फलकम्:Author/doc

This documentation subpage contains instructions, categories, or other information for technical reasons.
To view the फलकम् page itself, see फलकम्:Author.

This template can be preloaded via the Gadgets, alternatively, one can preload Template:Author/preload.

Usage

{{author
 | firstname    = 
 | lastname     = 
 | last_initial = 
 | birthyear    = 
 | deathyear    = 
 | description  = 
}}

This template is meant to be used on author pages. Fill in any relevant information, and leave unknown or inapplicable parameters empty. Please don't remove or reorder parameters, as this makes reuse and automated maintenance more difficult. Any override parameters (see below) should be added at the bottom.

To also note that this template automatically applies some categorisation based on the years of life of the author, and a default sort based on the lastname field of the author

Parameters

(The usage example below may help understand these.)

Normal parameters
- firstname, lastname: The first and family name of the author.
  
  If the name order comes from a tradition where the family name typically precedes the given name, please enter the name as follows, including the admonitory comment text:
  |firstname = Ming
  |lastname = Xing
  |invert_names = yes
- last_initial: The initial two letters of the family name.
- birthyear, deathyear: The birth and death years in numerical format (append "BCE" for dates before year 1, e.g. 150 BCE).
  Enter "?" for an author who has no publicly-known birth or death date, and leave blank if you simply don't have this information. Leave the death date blank if they are still alive.
  
  Do not use AD or CE for any Anno Domini/Current Era years (year 1 to the present). Use BCE (do not use BC) for all years before year 1.
  Approximate dates can be entered in one of the following ways:
  1. Decades or centuries can be used instead of a year (e.g. 1930s or 20th century).
  2. To use a year in the circa format, enter it as "c/Y" (e.g. c/1930 or c/150 BCE). (The use of "ca" or "circa" instead of "c" will also be recognised.) This will display as, for example, "c. 1930".
  3. To use a tenuous year, enter it as "Y/?" (e.g. 1930/?). This will display as, for example, "1930?"
  4. To use a choice of two years, enter it as "Y/Y" (e.g. 1930/1931). This will display as it is written.
- description: A brief description of author's works, and personal history; usable for specific notes.

Internal links (optional - use whichever are appropriate)
- portal: slash-separated list of related portals. e.g., World History/Greece
- related_author: slash-separated list of related authors. e.g. William Shakespeare/Francis Bacon
Interwiki links (optional - use whichever are appropriate)
- wiktionary, wikiversity, wikispecies, meta, wikilivres
Overrides (for exceptions)
- image: (link data provided from Wikidata, by default) The name of the image on Wikisource or Wikicommons, excluding the 'image:' or 'file:' prefixes (Filename.ext).
- defaultsort: Override the category sorting, which is normally "lastname, firstname".
- dates: Override the birth and death year. birthyear and deathyear may still be supplied, and will be used for categorisation.
- image_caption: Override the default firstname lastname.
- upright: upright = yes to the image configuration applies a 0.6 scaling factor for long images

Notes:

With the exception of description, none of the parameters should be wikilinked (wrapped in [[ ]]) as the requisite fields are appropriately designed to do such linking. Links can be used within the descriptive text by traditional or wikilink methodologies.
Links are being migrated to Wikidata as they are created at that site. Parameters are retained for cases where the Wikidata data needs to be overwritten.

Usage example

{{author
 | firstname    = Booker Taliaferro
 | lastname     = Washington
 | last_initial = Wa
 | birthyear    = 1856
 | deathyear    = 1915
 | description  = (Description here.)
}}

←Author Index: Wa

Booker Taliaferro Washington
(1856–1915)

Political leader, educator and author.

Microformat

The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book or database. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikimedia projects, please see Wikipedia's microformat project.

Sub-templates

Date-of-birth ("bday") information will only be included in the microformat if {{Birth date}}, {{Birth date and age}}, {{Birth-date}} ({{bday}}), or {{Birth-date and age}} ({{b-da}}) are used in the infobox. (but do not use these if the date is before 1583).

To include a URL, use {{URL}}.

Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.

Classes

hCard uses HTML classes including:

adr
agent
bday
birthplace
category
country-name
deathdate
deathplace
extended-address
family-name
fn (required)
given-name
honorific-prefix
honorific-suffix
label
locality
n
nickname
note
org
role
url
vcard

Please do not rename or remove these classes; nor collapse nested elements which use them.