User:Benhatsor/sandbox
Adding titles to web citations that lack them using their URLs
[edit]Basic example:
[edit] https://x.com/i/status/1910223261582925987. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
Spaces between keywords:
[edit]URLs in title:
[edit]"NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 on X: 'A Ukrainian air defense soldier from the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade successfully intercepted a Shahed drone using the Igla MANPADS https://t.co/xEteAezpUx' / X". {{cite web}}: External link in |title=
More extensive URL sanitization:
[edit]"test test2https://test.com/test test123 http://test2.net https://test3.com test test.com". {{cite web}}: External link in |title=
Multiple titles (only the last one takes):
[edit]Different template specifier (cite web) capitalization:
[edit]"Cite web". "Cite Web". "cite Web". "CITE WEB".
Template parsing notes:
[edit]1. The characters |, {{, }}, [ and ] (see here) cannot appear inside citation arguments (titles and URLs). The character = can appear.
2. Newlines (\n) and carriage returns (\r) cannot appear anywhere inside a template.
- There are also other characters that can't appear inside templates, but we don't handle them as they're very uncommon.
3. We escape the HTML of titles to prevent stuff like <code></code> elements inadvertently appearing.
Other notes:
[edit]1. Detect 404's and other errors (eg. 403's) when fetching page titles.
2. Exempt PDFs.
Unused:
1. News citations: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/well/eat/mangoes-health-benefits-recipes.html. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. You can also capitalize the citation URL argument (but not the title argument): "|URL=".