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Template:COinS safe/doc
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This is a documentation subpage for Template:COinS safe. It contains usage information, categories, interlanguage links and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
Usage
This template is a notice for templates that may be used in citation templates. By default, it indicates the template is safe for use as shown above.
To indicate a template that should not be used in a citation template:
{{COinS safe|n}}
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This template should not be used in citation templates that produce COinS metadata; see COinS in Wikipedia. It includes markup that will pollute the metadata. |
Issue
Citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2 generate COinS metadata. If a template is used in a citation template field, then it may inject HTML into the metadata.
Compare the rendered HTML for {{cite book}} with |author= using no template and using {{smallcaps}}.
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{{cite book |author=Sam Drucker |title=Title}}
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Sam Drucker. Title.
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{{cite book |author={{smallcaps|Sam Drucker}} |title=Title}}
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Sam Drucker. Title.
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The author metadata is in the rft.aulast field. In this case, it is percent-encoded and is rendered as <span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Sam Drucker</span>
Reference management software will interpret the entire span as the author name.
