Template talk:CongBio

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	CongBio is part of WikiProject U.S. Congress, an attempt to build a comprehensive guide to the United States Congress.
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1 CongBio2
2 Bot?
3 Inline reference?
4 Display format

[edit] CongBio2

By the way, {{CongBio2}} adds more information for Senators and members of the House who served in or since 1991. Therefore, I think it is better to use for them. —Markles 00:55, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bot?

Does someone know how to create a bot? There are approx. 2,600 articles that use:

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=

instead of

{{CongBio}}.

This search here gives those results: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%5Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fbioguide.congress.gov%2Fscripts%2Fbiodisplay.pl%3Findex%3D&fulltext=Search

Can someone create a bot to replace all of these?—Markles 15:31, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inline reference?

Does anyone know of an inline reference version of this? This template won't work for reference purposes because it starts with *. —Wknight94 (talk) 20:35, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Instead of an inline version, someone comfortable with m:ParserFunctions, such as the people listed within Category:User template coder, could introduce an optional argument so that editors could use something like the following inline:

<ref name="congbio">{{CongBio|d000191|inline}}</ref>

67.101.6.61 00:30, 4 July 2007 (UTC).