Template talk:Cite Q

Citing pages and referencing bibliography

I am quite faithful to Sfn, it allows both the possibility of citing specific pages as well as producing a shortened reference section which is linked to the bibliography section, as most editors already know. But with Cite Q the same result is not easily achievable. Citing specific pages generates a whole citation in the references, every time, so when you use several pages from the same book, it ends with a polluted reference section. To combine Sfn with Cite Q demands a measure of improvisation. At least this was the situation some months ago, when I tried for the last time. Now I really wanted to ask if there any better solution for this, or if the technical group supporting Cite Q plans to integrate a shortened citation version within the template. JoaquimCebuano (talk) 06:13, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Not really clear about what you are complaining about. To cite multiple pages from the same source using {{cite q}} and {{sfn}}, place the single {{cite q}} template for that source in your §Bibliography, set |ref= as necessary, and in the article body place appropriately paginated {{sfn}} templates wherever they are needed. Done.

Perhaps I don't understand your complaint. If my reply does not answer, please rephrase (providing real-life examples never hurts).

So far as I know, there is no technical group supporting Cite Q so there is no plan.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:43, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, i am not well versed in this technical aspect of Wikipedia. So, indeed, using harvid solves the problem, that was what I needed. Yet, as a said, that still quite a improvisation, given that Sfn doesnt 'recognize' Cite Q, if i am being clear. But anyway, thank you very much for the suggestion of using ref=. JoaquimCebuano (talk) 18:23, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Cite Q has SFN support built in. See for example

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References

Bibliography

J. Currie Elles (1908), The influence of commerce on civilization: the Joseph Fisher lecture on commerce delivered at the University of Adelaide by J. Currie Elles esq., April 23rd, 1908 (1st ed.), Adelaide: W. K. Thomas & Co., Wikidata Q106369892

Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:53, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

The {{sfn}} support is built into Module:Citation/CS1. Use of whole names is not the norm for {{sfn}} which normally renders some number of surnames and a date. This is the WP:CITEVAR complaint because wikdata is (apparently) unable or unwilling to provide surname/given name for authors. Because the norm for {{sfn}} templates is what it is, I suggested using |ref=.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 19:24, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

I believe Trappist means something like this:

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References

Bibliography

J. Currie Elles (1908), The influence of commerce on civilization: the Joseph Fisher lecture on commerce delivered at the University of Adelaide by J. Currie Elles esq., April 23rd, 1908 (1st ed.), Adelaide: W. K. Thomas & Co., Wikidata Q106369892

Does that work for you? Mathglot (talk) 20:02, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

That's what I just said... Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:11, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Sort of, or at least, halfway there. The specific point of Trappist's I was referring to, was this one:

Use of whole names is not the norm for {{sfn}} which normally renders some number of surnames and a date.

Indeed; which is why in Trappist's example, it shows the full author name, less usual for {{sfn}} and generally not used that way, except to accommodate {{citeq}}, because of Wikidata's apparent limitation. Adding the proper |ref= tag makes it possible to look like usual sfn behavior, last name only (in series, if more than one), plus year. Mathglot (talk) 22:22, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! i understand it now. JoaquimCebuano (talk) 22:31, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Umm, the example is Editor Headbomb's, not mine. I agreed that it 'worked' but will likely violate WP:CITEVAR unless all references in the article follow the first-last name order. If Editor JoaquimCebuano is accustomed to using {{sfn}} with {{cite book}} and that template uses |first= / |last= parameters then the correct way to tweak {{cite q}} is:

{{cite Q|Q106369892|last=Elles|first=J. Currie|date=1908}}

Elles, J. Currie (1908), The influence of commerce on civilization: the Joseph Fisher lecture on commerce delivered at the University of Adelaide by J. Currie Elles esq., April 23rd, 1908 (1st ed.), Adelaide: W. K. Thomas & Co., Wikidata Q106369892 – using |ref=none to suppress distracting multiple target errors.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:46, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

And, including |date=1908 in the {{cite q}} template prevents Module:Footnotes from emitting a false-positive sfn error: no target: ... error message.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:58, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Oh, now it works, the problem was that I was using just the last name, as I am used to do with cite book, it needs the whole name of the authors. Sorry for the confusion and thank you! JoaquimCebuano (talk) 22:29, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

