View source for Template:CheckAuthors3

<noinclude>
The template takes the following 2 parameters:
<div class="definition-inline">
; |1= <span style="font-weight:normal">or</span> |errors=: Any previous error message
; |2= <span style="font-weight:normal">or</span> |authors=: string of authors
</div>
It checks whether the "Text parameter" 2 contains the characters (;) or (:). If yes then an info message is returned. If the info message (first parameter) already contains some text then the separator ";;" and the new message is appended. If there is no error parameter 1 is returned.

Usage:
 <nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}|1=|2=Author1; Author2: Author3;}}
… results in:
: {{{{PAGENAME}}|1=|2=Author1; Author2: Author3;}}


[[Category: Publication template]]
</noinclude><includeonly>{{#vardefine: missingCharacters|}}{{
#vardefine: notAllowedCharacters
|{{#switch: {{
  #if: {{#pos:{{{2|{{{authors|}}}}}}|;}} | _no-semicolon
  }}{{
  #if: {{#pos:{{{2|{{{authors|}}}}}}|:}} | _no-colon
  }}
  |_no-semicolon=semicolon
  |_no-semicolon_no-colon=semicolon, colon
  |_no-colon=colon
 }}
}}{{
#if: {{#var: notAllowedCharacters}}
|{{#if:{{{1|{{{errors|}}}}}} |{{{1|{{{errors|}}}}}};;}}<!--
-->{{#vardefine: theseAuthors |{{{2|{{{authors|missing authors}}}}}}}}'''Unwanted characters for authors:''' The authors field contains the «''{{#var: notAllowedCharacters}}''» in «''{{#arraymap: :,;|,|§|{{#vardefine: theseAuthors |{{#replace: {{#var: theseAuthors}}|§|<span style="background-color:orange">§</span>}}}}|}}{{#var: theseAuthors}}''», please recheck.<br/>Authors should be formatted like: “John F. Smith and A. Johnson” &nbsp;&nbsp;or:&nbsp;&nbsp; “John F. Smith, A. Johnson and S. Wang”.
|{{{1|}}}
}}</includeonly>