“ The problem seems to be with the original header template. The author and override_author portions of the template code are not mirrored exactly by the translator, editor, contributor, etc. portions and I'm guessing that is somehow why author works but translator et al. does not (when being pulled from the pages tag command line that is) . I think you'd better post the problem in Scriptorium - I have no idea nor the incentive on how to fix something like that. Its a pointless, redundant feature if there was one, imho, that promotes a fork in our practices while encouraging laziness. ”

“ A Dog of Flanders and Other Stories) and generally think that centralizing metadata on the index page will end up paying dividends in the future. We're obviously still missing a lot of parts for that (most crucially, the data about how the work ends up organized in the mainspace) . Gotcha. I went ahead and made the year paramater match its sister as a standalone like it is in the familar header template. The previous if... statemennt is now yeardate just in case it will be needed for some yet to be revealed reason down the road. As suspected, the year now also appears on the subpages as well. ”

“ Looks fine. Thank you. Prosody (talk) 19:45, 3 September 2011 (UTC) Anytime. In case it matters in the future, I tried... {{#ifeq:{{BASEPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}}|{{!}} year = {{{year|}}}|}} ...to get year not come up on sub-pages and that stopped it alright but the year parameter and value comes up as straight text and thinks it is part of the next parameter on base-pages unfortunately. ”