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Infoboxes and Templates

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Template:Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder}}

Michael Goodyear/Wikiguide/Biography
  • Template:Acad Cambridge grads to 1900, generates its own anchor
    • Insert in Bibliography as: {{acad|id=DKWT851H|name=Duckworth, Herbert|accessdate=14 February 2018}} displays as - "Duckworth, Herbert (DKWT851H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 14 February 2018. ref as {{sfn|ACAD|DKWT851H}} where DKWT851H is an id (Herbert Duckworth)
    • Uses http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/
    • see also U Edinburgh https://collections.ed.ac.uk/alumni/, eg Richard Anthony Salisbury


  • Nationality {{flagcountry|France}} but see WP:INFOBOXFLAG - likely to be removed!
Embedding within
Jane Doe
Borntoday
Philosophy career
EraNow
  • {{infobox person|birth_date=today|name=Jane Doe|module={{infobox philosopher|embed=yes|era=Now}}}}

to hide issue- | issue-pipe = more... in {{infobox royalty

Basic

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  • Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch (1304 – 1374) was an Italian scholar (note spaces)
  • Charles Robert Darwin, FRS[1] (/ˈdɑːrwɪn/;[2] 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)
  • - no location !
  • {{Infobox person | name = <!-- include middle initial, if not specified in birth_name --> | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing [[brackets]] --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Birth-date and age|birth date}} if living to calculate age, otherwise just enter date--> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} as deathdate|birthdate --> | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | nationality = | other_names = | alma_mater = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | home_town = | parents = | spouse = | <!-- {{marriage |spouse |date1 |date2}} --> | partner = <!-- (unmarried long-term partner) --> | children = | relatives = | signature = (file name)


  • use {{nowrap|[[William Edward Arnold-Forster]]<br/>[[Katherine Cox]]}} where necessary
  • template:marriage
  • | module allows embedding other templates, eg Virginia Woolf embeds {{listen}} as | module = {{Listen| embed=yes |filename = On Craftsmanship - the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf.flac |title = Woolf's voice |type = speech |description = [[BBC radio]] broadcast 29 April 1937 }}

Dates

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Deceased
  • Template:Death date and age - use numbers for month
    • {{death date and age |year of death|month of death|day of death |year of birth|month of birth|day of birth |additional parameters}} {{death date and age |yyyy|mm|dd |yyyy|mm|dd }}
    • df= sets format, yes = day first etc

{{Death date and given age|1780|5|1|28}} dy dm dd age where birthdate unknown. otherwise omit fields eg {{death date and age |yyyy|mm|dd |yyyy}} where only birth year known

  • {{death year and age}} - if only years known, insert {{Death year and age|deathyear|birthyear}} into death_date =

If using death date and age, use wirth birth date, not birth date and age

Living

if only year known Template:Birth year and age eg {{Birth year and age|1961}} or {{Birth-date and age|September 1941}}

Marriage
  • Template:Marriage eg {{marriage|spouse|date1|date2}} displays as
Mary Smith
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(m. 1931⁠–⁠1956)​
Rulers

Use template ({{Reign|293|363}}), displays as (r. 293–363). If only for a single calendar year, use {{reign|single=}}, displays as r. 293. Place in brackets

Works

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Use {{refbegin}}

DNB & ODNB

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{{WikiProject Biography|living=no|class=start}}

Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography

DNB predates ODNB

DNB
ODNB

Dalhousie

German

Other databases

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EB

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* {{cite encyclopedia|last1=Reid|first1=Panthea|title=Virginia Woolf|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]]|date=25 January 2018|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Virginia-Woolf|ref=harv}}

Official records, census etc Census UK

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Probate UK

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Genealogy

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Ancestry
Find my past
MyHeritage
Wikitree
FamilySearch

https://www.familysearch.org

Genealogy
The Peerage
  • * {{cite web|last1=Lundy|first1=Darryl|title=The Peerage|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/index.htm|date=2017|accessdate=19 December 2017|ref=harv}} <ref name=Lundy475902/> !-- Lundy: The Peerage -->475912 <ref name=Lundy475902>{{harvnb|Lundy|2017|loc=[http://www.thepeerage.com/p47591.htm#i475902 p. 47591 § 475902]}}</ref>
South east UK, Weald
Graves

Control

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BUT - better to use https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page wikidata]

Families

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template:families

Family trees

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Use Sandbox2

    • Examples of referencing: [[1]]; [[2]]

** Use collapsed=no - {{chart top|'''<big>Pattle-Antoine Family Tree</big>'''|collapsed=no}} to simplify editing


3rd Earl of Grantham
(deceased)		Countess of Grantham
(deceased)
younger sonwife4th Earl of Grantham
(deceased)		Countess of Grantham
(deceased)
sonwife5th Earl of Grantham
(deceased)		Countess of Grantham
(deceased)
sonwifeyounger sonwife6th Earl of Grantham
(deceased)		Violet Crawley,
Dowager Countess of Grantham		Isidore LevinsonMartha LevinsonhusbandRoberta
Reginald CrawleyIsobel CrawleyJames CrawleywifeMarmaduke Painswick
(deceased)		Lady Rosamund Painswick
(née Crawley)		Robert Crawley,
7th Earl of Grantham		Cora Crawley,
Countess of Grantham
(née Levinson)		Harold LevinsonHugh "Shrimpie" MacClare,
Marquess of Flintshire		Susan MacClare,
Marchioness of Flintshire
Patrick Crawley
Heir presumptive (presumed dead)		Matthew Crawley
Heir presumptive (deceased)		Lady Mary CrawleyMichael GregsonLady Edith CrawleyTom BransonLady Sybil Branson
(deceased)		The Hon Atticus AldridgeLady Rose Aldridge
(née MacClare)
George Crawley
Heir presumptive		Marigold CrawleySybil Branson
  • to source -

{{chart top|'''<big>Arendt-Cohn families</big>'''{{sfn|Young-Bruehl|2004|loc=pp. 476–477}}{{sfn|Geni|2018}}|collapsed=no}}

name
Using numbers
MaximianEutropiaAfranius Hannibalianus
JosephAnnaMark
Maximian
emperor of the West
286–305		EutropiaAfranius Hannibalianus
consul 292

Succession

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  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference frs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Darwin" entry in Collins English Dictionary, HarperCollins Publishers, 1998.
  3. ^ Smolenaars 2008.
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