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* '''Working to omit blank parameters:''' I agree that blank parameters must be omitted because numerous articles contain several boilerplate templates where many optional parameters are blank in each cite. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 00:48, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 
== Issues in cite conference and corresponding citation ==
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has long had a problem where the period after the editor initial is doubled. There doesn't seem to currently be a {{tl|cite conference/lua}} template, but when that one gets done I hope that it can fix this old bug. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 00:36, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
* '''Lua can quickly avoid double-dots:''' I plan to fix the double ".." problems. The Lua language has a quick substring function as {{j|"string.sub(name,-1,-1)"}} to extract the final character from a string, check against dot "." and skip adding another dot. This will also be available to fix the original cite templates. -[[User_talk:Wikid77|Wikid77]] 00:48, 21 February 2013 (UTC)