Editing Help talk:Citation Style 1 (section)

== Accessibility of adjacent links ==

To improve accessibility, it's best to have non-linking characters between adjacent links.

Instead of, for example:

: [[OCLC (identifier)|OCLC]] [https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/171312798 171312798]

could we output, say:

: [[OCLC (identifier)|OCLC]]: [https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/171312798 171312798]

and likewise for other IDs? 

If space is an issue, a thin space (<code>&amp;thinsp;</code>) could be used:

: [[OCLC (identifier)|OCLC]]:&thinsp;[https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/171312798 171312798]

after the colon. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 15:43, 22 January 2026 (UTC)
:cs1|2 inserts an unlinked no-break-space (<code>&amp;nbsp;</code>) character between the label wikilink and the OCLC external link:
::<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="1">{{cite book |title=Title |oclc=171312798}}</syntaxhighlight>
:::{{code|lang=html|{{cite book |title=Title |oclc=171312798}}}}
::::{{cite book |title=Title |oclc=171312798}}
:This is true for all cs1|2 identifiers except {{para|arxiv}}, {{para|bibcode}}, {{para|doi}}, and {{para|hdl}} which use an unlinked, unspaced, colon separator character.  If you are seeing otherwise, show us where you are seeing that.  I seem to recall that we had some discussions about label/identifier separators when we migrated to Lua.  You might find those discussions in the archives.
:—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 16:20, 22 January 2026 (UTC)
::The point is to have a non-linked ''visible'' ("printing") character, not white space. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 16:42, 22 January 2026 (UTC)
:::We shouldn't have stray 'printing' characters, like "ISBN: 978-0-513-49", because the presentation format for all those identifiers is "ISBN 978-0-513-49", unlike [[Uniform Resource Identifier|URI]]s which have the presentation format [[Uniform Resource Identifier|URI]]:identifier. &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 01:07, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
::::They would not be "stray", and we should have then for the reason I gave in my OP. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 11:40, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
:::::Indeed. Though we should not be linking to ISBN at all, it's completely unnecessary overlinking.  All the best: ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]] [[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]''<small> 17:21, 23 January 2026 (UTC).<br /></small>
:::::They would be as they are completely non-standard to present with stray punctuation, e.g. [https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Poirot_Investigates/KNIDEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=hercule+poirot&printsec=frontcover] which very clearly shows {{citation |title=— |lccn=2023052679 |isbn=978-0-486-85264-5}}. And all identifiers link to their articles, because not everyone knows what those acronyms mean. &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 04:31, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
::::::To which standard, specifying such things, do you refer? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 12:23, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
:::::{{small|the comment directly below added here from duplicated discussion.  @[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich Farmbrough]]: if not correct, please fix this discussion page.—[[User:Trappist the monk|Trappist the monk]] ([[User talk:Trappist the monk|talk]]) 20:28, 9 February 2026 (UTC)}}
::::::The difference is that firstly most people have some idea of what ISBN means, secondly when you click the number you go to a page which has a link to our article at the top. Thirdly the magic word, before it was disabled because our software team couldn't make RTL work (so everyone else has to suffer) only linked to the book-sources page.  Fourthly people will click on the ISBN instead of the number, as it's by no means clear these are two separate links.  Fifthly it adds millions of unnecessary links, probably over 8 million, based on a sample of 10,000 articles.  It was a mistake to start linking to ISBN, and it can be simply fixed now.  All the best: ''[[User:Rich Farmbrough|Rich]] [[User talk:Rich Farmbrough|Farmbrough]]''<small> 20:13, 9 February 2026 (UTC).<br /></small>