Template:Infobox Artist/doc

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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Infobox Artist (see that page for the template itself).
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

An Infobox Artist may be used to summarise information about a person who is an artist.

Contents

Usage

The infobox may be added by pasting the template as shown below into an article. Only the name and birthdate parameters are required. For an example, see Salvador Dalí.

{{Infobox Artist
| bgcolour      = #6495ED
| name          = 
| image         = 
| imagesize     = 
| caption       = 
| birthname     = 
| birthdate     = 
| location      = 
| deathdate     = 
| deathplace    = 
| nationality   = 
| field         = 
| training      = 
| movement      = 
| works  = 
| patrons       = 
| influenced by =
| influenced    =
| awards        = 
}}

Parameters

Those parameters in bold italics are required.

bgcolour titlebar colour, in the form "#RRGGBB", where "RR", "GG" and "BB" are the red, green and blue components of the colour, in hexadecimal, e.g. "#FF00FF" = yellow. Change these values, if you wish to change the default colour #6495ED (blue).
name artist's name; usually the article's page name (i.e. the artist's common name)
image an image of the artist, in the form: "Example.jpg"
imagesize * in the form "Npx", resizes the image to a width of N pixels; default is 220px
caption * caption for the image
birthname artist's name at birth
birthdate artist's date of birth, use {{birth date and age}} (for living artists) or {{birth date}} for the deceased. Use plain text for partial dates.
location artist's place of birth
deathdate artist's date of death, use {{death date and age}}. Use {{death date}} if birth date unknown or incomplete. Use plain text for partial dates.
deathplace artist's place of death
nationality artist's nationality
field main fields in which the artist works (i.e. photography, painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, graphic design)
training where or with whom the artist trained
movement artistic movement or school with which artist is associated
works artist's famous/significant/representative works. Works with their own articles should take priority (please limit to 5 at most)
patrons patrons of the artist
influenced by artists who have influenced the artist (other than his teachers, please limit to 5 at most)
influenced well-known artists who have been influenced by the artist (please limit to 5 at most)
awards any awards the artist has won. Consider using the template: {{awd|award|year|title|role|name}}
* Only used if the {{{image}}} parameter used.

Microformat

The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

Date-of-birth ("bday") parameters will only be included in the microformat if {{Birth date}} or {{Birth date and age}} are used in the infobox.

hCard uses HTML classes including:

  • adr
  • bday
  • county-name
  • fn (required)
  • honorific-prefix
  • honorific-suffix
  • label
  • locality
  • nickname
  • note
  • org
  • role
  • vcard

Please do not rename or remove these classes.

See also

This template employs intricate features of template syntax.
You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
Remember that you can conduct experiments, and should test all improvements, in either the general Template sandbox or your user space before changing anything here.