Talk:Mexican standoff

RFC discussion: November 2012

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Mexican standoff

The etymology section is longer than the rest of the entry combined Chuck Entz (talk) 19:18, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

The CSS Shenandoah part is not corroborated by the Wikipedia article on the ship, so I've removed it. I think what remains is fine. - -sche (discuss) 22:03, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Works for me. Detagged. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:27, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Supposed Australian etymology

The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary makes the claim that this is of Australian origin, in "Mexican standoff" (retrieved 2009-12-19, original). I've removed this in edit 37047424, as there are clear US citations from the 19th century, given by OED, among others.

—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 03:07, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Template display

In § References, ref 1 displays the {{{archivedate}}} error as described at Template:cite-newsgroup#Sample templates. However, I can see no equal sign in the parameter data that would cause the display issue. Both original and archive links go to the same page on the same site, which isn't "Usenet". Adding the <nowiki> tag regardless of the lack of equal sign in the data, doesn't alleviate the display problem (when viewed in Preview mode). — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 19:18, 19 March 2023 (UTC) (edited 20:48, 19 March 2023 (UTC))

@Ioaxxere: I think this is related to the tweaks you made to |archiveurl= in {{cite-meta}}. Essentially, in {{cite-newsgroup}} (and other reference templates?), {{cite-meta}} is interpreting |url= as |archiveurl= when it shouldn't. The error also appears in the Robert Shaw example on the documentation subpage. Could you look into the issue? Thanks. — Sgconlaw (talk) 17:10, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Fixed in diff. Ioaxxere (talk) 04:57, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

@Ioaxxere: thank you! — Sgconlaw (talk) 05:25, 22 March 2023 (UTC)