On 12/12/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It should be easy enough to add a "name" parameter and design the
template so if the name parameter exists, it uses it, if it doesn't,
it uses the first and last parameters (otherwise it ignores them).
It's a pretty simple #if statement, it doesn't break existing use of
the template and makes the template easier to use in non-standard
cases.
[[WP:CITET]] doesn't mention this, but most of the citation templates
obey the "author" parameter, which is what I use whenever there are
multiple authors or if it's an edited collection, because you can put
whatever text you like in there and the template won't try to
rearrange it.
There is also the "editor" parameter on some of the templates, which
surprisingly doesn't add "(ed)" or anything, it just spits out what it
is given.
Basically, if you want to put some free text for the author, use the
author parameter, which you can format however you want:
| author = H. G. Wells
| author = Wells, H. G.
| author = [[H. G. Wells|Wells, H. G.]]
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Stephen Bain
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