Template:BLKO/doc

Purpose
Template for web links to Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (BLKO) articles in German Wikisource, which contains more than 21,000 biographies of Austrian people. It wraps cite wikisource.

Error message
This template requires a title parameter: wstitle= to associate the source of the text being used with a specific part of the massive encyclopaedia that is being referenced. More information on these and other parameters are set out below. In the absence of a title parameter being supplied, the template will display the error message article name needed and set a category flagging that no article name has been given.

Usage
All field names must be in lowercase.

Minimum is:  

Full set is:  

Additional named parameters (see the documentation for more details) |postscript=defaults to the value in  — it can be altered to another value |ref=defaults to Wurzbach, year — like the other parameters the default values can be overridden (which can be useful when used with templates (see more than one work in a year).  |year=defaults to a value set by volume . — it can be altered to another value, which is sometimes useful in combination with the parameter and value ref=harv.

Example
produces:

produces:

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.