Template talk:NARA-Author
The link
[edit]The link has some issues. When I first click on external link I get Timeout message only after I "start a new session by pressing the ARC search button", return to the image page and click the link again, then it works fine. Is there some way to avid this problem? --Jarekt (talk) 17:04, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
- That's interesting. This has never happened to me when clicking a link to other records. If it keeps happening, it may be a bug and I can ask about it. It'll probably be next week before there is an answer. Dominic (talk) 18:52, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
- I just tried it again and apparently my 30 min session expired, so the link does not work for me again. --Jarekt (talk) 18:58, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
- This is fixed now. :-) Dominic (talk) 13:31, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
- I just tried it again and apparently my 30 min session expired, so the link does not work for me again. --Jarekt (talk) 18:58, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Creator templates
[edit]I'm not sure if this is what you had in mind, but see my last edit. If we create redirects from the NARA contributor IDs like Creator:1332556 then it would nicely provide the Creator templates for those that exist or the bare name and ARC links for those that don't. Dominic (talk) 01:05, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
- That is one way to do it. Another would be something similar to Template:Fotothek-Creator:
{{#switch:{{{2|void}}
|1332556 = {{Creator:Ansel Adams}}
........................
|void = {{unknown|author}}}
|default = {{{1}}} ([http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExecuteRelatedPeopleSearch?id={{{2}}}&relationship=AD_CONTRIBUTOR NARA record])
}}
Where we build a lookup table directly into the template. --Jarekt (talk) 01:40, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
- That would be the cleanest option. Would it actually work with a thousand, or several thousand, authors? Dominic (talk) 21:13, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
- I doubt there will be such large overlap between NARA authors and commons creators. And I think we can handle 100s - 1000s I am not so sure. Also we can always run a bot to replace some NARA author templates with creators. --Jarekt (talk) 03:20, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
- I think that those with a creator should eventually be substituted. As long as the creator template provides the ARC link, it looks better than an using {{NARA-author}} (more standard and avoids trailing NARA link)--Zolo (talk) 17:31, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Agree --Jarekt (talk) 02:39, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
- I think that those with a creator should eventually be substituted. As long as the creator template provides the ARC link, it looks better than an using {{NARA-author}} (more standard and avoids trailing NARA link)--Zolo (talk) 17:31, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- I doubt there will be such large overlap between NARA authors and commons creators. And I think we can handle 100s - 1000s I am not so sure. Also we can always run a bot to replace some NARA author templates with creators. --Jarekt (talk) 03:20, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Outdated link
[edit]This template points to https://research.archives.gov/person/<ID>, which seems to be outdated and to have a certificate issue. At least when I try to open https://research.archives.gov in Firefox, I get "Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue", and the detailed error message says that Firefox "does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for research.archives.gov. The certificate is only valid for legacy.catalog.archives.gov".
It looks like links and IDs need to be updated: for example, the page for "Knudsen, Robert L. (Robert LeRoy), 1929-1989", which used to be at https://research.archives.gov/person/8451337 (archive seems to be empty, unfortunately), is now at https://legacy.catalog.archives.gov/id/10610540.