Is the link live? Because if it is, then we prioritise the live link and overide the templates default behaviour. But even that is of extremely marginal use because we want the source as it was as close to when you checked it, making the archived link arguable more valuable than the live one. &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 02:16, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
::Precisely, {{para|url-status|dead}} is important "to tell others the link was dead". Being redundant is good thing. --[[User:FlatLanguage|FlatLanguage]] ([[User talk:FlatLanguage|talk]]) 09:35, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
:::Why is it important? So they can search for an archived version? There's already one! &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 10:08, 19 August 2026 (UTC)
:::: So you can look for a live source. Websites with taxonomic databases often change location or structure. It is better to follow the new version, rather than rely on an archive that may be out of date. &nbsp;—&nbsp;<span style="white-space: nowrap;font-family:Arial;background:#d6ffe6;border:solid 1px;border-radius:5px;box-shadow:darkcyan 0px 1px 1px;"> [[User:Jts1882|Jts1882]]  &#124;[[User talk:Jts1882| talk]]&nbsp;</span> 12:32, 19 August 2026 (UTC)
:::@Headbomb: No, "to tell others the link was dead". If {{para|archive-url}} is present but {{para|url-status}} is missing, the module assumes the link is {{pval|dead}}; however, it may actually be {{pval|live}}, with the editor simply having forgotten to specify the status. By specifying {{para|url-status|dead}}, you can indicate that the URL has been verified. 
:::This is similar to {{para|author|<nowiki><!--Not stated--></nowiki>}} ([[Help:Citation_Style_1#Authors]]). They do not affect the display of the template, but they convey useful information to editors. [[User:FlatLanguage|FlatLanguage]] ([[User talk:FlatLanguage|talk]]) 13:52, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
:It's redundant as {{para|url-status|dead}} is technically the same as not including it at all. However in past discussions some editors have said they find it useful, and as it doesn't matter one way or the other there is no point in not including it. -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 11:04, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
:url-status=dead (or unfit) tells the template to prioritise the archived link.  Otherwise it is assumed to be live.  If there is no archive, then the {{Tlx| Dead link}} template should be used outside the {{Tlx| Cite foo}}  template. All the best: ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]] [[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]''<small> 21:39, 27 August 2026 (UTC).<br /></small>

== Cite document, paper, journal, and web ==

I am confused as to why {{t|cite document}} does not support URL parameters.

I have on multiple occasions been caught off guard when attempting to use {{t|cite paper}} and getting a missing {{para|journal}} error thrown at me, as it is currently a redirect to {{t|cite journal}}. ''Paper'' and ''document'' are much closer semantically, so it seems reasonable to expect {{t|cite paper}} to redirect to {{t|cite document}}, but in replacing a call of the former to the latter, I get hit with an unknown parameter {{para|url}} error. Instead, I have to use {{t|cite web}}, which in many cases seems an inappropriate template to use for what I am citing.
The particular example that caused me to bring this up here is the following:
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">
{{cite web
|last=Jones
|first=Daniel
|author-link=Daniel Jones (phonetician)
|year=1956
|title=Cardinal Vowels Spoken by Daniel Jones: Text of Records with Explanatory Notes by Professor Jones
|location=London
|publisher=Linguaphone Institute
|url=https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3-euw1-ap-pe-ws4-cws-streaming.ri-prod/9781444183092/cardinal.pdf
}}
</syntaxhighlight>
The url is merely a scan of a {{tq|short, stand-alone, offline document}} exactly as described in the documentation of {{t|cite document}}, so the fact that I get an error makes little sense to me. I was going to create an RfD for {{t|cite paper}} to retarget it to {{t|cite document}}, but this is preventing me from doing so. ~ [[User:Oklopfer|<span style="color: #e3308a">oklopfer</span>]] ([[User talk:Oklopfer|💬︎]]) 22:39, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
:IIRC the reason for {{-r|Template:Cite paper}} being a redirect to [[Template:Cite journal]] is because for an academic paper to be acceptable for verifiability purposes, it must have been published; and the usual place for academic papers to be published is in an academic journal. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 22:49, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
:I agree that cite document should support URLs. An offline document just means a physical document. There's no reason why there can't be online scans/PDFs of them. &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 23:22, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
:Sorry but it's clearly not a {{tq|short, stand-alone, offline document}} as it's online. It can't be offline if it has a URL. Cite Document's documentation would clearer if it was "{{tq|short, stand-alone document, that is not available online}}". -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 11:29, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
::Which it shouldn't be. Cite document should be for any generic document. That something is available online is completely irrelevant. &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 12:18, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
:::I could see the argument for that, but that's not how it's currently setup. -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 12:33, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
:::Like {{tl|Citation}} for CS1? You'd probably need broad consensus for that since the other CS1 templates all describe a type of source. I think {{tl|cite document}} was a [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ACite_document&diff=1170021118&oldid=1095569050 redirect] to {{tl|cite journal}} prior to this discussion: {{format link|Help_talk:Citation_Style_1/Archive_81#"Cite_document"_needs_its_own_template._Redirecting_to_cite_journal_is_illogical_and_unfriendly.}} [[User:Rjjiii|<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Rjj<sup>iii</sup></span>]] ([[User talk:Rjjiii|talk]]) 15:38, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
::::Ah, that helps to explain the incongruence of {{t|cite paper}} and {{t|cite document}}, then. ~ [[User:Oklopfer|<span style="color: #e3308a">oklopfer</span>]] ([[User talk:Oklopfer|💬︎]]) 18:37, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
::In my opinion, a "document" is a [[pamphlet]], a small version of book, so we should be able to use all parameters of {{tl|cite book}} other than {{para|chapter}} and related params. --[[User:FlatLanguage|FlatLanguage]] ([[User talk:FlatLanguage|talk]]) 02:09, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
:Cite document is specifically provided to support URL-less lesser works that appear in no other greater works. That is the point of the template. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 21:51, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

