Template talk:StateDept
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[edit] Usage
- Place {{StateDept}} in articles that incorporate text from the U.S. State Department's Background Notes (see below). The template should go in the "References" section or somewhere else near the bottom of the article. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 05:43, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Description
Many of Wikipedia's country-related articles (e.g., Demographics of Egypt) contain text from the U.S. Department of State's Background Notes (link). I wanted to use a template similar to {{CIAfb}} (for CIA World Factbook}} or {{loc}} (for Library of Congress Country Studies). I couldn't find such a template so I've created one.
I have also added this template to Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles, which is where I would have expected to find this.
Originally I had added a variable (or whatever "{{{1}}}" is called) in which the user could put the name of the country. But as the link points to the list of Background Notes, and not that of an individual country, I removed this feature (anyway, neither {{CIAfb}} nor {{loc}} work this way). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 05:09, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
- P.S. I intentionally omitted any image bearing the official seal of the State Dept. I recall reading that public domain does not apply to any official governmental seals and, in fact, that it is illegal to use such seals in a non-official capacity. (I think I mentioned this on the Talk page of a template that does use such a seal.) -- Gyrofrog (talk) 05:13, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
