Template:Infobox scientist/Wikidata/doc

Gilean McVean
Gilean McVean
Born	25 February 1973
Alma mater	University of Cambridge; University of Oxford ;
Occupation	Geneticist ;
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (2016, 2016) ;
Website	http://www.well.ox.ac.uk/gil-mcvean
	Academic career
Fields	Statistical genetics
Institutions	University of Oxford; University of Edinburgh ;
Academic advisor	Deborah Charlesworth, Brian Charlesworth
Doctoral students	Iain Mathieson

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It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

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The design and content of biographical infoboxes must follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy, as well as infobox and biographical style guideline. All content displayed in this template must adhere to the biographies of living persons policy if applicable. Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material must be removed immediately from the article and its infobox, especially if potentially libellous.

This template is a customized wrapper for {{Infobox person/Wikidata}}. Any field from {{Infobox person/Wikidata}} can work so long as it is added to this template first. It will also emit the same hCard and Geo microformats as {{Infobox person/Wikidata}}. Questions? Just ask here or over at Template talk:Infobox person/Wikidata.

{{Infobox scientist/Wikidata}} may be used to summarize information about a person who is a scientist, medic, engineer, mathematician or (scientific) academic.

This template may also be used as a module (sub-template) of {{Infobox person/Wikidata}}; see Wikipedia:Infobox modules for guidance on such usage.

This version of {{Infobox scientist}} retrieves various parameter values from Wikidata if enabled ("opt-in"), but only in the absence of a locally supplied value. The template calls Module:Wikidata and Module:WikidataIB.

It allows editors at the article level to blacklist various fields so that they do not display. This makes a positive statement that those fields are unsuitable for inclusion in that article's infobox.

Usage

Basic

Just use:

{{infobox scientist/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL}}

and you should get a Wikidata-filled infobox! (Providing the article is linked to a Wikidata entry containing relevant information!). This will by default only fetch information that is sourced on Wikidata. This is an important safeguard for BLPs. The subject's current age (or age at death) will be calculated automatically provided that the dates are sourced and full (i.e. 12 January 1958 not 1958).

General example

{{Infobox scientist/Wikidata
 | suppressfields=occupation children
 | dateformat = dmy
 | noicon=false
...
}}

This will prevent the infobox from displaying the fields for occupation or children. |noicon=false will unsuppress the pencil icons instead of a single "edit on Wikidata" link at the bottom (see McVean, right).

Parameters

Wikidata-specific parameters
Parameter	Effect
fetchwikidata	allows a whitelist of fields that may be imported from Wikidata; set to "ALL" for all fields; defaults to none
suppressfields	allows a blacklist of fields that may be displayed in this infobox; overrides whitelist; defaults to none
onlysourced	rejects Wikidata that is unsourced or only imported from a Wikipedia; values: yes/true/1 or no/false/0; defaults to yes
noicon	should the pencils be shown false means they should, default is they should not ("on")
list	Should multiple items be shown in a list format (use value "ubl" for un-bulleted list) or comma separated (default)

In addition to the parameters available from {{Infobox person/Wikidata}} the following scientist specific parameters are available

Subject-specific parameters
Parameter	Wikidata property
thesis	academic thesis (P1026)
doctoral_advisors	doctoral advisor (P184)
academic_advisors	student of (P1066)
doctoral_students	doctoral student (P185)
notable_students	student (P802)
patrons	(P1962)
author_abbrev_bot	botanist author abbreviation (P428)
author_abbrev_zoo	author citation (zoology) (P835)
influences	influenced by (P737)

Template Data

Template used to summarize information about a person who is a scientist, medic, engineer, mathematician or (scientific) academic.

Template parameters
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Fetch Wikidata	`fetchwikidata`	allows a whitelist of fields that may be imported from Wikidata; set to "ALL" for all fields; defaults to none Suggested values `ALL` Default none Auto value `ALL`	Unknown	suggested
Suppress Fields	`suppressfields`	allows a blacklist of fields that may be displayed in this infobox; overrides whitelist; defaults to none Default none Auto value	String	suggested

Microformats

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.

Sub-templates

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.

Classes

hCard uses HTML classes including:

adr
agent
bday
birthplace
category
country-name
deathdate
deathplace
extended-address
family-name
fn (required)
given-name
honorific-prefix
honorific-suffix
label
locality
n
nickname
note
org
role
url
vcard

Please do not rename or remove these classes nor collapse nested elements which use them.

Tracking category

Category:Pages using infobox scientist with unknown parameters (0)