Template:Who's Who/doc

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This template generates an external link to a given person's biographical profile in Who's Who at ukwhoswho.com using an identifier and associated metadata.

Usage

Two parameters, the bare minimum

{{Who's Who | id= ID | title = <title from person's Who's Who entry> }}

Five parameters:

{{Who's Who | author= AUTHOR | year= YEAR | title = <title from person's Who's Who entry> | id= ID | doi= DOI }}

Examples

Who's Who

For biographies of living people e.g.

{{Who's Who | author = [Anon.] | year = 2017 | title = Hawking, Prof. Stephen William | id = U19510 | doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.19510 }}

looks like

[Anon.] (2017). "Hawking, Prof. Stephen William". Who's Who. A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.19510. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

another example with different parameters

{{Who's Who | title = Howarth, Toby Matthew | id = U282438 | volume = 2017 | edition = November 2016 online | access-date =19 July 2024 }}

looks like

"Howarth, Toby Matthew". Who's Who. Vol. 2017 (November 2016 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 19 July 2024. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

or a fuller version with more parameters

{{Who's Who | author=Anon | title = Martin, Christopher Anthony John | id =U268294 | year = 2024 | doi =10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U268294 | edition = 176th | publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |isbn=9781399409452 |oclc=1402257203 }}

looks like

Anon (2024). "Martin, Christopher Anthony John". Who's Who (176th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2736. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U268294. ISBN 9781399409452. OCLC 1402257203. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Who Was Who

For biographies of the deceased for example

{{Who's Who | title = Hayward, Henry Rudge | id = U186956 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date =19 July 2024 }}

looks like

"Hayward, Henry Rudge". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 19 July 2024. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

See also


Template data

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Who's Who in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Who's Who

This template generates an external link to a given person's biographical profile in UK Whos Who at ukwhoswho.com using an identifier and associated metadata

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
authorauthor

author of entry usually 'Anon'

Stringoptional
yearyear

Year of publication for example '2018'

Stringoptional
titletitle

Title of the subject's biography for example 'Hawking, Prof. Stephen William'

Stringrequired
idid

Locally unique identifier for the subject for example 'U19510' is the id for Stephen Hawking's entry. Typically the id is last six digits of the digital object identifier for that entry prefixed with a 'U'.

Stringrequired
typetype

'Who's Who' is the default implied type, for 'Who Was Who' add string 'was'

Stringoptional
volumevolume

Volume of book, often (though not always) same as year for example '2016'

Stringoptional
editionedition

edition of book for example 'November 2016 online'

Stringoptional
access-dateaccess-date

Whole date that entry was accessed and read by a human editor

Dateoptional
doidoi

The Digital Object Identifier DOI of the entry for example '10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.19510'

Stringoptional