Template:Death date and age/doc

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[edit] Usage

Returns a person's date of death and his/her age at that date. Available shortcut: {{Dda}}.

Using this template rather than simply inserting the date into articles allows for the inclusion of hidden metadata about the date. This metadata can be used by web browsers and other software tools to extract the details, and display them using some other website or mapping tool, index or search them.

Syntax:

{{Death date and age/doc|year of death|month of death|day of death|year of birth|month of birth|day of birth}}

Format

{{Death date and age/doc|yyyy|mm|dd|yyyy|mm|dd}}

{{Dda|yyyy|mm|dd|yyyy|mm|dd}}

Example:

{{Death date and age|1993|2|24|1941|4|12}}
returns February 24, 1993 (aged 51)

An optional parameter, df, can be set to "yes" to display the day before the month. This is primarily used in articles about people from parts of the world where the day precedes the month in a date, and applies only for users who have not set a date formatting preference.

Example:

{{Death date and age|1993|2|24|1941|4|12|df=yes}}
returns "24 February 1993 (aged 51)"

When only the year of a person's birth and/or death are known, or if it is desired not to state a person's full dates of birth and death for privacy reasons, use the templates {{Birth year and age}} and {{Death year and age}} instead.

Note: The template will appear broken when the parameters are left blank (as seen above).

Note: Do not use this template inside of the Persondata template as it can interfere with data extraction.

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Age calculation templates
• {{BirthDeathAge}} – carries out the functions of this template and all the following ones
• {{Birth date}}
• {{Birth date and age}} – same as {{Birth date}}, except that "(age ##)" appears after the death date
• {{Birth year and age}} – year of birth and approximate age
• {{Death date}}
• {{Death year and age}} – year of death and approximate age at death