Template talk:Self
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Can we have this modified so that specifying the Author parameter shows this:
(if author=Quasar) "Quasar, the author of this work, hereby publishes it under the following license:"
Rather than the current way, which shows this (which is grammatically broken): "Quasar, hereby publish it under the following license:"
--Quasar 00:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Also, can we have it link to the Author's user page?
- You can linkify your own name by using wiki markup, i.e. use something like {{self|GFDL|author=[[User:Quasar|Quasar]]}}. I agree that that I'd be nice to fix the grammar. —RP88 00:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
This page is protected. In order to fix the grammar on this template (and fix a minor error in the end-italic placement, I request that the following line and start of next line:
| <center>'''''{{{author|I, the author of this work}}},''' hereby publish it under the following license{{#if: {{{2|}}}|s|}}:</center>
<center>'' ...
be replaced with:
| <center>'''''{{{author|I}}}, the author of this work,''' hereby publish{{#if: {{{author|}}}|es|}} it under the following license{{#if: {{{2|}}}|s|}}:''</center>
<center> ...
In the interests of paranoia, I'll mention that the "..." is not part of the requested change, just a placeholder for the rest of the second line of the change. —RP88 00:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
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Done Cbrown1023 talk 02:31, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Edit request
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Can the text of the template help reflect the "author=" parameter, similar to what is written at COMMONS:template:self? -N 14:02, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Done I've created a documentation page for the template at {{self/doc}}; the documentation can be edited by non-admins, so feel free to change it to be more useful (I've started it in an attempt to fulfil the request, but you can probably explain it better than I can). You can do any further documentation changes yourself. --ais523 08:58, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Request to fix English problem
{{editprotected}} Hi- The template is currently written in a way that incorrectly declines the verbs "have" and "publish". When the author argument(term?) is set to "I"--if I understand the template code correctly--the template generates an incorrect English sentence. For example, here is what happens when I add the template {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-2.5|author=I, [[User:EHM02667|EHM02667]]}} under a photo: "I, EHM02667, the copyright holder of this work, has published or hereby publishes it under the following licenses:". (Those words should be have and publish). Or, am I maybe using the template incorrectly? Thanks in advance. -Eric (talk) 21:40, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
- I believe this template is setup correctly. The author= parameter should just be set to the user name (i.e., author=[[User:EHM02667|EHM02667]]. If this doesn't resolve the issue, please feel free to re-enable the editprotected request. Cheers. --MZMcBride 21:16, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks, MZ; that's what I tried in the end, but I wanted to be sure that was how it was meant to be used. The "author=I" setting that I saw somewhere confused me. -Eric (talk) 14:28, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] You may select the license of your choice.
Can someone tell me why all the licenses should say this at the bottom? Just upon casual reading, it looks like someone who would want to reuse the content can select freely from among the licenses listed? Am I missing something? --Aquatiki (talk) 09:01, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
