Template talk:Cite comic/Archive 0

See also

• Wikipedia:Cite sources: Style guide
• Wikipedia:Cite sources/example style: Style guide examples
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Generic citations: Related templates

Reference

Ellis, Allen (1999). "Comic Art in Scholarly Writing: A Citation Guide" (html). Retrieved December 16, 2005.

History

• Created: Hiding talk 22:16, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
• Added documentation: Hiding talk 22:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Discussion

Move

I propose a move to {{cite comic strip}} - to keep with the naming convention on citation list - I will clean up the redirects. Trödel 22:54, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I plan on making the move after 6 June if there are no objections Trödel 22:24, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

What happened? Is there any reason not to do this move?? ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 12:30, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

I can't think of any. I'll try and do it during the week, I have a bot account that should be able to handle the redirects. Hiding T 17:36, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Parameter names?

I tried to use this template at Lost (TV series), but found that when I used the parameters listed above, it didn't work. I had to change "strip" and "syndicate" to "title" and "publisher" in order to get the template to display properly (see here). I don't know enough about template syntax to understand why this is, or to make the necessary corrections to the blank version above, but I'm mentioning it here so someone more knowledgeable can. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:45, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Require Strip Title

Require a new parameter: Strip Title, or whatever the actual name is. Most of the webcomics name their strips for every publication. (e.g. penny arcade), right now there is no way of including this. --Voidvector 07:36, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

• Okay, leave it with me I'll try and get to it next. What I want to do ultimately is merge this with the other two comics related templates and create one cite comic template. Hiding Talk 16:39, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

@Voidvector: maybe a decade late but it's now possible to use the |story= parameter for this. It's the same parameter that {{cite comic}} uses. And many thanks to Hiding for getting this all started, Rjjiii (talk) 04:27, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Anchor

{{Comic strip reference/sandbox}} has been updated to provide an anchor for use with Shortened footnotes or Parenthetical referencing. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 09:27, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

URGENT: Correct usage examples

Hi, all the usage examples are wrong, as they use "comic book reference" (a template which no longer exists and simply redirects to "cite comic") instead of "comic strip reference". When I tried to use one of the usage examples (with parameters correctly filled in), it didn't work properly, unsurprisingly. Kidburla (talk) 15:24, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done Rjjiii (talk) 04:27, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Should have parameters for "url" and "quote"

Why is this template so out of step with other templates? It should support a URL= and a quote= ability. The URL is universally handy for verification, and the quote is useful for books, etc., so it should be incorporated in comic strips, also. — Molly-in-md (talk) 13:29, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

@Molly-in-md: if you're still around, would you check out the sandbox version testcases? I'm taking a swing at updating this template. Per your comment, it has parameters for url, archive-url, and quote. It's working in a more rudimentary way, so it can't do things like "url-status="

• Template:Comic strip reference/testcases

Regards, Rjjiii (talk) 08:44, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Pending update

I've done a bit of work in the sandbox, but will continue to test. I'm going to list out some of the changes here to invite any commentary or bug-testing. The sandbox version:

• Supports |url=, |archive-url=, |access-date=, |archive-date=, and |url-status parameters in line with more widely used templates,
• Supports |page=, |pages=, and |at= for citing pages with the standard "p." and "pp." prefixes for pages, no prefix for |at=, and autmatic conversion of hyphens to en dashes with |pages=,
• Has an optional |ref= parameter to enable shortened footnotes like {{cite comic}} and other non-CS1/2 templates,
• Is generally in line with {{cite comic}}, both to generate consistent results and also to facilitate merging the templates into a single comics template,
• Has fixes for line break errors when using too many creators,
• Has fixes for white space errors when using |cartoonist= with |artist or |writer=,
• Will still render something legible even if the parameters are not all filled out perfectly,
• Uses "no.", "vol.", "p.", "pp." like other templates and in line with the Manual of Style (See MOS:NUMERO & MOS:RANGE)
• Has wikilinks to explain the cryptic abbreviations for accessibility, and
• Ends with a period like {{cite xxx}} templates.

Rjjiii (talk) 08:00, 24 June 2023 (UTC)