== Cite report ==

Why does the report title not display in either italics or quotations? [[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] ([[User talk:Viriditas|talk]]) 23:16, 23 August 2026 (UTC)

:It is one of the black sheep of this set. We also have the issue that they can be either short of long form, so we've somehow ended up at a styling which is wrong for both cases. :) [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 21:50, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
::Yes, that makes sense (seriously). [[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] ([[User talk:Viriditas|talk]]) 09:59, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

== Cite news: Publisher explanation is uninformative, contradictory, and weird  ==

The cite news - Publisher explanation is contradictory and fails to explain crucial information.

# It states things in terms of what “usually” happens, or what “rarely” happens, which is obviously useless for a person trying to understand what good practice is or what the reasoning is for why anybody should be doing anything. “Corporate designations such as "Ltd", "Inc.", or "GmbH" are not '''usually''' included” and “This parameter is most '''commonly''' used for books.”  The whole premise of rules and guidelines is that people are often doing a foolish wrong thing, therefore something being common or rare is meaningless here and hasn’t explained anything.  What is the official rationale?  Is the source data built on whimsy?
# Blatant contradiction.  It says “Do not use the publisher parameter for the name of a work“ and a moment later says “it may be used instead of work in some cases.”
# It fails to explain anything.“Omit where the publisher's name is substantially the same as the name of the work”.  Why? Why don’t we want historical database info, and in a world where publishers change which in turn can effect reliability and independence?  Is there a storage/bandwidth concern for text bloat in the extra info?  And what if a person wants to look at info or stats for cited publications under a given publisher?  Or whatever other info or purpose.  Why wouldn’t we want a little bit of definitive info like publisher?  Two pieces of data for a key in a database being similar has never been a good reason to omit one of them, in my experience.  And for example a person could more quickly investigate a publisher if it’s actually listed, rather than having to first investigate the publication to find the publisher.
# Is the logic that the ONLY intended purpose of Publisher field is to disambiguate a source/publication in a case where two things have a similar title?  That’s a good use case but it’s a horribly limited logic on the topic of recording publisher data in a citation database.

I thought the point of guidelines is to have reasoned non-contradictory non-random non-whimsical behaviors and systems.

