Template talk:MacTutor Biography
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[edit] Usage
- {{MacTutor Biography|id=Kepler|title=Johannes Kepler}} yields
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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)