@JoaquimCebuano:, either the whole name, or just the last name plus |ref=, as in the shaded example, which I prefer, because it is more consistent with other usage. You may use either one. Mathglot (talk) 22:32, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

"wikdata is (apparently) unable or unwilling to provide surname/given name for authors" What are author given names (P9687) and author last names (P9688), then? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:10, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

It looks like they are Wikidata properties that are not used by this template:

{{cite Q|Q1801903}}

→ Charles Darwin, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., & F.G.S.; Alfred Wallace, Esq. (August 1858). "On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection". Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society. Zoology. 3 (9). Oxford University Press: 45–62. doi:10.1111/J.1096-3642.1858.TB02500.X. ISSN 1945-9475. Wikidata Q1801903.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
What am I missing? Searching for the word "given" on this template's documentation page does not enlighten me. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:14, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

I was addressing the fallacious assertion (which I quoted) that Wikidata is "unable or unwilling" to provide such data. Anyone is at liberty to make use of those properties, both at Wikidata and in this template's code. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:18, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Should we make something like citing format name property or something like that in addition to author name and let citeq look for that property?

If it exist, show that instead of normal author name ThainaYu (talk) 12:50, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Lua error in Module:Cite_Q at line 190

Hi there, I'm having a Lua error when trying to cite Some New or Otherwise Noteworthy Labiatae and Compositae, and I'm not exactly sure what's gone wrong: Sherff, Earl Edward (1939). "Some New or Otherwise Noteworthy Labiatae and Compositae". Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series. 17 (6): 577–612. ISSN 0096-2759. Wikidata Q130238673. Does anyone know what the issue might be? I suspect it's an issue with the journal Wikidata item, but when I tried adding a preferred rank for title and removing the author field for the journal, it still brings up an error. --Prosperosity (talk) 21:53, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

I confirm the bug: Sherff, Earl Edward (1939). "Some New or Otherwise Noteworthy Labiatae and Compositae". Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series. 17 (6): 577–612. ISSN 0096-2759. Wikidata Q130238673. gives gave Lua error in Module:Cite_Q at line 190: bad argument #2 to 'max' (number expected, got nil) in big bold red. Line 190 parameter 2 is position in relation to something with series ordinal (P1545). Boud (talk) 22:42, 5 September 2024 (UTC) (update: for me it's fixed now Boud (talk) 22:51, 5 September 2024 (UTC))

 Fixed @Prosperosity: The property series ordinal (P1545) exists (for example) for putting numbers to indicate author order. This is needed if you happen to enter the authors into Wikidata in an order different to the one in which they're listed, or, what's even more commmon, if some authors need to be author name string (P2093) because they're not yet in Wikidata (or have names like Jane Smith or Jose Silva and trying to work out which Wikidata element they are is too much work) and other authors exist in Wikidata, e.g. Decidim, a Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy (Q128012134) currently has one Wikidata-unknown author (just a string of characters) and three Wikidata-known authors. In your case, there's only one author, so P1545 isn't really needed, but it can't hurt to put "1" there - which I did. Boud (talk) 22:51, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Interesting that the lack of series ordinal caused the issue when there was only a single author - thanks for that! Prosperosity (talk) 22:55, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Support for arXiv class

Currently the template does not support the class= parameter found in the arXiv template. This seems to be a problem for the community and hinder adoption. So9q (talk) 08:59, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

I digged a little and found that Violations of the Kerr and Reissner-Nordstrom bounds: horizon versus asymptotic quantities (Q27334292) for example does have this classification data in a qualifier (gr-qc), but citeq does not yet support it:

Jorge F. M. Delgado; Carlos A. R. Herdeiro; Eugen Radu; Helgi Runarsson (5 July 2016). "Violations of the Kerr and Reissner-Nordstrom bounds: horizon versus asymptotic quantities". Physical Review D. 92. arXiv:1606.07900. Bibcode:2016PhRvD..94b4006D. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVD.94.024006. ISSN 1550-7998. Wikidata Q27334292.

