Template:Cite DNB/doc

Purpose
This template enables the citation of articles from the Wikisource project Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900 or Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement in the manner of non-link references and notes.

To cite the contemporary Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, use Template:Cite ODNB.

Usage
Common fields

All fields

Fields

 * wstitle. Required. (but see title below).
 * wstitle: DNB article name on Wikisource
 * last: Surname of author. Don't wikilink (use authorlink instead).
 * first: Firstname(s) of author. Don't wikilink (use authorlink instead).
 * authorlink: Title of Wikipedia article about author. Article should already exist. Must not be wikilinked itself. Do not use this on its own, but along with first and last.
 * volume: Volume in which the entry appears. Used to generate the year and editor information.
 * pages or page: These parameters are for listing the pages relevant to the citation, not the total number of pages in the book. "5–7" produces "pp. 5–7", while "5" produces "p. 5". The "pp." notation indicating multiple pages, and "p." notation indicating a single page, are placed automatically when you choose between the plural (pages) or singular (page) form of the parameter. Page ranges should be separated by an unspaced en dash (–).
 * display=text — Optional. It will display the text on the wikipedia page masking the content of the wstitle= parameter.
 * quote: Relevant quote from the article.
 * vb=1: Display advisory that DNB text is copied verbatim into a Wikipedia article
 * supplement=1: The article comes from the 1901 supplement.
 * supplement=2: The article comes from the 1912 supplement.
 * no-icon=1: Remove the lead icon.
 * ref: When used with short-form notation;, and similar methods.
 * mode: Sets element separator, default terminal punctuation, and certain capitalization according to the value provided (see cite encyclopedia for details)

Deprecated fields

 * title: (deprecated) DNB article name (can be coupled with url see below)
 * url:  (deprecated) http://...  link to web location. Only works when title is set; unset by wstitle.
 * access-date: (deprecated) Full date when an electronic item other than Wikisource was accessed. Requires url Should be in the same format as the rest of the article.

Using wstitle
displays as:

Using section
Sometimes a biography article includes other members of a family who are notable but are not considered notable enough to have their own entry. For example the DNB article on Sir Richard Wynn, 2nd Baronet appears in the DNB article "Wynn, John" (1553–1626) under the section name of "" (d. 1649). A section name can be given to access this sub-article:

displays as:

Using title and url
The title, url, and access-date are deprecated. They were used to reference non-Wikisource locations before the entire DNB became available on Wikisource. They should not be used unless there is some compelling reason to do so: please leave an inline comment to justify this and leave a comment in the talk page of this template doc. Please convert any existing title/url to wstitle if you find one.

Using no-icon
displays as:

Using supplement for the 1901 supplement
displays as:

Using supplement for the 1912 supplement


displays as:

Using
If text is incorporated verbatim into an article, the  parameter can be used to tack on a notice appropriate to the policy in Plagiarism.

displays as:

Other parameters; add a comment
displays as:

Archbishop of Canterbury, 1663–1677.

Hidden categories
This template contains several hidden categories to aid with maintenance. These can be found under:
 * Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating citation from the DNB