Help talk:Citation Style 1
The template currently errors if the title parameter contains an unescaped instance of U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER (). This disrupts seemingly legitimate use of Emoji ZWJ sequences (such as 🏴☠️, and 🏳️🌈, and most gender/skin tone modifiers), which can occur occasionally in the text of Tweets and Instagram posts. See for example this error (which inspired me to leave this comment). To avoid the error, 🏴☠️ has to be rewritten as . Am I mistaken in thinking that unescaped ZWJ sequences are valid Wikitext? Is it feasible to remove the ZWJ from the warnings about invisible chars🏴‍☠️? Alternatively, could the Module attempt to exclude instances of ZWJ which form a valid Emoji? –RoxySaunders 🏳️⚧️ (💬 • 📝) 20:31, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Is there any way to convert this into a regular style ref like {{Cite web}} that can be added via VisualEditor? Kailash29792 (talk) 04:30, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
Hello, can you add "Security Check Required" to the list of generic titles. There are currently 211 instances, mostly from Facebook references. Keith D (talk) 16:32, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
The rubric currently says that the right way to include an illustrator is with the "others" parameter and the words "Illustrated by A. R. Tist". This is a kludge, where we should have parameters "illustrator = " and "illustrator-last = ", "illustrator-first = ". Perhaps that implies "illustratorN =" which I can see means a further slice of work if we're to allow multiple illustrators, which certainly sometimes happens. Still, it'd be the tidy solution. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:05, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
OCLC numbers can be useful, and I'm happy that Cite book provides the field. My question is about when one should use it. (It may therefore be off-topic here. You're welcome to tell me where I should post this instead of here.)
Most recent editions of books have ISBNs. An edition that has an ISBN probably appears in Worldcat, and if so has one or more OCLC records. If there are two or more OCLC records (as is common), it's often not obvious which is the most informative or the most accurate, let alone the one most likely to cover libraries within readers' reach. Anyway, if an edition has an ISBN, this will normally* make it easy to find the OCLC number(s). So whether or not I use a Cite template, my own practice is to provide the ISBN of an edition where there is an ISBN, and to cite an OCLC number only where there isn't an ISBN. If provided together with an ISBN, an OCLC number is IMHO normally* mere clutter. And so I've taken to removing the OCLC numbers (example). Comments? (* Yes, there are cases where some mistake has resulted in a single ISBN being shared by two books sharing nothing but a publisher. Of course I'm in favour of OCLC numbers that disambiguate.) -- Hoary (talk) 23:30, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
