Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales https://biography.wales/article/(({id))}. ((cite encyclopedia))
: Missing or empty |title=
(help)
This template is a Citation Style 1 wrapper template based on ((Cite encyclopedia)). For centralised Citation Style 1 discussions, see Help talk:Citation Style 1. |
This external link template is underused, compared to the number of links to the site it represents (check here). Please help convert those links to make use of this template, for ease of tracking, and ease of interoperability with Wikidata. |
This template is used to provide a link to the online version of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography (DWB) (https://biography.wales/)
containing details of over 5,000 biographies of individuals associated with Wales.
Note: The shortcut version is "Cite DWB", not "DWB" as that template is used for something else.
|
Additional information for the title:
|mode=cs1
; set to |mode=cs2
to provide consistency with citation style 2, as produced by ((citation))
|fewer-links=yes
to remove repeated wikilinks where the template is used more than once in an article|short=yes
to change the output 'Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales' to 'DWB'. Can be useful for matching the citation formatting on pages that use abbreviations for citations.All ((Cite encyclopedia)) parameters are available.
((Dictionary of Welsh Biography|id=s-EDWA-ROB-1775|title=EDWARDS, ROBERT (Robin Ddu o Feirion; 1775 - 1805), poet and antiquary|first=Elwyn|last=Evans|year=1959|access-date=28 May 2024))
displays as:
((Dictionary of Welsh Biography|id=s12-YATE-NIG-1944|title=YATES, WILFRID NIGEL (1944 - 2009), archivist and historian|first=Liz|last=Rees|mode=cs2|date=10 August 2021|access-date=28 May 2024))
displays as:
Some articles may have multiple entries. |fewer-links=yes
can be used to remove the repeated internal wikilinks from any additional and subsequent instances of the template:
((Dictionary of Welsh Biography|id=s11-HALL-BEN-1802|title=HALL, BENJAMIN Lord Llanover (1802-1867), politician and reformer|first=Marion|last=Löffler|date=8 June 2016|fewer-links=yes|access-date=28 May 2024))
displays as:
Some articles may use abbreviations for sources which are used extensively. |short=yes
can be used to replace 'Dictionary of Welsh Biography' and 'National Library of Wales' with the abbreviation 'DWB'.:
((Dictionary of Welsh Biography|id=s11-HALL-BEN-1802|title=HALL, BENJAMIN Lord Llanover (1802-1867), politician and reformer|first=Marion|last=Löffler|date=8 June 2016|short=yes|access-date=28 May 2024))
displays as:
TemplateData for Dictionary of Welsh Biography
Provides a citation to the online version of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography (DWB)
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
id | id | Extracted from the URL: https://biography.wales/article/##-####-###-####
| String | required |
title | title | Title of entry.
| String | required |
access-date | access-date accessdate | the date a Wikipedia editor retrieved and/or verified information from the website
| String | suggested |
last | last | Last name of the entry's author. | String | optional |
first | first | First name(s) of the entry's author. | String | optional |
author-link | author-link authorlink | Name of article on author. | String | optional |
date | date | Date. | Number | optional |
year | year | Year. | Number | optional |
mode | mode | defaults to 'cs1'; set to 'cs2' to provide consistency with Citation style 2, as produced by ((citation)) | String | optional |
fewer-links | fewer-links | set to 'yes' to remove repeated wikilinks to 'Dictionary of Welsh Biography' and 'National Library of Wales' where the template is used more than once in an article | String | optional |
short | short | set to 'yes' to replace 'Dictionary of Welsh Biography' and 'National Library of Wales' with the abbreviation 'DWB'. Can be used to provide consistent formatting in an article | String | optional |
|id=
field.