Template talk:Authority control

Leopoldina ID

Leopoldina member ID (new) (P10299) New url: https://www.leopoldina.org/mitglieder/mitgliederverzeichnis/detail/$1/ Template:Authority control/sandbox Grimes2 06:41, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

• Template:Remind

Grimes2 15:28, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Please use the English-language formatter URL: https://www.leopoldina.org/en/members/member-list/detail/$1/ instead of the German-language: https://www.leopoldina.org/mitglieder/mitgliederverzeichnis/detail/$1/ Luamssuk (talk) 00:25, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Done: The German-language URL should be used, since parts of the English-language profiles appear to be incomplete. Example: German: https://www.leopoldina.org/mitglieder/mitgliederverzeichnis/detail/wilhelm-barthlott English: https://www.leopoldina.org/en/members/member-list/detail/wilhelm-barthlott Luamssuk (talk) 00:50, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

• Template:Ping Please fix this, it doesn't work. Grimes2 07:43, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

  Template:Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:40, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

DBA ID (P4992)

Could DBA ID (P4992) be added to the template? It links to the Nouveau Dictionnaire de Biographie Alsacienne for famous people connected with Alsace. The ID is simply appended to https://www.alsace-histoire.org/netdba/ to make a URL. Chuntuk (talk) 11:03, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Authority control/sandbox Grimes2 15:21, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

We have in the past rejected sub-national databases which only cover one particular region. There are 1749 uses of Template:Q — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:10, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Goodreads author?

If we have Librarything for authors we might as well have Goodreads. It has a pretty alright and comprehensive catalog of authors. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:02, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Goodreads generates different identifiers for each language an author's work is translated into. The Goodreads Librarian Manual dictates the standard Roman version should be used as the 'primary author' across all translations. Only that specific English-language identifier provides the single, unified match required for the Authority control. However, would it be easy to model that constraint? And would editors reliably use the preferred rank to maintain it? PKalnai (talk) 07:56, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

We need to stop with the idea that "if your website adds a unique identifier to subjects, it can be included in our Wkikipedia footer". It's an unreliable, commercial site, usually not worth adding to external links even, so why would we automatically include it in thousands of articles just because it has an "authority" ID? People who really need these can use Wikidata for it, or Goodreads directly of course. First one I checked, for Tom Lanoye: the bio is a copyvio of our one it seems, just rearranging and very slightly rewriting some sentences[1]. Fram (talk) 09:20, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Odd HTML anchor

I was looking to link to an authority control box, and found this HTML markup (from The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up):

<div id="Authority&#95;control&#95;databases&#95;frameless&amp;#124;text-top&amp;#124;10px&amp;#124;alt=Edit&#95;this&#95;at&#95;Wikidata&amp;#124;link=https&amp;#58;//www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7749994#identifiers&amp;#124;class=noprint&amp;#124;Edit&#95;this&#95;at&#95;Wikidata539" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Help:Authority_control" title="Help:Authority control">Authority control databases</a>

Why the escaped markup as an HTML anchor? This seems like a bug. Daask (talk) 18:21, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

That escaped markup seems like the output of Module:EditAtWikidata encoded/escaped twice:

Authority_control_databases_frameless|text-top|10px|alt=Edit_this_at_Wikidata|link=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7749994#identifiers|class=noprint|Edit_this_at_Wikidata539

The code currently at Module:Authority control appends an edit at Wikidata pencil icon to the "Authority control databases" navbox title. Unfortunately Module:Navbox uses that navbox title for the id value: :attr('id', mw.uri.anchorEncode(args[cfg.arg.title]) .. args.argHash) Perhaps Module:Navbox needs an optional anchor parameter to use instead of the navbox title? Daask (talk) 19:26, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

Reported at Template:Slink Daask (talk) 19:33, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

What would be a suitable value to use for this attribute? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:48, 23 April 2026 (UTC)