Template:Creator/doc

{{TemplateBox {{Creator}} creates an infobox to be customized on Creator: namespace pages and used on File and Category namespace pages. See Creator for guidelines on how to use Creator namespace. {{In category|Creator templates}}
 * name=Creator
 * desc=
 * This template will categorize categories transcluding it and matching "Homecat" field into Category:Creator template home categories.
 * This template will categorize some creator infobox pages it into sub-categories of Category:Creator template maintenance.

Copy and paste section
When creating a new Creator page copy, you can click on "preload a creator template". You can also paste and fill the text below into your new page:

Below are some suggestions on how to fill the parameters. In general keep it short and use language independent terms if possible. Avoid translating of names and places and use links to Wikipedia or a gallery which will have translations or interwiki links to articles in other languages.
 * 1=Name
 * 1d= Name of the creator in the "Name Surname" format which will be shown in the uncollapsed part of the template (most of the time name should be the same as page name).

Things to do:
 * Provide single most commonly used version of the name in English literature or use LangSwitch to provide language specific versions (see below). English Wikipedia can be used as a guide to choose name.
 * Provide links to Wikipedia articles and/or Commons galleries - this is important to avoid disambiguation problems and to allow users to easily find more information about the creator
 * Template automatically tries to add links to Commons gallery if one exist. If no gallery with that name exist try linking to one or more Wikipedias instead.
 * Best solution is to use LangSwitch to show the name in user's own language and provide link to an article in user's wikipedia. This approach is especially encouraged for names where original name does not use Latin alphabet. See here for more info.
 * If there are no Wikipedia or Wikisource articles to link to, then the reference where the information come from by providing a link in the "Description" field.
 * In case of the names like "Name Surname the Elder" or "Name Surname the Younger" use Name template with elder/younger options.
 * Creator template tries to automatically add lifespan years after creator's name, based on "birthdate" and "deathdate" parameters if they are in ISO 8601 format. Lifespan years can be also provided using "birthyear" and "deathyear" parameters, but if those are not known, then one could add years or century when the creator was active directly following the name.

Do not:
 * List multiple versions of the name here - place those in "Alternative names" section
 * Use Language templates - those can be used in "Alternative names" section if different versions are used in different languages
 * Use links to wikisource articles - use "Wikisource" parameter instead
 * 1stat=required


 * 2=Alternative names
 * 2d=All other variants of the name, pseudonyms, etc. Language variation could be added here too if the name in native language differs from English version. Do not use it to provide interwiki links - place them in a gallery linked from Name or on a Wikipedia page. Use template Name to indicate that name is a birth, legal or pseudonym.
 * 2stat=optional


 * 3=Sortkey
 * 3d=Name of the creator in Surname, Name format to be used for sorting creator templates. This parameter will be used only for sorting and is not going to be displayed.
 * 3stat=required


 * 4=Birthdate
 * 4d=Date of birth. Recommended format:
 * Date in ISO 8601 format "YYYY-MM-DD", or "YYYY-MM", or "YYYY", e.g. "2006-01-15" for "15 January 2006". This allows automatic localisation of the displayed date, and also display of the lifespan period after the name.
 * In case the date is not known precisely please use Other date or Lifetime date templates.
 * For authors living in countries using Julian calendar, like 19th century Russian artists, please consider using dates in "" format to distinguish between dates in Julian and Gregorian calendar.

Not recommended format:
 * Do not use Language templates in this section, like.
 * Use of date is not encouraged, since we can not extract year from that string, use "Birthyear" parameter if you do.
 * Other date and Lifetime date templates can be nested to create more complicated phrases. Nesting with more than 2 levels often exceeds expansion depth limit and should be avoided.
 * 4stat=optional

Note: Only needed if birthdate is not in ISO 8601 format — which is when Other date, Lifetime date or similar templates are used. Used to show the lifespan years in the top line.
 * 5=Birthyear
 * 5d=year of birth in YYYY format.
 * 5stat=optional-


 * 6=Deathdate
 * 6d=Date of death. See Birthdate for details. One can use CanScan2 to find all the files using creator templates of authors who died less than 70 years ago and incorrectly using PD-old license.
 * 6stat=optional


 * 7=Deathyear
 * 7d=year of death in YYYY format. See Birthyear for details.
 * 7stat=optional-


 * 8=Birthloc
 * 8d=Birth location: usually a city name with a link to the location's page:
 * Template automatically places location inside template which works as a lookup table connecting multiple spellings of cities to autotranslated city templates, its own translations or to the Commons galleries. If no suitable links are found then string is unchanged.
 * One can use one of autotranslated city templates (see Category:Multilingual tags: Locations). Those templates show the city name in the language of the viewer and provide links to the wikipedia pages in that language.
 * One can also use direct links to a gallery or Wikipedia article
 * Use RelativeLocation for relative locations, like "A near B".
 * Avoid using Language templates, like, or LangSwitch template.
 * Avoid using LangSwitch. Add language variations to city.
 * 8stat=optional


