ഫലകം:Biographical Directory of Congress

• United States Congress. "{{{name}}} (id: {{{id}}})". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

ഫലകത്തിന്റെ വിവരണം

{{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}}

There are some other additional parameters that carry default values:

author=author — defaults to United States Congress, but it can be overwritten
mode  =mode   — defaults to cs1 but can be set to cs2 (see WP:CS1)
ref   =ref    — for use with the {{harv}} templates for inline citations 
                    defaults to:{{harv|United States Congress|ID}}
                    If the author is set to something other than United States Congress
                    then it is also changed here. The ref parameter can be assigned another
                    value including none to unset the parameter.
accessdate=date — the usual name for the "Retrieved" parameter

TemplateData

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

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).

ഫലകത്തിനുള്ള ചരങ്ങൾ[ടെമ്പ്ലേറ്റ്‌ഡേറ്റ കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്യുക]

ചരം		വിവരണം	തരം	സ്ഥിതി
ID	1 id	ID portion of the URL. Example: C000482 is the ID portion of http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000482 സ്വതേ	പദം	ആവശ്യമാണ്
Name	2 name	Name of subject. If not given it defaults to the Wikipedia article name, without any disambiguation such as (politician). സ്വതേ {{PAGENAME}}	പദം	ഐച്ഛികം
Access date	accessdate date	Date the web page was accessed/retrieved.	തീയതി	ഐച്ഛികം
Author	author	Value assigned to the "author" parameter of the {{cite web}} template. സ്വതേ United States Congress	പദം	ഐച്ഛികം
Ref	ref	Value assigned to the "ref" parameter of the {{cite web}} template.	പദം	ഐച്ഛികം
Mode	mode	Value assigned to the "mode" parameter of the {{cite web}} template.	പദം	ഐച്ഛികം
No ID	noid	If this parameter is assigned a value (yes, 1, or anything) then the "id" parameter will not be displayed in parentheses after the "name" parameter.	പദം	ഐച്ഛികം
Inline	inline	If this parameter is assigned a value (yes, 1, or anything) then the leading asterisk/bullet is not displayed.	പദം	ഐച്ഛികം
Findagrave	findagrave	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.	പദം	ഐച്ഛികം

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:

• http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000482

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:

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

Access date

Usage:

{{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |accessdate= January 26, 2010 }}

Output:

• United States Congress. "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 26, 2010.

Usage:

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

Output:

• United States Congress. "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 26, 2010.

Author

Usage:

{{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |author= }}

Output:

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

No ID

Usage:

{{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |noid= y }}

Output:

• United States Congress. "Henry Clay". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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:

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

Findagrave and access date

Usage:

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

Output:

• United States Congress. "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
• "Henry Clay". Find a Grave. Retrieved January 26, 2010.

Usage:

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

Output:

• United States Congress. "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
• "Henry Clay". Find a Grave. Retrieved January 26, 2010.

See also

• {{CongLinks}} - For members from 1991–present. It has BioGuide, Washington Post voting record, Open Secrets, FEC reports, Vote Smart, On The issues, Legistorm, StateSurge GovTrack and FindAGrave. This is preferred.
• {{Bioguide}} looks like this:  This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.
• {{Cleanup Congress Bio}} puts articles in the category, Category:Biographical Directory of the United States Congress cleanup.
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Congress/Bioguide, a subpage of Project Congress, tracks how well information is imported from the Bioguide.