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{{Edit request}}

1. move ISNI before VIAF: it is not a contributor to VIAF, ISNI not included in VIAF exist
2. delete WorldCat: it is deprecated in Wikidata

Andres Ollino (talk) 12:32, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

This is not something that can be changed on this page. It appears to depend on Module:Authority_control. Please use Module_talk:Authority_control. Also, I'm not really convinced by any of the request. Not sure if ISNI is more useful than VIAF. As for information no longer in Wikidata, they will stop appearing. Enhancing999 (talk) 12:48, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Placement on categories in addition to Wikidata infobox (see VP discussion)

Please see Commons:Village pump/Archive/2024/08#Creator template.
 ∞∞ Enhancing999 (talk) 03:10, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Add official website

I would really like it if "official website" was imported if the Wikidata item of a creator is linked. Vera ^(talk) 15:54, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Please Vera ^(talk) 23:17, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Sounds like a possible good addition to me. If so where would it fit? After the authority file IDs? --Marsupium (talk) 11:25, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Bad case on how "Description" is formed

See https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Help_desk&oldid=1025673989#How_to_edit_%22description%22_field_of_a_category. - Jmabel ! talk 05:08, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Unused creator templates

While trying to decrease Category:Creator templates without home category I have nominated some creator templates for speedy deletion with reason T2. Unused template. Yann, you have rejected those nominations for Creator:Achilles Daunt and Creator:August Pollmann writing "we should keep this, it is potentially useful". I agree that they are "potentially useful". I don't think that is reason enough to keep them, keeping them is not a big deal either in my eyes though. But this should be a broader decision and if we want to keep them we should consider a possibility to remove them from Category:Creator templates without home category without creating a home category for them that is empty apart from the creator template. What do you others think? How should we deal with these unused creator templates? Thanks in advance, --Marsupium (talk) 11:36, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

@Marsupium: Hi, I have created hundreds of such templates. Creating them takes time, keeping them is not a nuisance even if they are not currently used, therefore it is better to keep them when they already exist. These people should have a category anyway. Yann (talk) 15:13, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Link to mediasearch all transclusion

inspired by discussion Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#c-RoyZuo-20251229145600-Jmabel-20251225003600.

add some code like the following to the template so that users can jump straight to a mediasearch of all files using the template.

[[Special:MediaSearch/hastemplate:"{{FULLPAGENAME}}"]]

but i cant get the exact code right since i think this if transcluded on a file will return the file page name as FULLPAGENAME. RoyZuo (talk) 15:07, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

@RoyZuo: why specifically MediaSearch instead of just Search? Using just "Search" has the additional virtue that it works (at least with my settings; YMMV). So I strongly suggest [[Special:Search/hastemplate:"{{FULLPAGENAME}}"]] - Jmabel ! talk 21:46, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

i'd insert the link as another icon after the wikidata link. this is roughly the code for the link but needs debug.

Module:Creator after line 160

-- MediaSearch Link
field = string.format(
	'%s [[File:MediaSearch_empty_state.svg|20px|link=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch?type=image&search=hastemplate:%s:%s]]',
	field, args.namespace, args.pagename
)

--RoyZuo (talk) 12:41, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

Again: why is mediasearch preferred? - Jmabel ! talk 18:55, 30 December 2025 (UTC)