If the arxiv link is clicked one can easily find the links to the gr-qc class, so this is perhaps a bit of a question of taste specific to enwiki and the editor linked above seem to very strongly oppose the class information not being available as a link it seems. So9q (talk) 09:39, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

The problem goes a lot deeper than 'support for arxiv class'. Cite Q is a garbage editor-hostile template. In the diff above, compare Cite Q with a proper Cite arxiv

Isola, Phillip; Zhu, Jun-Yan; Zhou, Tinghui; Efros, Alexei A. (2017), Image-To-Image Translation With Conditional Adversarial Networks (PDF) (published 21 November 2016), pp. 1125–1134, arXiv:1611.07004, doi:10.48550/ARXIV.1611.07004, Wikidata Q130284660

Isola, Phillip; Zhu, Jun-Yan; Zhou, Tinghui; Efros, Alexei A. (2016). "Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Networks". arXiv:1611.07004 [cs.CV].

Cite Q, beyond not supporting |class=, which should only be support for arxiv citations, lists 2 publications dates for no reason and italicizes what should be in quotes, and adds an utterly pointless DOI. The year and page range, which you specified, are also wrong. You also introduced it in a page that did not make use of Cite Q, going against WP:CITEVAR. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 11:42, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Could you elaborate what makes cite q editor hostile according to you? Is it because it does not include links to edit the information fetched from Wikidata (like in infoboxes)? So9q (talk) 14:57, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

It's impossible to edit, impossible to review, is vulnerable to vandalism, is not AWB/bot-maintainable, does not play well with datadumps because the date resides in Wikidata, caused multiple CITEVAR violations wherever it's used, avoids defense mechanisms like the spam blacklist/warning against predatory journals or WP:CITEWATCH, includes pointless information like ISSN and Publisher for cite journals, etc... Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:24, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for sharing.

• impossible to review - can you elaborate?
• vulnerable to vandalism - is this related to the fact that few users patrol or watch pages like this on Wikidata?
• does not play well with datadumps because the date resides in Wikidata - this is surprising, could you elaborate?
• includes pointless information like ISSN and Publisher for cite journals - this is easily suppressed using =unset. The template could also be improved to have a configuration where things like this can be set up so that it suits the English Wikipedia community.

So9q (talk) 17:30, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

impossible to review - can you elaborate? - Compare:

*{{Cite journal
 |last1=Rezende |first1=Danilo Jimenez
 |last2=Mohamed |first2=Shakir
 |last3=Wierstra |first3=Daan
 |date=2014
 |title=Stochastic Backpropagation and Approximate Inference in Deep Generative Models
 |url=https://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/rezende14.html
 |journal=Journal of Machine Learning Research
 |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=1278–1286
 |arxiv=1401.4082
}}
*{{cite q|Q130284660}}
*{{cite arXiv
 |last1=Isola |first1=Phillip
 |last2=Zhu |first2=Jun-Yan
 |last3=Zhou |first3=Tinghui
 |last4=Efros |first4=Alexei A.
 |date=2016
 |title=Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Networks
 |eprint=1611.07004 
 |class=cs.CV
}}

Does cite q have all the relevant information? Does it have missing information? Does it have extraneous information that should not be displayed? Is is consistently formatted? You can't tell, because all the data resides in Wikidata. This is also why it's vulnerable to vandalism. If someone changes, in Wikidata, all authors to be "Penis Johnson", you don't get notified because it doesn't appear on your watchlist. Things living in Wikidata is the root problem, that's why none of gets picked up in Wikipedia's defense systems, dumps, etc... and that none of it is editable on-Wikipedia with Wikipedia made tools. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:21, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict)

|class= is only supported by {{cite arxiv}}:

{{cite arxiv |author=Jorge F. M. Delgado |author2=Carlos A. R. Herdeiro |author3=Eugen Radu |author4=Helgi Runarsson |date=5 July 2016 |title=Violations of the Kerr and Reissner-Nordstrom bounds: horizon versus asymptotic quantities |arxiv=1606.07900 |class=gr-qc}}

Jorge F. M. Delgado; Carlos A. R. Herdeiro; Eugen Radu; Helgi Runarsson (5 July 2016). "Violations of the Kerr and Reissner-Nordstrom bounds: horizon versus asymptotic quantities". arXiv:1606.07900 [gr-qc].

