User talk:Neveselbert/Archive 1

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Welcome to Wikidata, Neve-selbert!

Wikidata is a free knowledge base that you can edit! It can be read and edited by humans and machines alike and you can go to any item page now and add to this ever-growing database!

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--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:33, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Thatcher TNA property issues

Hi - could you clarify what the error you're mentioning in this edit is? Now that you've flagged it I think a double ID may be causing problems in w:Template:UK National Archives ID but I want to confirm that's what you were seeing before I try and fix it :-). About seven thousand new TNA IDs were recently added, and I think this may be why the issue has suddenly appeared - until the other week we probably didn't have any items with multiple values at all...

If it is that template that's giving the error, then a quick patch might be to tweak it to use a known preferred value in the template, which will override the Wikidata call - I've done a test of this at w:Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock, which also has two TNA IDs, and it seems to work. WD direct, has problems; specified ID, all okay. If you've no objections I'll go ahead and do this shortly and then reinstate the TNA ID on the item.

In the long run, the best solution is probably to tweak the template to select one value only if two exist, rather than trying to force WD to only retain a single value (which will be very difficult to maintain). w:Template:Authority control seems to do this - see eg w:Aeschylus where there are double VIAF and ISNI on Wikidata but only one is displayed on Wikipedia. I'm not sure what the underlying magic is there but I'll try and look into it.

Thanks, Andrew Gray (talk) 18:04, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

@Andrew Gray: Hi. The problem with your edit is that it caused an error message to appear, inserting a comma at the end of the hyperlink. Neve-selbert (talk) 10:59, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks - that seems to confirm what I suspected was going on. If Wikidata has multiple values, it'll return them as "AAAA, BBBB, CCCC", and of course this will break the URL. I've added a function to the template to detect a comma and dump any data after that, which means it will only ever return a single value with no comma. It's not the most elegant solution but it certainly seems to work! Andrew Gray (talk) 12:23, 9 November 2017 (UTC)