Category talk:CS1 errors: unsupported parameter

There are 11,000+ articles in this category, as of 8 October 2013. This is a list of commonly-encountered parameters and how to fix them, to expand on the contents of the help text. If the "bot-fixable" list turns into a substantial list, we may be able to feed it to a bot and fix a bunch of these articles automatically.

Feel free to edit this list. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:34, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

All bot edits suggested here should be manually checked and corrected by human editors after the bot has passed through the category.

• |translator – Fix by changing |translator to |others and adding "Translated by" in front of the translators name or ", translator" after the translator's name.
• |pagees – Change parameter name to |pages.
• |auther – Change parameter name to |author.
• |middle – Copy contents of |middle and paste after the contents of |first, with a space after the contents of |first. Remove the |middle parameter entirely.
• |quotes = yes – Remove. This is not a supported parameter. Someone was trying to make the citation do something that it doesn't do. This appears almost exclusively in cite journal templates, for some reason. (It is a valid parameter in {{tl|Infobox Doctor Who episode}}, so don't just go stripping it from every article, please Mr. Bot.)
• |other – Replace with |others.
• Correct all common misspellings listed at Module:Citation/CS1/Suggestions.

• |unused_data – This common parameter was added by a bot that cleaned up "unnamed parameters" before these CS1 errors existed. You have to look at the data to determine if it should be removed or if a parameter name should be added to it.
• Lots of one-time misspellings and other typos that are not common enough to put in the list of common misspellings, e.g. |volumbe (volume), |firstn (first1, first2, etc.), |first[1] (first1, first2, etc.), |editorn-first (editor1-first, etc.).
• |editorial – This is the Spanish word for "publisher". If it makes sense, change the parameter name to |publisher.
• Also, |título is title and |fechaacceso is accessdate.
• (a bunch of stuff that looks like the all or part of a web address) – This happens when there is a "|" in the |url parameter followed by an "=". To fix, replace each "|" in the URL with "%7c". Check the url to see if it is valid. You may also need to add "url=" in front of the "http://" part of the URL.
• |note – This is not a valid parameter. Notes can be removed and pasted between the closing }} and the closing , though this is not ideal.
• |translator replace with others and add "(trans.)" after the name.
• |curly=yes/no remove (deprecated). This used to add curly quotes to a cite.
• |construction replace with contribution or chapter
• |first print replace with origyear
• |channel replace with publication-place
• |pii replace with id. See Publisher Item Identifier
• Sometimes citations will have both |page and |pages. The first is the page cited and the second is the total pages in the work. Remove the second.

::Re this last item, the second value is often the ending page, like |page=215 | pages=226 when what is meant is |pages=215–226. I do not know why people do this, but in this case, do not always remove the second parameter. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:46, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

I've just cleaned up Purebred (dog). There were about 6 instances of an "Unused data" called "isbn status", contents "May be invalid, please double check". In all cases there was no problem with the isbn. This stuff was [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Purebred_%28dog%29&diff=241278979&oldid=240233543 added in 2008] by "Citation Bot". I wonder whether that bot's work could be undone by another bot, if their warnings are as useless as this article suggests, or perhaps tidied away into a valid field to suppress the red notes? PamD 10:56, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

:I suspect that {{U|Trappist the monk}} could add this removal to the handy AWB script that is doing such good work on this category. I found and removed about ten or fifteen of these yesterday. They appear to be identical to one another and therefore easy to remove. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:06, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Is there a way to suppress additional types of pages being added to this category? Reading through all the ones that shouldn't be here to find the ones that should is a waste of time, there were 173 pages that didn't require attention and about 6 that did. Suggested additions:

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Alternatively/in addition, could a tag template be developed to add to pages to exclude them from the category?—D'Ranged 1 ^talk 16:49, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

:I recommend bringing this up at Help talk:Citation Style 1. Many more people read that page than this one, and this discussion applies to all of the error subcategory, not just this category. I will have an idea to contribute when the discussion gets there. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:09, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

::{{U|Jonesey95}} Per your recommendation, I have moved this discussion to Help talk:Citation Style 1#Suppress more pages from Category: Pages with citations using unsupported parameters?. Thanks!—D'Ranged 1 ^talk 07:13, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

This category seems to ignore {{DEFAULTSORT}}. For example, right now, it lists Dave Kasper under "D" even though that article includes the markup {{DEFAULTSORT:Kasper, Dave}}. —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:58, 29 July 2020 (UTC)