Template:Infobox religious biography
The design and content of biographical infoboxes should follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy, infobox style guideline and biographical style guideline. All content displayed in this template must adhere to the biographies of living persons policy if applicable. Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material about living persons must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. |
This template can be used to provide comparative at-a-glance information on biographies of religious figures.
Full syntax
All fields are optional, and any unused fields should be removed; if omitted, the name will be inferred from the page title.
{{Infobox religious biography | name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | caption = | sanskrit = | religion = | school = | lineage = | sect = | subsect = | temple = | order = | other_name = | dharma_name = | monastic_name = | pen_name = | posthumous_name = | nationality = | ethnicity = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} or {{birth date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} if dead | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = {{Coord|latitude|longitude|type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | location = | title = | period = | consecration = | predecessor = | successor = | reason = | rank = | teacher = | reincarnation_of = | students = | works = | ordination = | profession = | education = | initiation = | previous_post = | present_post = | post = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }}
Example
Mother Teresa of Calcutta | |
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An image of Mother Teresa wearing a white head covering with blue stripes | |
Religion | Catholic |
Order | Missionaries of Charity |
Personal | |
Nationality | Indian, Albanian |
Born |
Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 26, 1910 Üsküb, Ottoman Empire (today's Skopje, Republic of Macedonia) |
Died |
സെപ്തംബർ 5, 1997 Calcutta, India | (വയസ്സ് 87)
Senior posting | |
Title | Superior General |
Period in office |
1950–1997 |
Successor | Nirmala Joshi |
{{Infobox religious biography | background = #ddd | name = Mother Teresa of Calcutta | image = MotherTeresa 090.jpg | alt = An image of Mother Teresa wearing a white head covering with blue stripes | religion = [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] | order = [[Missionaries of Charity]] | nationality = Indian | birth_name = Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu | birth_date = {{birth date|1910|8|26}} | birth_place = [[Üsküb]], [[Ottoman Empire]] (today's [[Skopje]], [[Republic of Macedonia]]) | death_date = {{death date and age|1997|9|5|1910|8|26}} | death_place = [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[India]] | title = Superior General | period = 1950–1997 | successor = [[Sister Nirmala|Nirmala Joshi]] }}
Notes
Separate multiple values using {{Plainlist}} or {{Flatlist}}.
Omit |df=y
from date tempaltes, for US-style "MM DD, YYYY" format dates.
Microformat
The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book or database. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.
Sub-templates
Date-of-birth ("bday") information will only be included in the microformat if {{birth date}}, or {{birth date and age}} are used in the infobox. (Do not use these if the date is before 1583).
To include a URL, use {{URL}}.
Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.
Classes
hCard uses HTML classes including:
- adr
- agent
- bday
- birthplace
- category
- country-name
- deathdate
- deathplace
- extended-address
- family-name
- fn (required)
- given-name
- honorific-prefix
- honorific-suffix
- label
- locality
- n
- nickname
- note
- org
- role
- url
- vcard
Please do not rename or remove these classes; nor collapse nested elements which use them. id:Templat:Infobox Buddhist biography ja:Template:Infobox religious biography ur:سانچہ:Infobox religious biography
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