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[[User:Coastside|Coastside]] ([[User talk:Coastside|talk]]) 20:13, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

:[[Help talk:Citation Style 1#Aliases]]. ---'''''—&nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|<span style="color:gray">Gadget850&nbsp;(Ed)</span>]]<span style="color:darkblue">&nbsp;</span>'''''</span>^{[[User talk:Gadget850|''talk'']]} 21:46, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

::I understand that discussion, but I don't see why you are linking to it here. The question is how to handle aliasing of authorlink paramaters in this sub template. Are you saying that discussion answers the question? If so, I'm confused, because it shows the way this was done when I originally added the authorlink parameters to this sub template on July 14 (they weren't documented prior to that). So it seems we've come round in a circle.[[User:Coastside|Coastside]] ([[User talk:Coastside|talk]]) 23:13, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

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'''authorlink2''', '''author2-link'''; ... '''authorlink9''', '''author9-link'''

The semicolon separates a series, the [[ellipsis]] indicates an omission. I am going to make one more stab at this, then I have other things to do. ---'''''—&nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|<span style="color:gray">Gadget850&nbsp;(Ed)</span>]]<span style="color:darkblue">&nbsp;</span>'''''</span>^{[[User talk:Gadget850|''talk'']]} 12:21, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

:The semicolon doesn't separate a series. It separates elements in a series. Everything within a set of semicolons is an alias of the same thing. In the above, authorlink2 and author2-link are aliases, which is why they are not separated by semicolons. The semicolon sets off the next group of aliases. The ellipses does represent an omission. The sequence [2] throuh [8] is omitted for brevity.[[User:Coastside|Coastside]] ([[User talk:Coastside|talk]]) 21:09, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

::See [[WP:ELLIPSIS]]. You are using it to indicate a range; if these were pure numbers, then we would use an en dash per [[WP:DASH]]. They aren't numbers, thus {{em|through}} is more appropriate. The semicolon is now moot. ---'''''—&nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|<span style="color:gray">Gadget850&nbsp;(Ed)</span>]]<span style="color:darkblue">&nbsp;</span>'''''</span>^{[[User talk:Gadget850|''talk'']]} 22:16, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

:::I think this approach works well. Nice job. Still one more problem, though. In the line that describes usage for '''last''', you list aliases: '''last''', '''author''', '''authors''', '''last1''', '''author1'''. In the line that describes usage for '''first''', there is no list of aliases. Shouldn't this include something that says aliases: '''first''', '''first1'''? [[User:Coastside|Coastside]] ([[User talk:Coastside|talk]]) 00:02, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

::::Done. ---'''''—&nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|<span style="color:gray">Gadget850&nbsp;(Ed)</span>]]<span style="color:darkblue">&nbsp;</span>'''''</span>^{[[User talk:Gadget850|''talk'']]} 00:35, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

:::::I'm happy with the result. Very clear.[[User:Coastside|Coastside]] ([[User talk:Coastside|talk]]) 09:35, 18 July 2012 (UTC)