User:Michael Goodyear/Wikiguide/Biography


 * WP:WikiProject Biography
 * look for subprojects for talk page, eg a and e, political
 * WP:Manual of Style/Biographies

Infoboxes and Templates
Template:Infobox officeholder
 * Biography (Infobox person)
 * Category:Templates calling Infobox person
 * Category:Biographical templates usable as a module
 * Category:People and person infobox templates
 * Template:Infobox family i.e. families
 * Template:Infobox writer
 * Template:Infobox journalist
 * Template:Infobox scientist
 * Template:Infobox philosopher
 * Template:Infobox Academic


 * Navbox


 * Template:Acad Cambridge grads to 1900, generates its own anchor
 * Insert in Bibliography as:  displays as -  ref as  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


 * Author citation (zoology)


 * Nationality { {flagcountry|France}} but see WP:INFOBOXFLAG - likely to be removed!
 * Embedding within



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

Basic

 * Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch (1304 – 1374) was an Italian scholar (note spaces)
 * Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)
 * - no location !


 * Template: postnominals


 * {{Infobox person
 * name         =
 * image        =
 * alt          =
 * caption      =
 * birth_name   =
 * birth_date   =
 * birth_place  =
 * death_date   =
 * death_place  =
 * death_cause       =
 * resting_place =
 * nationality  =
 * other_names  =
 * alma_mater   =
 * occupation   =
 * years_active =
 * known_for    =
 * notable_works =
 * home_town  =
 * parents =
 * spouse            = |
 * partner           =
 * children          =
 * relatives         =
 * signature = (file name)

{{Infobox writer }}
 * name            =
 * embed           =
 * honorific_prefix =
 * honorific_suffix =
 * image           =
 * image_size      =
 * image_upright   =
 * alt             =
 * caption         =
 * native_name     =
 * native_name_lang =
 * pseudonym       =
 * birth_name      =
 * birth_date      =
 * birth_place     =
 * death_date      =
 * death_place     =
 * resting_place   =
 * occupation      =
 * language        =
 * residence       =
 * nationality     =
 * citizenship     =
 * education       =
 * alma_mater      =
 * period          =
 * genre           =
 * subject         =
 * movement        =
 * notableworks    =
 * spouse          =
 * partner         =
 * children        =
 * relatives       =
 * awards          =
 * signature       =
 * signature_alt   =
 * years_active    =
 * module          =
 * website         =
 * portaldisp      =


 * use {{nowrap|William Edward Arnold-Forster 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 }}
 * template:listen

Dates
May 1, 1780 dy dm dd age where birthdate unknown. otherwise omit fields eg yyyy where only birth year known If using death date and age, use wirth birth date, not birth date and age
 * Deceased
 * Template:Death date and age - use numbers for month
 * year of death yyyy
 * df= sets format, yes = day first etc
 * - if only years known, insert deathyear into death_date =

if only year known Template:Birth year and age eg 1961 (age 63) or September 1941
 * Living
 * Template:Birth date, Template: Birth date and age


 * Marriage
 * Template:Marriage eg spouse (m. date1-date2) displays as Mary Smith (m. 1931-1956)

Use template ((r. 293 – 363)), displays as ((r. 293 – 363)). If only for a single calendar year, use (r. undefined – undefined), displays as (r. undefined – undefined). Place in brackets
 * Rulers
 * template:reign

Works
Use
 * MOS:WORKS
 * South Africa
 * Internet archive author
 * If using separate bibliography page, consider using infobox bibliography, eg List of works by W. Somerset Maugham

DNB & ODNB

 * WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography

DNB predates ODNB
 * Dictionary of National Biography


 * DNB
 * Template:DNB, Template:Cite DNB


 * ODNB
 * Template:Cite ODNB
 * 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
 * http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25135
 * add freearticle=y
 * cite as eg

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
 * DNB
 * DNB

EB
*

Official records, census etc Census UK

 * http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/birth-marriage-death-england-and-wales/
 * https://www.ukcensusonline.com/index.php


 * https://parishregister.co.uk/ Parish register

Genealogy

 * Ancestry


 * Find my past
 * https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
 * references official records
 * references official records
 * references official records


 * MyHeritage
 * https://www.myheritage.com/


 * Wikitree
 * https://www.wikitree.com/

https://www.familysearch.org
 * FamilySearch


 * Genealogy
 * https://www.genealogy.com


 * The Peerage

!-- Lundy: The Peerage -->475912


 * where 47591 is the person page number http://www.thepeerage.com/p47591.htm#i475902 and 475902 the person #475902


 * South east UK, Weald


 * Graves
 * Find a grave
 * Billion Graves

Control
BUT - better to use https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page wikidata]
 * Template:DEFAULTSORT
 * ie
 * Template:Authority control
 * eg
 * https://viaf.org/
 * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
 * http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html
 * http://www.abes.fr/ SUDOC
 * better to be more specific eg Category:Botanist stubs

Families
template:families

Family trees
Use Sandbox2
 * Template:Ancestors
 * WP:Family trees
 * Template:ahnentafel - see Virginia Woolf or Julia Stephen


 * Examples of referencing: []; []

** Use collapsed=no - to simplify editing
 * Template: Chart


 * Template:Tree chart
 * Template:Tree list
 * House of Brimeu
 * House of Brimeu


 * to source -

Succession

 * Template:S-start for boxes