Template:NDB/sandbox

This is the template sandbox page for Template:NDB (diff).
See also the companion subpage for test cases.

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Purpose

Template for web links to Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) articles, as used on German Wikipedia for over 6000 articles of the more than 21,000 NDB biographies that have been published, with 3,520 further articles expected to be added in four further volumes until 2017.

Usage

Standard unnamed parameters as used in the German original:

*{{NDB|Vol|Start page|End page|Biographed person|Author of biography|GND number}}

End page may be left blank when the NDB article only appears on a single page.

Additional named parameters (see the {{citation}} documentation for more details)

|postscript=defaults to the value in {{citation}} — it can be altered to another value
|ref=either defaults to Author of biography, year
                        — or if the unnamed "Author" (parameter 5) is not set it
            defaults to NBD, year
                        — like the other parameters the default values can be overridden
                          (which can be useful when used with {{harv}} and {{sfn}}
                          templates (see more than one work in a year). 
|year=defaults to a value set by the unnamed Vol (parameter 2).
                        — it can be altered to another value, which is sometimes
                          useful in combination with the parameter and value ref=harv.

Example

{{NDB|13|656|657|Lasker, Eduard|Klaus Erich Pollmann|118569848}}

produces:

Klaus Erich Pollmann (1982), "Lasker, Eduard", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 13, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 656–657; (full text online)

{{NDB|1|299||Anna Jagjello|Obermayer-Marnach, Eva|133664473}}

produces:

Obermayer-Marnach, Eva (1953), "Anna Jagjello", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 1, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 299; (full text online)

If you want to use several authors with separately specified first and last names, an option is to use

{{cite NDB|20|502|504|Planta||last1=Deplazes-Haefliger|first1=Anna-Maria|last2=Brunold|first2=Ursus|121979652}}

(note the double || that means the unnamed "author" parameter is left empty) to produce

Deplazes-Haefliger, Anna-Maria; Brunold, Ursus (2001), "Planta", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 20, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 502–504; (full text online)

Usage notes

The template does not include an item bullet and so is easy to use in a footnote citation. In a list, the template should be preceded by an asterisk, as specified in the usage section above.