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Wikipedia is not a soapbox for individuals to espouse their views. However, views held by politicians, writers, and others may be summarized in their biography only to the extent those views are covered by reliable sources that are independent of the control of the politician, writer, etc.
This is a documentation subpage for Template:Biography. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{ subst:Biography }} ).
The simplest example is someone who continued to reside in their country of origin: Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 [O.S. October 22] – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman; The second example is someone who emigrated as a child and continued to identify as a citizen of their adopted country:
An article may end with Navigation templates and footer navboxes, such as succession boxes and geography boxes (for example, {{Geographic location}}). Most navboxes do not appear in printed versions of Wikipedia articles. [l] For navigation templates in the lead, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section § Sidebars.
Talk page banner for WikiProject Biography Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status A&E work group a&e-work-group Within the scope of the arts and entertainment work group. Allowed values: ['yes'] Auto value yes Boolean optional Priority for A&E work group a&e-priority Priority for the arts and ...
Manual of Style (Thailand-related biography articles:Names) Manual of Style (dates of birth and death) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility) Wikipedia:Categorization of people; Wikipedia:Autobiography; No classification of biographies has been defined. See this example on dividing a topic into ...
Multiple American style guides, including The Chicago Manual of Style (since 2010), now deprecate U.S. and recommend US. For commonality reasons, use US by default when abbreviating, but retain U.S. in American or Canadian English articles in which it is already established, unless there is a good reason to change it.
This template is used to configure the articles found in the Selected person or Selected biography section found on most Wikipedia Portal main pages. Use it on the article pages that are linked to the Selected person sub-page, e.g. Portal: Foo /Selected person/1 .