Template:Biography
NB! There is no consensus to use this template. Structured data about taxon authorities is located in Wikidata.
Biography
Usage edit
A template to display a standard-formatted author biography.
This template is undergoing active development. Parameters may be changed or removed without notice. Formatting may be suboptimal. You are welcome to be involved in developing and testing it, in which case please use it sparingly. Otherwise, please kindly wait until this notice is removed.
Soon, it will be possible to populate a blank instance of the template from Wikidata.
Blank edit
{{Biography
| name =
| alias =
| image =
| image_caption =
| birth_year =
| death_year =
| flourished =
| description =
| organisation =
| botanist_name =
| zoologist_name =
| ipni_author_id =
| username =
| taxa =
| patronyms =
| website =
| zoobank =
| VIAF =
| ISNI =
| ORCID =
| BNF =
| SUDOC =
| LCCN =
| SELIBR =
}}
Parameters edit
All parameters are optional.
- name
- defaults to the BASEPAGENAME if no value entered
- equals Wikdiata's label (always in English?)
- alias
- other names (e.g. married names, names in non-western scripts); use
{{Lang}}where appropriate - equals Wikidata's aliases (perhaps also non-English labels?)
- image
- bare file name (no
File:prefix) - P18
- image_caption
- may include links
- birth_year
- must be a four-digit number
- extract from P569
- death_year
- must be a four-digit number
- extract from P570
- flourished
- year or dash-separated year-range; does not display if birth or death year is present
- P1317 or P2031-P2032
- nationality
- P27
- role
- a single word, to which an "s" suffix may be added for the category
- P106 (n.b. may contain other roles)
- description
- prose description
- possibly Wikidata description
- organisation
- either prose, or a wikilink to the repository page
- botanist_name
- text abbreviation of the name
- P428
- ipni_author_id
- official International Plant Names Index ID
- P586
- zoologist_name
- text abbreviation of the name
- P835
- username
- Wikispecies (or Wikimedia) username; only if the subject has themselves linked their identities
- P553, qualified with P554
- taxa
- any value will cause a link to the related category to display
- n/a
- patronyms
- any value will cause a link to the related category to display
- n/a
- website
- enter a bare URL
- P856
- zoobank
- Zoobank identifier; for
http://zoobank.org/Authors/844833D1-FB4B-4B12-8A64-8468787E50FB, use844833D1-FB4B-4B12-8A64-8468787E50FB - P2006
- VIAF
- See
{{Authority control}} - ISNI
- See
{{Authority control}} - ORCID
- See
{{Authority control}}; en:WP:ORCID - BNF
- See
{{Authority control}} - SUDOC
- See
{{Authority control}} - LCCN
- See
{{Authority control}} - SELIBR
- See
{{Authority control}}
Examples edit
Carolus Linnaeus edit
{{Biography
| name = Carolus Linnaeus
| image = Carl von Linné.jpg
| image_caption = Carolus Linnaeus (1775) by Alexander Roslin
| alias = Carl von Linné; Carl Linnaeus
| birth_year = 1707
| death_year = 1778
| nationality = Swedish
| role = biologist
| description = Founder of the modern classification system for all living organisms. Ennobled in 1761.
| botanist_name = L.
| zoologist_name = Linnaeus
| ipni_author_id = 12653-1
| zoobank = 02B13D48-53C8-42E7-A2B8-31D3A458D9AF
| taxa = yes
| LCCN = n/79/109333
| PND = 118573349
| VIAF = 34594730
| SELIBR = 253377
}}
See: [1]
Andrew D. Warren edit
{{Biography
| name = Andrew D. Warren
| nationality = United States
| role = entomologist
| organisation = [[MCUF|McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity]]
| taxa = yes
| website = http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/mcguire/profiles/warren.htm
}}
See: [2]
Zeki Aytaç edit
{{Biography
| name = Zeki Aytaç
| nationality = Turkish
| role = botanist
| flourished = 1991
| botanist_name = Aytaç
}}
R.D.M. Page edit
{{Biography
| name = R.D.M. Page
| alias = Roderic Dugald Morton Page
| taxa = yes
| patronyms = yes
| zoobank = 6899544A-A593-43B8-8DA0-2EF919917B52
| ORCID = 0000-0002-7101-9767
| BNF = 13609973g
| SUDOC = 059384239
| VIAF = 49396947
| ISNI = 0000 0001 1638 4238
}}
See: [3]
Categories edit
This template places pages into categories, some (which should be) hidden
Ordinary categories edit
- please keep these as red links until the names are settled
- Category:Biographies with botanist abbreviation
- Category:Biographies with zoologist abbreviation
- Category:Biography templates with IPNI author ID
- By role
- An "s" suffix is added to
|role=; e.g.|role=entomologist-> Category:Entomologists
- An "s" suffix is added to
Tracking categories edit
- Category:Biography templates with description
- Category:Biography templates with organisation
- Category:Biography templates with role
- Category:Biography templates with taxa
- Category:Biography templates with patronyms
- Category:Biography templates with username
- Category:Biographies with no author abbreviation
Microformat edit
This template emits an hCard microformat, to make key biographical data machine-readable. Please therefore do not remove the HTML classes: adr, country-name, fn, label, n, nickname, note, org, role, url, or vcard; and do not collapse the <div>, <span> or other elements containing them.
To do edit
- Add alt attribute for images
- Add a parameter for linked institutions (i.e. with a page on Wikispecies)
- Add separate address/ contact fields?
- Other parameters?
- Refine categories
- Create category pages
- Make some categories hidden (see markup, below)
- Call values from Wikidata, once possible
- markup for hidden categories:
__HIDDENCAT__ [[Category:Hidden categories]]