Template:Find biographical sources
Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
This template produces a series of links to various reliable sources and biographical topic search engines to help find additional reference material for articles. It is designed for talk pages and
Usage
{{find biographical sources}}– the article title is used by default as keywords for the search queries{{find biographical sources|your search keywords}}– specify your own search query in positional param one
Parameters
The template takes one optional positional parameter:
|1=search keywords for the query. default: the article page name.
Examples
{{find biographical sources}} (default search) ⟶
- Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
{{find biog sources|william gladstone}} (example with param 1 set) ⟶
- Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
{{find biog|Jean-Michel Basquiat}} ⟶
- Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Sources
The template includes links to the following searchable online sources and search engines:
- Britannica – Encyclopædia Britannica
- British Library – National library of the United Kingdom
- EoWB – Encyclopedia of World Biography, by Gale Research; online results provided by University of Michigan
- Google Books – Books from Google's digitized corpus
- Guardian – The Guardian newspaper, U.K.
- Infoplease – Online dictionary, encyclopedia, and almanac
- JSTOR – Full-text search of academic journals
- LoC – Library of Congress
- MUSE – Project MUSE: humanities and social science content from academic journals and societies
- NYT – The New York Times
- WP Library – The Wikipedia Library, open research hub for Wikipedia editors
Note on styling
This template generates output in Html inline-level element context, and so may be used with all the normal in-line wiki markup to alter the font style. For example:
''<small>{{find biographical sources|laurent clerc}}</small>'' ⟶
- Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
Template data
TemplateData for Find biographical sources
This template displays a list of links to various sources and biographical databases queried on a given topic .
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | 1 | The first unnamed parameter contains the name of the person or subject to be searched.
| Line | optional |
See also
- {{biographical sources notice}}
- {{find sources}}
- {{find video game sources}}
- {{find medical sources}}
- {{uw-biog1}}