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Template for reference to a memorial on the ''[[Find a Grave]]'' website. 

===Usage guidance===
{{See also|Wikipedia:External links/Perennial websites}}

Care should be taken when deciding to make a link to the Find a Grave website. While photographs of gravestones provide useful information, the biographical and other additional details may not be reliable. If there are fully [[WP:RS|reliable sources]] which may be used, then the Find a Grave link should not be used, or should be removed in place of the more reliable source.

;As an [[WP:External link]]
To comply with [[WP:ELNO]], only place in External links section if the website contains unique information not already mentioned and cited in the body of the article and is not a [[WP:COPYLINK]] violation. Remove from External links if Find a Grave is already cited in main body, if burial information is provided in main body by a more reliable source, or if the page contains any unlicensed copyrighted information (e.g., professional [[portrait photography]] or copies of [[obituaries]] from a newspaper).

;As a reference for article content
Find a Grave is not considered by some to qualify as a [[WP:RS|reliable source]]. Whenever appropriate reliable sources discuss the same material, editors are encouraged to prefer those to a Find a Grave link. If any of the parameters:
* author
* date
* accessdate
are specified, this template will produce a citation with {{tl|Cite web}}. Otherwise, it produces a format for use in an "External links" section. If used as a reference, it should not be duplicated in the "External links" section.


===Parameters===
* <code>grid</code> (parameter 1, required)&nbsp;– The Find A Grave Memorial# (the GRid parameter in the URL&nbsp;– e.g. 1234 for http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1234
* <code>name</code> (parameter 2, optional)&nbsp;– The name of the deceased. Defaults to {{tl|PAGENAME}} if not specified.
* <code>work</code> (parameter for {{tl|Cite web}})&nbsp;– A group or category within the Find a Grave site
* <code>author</code> (parameter for  {{tl|Cite web}})&nbsp;– The original author of the article at Find a Grave
* <code>date</code> (parameter for  {{tl|Cite web}})&nbsp;– The date of the article at Find a Grave
* <code>accessdate</code> (parameter for  {{tl|Cite web}})&nbsp;– The date this citation was added or last updated

===Examples===
Basic example:
:<pre>{{Find a Grave|1234|Henri Langlois}}</pre>
produces:
:{{Find a Grave|1234|Henri Langlois}}

This is an example using all of the parameters:
<pre>
 <ref name="FG" >{{Find a Grave
 | grid       = 94078737
 | name       = Sally Kristen Ride
 | date       = July 23, 2012
 | accessdate = September 23, 2012
 | author     = Marc J. Daniluke
 | work       = American Astronaut
 }}
 </ref>
</pre>
produces:
<ref name="FG">{{Find a Grave
| grid = 94078737
| name = Sally Kristen Ride
| date = July 23, 2012
| accessdate = September 23, 2012
| author = Marc J. Daniluke
| work = American Astronaut
}}
</ref>
{{Reflist}}

==See also==
*[[Wikipedia:FINDAGRAVE]] 
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