Template:Draft:Birth and death dates/doc

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This purpose of the {{Birth and death dates}} template is to return the date range during which an event transpired or an entity existed. It also includes duplicate, machine-readable date (or date-time) in the ISO date format (which is hidden by CSS), for use inside other templates (or table rows) which emit microformats. It should be used only once in each such template and never used outside such templates. The hidden date degrades gracefully when CSS is not available.

Usage

When not to use this template

Do not use this template for:

  • dates that are uncertain e.g., "before 4 April 1933"; "around 18 November 1939".
  • dates outside the range given under "Limitation", below.
  • other, secondary dates
  • outside microformat-emitting templates - if in doubt, see the parent template's documentation
  • more than one date in any parent template

Syntax

Example: {{Birth and death dates|wikidata item id}} → September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 (1939-09-01 – 1945-09-02)

Example (day first): {{Birth and death dates|wikidata item id|df=yes}} → 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 (1939-09-01 – 1945-09-02)

Parameters

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 Draft:Birth and death dates

Date that an event or entity started or was created and when it ended or was destroyed

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
YYYY1

start year

Example
1939
Numberoptional
MM2

start month

Example
9
Numberoptional
DD3

start day of month

Example
1
Numberoptional
YYYY4

end year

Example
1945
Numberoptional
MM5

end month

Example
9
Numberoptional
DD6

end day of month

Example
2
Numberoptional
day firstdf

boolean parameter to put the date before the month name

Default
false
Example
yes
Lineoptional

Use in microformats

Template:UF-date-part

See also