I’d be glad to make it make sense by editing it myself (with enough leeway that I’m not personally dictating new mandates, but rather giving explicitly reasoned advice), but from what I’ve seen it will just get reverted with no substantial reason given by someone who doesn’t understand the actual rules of Wikipedia (I.e. “I have no articulable reason why your edit is a problem when your edit clearly fits the established rules and is probably entailed by them already, but in my imagination a bureaucratic pre-approval is required before an edit, so I’m deleting it.” This happens every day and nobody stops it.  So here we are, hi everyone, here’s my discussion.[[User:RandomEditor6772314|RandomEditor6772314]] ([[User talk:RandomEditor6772314|talk]]) 01:33, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

:That's because some people disagree and insist that it's very important to tell the reader who the publisher of [[Time Magazine]] is. When zero citation styleguides recommend including the publisher of magazines or newspaper in a citation. But because Wikipedia has no specific citation style, we cannot recommend to not include the publisher, because the special snowflakes will scream murder. We can only describe how it's used.
:So that's why on some articles you will have <code>John Doe (1994) ... ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', Time USA</code>; and on others <code>John Doe (1994) ... ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''</code> or someone insisting that a book's publisher [[Elsevier]] be referred to its Dutch legal name [[Elsevier B.V.]], and others by it's American legal name [[Elsevier, Inc.]]. &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 01:45, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

== Proposed script-author parameter redux ==

A few years ago, [[Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 92#Proposed script-author parameter|there were calls from several editors]] for the addition of a {{para|script-author}} parameter to CS1, and the issue has come up before that (e.g. [[Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 64#Citing native scripts of the author's name and/or title of a work in Citation Style 1|here]] and [[Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 12#Script variants of parameters for author, editor, etc.|here]]).  

The fact that {{para|script-title}} &c have existed for years shows that the feature would be useful, as is the fact that the issue keeps arising on this talk page.  There are many good arguments for this parameter in those discussion, but a short version is that romanizations are lossy, and readers should not be expected to know who {{lang|zh|趙元任}} is or to try and figure out who "Y. R. Chao" might refer to.  — [[User talk:AjaxSmack|<span style="border:1px solid #005173;background:#276a7d;padding:2px;color:#dff4f7;text-shadow:black 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em; font-family: Georgia;">&nbsp;'''AjaxSmack'''&nbsp;</span>]] 20:07, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

:Is there a reason {{para|author|Y. R. Chao [趙元任]}} wouldn't work, or if you need the author parameters for use with {{tl|sfn}} or similar, then wouldn't {{para|author|Y. R. Chao}} and {{para|author-mask|Y. R. Chao [趙元任]}} work? -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 20:46, 24 August 2026 (UTC)
::{{bcc|ActivelyDisinterested}}''"Is there a reason..."''.  Yes, because it makes the {{para|first}} and {{para|last}} fields unavailable. [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ingush_language&diff=prev&oldid=1371119447 Here's an example.]  (I don't use {{tl|sfn}} unless the article already does.) Is there a reason we have {{para|script-title}}? <small> — [[User talk:AjaxSmack|<span style="border:1px solid #005173;background:#276a7d;padding:2px;color:#dff4f7;text-shadow:black 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em; font-family: Georgia;">&nbsp;'''AjaxSmack'''&nbsp;</span>]] 14:57, 25 August 2026 (UTC)</small>
:::{{para|first|Y. R.}}, {{para|last|Chao}} works with {{para|author-mask|Chao, Y. R. [趙元任]}}. -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 15:02, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
::::Why use a workaround that's not really meant for this purpose? (I vaguely remember it breaking some sorting once.)  I'm genuinely curious why {{para|script-title}} is fine and {{para|script-author}} is not, despite numerous editors calling for it over the years. Is it too difficult to implement?  Will it break something? <small> — [[User talk:AjaxSmack|<span style="border:1px solid #005173;background:#276a7d;padding:2px;color:#dff4f7;text-shadow:black 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em; font-family: Georgia;">&nbsp;'''AjaxSmack'''&nbsp;</span>]] 16:23, 26 August 2026 (UTC)</small>
:::::I'm not arguing against it, just wondering why the available solution isn't practical. You shouldn't break anything by using author-mask with last and first, it will definitely work fine with short form references. If something can be accomplished with the currently available fields, then new fields only add extra complexity and additional maintenance. -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 21:10, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
::::::These points apply to {{para|script-title}} as well, and it appears to be well-subscribed and working fine.  As I noted, quite a few editors have requested {{para|script-author}} over the years. <small> — [[User talk:AjaxSmack|<span style="border:1px solid #005173;background:#276a7d;padding:2px;color:#dff4f7;text-shadow:black 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em; font-family: Georgia;">&nbsp;'''AjaxSmack'''&nbsp;</span>]] 17:57, 31 August 2026 (UTC)</small>
:::::::Then I would have said the same about them in discussions on their creation. -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 18:09, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
:I support this. This is not necessary when the author has an wiki article, but otherwise the information is as essential as that in {{para|script-title}}. It's possible to fudge the presentation with {{para|author-mask}}, but {{para|script-author}} would be the clean way to do it. (Adding the info to {{para|author}} messes up the semantics.)
:The proposal is to add the value of {{para|script-author}} in parentheses after the author name. Ditto for all the other names. [[User talk:Kanguole|Kanguole]] 21:39, 24 August 2026 (UTC)
:script-X is intended to provide support for languages that don't do italics. That's it. That's the only reason it exists. Authors do not have this problem because they are not italicized.
:The appropriate parameter for support of what you want is {{para|author-mask}}. Your assertion that it's not its purpose is incorrect. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 21:47, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
::Thanks. <small> — [[User talk:AjaxSmack|<span style="border:1px solid #005173;background:#276a7d;padding:2px;color:#dff4f7;text-shadow:black 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em; font-family: Georgia;">&nbsp;'''AjaxSmack'''&nbsp;</span>]] 13:29, 2 September 2026 (UTC)</small>

