Template talk:Hdl

Error message

This template contains a hidden character which is creating an error. The message (one of those now caught by the CS1 sweeps) is "C0 control character in |id= at position x", where x is an integer. Here's an example. Can someone please fix this? It's added hundreds of articles to our cleanup listing! Thanks, MeegsC (talk) 14:47, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

{{hdl}} uses <nowiki>...</nowiki> (in order to work with characters like ]), so it's the issue discussed at Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 10#Null character error message appearing in citations. Maybe it will be fixed there with no need to change affected templates like this one. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:00, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Fixed by [1]. Articles using {{hdl}} may display the error message until they are purged. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:56, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Excellent! Thanks. MeegsC (talk) 15:30, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Error message redux

This template is again throwing up error messages, this time saying there's a "delete character" in the id. Since the parameter passed by the article contains only 8 integers and a slash, I'm assuming it's something in the template itself that's triggering the error message. Please see American wigeon for an example. Can somebody who knows what they're doing please take a look? Thanks, MeegsC (talk) 08:27, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

RFCs on citations templates and the flagging free-to-read sources

See

• Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access locks: Visual Design RFC
• Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access Locks: Citation Template Behaviour RFC

Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:04, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Template does not work right if there are question marks in the HDL

Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Citation_Style_1#HDL_parameter_escaping for more information. But if there is a ? in the HDL, then the template displays nothing at all. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:07, 3 April 2020 (UTC)