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Citation in the infobox is generating a red error message. It is pulling a URL from WD and using a CS1|2 template without a |title=. It looks like the source of the problem is this template. -- GreenC 01:57, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

It needed a title added in the Wikidata entry. Very editor-unfriendly. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:44, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Edit request 4 July 2024 -- Pluralize from text

Description of suggested change: Please implement {{Pluralize from text}} for the following labels. Note that the label “Standards” is presumed to be more natural English for ambiguously plural content than “Standard”. The inverse is presumed of the other two labels.

Diffs:

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| label2 = [[Programmer|Original author(s)]]

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| label2 = [[Programmer|Original author]]{{Pluralize from text|{{{author|}}}|plural=s}}

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| label3 = [[Programmer|Developer(s)]]

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| label3 = [[Programmer|Developer]]{{Pluralize from text|{{{developer|}}}|plural=s}}

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| label18 = [[Technical standard|Standard]](s)

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| label18 = [[Technical standard|Standard]]{{Pluralize from text|{{{standard|}}}|likely=s|plural=s}}

Thank you! — HTGS (talk) 04:23, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

I like this idea, but the template is not without faults when interpreting company names. For example:

• Developer{{Pluralize from text|Machines, Inc.|plural=s}}

  → Developers

• Developer{{Pluralize from text|Doe and Doe LLC|plural=s}}

  → Developers

Therefore, the current proposal may not be ideal. IceWelder [✉] 08:50, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

My own attitude to this problem has been that it isn’t actually a problem. I personally find the wrong pluralization less annoying than the (s) ending, and the classic style used in print is still grammatically acceptable (eg, Developers: Doe and Doe LLC}). And, for these cases, there is always {{force singular}}, for which I am happy to write guidance into the documentation (and even go through and add the tag to articles). — HTGS (talk) 20:41, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Hm, I'd rather have on stable version than one that can render in unexpected ways. Continuing below... IceWelder [✉] 16:21, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

(s) is fine for me. Alternatively we can add another parameter for the plural version, e.g. {{{authors}}}. SWinxy (talk) 23:12, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

I am also fine with plural parameters. — HTGS (talk) 22:28, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Plural paramaters are fine on a technical level but a huge pain to maintain. If there is an overwhelming consensus, we can still implement it. Other than that, the easiest way to get rid of "(s)" constructs would be to make the parameters generically singular or generically plural, as some other templates have done. IceWelder [✉] 16:25, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Disabling the request for now. Please re-enable, when there's consensus for which of the approaches is to be used. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:26, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Enable indicating major contributors, not just programmers

I'm working on an article for a software project that has several major contributors that I want to list in the infobox, and not all of them are developers. In this case, one of them is a project manager. This infobox only provides the option to indicate "author" or "developer", which both link to programmer. A lot of software projects involve more roles than just developers, including user experience designers, user researchers, product managers, and content strategists. I suggest renaming the "developer" attribute to "contributor". Dreamyshade (talk) 00:29, 22 August 2024 (UTC)