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BOW variant

On Ash-browed spinetail, we are getting an "author2=" error. - UtherSRG (talk) 20:31, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The citation parsing couldn't handle the "Jr." in "Remsen, Jr., J. V." as it introduced an additional comma, which meant the second author had initials ("J. V.") but no last name. Now handled for Jr. but may need others.

I also noticed that the citation parsing wasn't handling "J. del Hoyo" or "E. de Juana" properly, handling "del" and "de" as part of the first name. I've fixed this for authors and editors. — Jts1882 | talk 07:53, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks much! - UtherSRG (talk) 11:12, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jts1882: I'm getting Error: unrecognised source on Cebu bulbul. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:30, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The {{cite taxon}} sources are case sensitive. I've added aliases for some sources, but really should make them case insensitive. There is also a {{cite BOW}} template. — Jts1882 | talk 12:28, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah! My bad. I should have checked that aspect. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:40, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fossilworks -> PBDB

Since Fossilworks is dead, can we change the template to use PBDB instead? Probably good to leave the fossilworks database to prevent breakage, but reconfigure to point to PBDB and add appropriate PBDB database parameter. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:50, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I'd already done that, but it was the {{taxonbar}} I changed to point to PBDB.

{{cite taxon}} already handles PBDB (as "paleobiodb"); I should add an alias.

Done As for fossilworks, how exactly should we do this? We could simple link to the similar PBDB page or change them into PSDB citations. However, there are minor differences which might be be about what is being cited ((albeit extremely unlikely). or we could just leave the fossilworks citation and add a note that the site is dead, see PBDB (with link). — Jts1882 | talk 13:49, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking just have the existing fossilworks tag trigger the PBDB format. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:07, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So where {Fossilworks |id=83087 |title=''Homo neanderthalensis'' |date=15 May 2016}} currently outputs:

"Homo neanderthalensis". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 15 May 2016.

change so it uses PBDB (using {{fossilworks/sandbox}})

"Homo neanderthalensis". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 7 October 2024.

Could this cause surprise? Possibly add something (e.g. via Fossilworks?). — Jts1882 | talk 15:15, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That is what I'm suggesting to do, yes. I don't think it will cause surprise. FW is dead and no one expects it to come back, and it was only displaying information obtained from PBDB. Right now, all of the FW citations are broken dead links. This will fix that. - UtherSRG (talk) 15:42, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I've made the update at {{fossilworks}}, which should fix 695 uses. I've left {{cite taxon|fossilworks}}, which I don't think has many links. — Jts1882 | talk 16:19, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps more of a concern is that this search insource:"www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin" picks up 7,347 results. — Jts1882 | talk 16:19, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah... I think we need a bot to fix those... - UtherSRG (talk) 18:45, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]