Hullo!
On 5 May, 2014, at 6:21 am, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 May 2014 13:01, Hans Muller j.m.muller@hccnet.nl wrote: ...
Author Creator:Bert en Lilian Mellink Pieter Christiaansz Bor
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This is a bug that has been a problem on my NYPL uploads (which I have yet to fix). What *probably* should be happening, is that the <author> field should be checked for a possible match to a {{creator}} template, and the template *then* used. Unfortunately it seems to use it for everything instead.
No quick fix, this needs to be reported as a bug and fixed for everyone. If when you have completed your uploads you leave me a prompt on my Commons talk page with a link to your parent category for uploads, I can let Faebot do the tidy-up as a housekeeping job (or you could use a tool like VisualFileChange to fix them); I'd probably get around to it within a day of your request.
What about checking for the the Creator page on the fly? When I was playing around with uploading a bunch of BHL (http://biodiversitylibrary.org/) images to the Commons last year, I wrote a template that, given a creator’s name, would check for a “Creator: …” page with the same name. If it found one, it would insert the appropriate {{Creator}} template automatically; otherwise, it would display the name by itself with a note beside it inviting users to create the {{Creator}} page themselves. You can see an example at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:English_Sparrow_making_a_home_in_a_h... — one of the photographer/illustrator has a creator page, but the other does not. If someone were to create a Creator page for Herman T. Bohlman, the template would insert it automatically the next time the page was purged.
It’s a quickly thrown together template, and definitely not the most efficient, but I’d be happy to help improve it if anybody finds it useful! The source is available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Agent
cheers, Gaurav