Category:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list

This is a hidden tracking category for CS1 citations that use author, or its aliases.

Articles are listed in this category when Module:Citation/CS1 identifies cs1|2 citation templates that appear to use singular forms of author name-list parameters to list multiple authors' names. Doing so corrupts the citation's metadata.

The citation module code looks for multiple comma or semicolon separator characters in the value assigned to author, last, their aliases, and enumerated equivalents (e.g. author2, last2, etc.). This test displays an error message for multiple authors' names in a single parameter, as well as single author names that include a comma-separated list of post-nominals: FC White, RN, MD, Ph.D.

To fix these errors in citations:
 * 1) Remove post-nominals.
 * 2) Provide enumerated author parameters (e.g. either author2 or last2 and first2) for each author of a cited work.
 * 3) When multiple separator characters are legitimately present in a name (commonly a corporate, institutional, or governmental author), the name may be wrapped in two sets of parentheses (or  tags) to suppress assignment to this category, like this: ((Federal Ministry of Transport, Building, and Urban Development)) or &lt;nowiki>Federal Ministry of Transport, Building, and Urban Development&lt;/nowiki>.

Editors should not simply replace author with authors. Using the plural authors parameter to replace a singular author or last parameter that holds multiple authors' names is discouraged because automatically decoding lists of human names is an extraordinarily difficult task. Because of this difficulty, names listed in authors are omitted from the template's COinS metadata. Enumerating the author list with authorn, or lastn / firstn, or, where appropriate, vauthors, preserves the associated metadata.

Pages in this category should only be added by Module:Citation/CS1.