This template links Wikipedia articles to various library (and other) catalogue systems, for biographies and other topics.

This template draws its values from Wikidata. A pencil icon gives convenient access to the "Identifiers" section of the corresponding Wikidata item.

If there is no information in Wikidata for the specific subject, an empty instance of this template will be dormant, meaning it will be invisible on the rendered page. Thus, using this template on a page with no authority information is harmless. An empty instance of this template stays dormant in an article, until values are added to Wikidata, when it will then display them.

The template attempts to validate digits for all values and shows an error if the check fails.

As a metadata template, the Authority control template should be placed on a new line, after the external links section and navigation templates, immediately before the categories.

{{Authority control}}

As a general guideline:

  1. Insert the empty version
  2. Click "Show preview" to see which sources are automatically pulled from Wikidata
  3. If you know of more sources, add those sources to the article's Wikidata item, so that other language versions of Wikipedia will automatically benefit.

Suppression of identifiers

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Identifiers can be selectively suppressed via the |suppress= parameter. For example:

{{Authority control |suppress=VIAF,LCCN,WORLDCATID}}

Specifying the Wikidata item

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If a page is not connected to a Wikidata item (for example, a page in draft space, user space or project space), you can specify the appropriate item to draw data from, by using the |qid= parameter.

{{Authority control |qid=Q49605590}}

To find the correct item, you can search the database. If there is not yet an existing item, you can create a new item.

As soon as the page is connected to a Wikidata item, this parameter will be ignored so you can remove it from the template.

Additional Wikidata items

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In some cases, you might need to specify additional items to draw data from. For example,

To specify additional items, you can use the |additional= parameter. For example: {{Authority control | additional = Q2319886, Q3320282}}

A number of whitelists are configured, which allow only a limited selection of identifiers to be displayed. These can be used with the |show= parameter. For example, including |show=arts will only show identifiers which have identified as particularly relevant to the arts.

See #List of whitelists for a full list of whitelists. |country= can be used as an alias for |show= (but they can't both be used simultaneously).

Victor Hugo

{{Authority control |qid=Q535}}

Alexander Graham Bell

{{Authority control |qid=Q34286}}

Harry Forbes Witherby

{{Authority control |qid=Q352545}}

The template is split into a number of sections, including "General", "National libraries", "Art galleries and museums", etc. The template usually displays as a navbox with a header:

If all identifiers are in the same section, |state= is ignored, and the template displays on one line:

If you use additional qids to draw data from additional wikidata items, then a new section will be added for each. In this case, the identifiers will not be separated further:

මෙම සැකිල්ලේ සමාරම්භක දෘශ්‍යතාව, වර්තමානයේ දී autocollapseලෙස පෙරනිමි වෙයි. ඉන් අදහස් වන්නේ අදාළ පිටුව තුළ වෙනත් (navbox, sidebar, හෝ වෙනත් ඕනෑම හැකිළිය හැකි ගුණාංගය සහිත වගුවක් තිබේ නම්), මෙම සැකිල්ල අභිපාතිත තත්ත්වයෙහි ප්‍රදර්ශනය වන අතර එසේ නොමැති නම් ප්‍රදර්ශිත තත්ත්වයෙහි ප්‍රදර්ශනය වෙයි.

මෙම සැකිල්ලේ සමාරම්භක දෘශ්‍යතාව වෙනස් කිරීම සඳහා, |state= පැරාමිතිය භාවිතා කළ හැකිය:

  • {{අධිකාරී පාලනය|state=collapsed}} භාවිතා කිරීමෙන්, මෙම සැකිල්ල එහි අභිපාතිත තත්ත්වයෙහි ප්‍රදර්ශනය කළ හැක. එවිට මාතෘකා තීරුව හැර ඉතිරි සියල්ල සැඟවුනු ලෙස පවතියි.
  • {{අධිකාරී පාලනය|state=expanded}} භාවිතා කිරීමෙන්, මෙම සැකිල්ල එහි ප්‍රදර්ශිත තත්ත්වයෙහි ප්‍රදර්ශනය කළ හැක. එවිට සම්පූර්ණයෙන් දෘශ්‍යමාන ලෙස පවතියි.

The template wraps each UID value with the HTML markup: <span class="uid">...</span>, which enables the first-found value to be included in an hCard microformat.

List of identifiers

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The template gets its information from the following properties on Wikidata: Script error: The function "docConfTable" does not exist.

List of whitelists

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See #Whitelists for an explanation of how to use these. Script error: The function "whitelisttable" does not exist.

Additional tracking categories

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This template may add the following categories:

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A template to link Wikipedia articles to various library catalogue systems

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
whitelistshow country

Whitelist (e.g. arts) or country code (e.g. ES) or property (e.g. P214) to show. If not specified, then every supported identifier will be displayed.

Suggested values
arts
Example
ES
Stringsuggested
suppresssuppress

Comma-separated list of identifers to suppress from the template. Will recognise the Wikidata property IDs (e.g. P227), or the abbreviated name of the identifier (e.g. VIAF).

Example
P227, P1986
Stringoptional
qidqid

Wikidata QID number for an article not yet connected to a Wikidata item. Once the article is connected to a Wikidata item, then this parameter will be ignored.

Example
Q49605590
Stringoptional
additionaladditional

Comma-seprated list of additional Wikidata QIDs of items to display data for. Each should be related and covered by the article.

Example
Q28831543
Stringoptional
statestate

Initial state of the template

Suggested values
autocollapse expanded collapsed
Default
autocollapse
Stringoptional