Template talk:Source-attribution

Proposal to drop the postscript and alter the prescript

Changing the wording. I propose to change the current wording so that there is only a prescript and it will read

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:

This will bring in into line with the new wording on the template: {{1911}}:

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

--PBS (talk) 12:45, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Add option for sources with free content licenses

I was editing Immutable object, which contains the following:

This article contains some material from the Perl Design Patterns Book

That book happens to have been published under the GNU Free Documentation License. For such a case, I'd like to propose adding a new optional license= parameter which, if set, changes the text accordingly. For example, this

{{source-attribution|license=GNU Free Documentation License|[[Perl Design Patterns Book]]}}

should produce this:

This article incorporates text from Perl Design Patterns Book, a publication whose contents are available under the GNU Free Documentation License

Comments? 68.165.77.124 (talk) 03:15, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]