Template:BLKO/doc
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Purpose
[edit]Template for web links to Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (BLKO) articles in German Wikisource, which contains more than 21,000 biographies of Austrian people. It wraps {{cite wikisource}}.
Error message
[edit]This template requires a title parameter: wstitle= to associate the source of the text being used with a specific part of the massive encyclopaedia that is being referenced. More information on these and other parameters are set out below. In the absence of a title parameter being supplied, the template will display the error message article name needed and set a category flagging that no article name has been given.[nb 1]
Usage
[edit]All field names must be in lowercase.
Minimum is: {{BLKO |wstitle=EB article name}}
Full set is: {{BLKO |wstitle= |noicon= |volume= |page= |pages= |year= }}
Additional named parameters (see the {{citation}}
documentation for more details)
|postscript=defaults to the value in{{citation}}
— it can be altered to another value |ref=defaults to Wurzbach, year — like the other parameters the default values can be overridden (which can be useful when used with{{harv}}
templates (see more than one work in a year). |year=defaults to a value set by volume. — it can be altered to another value, which is sometimes useful in combination with the parameter and value ref=harv.
Example
[edit]{{BLKO |wstitle=Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus |volume=19 |page=170 |postscript=. I am a postscript!}}
produces:
Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1868). . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 19. p. 170 – via Wikisource. I am a postscript!{{citation}}
: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
{{BLKO |wstitle=Habsburg, Maria Anna von Bayern}}
produces:
Wurzbach, Constantin von (ed.). . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German) – via Wikisource.
Usage notes
[edit]The template does not include an item bullet and so is easy to use in a footnote citation. In a list, the template should be preceded by an asterisk, as specified in the usage section above.
Notes
[edit]- ^ It is not much use to the reader to inform them that a Wikipedia article contains some text supported by a citation from somewhere in the 60-volumes of the Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich!