Template:Find biographical sources/doc

This template produces a series of links to various reliable sources and biographical topic search engines to help find additional reference material for articles. It is designed for talk pages and should not be used in articles themselves.

Usage

• {{find biographical sources}} – the article title is used by default as keywords for the search queries
• {{find biographical sources|your search keywords}} – specify your own search query in positional param one

Parameters

The template takes one optional positional parameter:

|1= search keywords for the query. default: the article page name.

Examples

{{find biographical sources}} (default search) ⟶

Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL

{{find biog sources|william gladstone}} (example with param 1 set) ⟶

Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL

{{find biog|Jean-Michel Basquiat}} ⟶

Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL

Sources

The template includes links to the following searchable online sources and search engines:

• Britannica – Encyclopædia Britannica
• British Library – National library of the United Kingdom
• EoWB – Encyclopedia of World Biography, by Gale Research; online results provided by University of Michigan
• Google Books – Books from Google's digitized corpus
• Guardian – The Guardian newspaper, U.K.
• Infoplease – Online dictionary, encyclopedia, and almanac
• JSTOR – Full-text search of academic journals
• LoC – Library of Congress
• MUSE – Project MUSE: humanities and social science content from academic journals and societies
• NYT – The New York Times
• WP Library – The Wikipedia Library, open research hub for Wikipedia editors

Note on styling

This template generates output in Html inline-level element context, and so may be used with all the normal in-line wiki markup to alter the font style. For example:

''<small>{{find biographical sources|laurent clerc}}</small>'' ⟶

Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL

Template data

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Find biographical sources in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Find biographical sources

This template displays a list of links to various sources and biographical databases queried on a given topic .

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Subject	1	The first unnamed parameter contains the name of the person or subject to be searched. Example Mahatma Gandhi	Line	optional

See also

• {{biographical sources notice}}
• {{find sources}}
• {{find video game sources}}
• {{find medical sources}}
• {{uw-biog1}}