LCCN not visible

See File:The Unfolding Crisis in Burundi - Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations… (US House, Serial 114-90) (US GPO, 2015) (IA gov.gpo.fdsys.CHRG-114hhrg95635).pdf and the linked The Unfolding Crisis in Burundi (Q127514984) for example.

The OCLC control number (P243) is visible under "Authority file" but the LCCN (P1144) is not. It should be. Thanks in advance to whoever addresses this. Jarnsax (talk) 12:43, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

recent change is wrong

{{Edit request}} The template should be pulling in "version, edition, or translation" but instead is pulling the words "Legendäre Reisen im Mittelalter" where the tooltip says something like "German book published in 2008". The link, however, is correct. Even at wikidata, the "version, edition, or translation" wikidata:Q3331189 in German is "Ausgabe oder Version" so, I am just dumb struck on how this happened. See File:JapanReischauer-020.jpg.

Thank you--RaboKarbakian (talk) 20:17, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

To clarify, is recent change referring to a specific change that you know is wrong, or do you just mean that it broke recently (but it’s not yet known why)? Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 21:38, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

(ping @RaboKarbakian) Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 19:30, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Lucas Werkmeister, thanks for getting back to me. "Recent" was that I just noticed it and it was displaying something that was wrong; I tend to notice things like that though--looking for things that I did that are wrong.

And, even more recent is the change back-to unbrokeness. I should get a screenshot if it happens again.

Sorry to waste your time!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 21:13, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

@RaboKarbakian Alright, if it’s unbroken again then I’ll disable the edit request for now :) feel free to reopen if it comes back. --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 01:54, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Can the Biodiversity Heritage Library also be added to Authority Control?

Hi!

I see some books with Wikidata links (example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AAs_aves_do_Brasil_(IA_asavesdobrasil12gl).pdf&page=193) that come from the Biodiversity Heritage Library and have the id on BHL catalogued on Wikidata, but for which the BHL ID is not shown.

Is there a way to add the BHL bibliography ID (P4327) to the list of authority ids?

If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know!

Cheers, Tiago TiagoLubiana (talk) 12:47, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Please remove the city parameter for book pages as a "page" can only have a location in a book

Caveat: I am unfamiliar with the usage of this template for uploading individual book pages. I have myself only used the book template for .djvu files and .pdf files, but I have become increasingly aware of (and annoyed by) its usage for individual pages of art books uploaded by library accounts. The artwork template (in my opinion) correctly rejects the city parameter but I feel it should somehow be clear from the file that the city does not refer to the file but to the library, and that is decidedly not the case. Flying by old prints of paintings I will add the artwork template with the wikidata item for the painting it represents. This adds a higher level to the file but I would wish the bibliographic reference to be preserved in its entirety without me having to delete lines from the original upload. It would also be OK with me if the line was suppressed when the artwork template is added. Thx. Jane023 (talk) 07:52, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

For context, see this file I just added the artwork template "art photo" to here: File:Recueil d'estampes gravees 1771 (1101674).jpg. Jane023 (talk)

Using this template for magazines

I've been uploading some magazines lately and found that this template has a lot more useful fields than {{Information}}, and without being able to find a magazine-specific template like {{Magazine}}, decided to try it. Having done so on the magazine issue File:The Crowsnest, Vol.01 No.01, Nov 1948.pdf (version before "Book" template: ), I have two follow-up questions:

1. Is using {{Book}} for a magazine issue going to cause any problems, e.g. autocategorization?
2. If there's no issue with using it for magazines, could a few fields be added to better support this? A "Type" field would be useful to indicate at a high level that it isn't a Book (e.g. Type=Magazine), and additionally there are some important magazine fields that aren't in {{Book}} such as Issue and Number (which I combined and put in "volume" field).

Thanks, -Consigned (talk) 10:55, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Change Subject to 'book'

{{Edit request}} RisbudAbhi (talk) 10:08, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

@RisbudAbhi: I don’t know what you mean, can you clarify your edit request? Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 17:07, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

I had uploaded the digital book.

But while tagging, I tag 'Book' the family name instead of 'book' the physical binding etc. in the subject section. Which I was unable to edit / change ~2026-21004-70 (talk) 02:03, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

@RisbudAbhi: Okay, I guess this is about File:माधवराव बल्लाळ - राज्यकारभार.pdf. Go to the Structured data tab, click Edit, and then you should be able to remove the Book (Q16860229) statement and add book (Q571) instead (or better yet, an item for this specific book). --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 12:31, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! That was really helpful. RisbudAbhi (talk) 17:44, 6 April 2026 (UTC)