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− | This template | + | This template provides a standard header for bibliography & comment pages in the ISFDB (normally found in the "Author:" namespace). It provides a link to the author or artist's summery bibliography in the ISFDB database, using {{tl|A}}. |
==Usage== | ==Usage== |
Revision as of 16:38, 12 July 2009
Purpose
This template provides a standard header for bibliography & comment pages in the ISFDB (normally found in the "Author:" namespace). It provides a link to the author or artist's summery bibliography in the ISFDB database, using {{A}}
.
Usage
Please this template at the top of an author page.
It may be called as:
{{AuthorHeader}}
(which will display the link with the tag taken from the page name) This format should be used in almost every case
or as
{{AuthorHeader|name=<Author Name>}}
(which will display the link with the name specified in the parameter. This might be useful when there are different forms of the author name in use.)
In the very very unusual case that the wiki page has a name that is NOT the name of the auhtor to be linked to in the DB, or when the name includes special characters such as ( or ) or ', call this template as
{{AuthorHeader|altName=<URLname>}}
or as
{{AuthorHeader|altName=<URLname>|name=<name>}}
Parameters
There are two optional parameters:
name This is the text used for the link display. It defaults to the page name or the altName parameter, if specified. If altName is specified, name should probably be specified as well.
altName This is the name of the author with underscores instead of spaces. It need only be used if the author's name contains special characters which would be transformed by the ANCHORENCODE process (which is used by {{A}}
to auto-convert spaces to underscores by default, but also converts other non-alphanumeric characters) or in the very rare case where the wiki page has a different name that the author page in the db to which a link is desired.
Documentation source
This is documentation for the template AuthorHeader, transcluded from AuthorHeader/Doc.