Template talk:Press: Difference between revisions

This template is within the scope of WikiProject Media, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Media on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MediaWikipedia:WikiProject MediaTemplate:WikiProject MediaMedia WikiProject Media To-do List:

I got curious what we put in this template, and thanks to @Trappist the monk, here’s a search-string to play with:

Enjoy! Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:11, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this, in the context of the above I see two other uses of townhall.com, this breaking news piece used at President of the Confederate States of America [1] and this breaking news piece [2] used at Lisa Brown (Washington politician). I can find no use of their opinion pieces, syndicated, blog, or otherwise. Horse Eye’s Back (talk) 20:25, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The template generates the CS1 warning “CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)” if several authors are specified:

As |author[2]= etc are used for multiple press mentions, what can be done to avoid this warning, or is it not worth fixing? — Michael Bednarek (talk) 01:47, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I add them all in the |author= etc. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:06, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That’s the only possible option with the template as it stands now – see my example – but that raises a warning, and that’s what my query is about. — Michael Bednarek (talk) 06:47, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Michael Bednarek Sorry. Afaict by [3][4], it doesn’t have to generate a warning. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:09, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your 2nd example, where the 2 contributors are written with commas, does generate the warning. — Michael Bednarek (talk) 07:17, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Then the problem is that I don’t know where to see the CS1 warning, I was looking for something like at Talk:Vassy (singer), I guess that’s a different beast. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:26, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

This should be uncontroversial: in {{Press/sandbox}}, I’ve increased the maximum number of article that this template can hold to avoid using the same template twice on Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources/Perennial sources and other pages. FaviFake (talk) 20:05, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not a bad idea. As time goes on, items gather. FYI ping to @CiaPan. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:32, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Noting that in the few cases this has been an issue so far (that I know of), it’s dealt with like at Talk:Gaza genocide. Note that there is some hidden text between the templates. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:40, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång Thanks for the other example! Are you aware of any other pages that use this template more than once? So that we can fix it as soon as the ER is answered. FaviFake (talk) 09:33, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@FaviFake Talk:Asian News International and Talk:Elon Musk are those I can think of atm. @CiaPan, you? Off-topic, but I think it’s funny when articles like Wikipedia and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and Perennial sources list get these templates. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:21, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång: I’m not sure how to seek multiple uses of a template, but one can find talk pages with a full {{Press}} template by seeking one of its last section parameters, like this
Special:Search/talk: insource:author30.
It’s not a perfect solution, but seems good enough. —CiaPan (talk) 19:34, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That’s very helpful, thanks! FaviFake (talk) 21:50, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops, forgot to ping FaviFake. —CiaPan (talk) 19:37, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In the past when the number of templates are increased in similar templates it has caused display problems for the articles. Good ideas like this one are sometimes plagued by such, so I must pass on this one and let another TE do it who knows more about it. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. – welcome! – 15:35, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The added templates are citation templates. If we can have mainspace articles with 1000+ citations, I don’t think it will ever become an issue if we add a few to a talk page. FaviFake (talk) 15:47, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done—Please report any issues. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy’s edits 14:11, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Description of suggested change: I just noticed that this template doesn’t have a |trans-title = parameter, which seems like a reasonable thing to have in cases like [5]. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:33, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before creating an edit request. phuzion (talk) 03:20, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Seemed uncontroversial to me. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:34, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång: Start a discussion and you have my support vote. —CiaPan (talk) 07:31, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed that this template doesn’t have a |trans-title = parameter, which seems like a reasonable thing to have in cases like [6]. I suggest we add it. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:56, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Agree Obvious. —CiaPan (talk) 08:20, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, why not. FaviFake (talk) 16:43, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]