Template talk:Photograph/2013

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There's a typo in the Source description for books: "than" should be "then." And great work! I'm glad to have found this template. Laura1822 (talk) 15:31, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Fixed but feel free to fix any pages you can edit. --Jarekt (talk) 17:50, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! The Photograph template is protected, or I would have done it myself and not bothered you.  :) Laura1822 (talk) 19:53, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

The documentation is not protected and everyone is welcome to improve it. --Jarekt (talk) 02:26, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Don't flag lack of author info when it's been provided

{{Editprotected}} This shouldn't flag lack of author info when it's been provided.

1. It shouldn't be necessary to do this edit!
2. It shouldn't complain "This file is lacking author information." when in fact there is "|author=US Government" in the template call!

In other words:

1. Accept both author= and photographer=
2. Complain "This file is lacking photographer information." if neither has been provided.

It's just a guess, but perhaps this edit introduced the problem.--Elvey (talk) 22:33, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

In template {{Photograph}} you can either use "author" or "photographer" since both terms are equivalent. That is not the case with {{Art Photo}} used by File:State_Gifts_silver_service.jpg. In that template you have to provide "photographer" and "artist"/"author". --Jarekt (talk) 03:17, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. (I'd seen that {{Art Photo}} relied on {{Photograph}} so I concluded that {{Photograph}} was to blame, but hadn't tested.) Umm, but wait! {{Art Photo}} is working just fine in File:State_Gifts_silver_service.jpg without an "artist"/"author" --Elvey (talk) 07:10, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

But I think you need the "Photographer" --Jarekt (talk) 16:55, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

So? Do you (dis)agree with issues/suggestions #1 or #2 above?--Elvey (talk) 00:17, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I disagree that it is an issue, but agree that it might not be clear. Let me explain, according to its documentation {{Art Photo}} is "a single template for metadata about photographs of artworks, mostly 3D artworks, like sculptures, figures, archeological artifacts, etc. It combines {{Artwork}} template, used for information about the artwork, and the {{Photograph}} template used for information about the photograph." For example if a famous photographer takes a photograph of a famous sculpture, than you put sculpture info like author, or sculpture license in the "object" section and info on the photograph like photographer or his license in the "photograph" section. If you do not want to have those 2 sections you should use one of the other templates like {{Artwork}}. The message you got was in the "Photograph" section "photographer field and it was alerting you that you did not named the photographer. --Jarekt (talk) 03:44, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

It wouldn't be better for it to complain "This file is lacking photographer information." if that's the case? It shouldn't complain "This file is lacking author information." when in fact there is "|author=US Government" in the template call? --Elvey (talk) 21:19, 18 July 2013 (UTC)