- WP:WikiProject Biography
- look for subprojects for talk page, eg a and e, political
- WP:Manual of Style/Biographies
Infoboxes and Templates
edit- Biography (Infobox person)
- Template:Infobox family i.e. families
- Template:Infobox writer
- Template:Infobox journalist
- Template:Infobox scientist
- Template:Infobox philosopher
- Template:Infobox Academic
Template:Infobox officeholder
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- 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 | |
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Philosophy career | |
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- {{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
edit- 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 !
- Template: postnominals {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCMG}} {{postnominals|country=GBR|list=[[VMH]] [[CBE]]}}
- {{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
edit- 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
- 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
editUse {{refbegin}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Reginald Farrer}} Internet archive author
- If using separate bibliography page, consider using infobox bibliography, eg List of works by W. Somerset Maugham
DNB & ODNB
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DNB predates ODNB
- DNB
- Template:DNB, Template:Cite DNB
- * {{cite DNB|wstitle=|last=|first=|authorlink=|volume=}}
- Boulger, George Simonds (1897). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ODNB
- Template:Cite ODNB
- * {{Cite ODNB|last=|first=|authorlink=|id=|title=|date=|accessdate=|freearticle=|ref={{harvid| |2015}}}}
- Smolenaars, Marja (2008). "Gerard, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10555. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- {{Cite ODNB|last=Smolenaars|first=Marja |id=10555|title=Gerard, John|authorlink=|date=2008}}
- where id= last digits eg 30459 https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/30459
- http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/25/101025135/
- http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25135
- add freearticle=y
- cite as eg [3]
Dalhousie
- http://www.oxforddnb.com.ezproxy.library.dal.ca/
- http://www.oxforddnb.com.ezproxy.library.dal.ca/view/article/25135 (Anna Seward)
- add .ezproxy.library.dal.ca after http://www.oxforddnb.com http://www.oxforddnb.com.ezproxy.library.dal.ca
- https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.dal.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/37871 Edith Pye (note WP will not save links with ezproxy)
- German
- Volume 5:Hesselbach-Kofler
- Volume 6:Kogel-Maxsein
- Killy, Walther; Vierhaus, Rudolf, eds. (2005). Dictionary of German Biography. Volume 9: Schmidt-Theyer. München: K.G. Saur. ISBN 9783110966299.
- DNB
Other databases
edit- Van Helden, Al (1995). "Fuchs, Leonhart". The Galileo Project. Rice University. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
EB
edit* {{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
edit- https://parishregister.co.uk/ Parish register
Probate UK
edit- "Find a will. Index to wills and administrations (1858-1995)". Calendars of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration. The National Archives. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- {{cite web|title=Find a will. Index to wills and administrations (1858-1995)|url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#calendar|website=[[Calendars of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration]]|publisher=[[The National Archives]]|accessdate=19 December 2017|ref={{harvid|Archives|2017}}}}
Genealogy
edit- Ancestry
- "Rosalind Thornycrofy". Ancestry. 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- Find my past
- https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
- "The home of British & Irish family history". Find my past. 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
- * {{cite web|title=The home of British & Irish family history|url=https://www.findmypast.com/|website=[[Findmypast|Find my past]]|accessdate=18 April 2018|date=2018|ref={{harvid|FMP|2018}}}}
- references official records
- MyHeritage
- Wikitree
- https://www.wikitree.com/
- "WikiTree.com". Wikitree. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
- Wikitree (2018). "Richard Anthony (Markham) Salisbury (1761 - 1829)". Retrieved 26 May 2022.
- FamilySearch
- 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>
- where 47591 is the person page number http://www.thepeerage.com/p47591.htm#i475902 and 475902 the person #475902
- South east UK, Weald
- "Marfield House, Primrose Hill, Tonbridge". The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex. 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- Graves
Control
edit- Template:DEFAULTSORT
- {{DEFAULTSORT:Konig, Gustav }} ie {{DEFAULTSORT:Surname, Forename}}
- Template:Authority control
- {{Authority control}} eg {{Authority control|VIAF=112750268|BNF=cb12275216c|SUDOC=031560636}}
BUT - better to use https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page wikidata]
- {{bio-stub}} better to be more specific eg {{france-botanist-stub}} Category:Botanist stubs
Families
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Reginald Crawley | Isobel Crawley | James Crawley | wife | Marmaduke Painswick (deceased) | Lady Rosamund Painswick (née Crawley) | Robert Crawley, 7th Earl of Grantham | Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham (née Levinson) | Harold Levinson | Hugh "Shrimpie" MacClare, Marquess of Flintshire | Susan MacClare, Marchioness of Flintshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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