Template:Biography

NB! There is no consensus to use this template. Structured data about taxon authorities is located in Wikidata.

Biography

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Usage

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

{{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

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

Carolus Linnaeus

{{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

{{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

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

R.D.M. Page

{{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

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

Ordinary categories

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

Tracking categories

• 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

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

• 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]]

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Biography/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.