== ISBN / Date incompatibility (again and again) ==

There have been at least two previous discussions of this error:
* [[Help_talk:Citation_Style_1/Archive_98#ISBN_/_Date_incompatibility]]
* [[Help_talk:Citation_Style_1/Archive_100#ISBN_/_Date_incompatibility]]
and probably more.

I see the issue as:
* ISBNs did not exist before 1965. If a template ({{tlg|cite book|code=yes}}, for example) uses {{para|date|'''a date before 1965'''}} and {{para|ISBN|'''an ISBN assigned to a reprint or reissue of the book'''}} an error is shown:
*:{{tlg|cite book|code=yes}} {{font color|red|ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)}}
* Assigning {{para|date|'''the date of the reissue'''}} and {{para|orig-date|'''date of the original publication'''}} prevents the error.
* However, assigning {{para|date|'''the date of the original publication'''}} and {{para|publication-date|'''the date of the reissue'''}} does not prevent the error. (see, for example, [[Brettle]])

To me, this seems inconsistent. Use of {{param value|date}} and {{param value|publication-date}} is a correct representation of the original publication date and the reissue date and should not create the error.

ETA: As of now, there are over 43,000 pages with this error. I don't know how many of those are caused by use of {{param value|date}} and {{param value|publication-date}}. [[:Category:CS1_errors:_ISBN_date]]

Thoughts? --[[User:Lexiconaut|Lexiconaut]] ([[User talk:Lexiconaut|talk]]) 04:36, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

:It's not entirely clear to me from reading the documentation what {{param value|publication-date}} is meant to do that {{param value|orig-date}} isn't doing, and whether that's a distinction that would be understood by readers. I did a lot of ISBN cleanup and I never saw {{param value|publication-date}} in use. Errors typically fell into three buckets: fallacious ISBNs auto-added from Google Books, misidentified reprints/editions, and straight-up typos. [[User:Mackensen|Mackensen]] [[User_talk:Mackensen|(talk)]] 11:21, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
:Deprecating {{para|publication-date}} would solve this issue. -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 15:04, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

== Chapter-doi could be added ==

Chapters or articles in books sometimes have their own DOI. Also, if a DOI is supplied, the URL it redirects to should not normally be supplied as the {{para|url}} parameter. As there is a parameter {{para|chapter-url}}, it might be desirable to add a parameter which at present isn't supported, {{para|chapter-doi}}, which in some cases would replace {{para|chapter-url}} if they both invoke the same Web page. On the other hand, {{para|doi|[URL of chapter]}} is probably good enough.

