Template:Draft:Birth and death dates/doc
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This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS. |
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.
Contents
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
{{Birth and death dates|wikidata item id}}
Example: {{Birth and death dates|wikidata item id}}
→ September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945
Example (day first): {{Birth and death dates|wikidata item id|df=yes}}
→ 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945
Parameters
TemplateData for Draft:Birth and death dates
Date that an event or entity started or was created and when it ended or was destroyed
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
YYYY | 1 | start year
| Number | optional |
MM | 2 | start month
| Number | optional |
DD | 3 | start day of month
| Number | optional |
YYYY | 4 | end year
| Number | optional |
MM | 5 | end month
| Number | optional |
DD | 6 | end day of month
| Number | optional |
day first | df | boolean parameter to put the date before the month name
| Line | optional |
Use in microformats
See also
- {{start date}}
- {{end date}}