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This template is part of series of templates, which are used as building blocks of Wikipedia:Picture of the day display templates. They are used to indirectly extract information from parameters, which are saved in subpages of Template:POTD.
Template | Via parameter | Value | Description |
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{{POTD image}} | |image= |
John Milton Brannan by the Studio of Mathew Brady - NPG 81 M465.jpg |
Filename of the picture. |
{{POTD size}} | |size= |
300 |
Preferred size of the picture. It is 300 by default.
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{{POTD title}} | |title= |
John Milton Brannan | A short text, describing the picture, often a wikilink. |
{{POTD texttitle}} | |texttitle= |
John Milton Brannan | A short text, describing the picture without wikilinks. |
{{POTD caption}} | |caption= |
John Milton Brannan (1819–1892) was a career United States Army artillery officer who served in the Mexican–American War and as a Union Army brigadier general of volunteers in the American Civil War. He was in command of the Department of Key West in Florida and assigned to Fort Zachary Taylor. Most notably, Brannan served as a division commander of the Union XIV Corps at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863. This photograph of Brannan was produced by the studio of the American photographer Mathew Brady circa the 1860s. | A long text, describing the picture. Usually it is a blurb from the linked Wikipedia article. |
{{POTD credit}} | |credit= |
Photograph credit: studio of Mathew Brady; restored by Adam Cuerden | Credit for the picture. |
{{POTD thumb}} | |thumb= |
None | Thumbnail for the picture. Used for animations. |
See also
[edit]- For examples of usage of these parts, see Category:POTD display templates and Category:POTD layout templates.
- For more detailed description of the parameters used by POTD templates, see Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Guidelines § Template parameters and Template:POTD/doc.