Template:Authority control

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Description

Further information: Authority control and Wikipedia:Authority control

This metadata template links Wikipedia articles to various library (and other) catalogue systems, for biographies and other topics.

This template draws most of its values from Wikidata, but they can be overridden by locally entered data. Adding the data to Wikidata is preferable.

If there is no information in Wikidata for the specific subject, an empty instance of this template will be dormant, meaning it will be invisible on the rendered page. Thus, using this template on a page with no authority information is harmless.

An empty instance of this template stays dormant in an article, until values are added to Wikidata, when it will then display them, so this template should be added to all biographies, whether or not there are authority control identifiers in Wikidata already.

User pages

The template may also be placed on user pages, but then data must be entered locally.

Data types

Wikidata content is used as fallback for all identifiers.

The template validates digits for all values and shows an error if the check fails.

Wherever possible, the template also generates a link to WorldCat Identities, using VIAF or LCCN values, or manually via |WORLDCATID=.

Position

As a metadata template, the Authority control template should be placed after the external links section and navigation templates, right before the categories.

Usage

As a general guideline:

1: insert the empty version,

2: click "Show preview" to see which sources are automatically pulled from Wikidata,

3a: if you know of more sources, add them in the template using their named parameter,

3b: alternatively, consider adding those sources to the article's "Wikidata item", so that all versions of Wikipedia will automatically benefit.

In addition to the mixed-case parameter names listed on this page, the template also supports all-lowercase alias names of all parameters (except for deprecated ones).

Examples

Victor Hugo:

{{Authority control |VIAF=9847974 |LCCN=n/79/091479 |ISNI=0000 0001 2120 0982 |GND=118554654 |SELIBR=206651 |SUDOC=026927608 |BNF=cb11907966z |BIBSYS=90054094 |ULAN=500032572 |HDS=011461 |MBA=c0c99c8f-4779-4c35-9497-67d60a73310a |NLA=35212404 |NDL=00443985 |NKC=jn19990003739 |Léonore=LH//1320/26 |ICCU=IT\ICCU\CFIV\000163 |RSL=000081185 |BNE=XX874892 |CINII=DA00460099 |RKDartists=40381}}

Alexander Graham Bell:

{{Authority control |VIAF=59263727 |LCCN=n/79/113947 |ISNI=0000 0000 8138 6064 |GND=119408643 |SUDOC=066924146 |BNF=13746617f |MBA=9dd93d09-24b4-41f1-a48b-ef48b07499c3 |NDL=00620343}}

Harry Forbes Witherby:

{{Authority control |VIAF=66861474 |LCCN=n/87/142671 |ISNI=0000 0001 0911 2808 |GND=117421863 |SUDOC=090162897}}

Rendering

The template is split into seven sections: "General", "National libraries", "Art galleries and museums", "Art research institutes", "Biographical dictionaries", "Scientific databases", and "Other". If all identifiers are in the same section, |state= is ignored, and the template displays on one line:

Otherwise, the template displays as a navbox with a header:

Starting visibility: currently automatically selects itself to autocollapse

To set this template's starting visibility, the |state= parameter may be used:

• |state=collapsed: {{Authority control|state=collapsed}} to show the template collapsed, i.e., hidden apart from its title bar
• |state=expanded: {{Authority control|state=expanded}} to show the template expanded, i.e., fully visible
• |state=autocollapse: {{Authority control|state=autocollapse}}
  • shows the template collapsed to the title bar if there is a {{navbar}}, a {{sidebar}}, or some other table on the page with the collapsible attribute
  • shows the template in its expanded state if there are no other collapsible items on the page

If the |state= parameter in the template on this page is not set, the template's starting visibility is taken from the |default= parameter in the Collapsible option template. For the template on this page, that currently evaluates to autocollapse.

Wikidata and tracking categories

The template can get its information from the following properties on Wikidata:

Additional tracking categories

This template may add the following categories:

• Category:Pages with red-linked authority control categories (0) – error category to identify missing categories
• Category:Articles with deprecated authority control identifiers (0) – fix/migrate/remove deprecated IDs
• Category:Articles with suppressed authority control identifiers (0) – tracking only (no error)
• Category:Articles with multiple identifiers (0) – tracking only (no error)
• Category:Pages using authority control with parameters (24) – migrate IDs to Wikidata if possible (no error)
• Category:Pages using authority control with parameters different on Wikidata (0) – determine/remove incorrect IDs & migrate to Wikidata
• Category:Pages using authority control with parameters all matching Wikidata (0) – template parameters may safely be removed

Error reports

See a monthly parameter usage report for this template in articles.

Microformat

The template wraps each UID value with the HTML markup: <span class="uid">...</span>, which enables the first-found value to be included in an hCard microformat.

See also

• Wikipedia:Authority control – editor information
  • FAQ
• Help:Authority control – reader help
• Template:Authority control (arts) – Art-only version
• Template:Taxonbar – authority control style template for taxonomic databases
• Template:Infobox book – supporting some library classification systems
• Template:Wikidata entity link
• Template:German National Library portal
• User:UBX/Authority control – for self-identifying as an AC user
• For more information:
  • de:Wikipedia:Normdaten (in German)
  • de:Hilfe:GND (in German)
  • Commons:Template:Authority control
• m:Interwiki map – definition of global custom interwiki prefixes

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Authority control in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Authority control

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