Template talk:USGS gazetteer

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I'm planning to use this template on descriptions of Antarctic features, from the gazetteer available at http://geonames.usgs.gov/stategaz/ . I assume that this gazetteer is public domain, as a work of the US government. Eugene van der Pijll 16:46, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This template seems to be broken- it gives a weird web citation. Lurker (said · done) 11:12, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've made an attempt at a fix. Lurker (said · done) 11:41, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Most uses of it need "|sourceURL=[http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:nnn <optional name>]". nnn can be found in the Antarctic search at http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic. Finavon (talk) 13:58, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

now changed to "|id=nnn|name=<required name>". It would be good if the name attribute could default to the pagename. I will stop editing pages using this template until I know it is stable. Although probably not in use, the template also had access to the rest of the US GNIS (ie non-Antarctic); presumably that would no longer work. Finavon (talk) 15:39, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The name and id fields should remain optional, since many of the pages on which the template is used predate this innovation. Silly rabbit (talk) 17:23, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]