(Real) example<ref>{{Cite book|date=1 January 2004 |chapter=Blue cheese|series=Cheese: Chemistry, Physics and Microbiology|volume=2|title=Major Cheese Groups|language=en |pages=175–198 |chapter-doi=10.1016/S1874-558X(04)80044-7<!--replacing url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/bookseries/abs/pii/S1874558X04800447-->|issn=1874-558X |last1=Cantor |first1=M. D. |last2=Van Den Tempel |first2=T. |last3=Hansen |first3=T. K. |last4=Ardö |first4=Y.|editor1-first=Patrick|editor1-last=F. Fox|editor2-first=Paul L.H.|editor2-last= McSweeney|editor3-first=Timothy M.|editor3-last=Cogan|editor4-first=Timothy P.|editor4-last=Guinee|isbn=9780122636530}}</ref>; url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/bookseries/abs/pii/S1874558X04800447 and {{DOI|10.1016/S1874-558X(04)80044-7}} , both invoking same Web page, of article within book.

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Best wishes, [[User:Pol098|Pol098]] ([[User talk:Pol098|talk]]) 17:30, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

:If you cite the chapter, doi is the doi of the chapter. {{para|chapter-doi}} serves no purpose and including both a "book doi" and a "chapter doi" would needlessly complicate things. &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 17:53, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
::Agree. Here's the citation using the doi for the chapter, since that is what you are citing (i.e. the first element after the author list): {{Cite book|date=1 January 2004 |chapter=Blue cheese|series=Cheese: Chemistry, Physics and Microbiology|volume=2|title=Major Cheese Groups|language=en |pages=175–198 |doi=10.1016/S1874-558X(04)80044-7<!--replacing url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/bookseries/abs/pii/S1874558X04800447-->|issn=1874-558X |last1=Cantor |first1=M. D. |last2=Van Den Tempel |first2=T. |last3=Hansen |first3=T. K. |last4=Ardö |first4=Y.|editor1-first=Patrick|editor1-last=F. Fox|editor2-first=Paul L.H.|editor2-last= McSweeney|editor3-first=Timothy M.|editor3-last=Cogan|editor4-first=Timothy P.|editor4-last=Guinee|isbn=9780122636530}} – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 22:54, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

== Misuse of <code>cite</code> ==

CS1 templates wrap their contents in {{tag|cite}}, but [https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-cite-element ''<cite>HTML Standard</cite>'' § The <code>cite</code> element] says {{tag|cite}} is specifically for the titles of works, and [https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#example-cite-usage-bibliography explicitly states] that using it for the {{em|entirety}} of a citation in a bibliography is incorrect. {&#123;'''[[User:Lemondoge|Lemondoge]]'''&#124;[[User talk:Lemondoge|Talk]]&#124;[[Special:Contributions/Lemondoge|Contributions]]&#125;} 20:53, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
:IIRC this has been discussed at least twice before, several years ago. It got heated. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 21:55, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
:See [[Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 100#Citations wrapped in &lt;cite&gt;]] from last year. [[User talk:Kanguole|Kanguole]] 22:04, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
::In short, this is a stupid 'recommendation' by WHATWG and will continue to be ignored as a stupid. &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 22:13, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
::o {&#123;'''[[User:Lemondoge|Lemondoge]]'''&#124;[[User talk:Lemondoge|Talk]]&#124;[[Special:Contributions/Lemondoge|Contributions]]&#125;} 22:27, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
:::At the top of the page that you linked in your first post, it says <q>Living Standard — Last Updated 25 August 2026</q>. That's what it says as I type this, but it won't necessarily say that tomorrow, and definitely won't have said that yesterday. It summarises my problem with WHATWG: it is a "living" standard - it's prone to change, often without warning. You can't say to somebody, "this is how you use this particular HTML element" and include a WHATWG link, because when they get around to using that spec, it may well have changed. Also, there's no change log that I can find, so you can't say "right, when we first discussed the issue, it said to do that, but now it says to do this". Compare W3C's [https://www.w3.org/TR/css-cascade-5/#changes Changes to CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 5]. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 23:02, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
::::In short, living standard is an oxymoron. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 23:14, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

== Template:Citation – wrong links in hatnotes ==

There are some wrong/non-functional links in hatnotes at [[Template:Citation]]. E.g. under the heading "Anchor":

:Not to be confused with <u>§ Identifiers</u>.

