Template talk:MacTutor Biography

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[edit] Usage

  • {{MacTutor Biography|id=Kepler|title=Johannes Kepler}} yields
O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Johannes Kepler". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  • title defaults to the name of the Wikipedia article, so {{MacTutor Biography|id=Newton}} yields
O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "MacTutor Biography". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  • date date of the article. For example, {{MacTutor Biography|id=Luke|title=Yudell Luke|date=October 1998}} yields
O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson (October 1998). "Yudell Luke". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  • class can be used to indicate other non-biography pages in MacTutor, so {{MacTutor Biography|class=HistTopics|id=Topology_in_mathematics|title=A history of Topology}} yields
O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "A History of Topology". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

[edit] Request

I request that an additional field(s) be added - for the date of the particular biography. For example, the Yudell Luke biography is dated October 1998 (see version for printing). — ERcheck (talk) 00:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. —Ruud 23:26, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. — ERcheck (talk) 03:09, 11 March 2007 (UTC)