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]