https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/about/ – which I do not appear able to edit directly, for some reason – has some coding issues and needs an update:
The citation code shown under "Citation practices" is obsolete; in particular: 1) the subscription and via options are now part of the citation template itself (for several years now) and should not be done with a second template. 2) Worse, the |author= parameter is no longer used this way (also for many years); it is an alias of |last1=, and (in |author= form) should only be used for organizational authors. 3) MOS:INITIALS applies (like the rest of MoS) by default to all citations, except where citation style requires a variance. (Something like this is apt to be true at well-developed wikis other than en.WP; most of them have their own style guides and most of them are based on w:en:Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style for basics and where local language norms do not diverge; the example provided is English and intended for en.WP, anyway). 4) |number= is just a parameter alias of |issue=, so don't make the parser do extra work to convert it. This:
- {{cite journal|author=Zieger, R|title=Walmart and the broken narrative of US labor history|journal=Labor History|pages=563–569|date=November 2011|volume=52|number=4|doi=10.1080/0023656X.2011.632517}} {{subscription required|via=[[Taylor & Francis]]}}
should thus be changed to this (with some spacing also inserted to make it more human-readable):
- {{cite journal |last1=author=Zieger |first1=R. |title=Walmart and the broken narrative of US labor history |journal=Labor History |pages=563–569 |date=November 2011 |volume=52 |issue=4 |doi=10.1080/0023656X.2011.632517 |url-access=subscription |via=[[Taylor & Francis]]}}
Secondly, the page in question is showing code markup as literal strings instead of applying the code markup. E.g.:
- "You can use <code>|via=<code> in templates using CS1 citation format or add <code>{{subscription required|via=}}</code> to identify the provider."
I would prefer to just be an editor there so I can fix stuff like this myself.