Template:Biographical Directory of Congress

• United States Congress. "{{{name}}} (id: {{{id}}})". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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{{Biographical Directory of Congress}} (and its shorter redirect {{CongBio}}) displays an external link to a specified article at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website (bioguide.congress.gov).

Usage

In the following, {{Biographical Directory of Congress can be used instead of {{CongBio.

Unnamed parameters

• {{CongBio|ID}}
• {{CongBio|ID|NAME}}

Named parameters

• {{CongBio|id=ID}}
• {{CongBio|id=ID|name=NAME}}
• {{CongBio|id=ID|name=NAME|date=DATE}}
• {{CongBio|id=ID|name=NAME|date=DATE|inline=YES}}
• {{CongBio|id=ID|name=NAME|date=DATE|findagrave=GRID}}

There are some other additional parameters that carry default values:

author=author — defaults to United States Congress, but it can be overwritten
mode  =mode   — defaults to cs1 but can be set to cs2 (see WP:CS1)
ref   =ref    — for use with the {{harv}} templates for inline citations 
                    defaults to:{{harv|United States Congress|ID}}
                    If the author is set to something other than United States Congress
                    then it is also changed here. The ref parameter can be assigned another
                    value including none to unset the parameter.
accessdate=date — the usual name for the "Retrieved" parameter

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Biographical Directory of Congress

<templatedata>{ "description": "This template displays an external link to a specified article at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website (bioguide.congress.gov).", "params": {

 "1": {
   "label": "ID",
   "aliases": ["id"], 
   "description": "ID portion of the URL. Example: C000482 is the ID portion of http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000482",
   "type": "string",
   "default": "",
   "required": true
 },
 "2": {
   "label": "Name",
   "aliases": ["name"], 
   "description": "Name of subject. If not given it defaults to the Wikipedia article name, without any disambiguation such as (politician).",
   "type": "string",
   "default": "Biographical Directory of Congress",
   "required": false
 },
 "accessdate": {
   "label": "Access date",
   "aliases": ["date"], 
   "description": "Date the web page was accessed/retrieved.",
   "type": "date",
   "required": false
 },
 "author": {
   "label": "Author",
   "description": "Value assigned to the \"author\" parameter of the  template.",
   "type": "string",
   "default": "United States Congress",
   "required": false
 },
 "ref": {
   "label": "Ref",
   "description": "Value assigned to the \"ref\" parameter of the  template.",
   "type": "string",
   "required": false
 },
 "mode": {
   "label": "Mode",
   "description": "Value assigned to the \"mode\" parameter of the  template.",
   "type": "string",
   "required": false
 },
 "noid": {
   "label": "No ID",
   "description": "If this parameter is assigned a value (yes, 1, or anything) then the \"id\" parameter will not be displayed in parentheses after the \"name\" parameter.",
   "type": "string",
   "required": false
 },
 "inline": {
   "label": "Inline",
   "description": "If this parameter is assigned a value (yes, 1, or anything) then the leading asterisk/bullet is not displayed.",
   "type": "string",
   "required": false
 },
 "findagrave": {
   "label": "Findagrave",
   "description": "If this parameter is assigned a value, then the template will display an external link to the associated page at the Find a Grave website.",
   "type": "string",
   "required": false
 }

}}</templatedata>

Examples

In the following, {{Biographical Directory of Congress can be used instead of {{CongBio.

These examples all link to Henry Clay's biography, which is located at:

• http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000482

Unnamed parameters

Usage:

{{CongBio | C000482 | Henry Clay }}

Output:

• United States Congress. "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Named parameters

Usage:

{{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay }}

Output:

• United States Congress. "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Access date

Usage:

{{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |accessdate= January 26, 2010 }}

Output:

• United States Congress. "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 26, 2010.

Usage:

{{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |date= January 26, 2010 }}

Output:

• United States Congress. "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 26, 2010.

Author

Usage:

{{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |author= }}

Output:

• "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

No ID

Usage:

{{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |noid= y }}

Output:

• United States Congress. "Henry Clay". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Inline

Usage:

{{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |inline= yes }}

Output:

United States Congress. "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Findagrave

Usage:

{{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |findagrave= 203 }}

Output:

• United States Congress. "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Henry Clay at Find a Grave

Findagrave and access date

Usage:

{{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |findagrave= 203 |date= January 26, 2010 }}

Output:

• United States Congress. "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
• "Henry Clay". Find a Grave. Retrieved January 26, 2010.

Usage:

{{CongBio |id= C000482 |name= Henry Clay |findagrave= 203 |accessdate= January 26, 2010 }}

Output:

• United States Congress. "Henry Clay (id: C000482)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
• "Henry Clay". Find a Grave. Retrieved January 26, 2010.

See also

• {{CongLinks}} - For members from 1991–present. It has BioGuide, Washington Post voting record, Open Secrets, FEC reports, Vote Smart, On The issues, Legistorm, StateSurge GovTrack and FindAGrave. This is preferred.
• {{Bioguide}} looks like this: 12px This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.
• {{Cleanup Congress Bio}} puts articles in the category, Category:Biographical Directory of the United States Congress cleanup.
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Congress/Bioguide, a subpage of Project Congress, tracks how well information is imported from the Bioguide.