Template talk:PD-author

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[edit] No author → no source?

Would there be any objections if I modified the template so that it would check whether the parameter (specifying the author) is filled in, and if it is not, the template would automatically include {{no source}}? --Mormegil 08:08, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

OK, I changed it.

The number of those images is probably greater than I thought; but I still thinks it's worth it – there are many really suspicious images among those. But I fear there are many that are wrong simply because they were transferred (with help of CommonsHelper or somesuch) from en: Wikipedia, and have been tagged problematically from the beginning. So, please, admins should be at least really cautious deleting those images – sometimes, the author/source information is specified somewhere else on the same page (and sometimes, the “source” specified is just a piece of crap…).

--Mormegil 20:46, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, this seems to break when PD-author is used in conjunction with {{Free screenshot}}. Any ideas? StuartBrady 21:13, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Do you have any specific example, please, so that I can look at it? --Mormegil 12:23, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I was using {{Free screenshot|template=PD-author|Stuart Brady}}. When I look at the source, I can't figure out how that ever worked, but it did. I've found that {{Free screenshot|license={{PD-author|Stuart Brady}}}} does seem to work. TBH, if using that is acceptable, then I really don't see the point in {{Free screenshot}}'s "template" parameter... —StuartBrady 15:25, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I guess as long as your solution works, it is acceptable, IMHO. Free screenshot seems to be a bit of a complicated license tag. ;-) --Mormegil 16:57, 30 September 2007 (UTC)