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Note: Not to be used for plants because botanical taxa do not use dates in the abbreviated authority.
The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book or database. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.
Date-of-birth ("bday") information will only be included in the microformat if ((birth date)), or ((birth date and age)) are used in the infobox. (Do not use these if the date is before 1583). Be cautious about using these if the person is still living, per WP:DOB.
To include a URL, use ((URL)).
Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.
hCard uses HTML classes including:
Please do not rename or remove these classes nor collapse nested elements which use them.