:Further information: <u>§ Anchored citations</u>.

The first line links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/#Identifiers, which just redirects to the main page. Same as several other ones I checked.

— [[User:Phazd|Phazd]] ([[User_talk:Phazd|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Phazd|contribs]]) 21:43, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

{{Edit template-protected|Module:Hatnote|Module:Format link|answered=yes}}
:This is problem about [[Module:Hatnote]] (and [[Module:Format link]]). See [[:ja:Special:Diff/110484481]], [[:ja:Special:Diff/110484386]]. --[[User:FlatLanguage|FlatLanguage]] ([[User talk:FlatLanguage|talk]]) 08:16, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
::Not done.  These requests should be made at [[Module talk:Hatnote]] and [[Module talk:Format link]].
::—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 12:01, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
:::I have worked around the problem for now. I wonder if it used to work. – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 21:39, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
::::Before Parsoid, it worked. Parsoid's render of <code>[[:#</code> links to main page. [[User:FlatLanguage|FlatLanguage]] ([[User talk:FlatLanguage|talk]]) 13:37, 7 September 2026 (UTC)
:::::Confirmed: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Citation/doc&oldid=1368874104&useparsoid=0#Anchored_citations before] (using useparsoid=0) vs [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Citation/doc&oldid=1368874104#Anchored_citations after] — [[User:SirOlgen|SirOlgen]] ([[User talk:SirOlgen|talk]]) 18:00, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

== doi-broken-date possible meanings ==

The {{para|doi-broken-date}} parameter can mean broken in a variety of ways:
# doi.org itself returns a 404 reply, saying "DOI Not Found", eg. {{DOI|10.4324/9781315820880-12}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=DHdmAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PT223]
# doi.org redirects to a 404 reply, eg. {{DOI|10.1596/1813-9450-1536}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20171122215526/https://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/pdf/10.1596/1813-9450-1536][https://doi.org/10.1017/s1053837224000014#reference-34-content]
# doi.org redirects to a domain with no server responding to HTTP requests (the whole domain is dead)

All of these are easily machine-verifiable. DOIs can have another kind of resolver issue, where doi.org redirects to a URL which represents the wrong resource. I've seen this before in DOIs getting linked to the wrong chapter of a book. This isn't readily machine-verifiable and probably shouldn't use the {{para|doi-broken-date}} parameter.

I was considering editing [[Template:Citation Style documentation/id2]]. However, I decided just to document it here instead. [[User:Daask|Daask]] ([[User talk:Daask|talk]]) 15:18, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

== WP:JCW update - Open access ==

{{Main|WT:JCW#WP:JCW update - Open access}}
BTW just a heads up, the [[WP:JCW]] compilation now reports whether or not publications and publishers are open access ones. It's not perfect, sometimes there are classes like (delayed open access being the category given to the article, but the infobox just says open-access = yes, so the bot picks one which might not be accurate. Most publishers should be unflagged because the publisher a mix of open and closed access journals, while most publications should probably be flagged as hybrid open access, since most will support a pay-to-make-it-free option.

Things should get considerably more accurate after the next dump, but if you have feedback, please let me know at [[WT:JCW#WP:JCW update - Open access]]! &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 15:04, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

== cite speech ==

* I can't wrap my head around speech being handled as a published document (a speech with chapters). Why is it called speech then? Like I said in the dicussion at the top, ''creation-date'' would really be an appropriate solution. 

* Since we have video and audio online speeches can be published in these formats, without ever being printed. In that case there is a problem with ''minutes'' and ''time''. Both seem pretty much the same, they serve a specific moment in the speech, a specific citation; there is no way to say how long the speech (the video or audio) as a whole is, which is quite interesting. And it can't be referenced a whole work.

