Template talk:Sic

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Contents 1 add parameter for nature of unusual matter? 2 template doesn't work well within cite templates 3 People use the wrong sic notation 4 New features

[edit] add parameter for nature of unusual matter?

This is a very useful template. Sometimes it's been necessary, or at least seemed a good idea, to specify just what the element is that might be mistakenly thought to be a transcription error, like "duplication sic" and "punctuation sic" and "formatting sic". Think we could add an optional parameter for this purpose? -- Antaeus Feldspar 05:18, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I would love the above. It would be handy if an editor comment could show up on hovering over "sic". DCDuring 14:35, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] template doesn't work well within cite templates

My first encounter with this template was with a web article title with a misspelling, which I was formatting with a cite web template. I attempted to do something like

{{cite web
   |url = http://spelmeister.com
   |title = I Kan't Spel!{{sic}}
   |accessdate = 2007-05-26
 }}

...and wound up with some weird funk where the "external link" pointer wound up within the brackets of ^[sic] .

This looks like it would work correctly if the <nowiki> protection of the brackets in the template were still there. Is there any reason why these were removed?--NapoliRoma 01:01, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

I tried solving this by copying the contents of the current sic template in place and adding nowikis around the brackets. Didn't solve it. There appears to be an inherent limitation into how much formatting one can do within a cite web template.--NapoliRoma 01:18, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

This isn't inherent to {{cite web}}, it's because you try to put an internal link ([[sic]]) into an external link, which isn't possible. Ms2ger (talk) 13:30, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] People use the wrong sic notation

People often use things like [sic] instead of this template. That's okay, except that it has no external internal oops link. If, like me, you use wikEd (see the Gadgets section of your prefs), you can use this regex to find misuses:

[^A-Za-z0-9{-]+sic[^A-Za-z0-9}-]+

It won't find the following:

1. Basically (surrounded by at least one letter on at least one side)
2. 51C (written in numbers)
3. 0,1,2,4sic (surrounded by at least one number on at least one side)
4. <!--sic--> or <!--sic --> (but it will find <!-- sic -->, unfortunatly) (surrounded by at least one dash on at least one side)
5. {{sic}} (surrounded by at least one curly brace on at least one side)
6. The like (anything like the above. If you can read regexes, you should be able to figure out anything else that won't be detected. The regex article has syntax info for POSIX, which I think this is...)

I hope this helps. --Thinboy00 @902, i.e. 20:38, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New features

Maybe I've tried to do too much with one template (see history and doc sub-page). Feedback is more than welcome. — CharlotteWebb 16:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC)