Template:Infobox academic
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{{Infobox academic}} may be used to summarize information about a person who is or has been a member of an academic institution working on research-related endeavors, broadly construed.
To use the template, copy the wikitext below, and paste it in the top section of the article’s main page. If the article is not divided into sections, it should be placed on top. Then, fill out the data fields. You can omit any unused fields.
Blank template
{{{honorific_prefix}}} {{{name}}} {{{honorific_suffix}}} | |
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{{{native_name}}} | |
| [[File:{{{image}}}|{{{image_size}}}|alt={{{alt}}}|upright=1]] {{{caption}}} | |
| Born | {{{birth_name}}} {{{birth_date}}} {{{birth_place}}} |
| Died | {{{death_date}}} {{{death_place}}} |
| Cause of death | {{{death_cause}}} |
| Other names | {{{other_names}}} |
| Citizenship | {{{citizenship}}} |
| Occupation | {{{occupation}}} |
| Years active | {{{period}}} |
| Known for | {{{known_for}}} |
| Title | {{{title}}} |
| Board member of | {{{boards}}} |
| Spouse(s) | {{{spouse}}} |
| Partner(s) | {{{partner}}} |
| Children | {{{children}}} |
| Parent(s) | {{{parents}}} |
| Relatives | {{{relatives}}} |
| Awards | {{{awards}}} |
| Academic background | |
| Education | {{{education}}} |
| Alma mater | {{{alma_mater}}} |
| Thesis | [{{{thesis_url}}} {{{thesis_title}}}] ({{{thesis_year}}}) |
| {{{doctoral_advisor}}} | |
Other advisor | {{{academic_advisors}}} |
| Influences | {{{influences}}} |
| Academic work | |
| Era | {{{era}}} |
| Discipline | {{{discipline}}} |
Sub-discipline | {{{sub_discipline}}} |
School or tradition | {{{school_tradition}}} |
| Institutions | {{{workplaces}}} |
Doctoral students | {{{doctoral_students}}} |
Notable students | {{{notable_students}}} |
Main interests | {{{main_interests}}} |
Notable works | {{{notable_works}}} |
Notable ideas | {{{notable_ideas}}} |
| Influenced | {{{influenced}}} |
| Website | {{{website}}} |
| Signature | |
| [[File:{{{signature}}}|{{{signature_size}}}|alt={{{signature_alt}}}]] | |
| Notes | |
{{{footnotes}}} | |
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Infobox academic | |
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Infobox academic | |
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Parameters
This is an list of commonly-used parameters. For a complete list, see here.
- name
- The name under which the academic is best known. This should usually be the same as the article name, and will default to
{{PAGENAME}}if not specified. - image
- Image. Use the name of the image file only, i.e. do not include "File:".
- image_size
- Width of the image. Default is
framelessand should not normally need to be specified manually. - alt
- Alt text for the image, for visually impaired readers. See WP:ALT. It should be specified if image is specified.
- caption
- Caption for image, if necessary; if the image is simply a headshot of the subject, a caption restating the subject's name is unnecessary
- honorific_prefix
- See MOS:CREDENTIAL and MOS:HONORIFIC
- honorific_suffix
- native_name
- The person's name in their own language, if different.
- native_name_lang
- ISO 639-1 code, e.g., "fr" for French.
- birth_name
- Name at birth; only use if different from
|name=parameter - birth_date
- Date of birth; can be approximate; use {{birth date}} or related template where possible. For living people supply only the year unless the exact date is already WIDELY published (per WP:DOB)— treat such cases as if only the year is known, so use {{birth year and age}} or a similar option
- birth_place
- Place of birth
- death_date
- Date of death. Can be approximate. Use {{death date and age}} or related template where possible
- death_place
- Place of death; use city if possible, otherwise use country; do not give coordinates
- death_cause
- Cause of death, if relevant to article; e.g., accidental radiation poisoning
- burial_place
- Place of burial (city, administrative region, country). Don't use flag templates, inappropriate linking, redundancy, anachronisms, "country" definitions, etc. See
|resting_place=for non-burials. - burial_coordinates
- Coordinates for place of burial, to accompany
|burial_place=. Use the {{coord}} template. - resting_place
- Location of columbarium, ash-scattering, etc. If no location, leave blank.
- resting_place_coordinates
- Coordinates for resting place, to accompany
|resting_place=. Use the {{coord}} template. - citizenship
- Use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT
- other_names
- Other notable names for the person, if different from
|name=and|birth_name. - occupation
- Should match full occupational description of most recent employment
- period
- known_for
- title
- Should match full occupational title; e.g., Distinguished professor, Associate professor, etc.
- boards
- Should be for board or similar positions extraneous to main occupation - not editorial boards in the person's subject
- spouse
- partner
- children
- parents
- relatives
- Should only be included if the spouse is independently notable or there is discussion in a reliable published source that confirms their name and existence
- awards
- Should be restricted to only major national-level awards related to academic work
- website
- Should be only an academic's own collegiate page or personal professional page
- education
- Should be explained in the main text of the article; those that are not mentioned in the main text are subject to removal
- alma_mater
- Will often consist of the linked name of the last-attended higher education institution
- thesis_title
- Should match full thesis title
- thesis_url
- Should be where the thesis is available freely; not for commercial advertising usage
- thesis_year
- Year thesis was completed and registered with corresponding institution
- school_tradition
- doctoral_advisor
- Should be explained in the main text of the article; those that are not mentioned in the main text may be deleted
- academic_advisors
- Names of any significant educational advisors (other than doctoral advisor)
- influences
- Should be explained in the main text of the article and have a third-party source; those that are not mentioned in the main text may be deleted
- era
- discipline
- Major academic discipline - e.g. physicist, sociologist, New Testament scholar, Ancient Near Eastern linguist
- sub_discipline
- Academic discipline specialist area - e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th Century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist
- workplaces
- Should be major academic tenures; do not include student or part-time positions or postdoctoral fellowships
- doctoral_students
- Only include students who have been supervised at doctoral level by the academic and are notable enough for WP articles. Should be explained in the main text of the article; those that are not mentioned in the main text may be deleted
- notable_students
- Only those students who have had substantial contact with the academic (such as through a tutorial system or undergraduate/masters thesis supervision) and are notable enough for WP articles. Should be explained in the main text of the article; those that are not mentioned in the main text may be deleted
- main_interests
- Should be explained in the main text of the article; those that are not mentioned in the main text are subject to deletion
- notable_works
- Should be explained in the main text of the article; those that are not mentioned in the main text are subject to deletion
- notable_ideas
- Should be explained in the main text of the article; those that are not mentioned in the main text are subject to deletion
- influenced
- Should be explained in the main text of the article and have a third-party source; those that are not mentioned in the main text are subject to deletion
- signature
- link to file containing subject's signature, if somehow relevant to the subject's personal history
- signature_size
- signature_alt
- footnotes
- For any footnotes needed to clarify entries above; this section is also often used to add additional notable information, typically if the scientist is a relative of another person with a wikipedia article
Use as a child template
- child
- For embedding this infobox into another.
- This infobox may be used to create a genre-specific section within {{Infobox person}} (or similar biographical infobox templates) for cases where a person may be notable in more than one field; a generic example is shown below. For guidance on usage, see Wikipedia:Infobox modules. Also see the Template:Infobox documentation which explains embedding and subboxes.
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Infobox academic | |
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Example
C. S. Lewis | |
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| File:Example-serious.jpg C.S. Lewis aged 50 | |
| Born | Clive Staples Lewis 29 November 1898 Belfast, Ireland |
| Died | 22 November 1963 (aged 64) Oxford, England |
| Occupation | Novelist, academic, broadcaster |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Oxford University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalene College, Cambridge |
Main interests | Christian apologetics |
Notable works | The Chronicles of Narnia Mere Christianity The Allegory of Love The Screwtape Letters The Space Trilogy Till We Have Faces Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life |
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C. S. Lewis | |
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| File:Example-serious.jpg C.S. Lewis aged 50 | |
| Born | Clive Staples Lewis 29 November 1898 Belfast, Ireland |
| Died | 22 November 1963 (aged 64) Oxford, England |
| Occupation | Novelist, academic, broadcaster |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Oxford University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalene College, Cambridge |
Main interests | Christian apologetics |
Notable works | The Chronicles of Narnia Mere Christianity The Allegory of Love The Screwtape Letters The Space Trilogy Till We Have Faces Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life |
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Microformat
The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book or database. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.
Sub-templates
Date-of-birth ("bday") information will only be included in the microformat if {{birth date}}, or {{birth date and age}} are used in the infobox. (Do not use these if the date is before 1583). Be cautious about using these if the person is still living, per WP:DOB.
To include a URL, use Template:URL, specifying the url as the value of unnamed param 1; example:
{{URL|1=https://www.somedomain.com/foo/bar?q=weird_stuff&xyz=more_stuff}}.
Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.
Classes
hCard uses HTML classes including:
- adr
- agent
- bday
- birthplace
- category
- country-name
- deathdate
- deathplace
- extended-address
- family-name
- fn (required)
- given-name
- honorific-prefix
- honorific-suffix
- label
- locality
- n
- nickname
- note
- org
- role
- url
- vcard
Please do not rename or remove these classes nor collapse nested elements which use them.
Tracking categories
- Category:Pages using infobox academic with unknown parameters (0)
- Category:Pages using infobox academic with conflicting parameters (0)
- Category:Pages using infobox academic with deprecated parameters (0)
- Category:Pages using embedded infobox academic (0)
- Category:No local image but image on Wikidata (1) – Used by Template:Wikidata image to track articles where an infobox has no image but Wikidata has an image name. To exclude articles from this category, add an image or
|nocat_wdimage=yesto the infobox.
See also
TemplateData
TemplateData documentation used by VisualEditor and other tools
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See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Infobox academic in articles based on its TemplateData.
TemplateData for Infobox academic <templatedata>
{
"params": {
"honorific_prefix": {
"aliases": [
"honorific prefix"
],
"label": "Honorific prefix",
"description": "To appear on the line above the person's name"
},
"name": {
"label": "Name",
"description": "The name under which the academic is best known. This should usually be the same as the article name, and will default to Infobox academic if not specified.",
"suggested": true
},
"honorific_suffix": {
"aliases": [
"honorific suffix"
],
"label": "Honorific suffix",
"description": "To appear on the line below the person's name"
},
"native_name": {
"label": "Native name"
},
"native_name_lang": {
"label": "Native name language",
"description": "e.g. fr, de, ru"
},
"image": {
"label": "Image",
"description": "Use the name of the image file only, i.e. do not include \"File:\".",
"type": "wiki-file-name",
"suggested": true
},
"image_name": {
"label": "Image name"
},
"image_size": {
"label": "Image size",
"description": "Width of the image. Default is frameless and should not normally need to be specified manually."
},
"alt": {
"label": "Alt text"
},
"caption": {
"suggested": true,
"label": "Caption"
},
"birth_name": {
"aliases": [
"birth name"
],
"label": "Birth name",
"description": "The birth name of the academic. Only specify if different from name."
},
"birth_date": {
"aliases": [
"birth date"
],
"label": "Birth date",
"description": "Date of birth. Can be approximate. Use Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{"., Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". or related template where possible. For living people supply only the year unless the exact date is already WIDELY published, as per WP:DOB. Treat such cases as if only the year is known, so use {{{1}}} (age Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".–Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".)Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". or a similar option."
},
"birth_place": {
"aliases": [
"birth place"
],
"label": "Place of birth"
},
"death_date": {
"aliases": [
"death date"
],
"label": "Death date",
"description": "Date of death. Can be approximate. Use Error: Need valid death date (first date): year, month, day or related template where possible."
},
"death_place": {
"aliases": [
"death place"
],
"label": "Death place",
"description": "Place of death"
},
"death_cause": {
"label": "Death cause",
"description": "Only if relevant"
},
"burial_place": {
"label": "Burial place",
"description": "Place of burial, alternative to 'Resting place' Displays the label 'Burial place'.",
"type": "content"
},
"burial_coordinates": {
"label": "Burial place coordinates",
"description": "Coordinates for place of burial, to accompany 'Burial place'. Use Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 611: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). template."
},
"resting_place": {
"description": "Place of burial, ash-scattering, etc. Do not use a flag template.",
"label": "Resting place",
"type": "content"
},
"resting_place_coordinates": {
"description": "Coordinates for place of burial, ash-scattering etc. Use Template:coord template.",
"label": "Resting place coordinates"
},
"citizenship": {
"label": "Citizenship",
"description": "Only use if not clear from birthplace"
},
"othernames": {},
"other_names": {},
"occupation": {
"label": "Occupation",
"description": "Should match full occupational description.",
"suggested": true
},
"titles": {
"label": "Titles",
"description": "Should match full occupational title."
},
"period": {},
"known_for": {},
"title": {},
"boards": {},
"spouse": {
"label": "Spouse"
},
"partner": {
"label": "Partner"
},
"children": {
"label": "Children",
"description": "Number, not names, unless the child is themself notable"
},
"parents": {
"label": "Parents",
"description": "Only include if relevant or notable"
},
"relatives": {
"label": "Relatives",
"description": "Other notable relatives"
},
"awards": {},
"signature": {
"label": "Signature"
},
"signature_size": {},
"signature_alt": {},
"education": {
"label": "Education",
"description": "Should be explained in the main text of the article; Those that are not mentioned in the main text may be deleted.",
"suggested": true
},
"alma_mater": {
"aliases": [
"alma mater"
],
"label": "Alma mater",
"description": "Will often consist of the linked name of the last-attended higher education institution.",
"suggested": true
},
"thesis_title": {
"label": "Thesis title"
},
"thesis_url": {
"label": "Thesis URL"
},
"thesis_year": {
"label": "Thesis year"
},
"school_tradition": {
"label": "School tradition"
},
"doctoral_advisor": {
"label": "Doctoral advisor"
},
"academic_advisors": {
"label": "Academic advisors"
},
"influences": {
"label": "Influences"
},
"era": {
"label": "Era"
},
"discipline": {
"label": "Discipline",
"description": "Major academic discipline",
"suggested": true,
"example": "e.g. Physicist, Sociologist, New Testament scholar, Ancient Near Eastern Linguist."
},
"sub_discipline": {
"label": "Sub-discipline",
"description": "Academic discipline specialist area",
"suggested": true,
"example": "e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th Century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist."
},
"workplaces": {
"aliases": [
"work_institutions",
"work institutions",
"work_institution",
"work institution"
],
"label": "Workplace",
"description": "Should be major academic tenures, not student or part-time positions or postdoctoral fellowships",
"suggested": true
},
"doctoral_students": {
"label": "Doctoral students"
},
"notable_students": {
"aliases": [
"notable students"
],
"label": "Notable students",
"description": "Only those notable enough for WP articles. Should be explained in the main text of the article; Those that are not mentioned in the main text may be deleted."
},
"main_interests": {
"label": "Main interests"
},
"notable_works": {
"aliases": [
"notable works",
"notableworks"
],
"label": "Notable works",
"description": "Should be explained in the main text of the article; Those that are not mentioned in the main text may be deleted."
},
"notable_ideas": {
"label": "Notable ideas"
},
"influenced": {},
"principal_ideas": {
"label": "Principal ideas"
},
"website": {
"label": "Website",
"description": "in |