* My specific problem I came upon when I tried to cite a lecture uploaded on youtube. I would rather focus on the circumstances of the lecture than on the platform it is presented on (maybe even use the appendix ''via''), so I don't want to use ''cite web''. I hoped to find ''cite lecture'', but there was only speech, ok. Cite conference could have suited the talk, but it was a stand-alone event, specifically:
::{{cite speech |author1=Gretchen A. Hirschauer (curator) |author2=Joanna R. Dunn (conservator) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gJz0iobzVg |title=Celebrating Vittore Carpaccio: Exhibition and Conservation at the National Gallery of Art |website=YouTube |publisher=National Gallery of Art |publication-place=Washington, DC |date=February 7, 2023 |type=lecture, 89 min |location=[[Embassy of Italy, Washington, D.C.|Embassy of Italy]] Auditorium |language=en |postscript=, on the occasion of the NGA exhibition titled ''Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice''.}} (Used at [[Two Venetian Ladies]]) 

:I will probably remove (curator)+(conservator), because of the following date also in brackets (don't like that). The point here is that the location translates to "Written at", which is irrelevant here, but there is a difference between the date the speech was given and the date at which the video was uploaded --for that I can use orig-date and publication-date--, but there is also the location of the publisher and the location the speech was held. If I can not use publication-place for the location of the event, because it's coupled with the publisher
::(simplified: {{cite speech |author1=Gretchen A. Hirschauer |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gJz0iobzVg |title=Celebrating Vittore Carpaccio |website=YouTube |publisher=National Gallery |publication-place=[[Embassy of Italy, Washington, D.C.]], auditorium |date=2023 |type=lecture, 89 min |language=en |postscript=, on the occasion of the NGA exhibition.}})

* Cite speech has a ''conference-date'' and ''conference-url'', but no conference-place? This could have been a solution for my problem.

* P.S.: I found ''type='' on many occasions very helpful, and I use it to specify the literary genre (pamphlet, speech, album credits, afterword) or the section in a newspaper or magazine (obituary, review, interview). Is this ok, and maybe supposed to be used in that way?
[[User:MenkinAlRire|MenkinAlRire]] 15:13, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

:{{tl|cite av media}} is also available and may be your preference. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 21:43, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
::Answering a few of these questions: 
::*Until the advent of recording technology, the only way to refer to a speech was as a published version on paper. See {{oclc|844357129}} for an 1896 example of a book of speeches. 
::*We never use a CS1 template to specify the length of a work that we are citing, only the location in the work where support can be found for a claim made in an article. – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 21:48, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
:::* That is what I said. But since then the media landscape has changed very much so there will be a sentimental niche for books just like vinyl (Yeah, sad. Especially in the sciences the oftentimes very expensive publications will die out, I suppose, also because the (specialised) libraries, who are the main target, won't have the finances anymore.)
:::* With the video I found it interesting to know in advance, how much time I would have to spent on it, which is different to a book, a speech also doesn't have an index or even chapters (in my case it is 90 min, not 2, like another one in the article). But I wouldn't tell the number of pages either (or the size in kb), so I can agree with you there.
:::[[User:MenkinAlRire|MenkinAlRire]] 22:54, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
::Oh, I overlooked this one. I'll have a look at it. Thanks. [[User:MenkinAlRire|MenkinAlRire]] 22:28, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

== Cite podcast ==

Why is there no entry for guest or interviewee? [[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] ([[User talk:Viriditas|talk]]) 09:33, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

== Question/yet another field order request ==
Greetings and felicitations.  In "{{Tl|Cite journal}}", why is the order "''Journal'' '''Vol''' (issue). Publisher: pages"?  I would think that "Publisher: ''Journal''{{-"}}, or "''Journal'' (Publisher)", or some other closer association would make more sense. —[[User:DocWatson42|DocWatson42]] ([[User talk:DocWatson42|talk]]) 11:57, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

