Talk:Norwegian scientist published fake findings in Lancet
Latest comment: 6 years ago by Green Giant in topic Magic links
Magic links
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This page uses either PMID or Doi magic links, a feature which is quite likely to be deprecated sometime soon per the RFC on Mediawiki. Please enclose the words PMID or Doi, and the number immediately after it, inside either the {{PMID}} or {{Doi}} template e.g. {{PMID|12492603}}, which should have no outward effect but ensures that the external link will be maintained when the magic links are deprecated. Cheers. Green Giant (talk) 00:14, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Green Giant: I've tried {{PMID}} here, and afaict it doesn't do at all the right thing. --Pi zero (talk) 00:26, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Pi zero: Hmm, the link works for me but the display is weird. Let me tinker around with the template and I’ll get back to you. Green Giant (talk) 00:34, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Pi zero: OK, well tinkering causes problems with {{Source-science}}, which just makes more work. I have reset the PMID template and created a new one at {{PMID2}}. Please replace as above but with
{{PMID2|12492603}}. Green Giant (talk) 01:14, 29 January 2018 (UTC)- @Green Giant: What does {{Source-science}} have to do with it? I'm asking because I want to understand, and afaict {{Source-science}} doesn't use {{PMID}}.
- @Pi zero: When I changed the PMID template, it caused an error on several pages which are already using Template:PMID e.g. on American Academy of Pediatrics supports dairy for lactose intolerant children, it causes the PubMed link in the Sources to display like this: [ PMID:16951027 PubMed ] rather than a normal external link as it is doing currently. This would need a change on Template:Source-science which would make more work than necessary for already-stretched admins. So I figured it’s easier to just have a separate template. Green Giant (talk) 02:41, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Green Giant: In the long run it generally pays to find a clean solution. By my count, there are only seven pages that use {{PMID}}, and only 31 that use {{source-science}}. Likely I can straighten it out pretty straightforwardly, perhaps sometime tomorrow (it's getting late, tonight), so we'll end up with a standard PMID instead of an increasingly peculiar infrastructure. --Pi zero (talk) 03:06, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- Yeah, same here. I’ll be thinking more clearer with some sleep. Green Giant (talk) 03:09, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Green Giant: I've rearranged things so I could slide the new template into the standard name, but then modified it because it seemed like we wanted a space separator instead of a colon separator. That last bit might turn out to be something to undo. --Pi zero (talk) 05:01, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Pi zero: Cheers that seems to work. Green Giant (talk) 18:36, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Green Giant: I've rearranged things so I could slide the new template into the standard name, but then modified it because it seemed like we wanted a space separator instead of a colon separator. That last bit might turn out to be something to undo. --Pi zero (talk) 05:01, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
- Yeah, same here. I’ll be thinking more clearer with some sleep. Green Giant (talk) 03:09, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Green Giant: In the long run it generally pays to find a clean solution. By my count, there are only seven pages that use {{PMID}}, and only 31 that use {{source-science}}. Likely I can straighten it out pretty straightforwardly, perhaps sometime tomorrow (it's getting late, tonight), so we'll end up with a standard PMID instead of an increasingly peculiar infrastructure. --Pi zero (talk) 03:06, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Pi zero: When I changed the PMID template, it caused an error on several pages which are already using Template:PMID e.g. on American Academy of Pediatrics supports dairy for lactose intolerant children, it causes the PubMed link in the Sources to display like this: [ PMID:16951027 PubMed ] rather than a normal external link as it is doing currently. This would need a change on Template:Source-science which would make more work than necessary for already-stretched admins. So I figured it’s easier to just have a separate template. Green Giant (talk) 02:41, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Green Giant: What does {{Source-science}} have to do with it? I'm asking because I want to understand, and afaict {{Source-science}} doesn't use {{PMID}}.
- @Pi zero: OK, well tinkering causes problems with {{Source-science}}, which just makes more work. I have reset the PMID template and created a new one at {{PMID2}}. Please replace as above but with
- @Pi zero: Hmm, the link works for me but the display is weird. Let me tinker around with the template and I’ll get back to you. Green Giant (talk) 00:34, 29 January 2018 (UTC)