 * 9=Deathloc
 * 9d=Death location. See Birthloc for details.
 * 9stat=optional


 * 10=Workperiod
 * 10d=Time period when the creator was active. Use Other date if needed.
 * 10stat=optional
 * 11=Workloc
 * 11d=Location(s) where the creator was active. See Birthloc for details.
 * 11stat=optional


 * 12=Image
 * 12d=Image of the creator. Self-portraits are preferable. One can use CatScan2 to find all the creator templates without images used within files which are in the Category:Self-portraits.
 * 12stat=optional


 * 13=Homecat
 * 13d=The Homecat parameter adds a category to the creator template, which will then be included in the list of articles in that category. Please do not add additional categories (like ) to creator templates, since these will then be added to all the files and categories that use the template. Find pages with homecat issues:
 * Biographical categories transcluding Creator template which are not home categories:
 * 13stat=required


 * 14=Nationality
 * 14d=
 * 14def=
 * 14stat=optional


 * 15=Gender
 * 15d=
 * 15def=
 * 15stat=optional


 * 16=Occupation
 * 16d=
 * 16def=
 * 16stat=optional


 * 17=Description
 * 17d=Additional description of the person, if needed. Possible uses:
 * listing relationships to other historical figures. Please use kinship template.
 * 17stat=optional-


 * 18=Linkback
 * 18d=name of specialized Creator: page used to provide a link back to it. If provided, then an icon [[File:Icons-mini-icon link.gif]] will be shown in the top line after the name. Clicking this icon will bring user to the proper Creator: page.
 * 18def=
 * 18stat=required


 * 19=Wikisource
 * 19d=link to related Wikisource page(s), mostly useful for writers. Use "s:pl:Autor:Adam Mickiewicz" notation. eg.:  |Wikisource=s:pl:Autor:Adam Mickiewicz . Please use LangSwitch if author was writing in several languages, for example  "|Wikisource = " 
 * 19def=
 * 19stat=optional-


 * 20=Wikiquote
 * 20d=link to related Wikiquote page(s). See Wikisource parameter for details, on how to use it.
 * 20def=
 * 20stat=optional-


 * 21=Wikidata
 * 21d=link to related Wikidata page(s). Enter the item name without enclosing brackets, eg.:  |Wikidata=Q41406 .
 * 21def=
 * 21stat=optional


 * 22=Authority
 * 22d=Authority control data displayed using a call to . Find pages with authority control issues:
 * Creator templates with Authority control template without "bare=1" option
 * Creator home categories with Authority control added to both category and creator template
 * Creator home categories with Authority control added to the category instead creator template
 * All of above plus other issues
 * 22def=
 * 22stat=optional


 * 23=Type
 * 23d=Allows tagging and categorizing of unusual creator templates:
 * 23def=person
 * 23stat=optional-


 * 25=ImgWidth
 * 25d=Image width in pixels. Most templates do not need to use this parameter, but some exceptionally voluminous templates might look better with larger images (100<ImgWidth<150). Also templates with image and very little info could use smaller image (70<ImgWidth<100).
 * 25def=100
 * 25stat=optional-


 * 26=References
 * 26d=Links and other references used for creators without Wikipedia articles. Just as in Wikipedia all the data in this template should be verifiabile. In most of the cases people already have articles in Wikipedia or Wikisource (in English or other languages) linked to by links in "Name" and "Wikisource" fields. However on a rare occasion that such article does not exist, please use "Reference" parameter to add references and or links to pages where the information come from.
 * 26def=
 * 26stat=optional-


 * 27=Option
 * 27d=Variable to be passed from creator page. Available options are: "workshop of", "circle of", "school of", "or follower", "or workshop", "and workshop", "attributed to", "after", "formerly attributed to", "follower of", "manner of", and "near". These options will add those phrases to the author's name in the user's language.
 * 27stat=required

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 * namespace=Creator
 * usergroup=all
 * usage-notes=
 * type=marker
 * example=
 * i18n-method=mediawiki-msg
 * i18n-desc=
 * seealso=
 * Help:Creator
 * No creator infobox
 * Institution - similar template for institutions
 * MediaWiki:Editnotice-100 - Preloaded text which will show up above edit window while editing pages in Creator: namespace.
 * Template:Creator/preload - Page used to preload pages in Creator namespace.
 * setscats=
 * lines=multi
 * shorthand=
 * relieson=NationAndOccupation, Authority control, name, city, ISOdate, ISOyear

Examples
Creator:Paul Cézanne, rendered as

has source code:

Creator:Viktor Vasnetsov, rendered as

has source code:

Template Tags
This template adds several template tags (empty templates which can be traced) to images meeting some criteria: All of them are used for maintenance tasks. They are a little like real hidden categories.
 * Works of authors who died more than 100 years ago
 * Works of authors who died more than 70 years ago
 * Works of authors who died less than 65 years ago
 * Creator template no image