:I think {{code|publisher}} (and {{code|place}}), when they are defined, are at their right place, as in {{template|Cite book}}, but I have always found it extremely odd for the page number to be put after these, rather than after the {{code|issue}} (and {{code|volume}}) number, as when they are not defined. [[User:Keriluamox|Keriluamox]] ([[User talk:Keriluamox|talk]]) 12:17, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
::Before March 2024, {{tl|cite journal}} puts volume after publisher:
:::<cite class="citation journal cs1">Author (2000). "title". ''journal''. location: publisher. <b>1</b> (2): <span class="nowrap">10–</span>20.</cite>
::After [[Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive_93#tcommon assignment cleanup]], [[Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 94#module suite update 23–24 March 2024]]:
:::<cite class="citation journal cs1">Author (2000). "title". ''journal''. <b>1</b> (2). location: publisher: <span class="nowrap">10–</span>20.</cite>
::I’ve talked about it on [[User talk:Trappist the monk/Archive 28#Page number in wrong place in cite journal]]. [[User:FlatLanguage|FlatLanguage]] ([[User talk:FlatLanguage|talk]]) 12:36, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
:::I've complained about this too at some point. &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 14:46, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

On a similar topic, if the language is displayed, it should be after the title, not the series, and (pardon me if I've mentioned this before) the edition should also be before the series, please.  Examples:

* {{Cite book |last=Zana |first1=Mehdî |year=2005 |title=Ay dayê |language=ku |series=Weşanên Tevn; Roman |publisher=Weşanên Tevn |location=Aksaray, İstanbul |isbn=978-975-9094-03-4 |oclc=72801208}}
* {{Cite book |last=Zana |first=Mehdî |year=1995 |title=Sevgili Leyla : uzun bir sürgündü o gece |edition=1st |series=Belge Yayınları, 243; Yaşam ve anılar |language=tr |publisher=Belge Yayınları |location=İstanbul |isbn=978-975-344-086-8 |oclc=260193256}}

—[[User:DocWatson42|DocWatson42]] ([[User talk:DocWatson42|talk]]) 12:58, 2 September 2026 (UTC)

== I believe the miscellaneous URL warning for CiteSeerX URL format can now be removed. (Module:Citation/CS1) ==

CiteSeerX is now completely down, as far as I can see. Driving editors to make more or less tedious URL changes through a maintenance message seems like a waste to me now, given that both are now just equivalently dead links to be replaced, with neither being more valuable than the other.

If I receive agreement, I'd go ahead and make an edit request to remove the check in question. After sandboxing, needless to say. I think that's how it works, at least. [[User:DraegerChem|DraegerChem]] ([[User talk:DraegerChem|talk]]) 19:52, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

:Exactly which message do you mean? -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 12:54, 7 September 2026 (UTC)
::[[Wolfram's 2-state 3-symbol Turing machine#References]]
::Here is an example. Citation 3 is affected. "CS1 maint: miscellaneous url". It appears to be there because the citation's original link points to a CiteSeerX site. It doesn't seem to me though that it's of much use anymore, though, as it appears that all CiteSeerX sites are now down, so a format change won't do anything useful. I may be misinterpreting, but that's what I figured so far. The message in itself seems sound, but that it would still trigger for CiteSeerX links in the 'url' parameter does not, given that all such URLs should now be made to point to archive links where available. [[User:DraegerChem|DraegerChem]] ([[User talk:DraegerChem|talk]]) 19:14, 7 September 2026 (UTC)
:::It's there so that is editors can deal with the dead links, it's possible that the papers will be available elsewhere. It that case it appears it's available from the [[American Mathematical Society|AMS]][https://www.ams.org/notices/201003/rtx100300343p.pdf] -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 20:58, 7 September 2026 (UTC)
::::I hadn't realised the archive links for that reference works, it most cases it doesn't (see discussion in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Citation_Style_1/Archive_102#deprecate_|citeseerx=_? archive 102]). -- <small>LCU</small> '''[[User:ActivelyDisinterested|A<small>ctively</small>D<small>isinterested</small>]]''' <small>''«[[User talk:ActivelyDisinterested|@]]» °[[Special:Contributions/ActivelyDisinterested|∆t]]°''</small> 21:03, 7 September 2026 (UTC)
:::::Ah, I see. That makes more sense then. It is likely better to keep it the way it is in that case, although I'm not sure the help page for the maintenance message is still helpful. I suppose that may be the right place to intervene, but what to replace it with I'm not sure and I think I'll leave that to someone else.
:::::Thank you for your response and for clearing this up, in any case. [[User:DraegerChem|DraegerChem]] ([[User talk:DraegerChem|talk]]) 21:31, 7 September 2026 (UTC)