Usage

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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

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{{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

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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, use 844833D1-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

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Carolus Linnaeus

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{{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

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{{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

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{{Biography
| name          = Zeki Aytaç
| nationality   = Turkish 
| role          = botanist 
| flourished    = 1991
| botanist_name = Aytaç
}}

R.D.M. Page

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{{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

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This template places pages into categories, some (which should be) hidden

Ordinary categories

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please keep these as red links until the names are settled

Tracking categories

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Microformat

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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

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  • 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]]