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Revision as of 23:17, 3 July 2014

{{Biographical Directory of Congress}} (and its shorter redirect {{CongBio}}) displays an external link to a specified article at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website (bioguide.congress.gov).

Usage

In the following, {{Biographical Directory of Congress can be used instead of {{CongBio.

Unnamed parameters

  • {{CongBio|ID}}
  • {{CongBio|ID|NAME}}

Named parameters

  • {{CongBio|id=ID}}
  • {{CongBio|id=ID|name=NAME}}
  • {{CongBio|id=ID|name=NAME|date=DATE}}
  • {{CongBio|id=ID|name=NAME|date=DATE|inline=YES}}
  • {{CongBio|id=ID|name=NAME|date=DATE|findagrave=GRID}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Biographical Directory of Congress

This template displays an external link to a specified article at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website (bioguide.congress.gov).

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
ID1 id

ID portion of the URL. Example: C000482 is the ID portion of http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000482

Default
Stringrequired
Name2 name

Name of subject. If not given it defaults to the Wikipedia article name, without any disambiguation such as (politician).

Default
{{PAGENAME}}
Stringoptional
Datedate

Date the web page was accessed/retrieved.

Stringoptional
Inlineinline

If this parameter is assigned a value (yes, 1, or anything) then the leading asterisk/bullet is not displayed.

Stringoptional
Findagravefindagrave

If this parameter is assigned a value, then the template will display an external link to the associated page at the Find a Grave website.

Stringoptional

Examples

In the following, {{Biographical Directory of Congress can be used instead of {{CongBio.

These examples all link to Henry Clay's biography, which is located at:

Unnamed parameters

Usage: {{CongBio | C000482 | Henry Clay }}

Output:

  • United States Congress. "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Named parameters

Usage: {{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay }}

Output:

Date

Usage: {{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |date= January 26, 2010 }}

Output:

Inline

Usage: {{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |inline= yes }}

Output: United States Congress. "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Findagrave

Usage: {{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |findagrave= 203 }}

Output:

Findagrave and Date

Usage: {{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |findagrave= 203 |date= January 26, 2010 }}

Output:

See also