@Rjwilmsi 17:44, 12 November 2014 (UTC) wrote:

I'm surprised that the infobox template doesn't kick out an error if a field is populated but for whatever rules the infobox has, it's not shown. The only way I can see that we could catch this in AWB, as it's not apparent from the source text, would be to do a preview of the page after making changes and look for reference errors. Seems like a big overhead when the problem really is misconfiguration of the infobox template parameters on the article.

@Rjwilmsi 09:54, 13 November 2014 (UTC) wrote:

Another option would be that after conversion we make the full ref the one outside the infobox, and just have the abbreviated ref inside the infobox.

What kind of user input is wanted for this task?

I would expect the infobox to raise an error stating that the parameter is not supported. User/infobox maintainer to investigate that.

This error can happen to all templates and infoboxes (not supported by LUA which might have fallback to show unsupported parameters). If possible, we should never have the "full" ref inside another template would be the best solution, imo.