Template talk:A
Use this to link to an author's name, almost as easy as just typing the name itself.
See Template:A/doc for detailed documentation.
Discussion
Color
I have edited the tempalte to use background color #CCFF99 ( like this ) as a test, because it was suggested to me that links to the db ought to visually sitinct from links to other wiki pages. Any comments on what color to use, or indeed whether color should be used in tis way at all? Other formatting could be used (typeface, size, even an image) if desired, or we could return to the status quo ante. -DES Talk 23:52, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
- If you are going to leave this edit... (And I don't have any issues with it - It's a decent idea), please go ahead and apply it to the other 'internal' linking templated, P and T. I was mightily confused for a day as to why some links were green and others not. then when I realized it was an internal template... I was confused why all the single letter templates didn't have a color (Either the same color or a different color). As to your color choice... One thing I have learned is that Pastels often work fine on screen, and continue to work if someone prints something out, while bold colors look better on screen, but then look horrible when printed out in b/w. Kevin 06:07, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Broken Example
This template does not work when there is a ( or a ) in the authors name. Though rare, this is the documented way to disambiguate between two authors. See Author:Donald_Macpherson_(Novelist) for an example in the database. I could not get the A Template to work for me on this page so I had to resort to full html links. Thanks Kevin 06:07, 31 August 2008 (UTC)