D'Arcy Power

“ If we were the ONDB then the link itself is a valid reference, but we are not, so we need to give the reader some way to check that what we have is a genuine copy, and to satisfy any requirements they may have to give a full citation. It may be that if a volume contains many many entries we may wish to partition the menu into more manageable chunks and that we need to provide a link to navigate to a sub menus instead of a main volume menu, but that is of secondary importance to providing a full citation of name, volume and page number in the header of the article. ”

“ Also need to swap "volume" for "section" to enable one click to the destination page. The DNB01/sandbox presentation mirrors the current format of DNB00. It looks sharp. The wiki link...is desirable only when a wiki page exists. At present less than half the DNB biographies have supporting wiki articles, and many of them have dab entries that make the existing link format EXTREMELY inaccurate. When I see a link, I expect it to lead to a page that adds value to the reading experience. So my humble opinion is that more often than not the reader will be disappointed by a dead end link. ”

“ To my way of thinking we should actually build {{DNBxx}} and then put DNB00, DNB01 and DNB12 or whatever as sub-builds. I would even go as far as updating {{DNBset}} to cater for this, default would be 00, other parameters can be added for other years Note that I have changed one of the tests to now identify where article = is empty or missing, and it puts those into Category:DNB00 calls missing article yes even for non-00 pages. ”