Great new template! I'm fairly incompetent at template syntax, but have made a slight tweak. Should it have a subscription only note, as Template:ODNBweb has? Dsp13 (talk) 02:01, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers. I suppose it should. Same would go for Template:Crockford DBD 18:37, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hasn't broken this templates links (they redirect), but we could choose to implement either their new urls e.g. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-282438 or DOI links e.g. https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.282438 DBD 18:04, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @DBD: I've added digital object identifiers as a parameter to this template, although sadly, many of these new DOIs appear to be broken. While your example above (doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.282438) works, many do not. As of 13 December 2017 for example, Keith Bevens entry at:

http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-289275 uses a broken doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.289275

I've notified CrossRef of a handful of these via http://www.crossref.org/DOIComplaint, but there appear to be many more.

Thankfully though, the http://www.ukwhoswho.com site does show a preview of the articles for users that "do not currently have access to this article" which makes some Wikipedia:Verifiability possible for users outside the paywall (subscription required). Duncan.Hull (talk) 06:32, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have made this change to put Who's Who and Who Was Who into italics, as is normal for book titles. It seems to work, but if I have upset any applecarts inadvertently then please do feel free to undo (and explain so I can avoid making the same mistake again). DuncanHill (talk) 15:32, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

When the template is used to display Who Was Who, it links to Who's Who. Would it be possible to make it link to Who Was Who? I know this is a redirect, but it does take readers to the relevant section of the article. DuncanHill (talk) 15:35, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

is no longer aliveBashereyre (talk) 19:15, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

i have added {{Who's Who | U4000437 }}. it shows "",". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required)". its doi @ https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U4000437

i have updated "String required" only. what am i doing wrong ? Leela52452 (talk) 03:42, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Leela52452 (talk · contribs) refers to this edit, where several other things were done too. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:19, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You only supplied one parameter, but Template:Who's Who#Usage shows that you need "three parameters, the bare minimum" - specifically {{Who's Who|id=ID|surname=SURNAME|othernames=OTHERNAMES}}. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:23, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think Duncan.Hull gave the impresion that parameter names can be omitted in [1]. But all parameters must be named. Unnamed parameters are ignored. {{Who's Who|id=U4000437}} would make a working link but you still need |surname= and |othernames= to display text on the link. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:04, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the invalid examples from the doc. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:52, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

hello @PrimeHunter: @Redrose64: good morning !!!!! thank you for fixing this template and my mistake also. there was lot of text in reference and i have come across this in some article. using bare three minimum parameters works flawlessly and anybody can figure out by looking at title and doi in whos who website. Leela52452 (talk) 01:34, 14 April 2020 (UTC) any OTHER suggestion or critique is preferred here[reply]

 Done Leela52452 (talk) 13:23, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I removed this from the template, as it creates an unnecessary double listing of the source. For example:

• CORRIE. "CORRIE, Sir Owen Cecil Kirkpatrick". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 2020 (online ed.). A & C Black. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Unknown parameter |othernames= ignored (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Has a link to the website and a link to our article on the publication (Who's Who (UK)). There does not seem to be any reason to have "ukwhoswho.com" listed as well.

The removal has recently been reverted. Can we agree to remove it to avoid this clutter? Cheers, Number 57 16:25, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]