Template talk:PD-USGov-Interior-HABS

A bit more documentation on this would be VERY helpful. I'm just copying and pasting the reproduction number over as I use this template/liscense, as I find them, I hope I am doing it correctly. --W.marsh 23:03, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Create a maintenance category for templates used without parameter

{{Editprotected}}

Go to Template:PD-Archivesnormandie&action=edit and see the code I inserted there.

What I suggest is

• to change {{{1}}} into

  {{{1|undefined}}}

• to add in the bottom part of the template :

-->{{#if:{{{1|}}}||<small>Note : the reference identifier is marked here as "undefined". This template should be used with the reference identifier as parameter ({{PD-USGov-Interior-HABS|<reference identifier>}})</small>[[Category:PD-USGov-Interior-HABS used without ref parameter|{{PAGENAME}}]]}}.<!--

-->

This will list pictures with missing parameter into Category:PD-USGov-Interior-HABS used without ref parameter

Teofilo (talk) 10:56, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

•  Done - Made a small adjustment becuase it broke the template. Huib talk 18:54, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Documentation on reference number?

So the only parameter this takes is a reference number. Is that the "DIGID", "CARD #", or what? Tedder (talk) 06:48, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

"Creator" reference

Is it possible to add a colon after "Survey number" at the end of this line of text?

*Creator: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, [http://www.nps.gov/hdp/habs/ Historic American Buildings Survey]. Survey number HABS {{{1|undefined}}}

Another embellishment is a way to eliminate an extra "HABS" at the Survey number, if the user enters "HABS HI,12-HON,4-1" for example, as the reference identifier.

– Dogears (talk) 18:26, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

HABS is not worked on by NPS alone

Per my investigation as detailed at w:Wikipedia:Peer review/Silver Reef, Utah/archive2, HABS is not a project solely worked on by NPS. It is a "tripartite agreement between the American Institute of Architects, the Library of Congress, and the NPS".[1] There are members of the American Institute of Architects who have contributed to the project; they are not employees of the NPS nor federal employees by any means. The HABS photographs are in the public domain because of an agreement (Photo Specifications).

{{Editprotected}} Change

''This image or media file contains material based on a work of a [[w:National Park Service|National Park Service]] employee, created during the course of the person's official duties. As a [[w:Work of the United States Government|work]] of the [[w:Federal Government of the United States|U.S. federal government]], such work is in the '''[[w:public domain|public domain]]'''.

to

''This original image or media file was submitted to the HABS project and released into the '''[[w:public domain|public domain]]''' per clauses K. 10 (p. 21) and A. 3 (p. 7) of the [http://www.nps.gov/history/hdp/standards/HABS/photospecs.pdf HABS Photograph Specifications]).''

Furthermore, remove "| [[File:US-NationalParkService-ShadedLogo.svg|52px|link=|right]]" as it is no longer relevant (not a NPS work). Jappalang (talk) 02:24, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

 Done. – Adrignola talk 20:33, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Template needs to be split

In the current state the template combines several things:

1. It's a license template (child of {{PD-USGov}})
2. It's a source template (all images are from the HABS collection at the Library of Congress)
3. It adds files to a topic category
4. It contains a survey number (call number)

I rather split up these functions:

1. Just add {{PD-USGov}} to the images (or a more specific one like {{PD-USGov-NPS}})
2. Create a new source template like the ones shown at Commons:Partnership templates. This template should add the (flat) source category Category:Images from the Historic American Buildings Survey
3. The images should be added directly to Category:Historic buildings in the United States or one of it's subcategories
4. The call number should be moved to the source field of {{Information}}

What do you think? Multichill (talk) 13:50, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Now change the template into {{HABS-source}} & {{PD-USgov}}. Category:Historic American Buildings Survey is currently draining and Category:Files from the Historic American Buildings Survey is filling. Category:Historic buildings in the United States was created and is now populated. I wonder if I should create county categories for Commons:Batch uploading/HABS. Will start talk at Category talk:Historic buildings in the United States. Multichill (talk) 20:55, 24 January 2012 (UTC)