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The ISBN is an optional metadata parameter that is not required to locate a book. It is fine to include ISBNs in citations, and editors should feel free to add them where missing, but pointing out that some citations do not include ISBNs absolutely does not warrant an eyesore banner. Empirically,
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It would be great if this template looked up the rest of the information for the reference based solely on the ISBN. This would eliminate innumerable typos, missing info, etc. A second parameter (beyond the number) would be a page #/range. ISBNdb.com provides a REST
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Greetings and felicitations. The template's code includes the option to make the template specific to an article's section, but this is not mentioned in the documentation. Would someone please be so kind as to add a mention of this?
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8 years old but never successfully encouraged the addition of ISBNs. Adding this banner to pages is very reader hostile for minimal if any concrete benefit, and thus net harmful to the project. –
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this banner is also not effective. I just clicked a random 6 pages which include it, and for 5 of the 6 the banner was : -->
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A bad ISBN formerly -- a couple of months ago? -- generated a red link. Is that still the case?
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Adding you as you were the last editor to work on this template and are still active. —
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