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Please make setting of display-authors and display-editors optional to avoid "Category:CS1 maint: overridden setting"
Please make setting of display-authors and display-editors optional to avoid "Category:CS1 maint: overridden setting", as there is currently no way to set it. Please make it via an argument and by looking go the "cs1 config" template, if specified in the article, on whether it contains display-authors or display-editors already set for the whole article, in this case, the Cite Q should not generate these attributes.
As seeing in some pages that use "Cite Q", such as Civilization, the "display-authors" are set in the "cs1 config" header, there is no need to overwrite the display-authors in particular templates, for consistency. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 21:38, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is where the overridden setting comes from; nothing to do with |display-authors=. To fix Civilization delete |mode=cs1 from the {{cite q}} template.
Thank you for your explanation. I removed "|mode=cs1" from "cite Q" and it worked. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 00:22, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Reminder for title-trans
Just a reminder that as int21hasked on 30 Jan 2022 and I asked on 23 July 2023, it would be nice to be able to use something like d:Property:P2441 so that an article such as d:Q24293504 or d:Q125941907 automatically shows up with the |trans-title= parameter in the en.Wikipedia including the English translation of the title if that is available with P2441, or the equivalent template in ja.Wikipedia shows the Japanese translation in addition to the English original if P2441 is used there (currently Q24293504 using the preferred ranking vs the normal ranking). A temporary workaround is to add |trans-title=Whatever the Translation is as an override in {{cite Q}}. Boud (talk) 22:23, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
How do I fix two errors?
Greetings and felicitations. In the article "Egyptian Arabic" two references are generating errors due to the use of this template: Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred (2018); and Borg, Gert (2007). Both have the error "{{cite book}}: |journal= ignored". How do I fix this? —DocWatson42 (talk) 13:15, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Convert to regular refs instead of this template? Fram (talk) 13:46, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I could—I was just hoping to fix the root of the problem. :-/ —DocWatson42 (talk) 14:13, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The root of the problem is that this template started out as an interesting idea but has turned out to have many flaws and nobody willing to write code to fix or work around those flaws. Sometimes you need to use a better-maintained template, like {{cite book}}. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:04, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay. The vast majority of the references in that section use this template, so I was just going to use it. —DocWatson42 (talk) 15:07, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Best to convert at least Watson, Janet C. E. as well, as the link to the book is, as far as I can tell, a copyright violation link (I see no reason to believe that the uploader has the right to distribute the book like that in any case). Converting all of them would be even better, but might take some time... Fram (talk) 15:33, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's just your opinion. Cite Q is immensely useful for many reasons. Just because it doesn't do everything doesn't mean we should abandon it. — Jon (talk) 21:19, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think I wrote any opinions above, except the part about it being an interesting idea. Nor did I say it should be abandoned. I said that sometimes it is an invalid tool for the job, as is true for the citation described above, and other templates need to be used instead. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:58, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I looked at Behnstedt and Woidich (didn't bother with the other one). {{cite q}} doesn't support citing a chapter qid; see Template talk:Cite Q/Archive 7 § Cite Q chapter broken. You might cite the book qid and then add |chapter=, |chapter-url=, and |doi= parameters or whatever to get what you want.
