Template talk:Oregon Encyclopedia

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Small bug[edit]

If no author/third parameter is specified, the ":" is the first character and creates an indented new line, which looks odd in references. See [1] a former example in the Metro (Oregon regional government) article. Jason McHuff (talk) 03:38, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, I just noticed this too:

"Lake Oswego". The Oregon Encyclopedia.

No "*". Katr67 (talk) 16:23, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if this is what you were discussing above, but I just removed the : in the template as it was indenting when added to the EL sections, which prevented the * from working. I looked at about the first 10 transclusions and didn't see any problems after the change, but maybe there is somewhere. Aboutmovies (talk) 06:09, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, you fixed it! Thanks! Katr67 (talk) 15:01, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Request for addition of a "date" field[edit]

The publishers of the Oregon Encyclopedia recently added dates to all of their pages (long overdue, in my opinion!), indicating that "This entry was last updated on ....". Would someone please add a "date" or "year" field to the template? The OE pages don't show the date on which the entry was created, only the date it was last updated (which is more helpful, of those two), so I am not sure what the output from the modified template should be. It's probably not ideal to be as wordy as "last updated on [date]" in a reference template (especially for an online source, meaning anyone can find the exact dates on the OE pages), so I'd be fine with just showing a date (no words), and in fact probably just showing a year – although we might want to give template users either option. If it's just a year, the formatting should probably be such that, when an author is specified, the year appears as "(2014)" (e.g.) after the author's name and before the OE article's title, as Wikipedia's other citation templates do when an author is specified. SJ Morg (talk) 16:34, 10 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]