User talk:Justinrleung

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–Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 18:48, 6 November 2017 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: Thanks! Justinrleung (talk) 01:41, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Author templates

Hello again! Here's a short hint for how to better add author links. When using the {{A}} template, please always add the complete author page name, followed by the author abbreviation as a "piped link". In other words, please format the author templates like this:

{{a|John Treadwell Nichols|Nichols}}

but not like this:

{{a|Nichols}}

Both will look the same when rendered (Nichols and Nichols, respectively), but the difference is that the "short" version of the template never links to the correct author page. Instead it links to a redirect page (like in the "Nichols" case) or even worse in some cases it links to an author disambiguation page. That makes it hard to tell which author is intended, since all "disambig" pages lists several different authors. As an example see the Xenocypris page recently created by you. If you click the Günther link there you will end up on a disambiguation page, and for a layman it can be hard to find out which Günther named this particular taxon. Since I specialize in ichthyology I more or less take for granted that it's Albert Günther, but please update the link on the Xenocypris page in order to help the not-so fishy guys... ;-) Best regards, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 12:10, 4 December 2017 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist: Thanks for telling me! I'm still kinda new to this, so please remind me of any other thing that should be changed. Justinrleung (talk) 17:49, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

I will, if necessary. For now, why not check your edits so far and correct any author templates that might have the above mentioned problem? Your edit list is still fairly short so it shouldn't take long – also, it might be a good way to add the correct format to your "muscle memory", so to speak. Lastly: thanks for your very welcome contributions so far, and happy editing! –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 18:06, 4 December 2017 (UTC).