This restriction was imposed as a result of this discussion.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:46, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the link and example. It seems this is a wikt:can_of_worms. My interest is mainly to make sure there is a QID in every single reference in all Wikipedias. The easiest way to achieve that is to introduce a |qid= parameter in cs1|2.

Cite q seems like a nice wrapper to me, but I understand there is a lot of complexity and decisions embedded in the different citation templates that makes it a bit difficult to use in a way the community accepts. So9q (talk) 14:50, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

introduce a |qid= parameter in cs1|2 is a non-starter. That proposition has been rejected more than once in the past.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:01, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

So9q, it is most definitely not a "nice wrapper", which you can see if you peruse the archives of this talk page. It results in WP:CITEVAR violations almost everywhere it is used. I recommend using the normal cite templates. One way to do this while making use of the advantages of Cite Q is to use this template's |expand=yes option in your sandbox, then correct the parameters as needed before copying and pasting the output into an article. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:40, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

That proposition has been rejected more than once in the past.

Weakly rejected, at best. There's never been a formal RFC on it. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:27, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Then perhaps it's a good idea to have one. I'm not ready yet to propose it though. The reason I would like it is: It would help me a lot in my quest to create an AI agent that help editors find full text urls to papers cited in Wikipedias but currently missing a fulltext statement in wikidata or |url=.

The last time I worked on parsing CS1|2 templates into python objects it ended up being a lot of work.

If you expand that to 150+ wikis with different template and parameter names it quickly becomes a total nightmare to map parameters to wikidata properties.

I could use a LLM to help me map and support multiple Wikipedias (GPT-3 had just been launched the last time I worked on citations). So9q (talk) 18:51, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

cite Q not working properly

At this moment. See use of cite Q at Jaminjung language, currently reference [6]. MargaretRDonald (talk) 06:55, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

That's because relying on Wikidata is awful and we shouldn't use Cite Q. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 07:35, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Poppycock. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:36, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

The issue described relates to d:Q131319408. Cite Q currently gives;

Judy Merchant Jones; Dolly Bardbarriya; Eileen Raymond; et al. (2011). Jaminjung, Ngaliwurru and Nungali plants and animals: Aboriginal knowledge of flora and fauna from the Bradshaw and Judbarra/Gregory National Park area, north Australia. Vol. 38. ISBN 978-1-921519-49-9. Wikidata Q131319408. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)

which at the time of writing, throws a {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored error.

As the item is an instance of scholarly article (Q13442814), I'm unclear why "cite book" and not "cite journal" is being rendered. @Mike Peel and Trappist the monk: Did something change? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:42, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Q131319408 has an ISBN so Module:Cite Q at lines 640–649 (particularly lines 642–643) sets the template to {{cite book}}. Apparently there are 'issues' with the ISBN at Q131319408 so perhaps resolving those 'issues' will change how this template renders. Alternately, you can force {{cite q}} to use {{cite journal}}:

{{Cite Q|Q131319408|expand=yes|template=journal}}

{{Cite journal |author-link10=Glenn Wightman |author1=Judy Merchant Jones |author10=Glenn Wightman |author2=Dolly Bardbarriya |author3=Eileen Raymond |author4=Doris Roberts |author5=Duncan McDonald |author6=Dinah McDonald |author7=Margaret McDonald |author8=Candide Simard |author9=Colleen Moerkerken |display-authors=3 |id=[[WDQ (identifier)|Wikidata]] [[:d:Q131319408|Q131319408]] |isbn=978-1-921519-49-9 |journal=Northern Territory Botanical Bulletin |language=en |publication-date=2011 |title=Jaminjung, Ngaliwurru and Nungali plants and animals: Aboriginal knowledge of flora and fauna from the Bradshaw and Judbarra/Gregory National Park area, north Australia |volume=38}}

Judy Merchant Jones; Dolly Bardbarriya; Eileen Raymond; et al. (2011). "Jaminjung, Ngaliwurru and Nungali plants and animals: Aboriginal knowledge of flora and fauna from the Bradshaw and Judbarra/Gregory National Park area, north Australia". Northern Territory Botanical Bulletin. 38. ISBN 978-1-921519-49-9. Wikidata Q131319408.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:52, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

@Trappist the monk: Thank you. It would be good in such cases, then, if the template did not try to use |journal=. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:07, 27 December 2024 (UTC)