Template:Infobox philosopher

{{{name}}}
{{{name}}}
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	{{{caption}}}
Born	{{{birth_date}}}
Spouse	{{{spouse}}}

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This template is used on approximately 3,800 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This template is a customized wrapper for the infobox template {{Infobox academic}}. Any field from {{Infobox academic}} can work. Questions? Just ask over at Template talk:Infobox academic while referencing Template:Infobox philosopher. Note that <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|influenced= and <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|influences= are excluded from this template, per consensus.

This template uses Lua:

This template is used to provide biographical information on anyone who might be considered a philosopher. If the philosopher held or holds a political or other public office (e.g. Alan Greenspan), {{Infobox officeholder}} is probably more suitable.

Usage

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To use this template, copy the text above to the top of a biography article. Note that parameter names are lowercase.

Example

Plato

Roman copy of a portrait bust c. 370 BC
Born	428/427 or 424/423 BC

Plato

Roman copy of a portrait bust c. 370 BC
Born	428/427 or 424/423 BC

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Parameters

All parameters are optional, and if left blank will not appear in the infobox:

era should be selected from Category:Philosophy by period
region should be selected from Category:Philosophy by region
school_tradition should be selected from Category:Philosophical schools and traditions or List of schools of philosophy
Entries in notable ideas should be explained in the main text of the article. Those that are not mentioned in the main text may be deleted.
For living people supply only the year for birth date unless the exact date is already WIDELY published, as per WP:DOB. Treat such cases as if only the year is known, so use {{birth year and age}} or a similar option.

For usage of other parameters, see Template:Infobox academic/doc and Template:Infobox person/doc

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 or database. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

Sub-templates

Date-of-birth ("bday") information will only be included in the microformat if {{birth date}}, or {{birth date and age}} are used in the infobox. (Do not use these if the date is before 1583). Be cautious about using these if the person is still living, per WP:DOB.

To include a URL, use Template:URL, specifying the url as the value of unnamed param 1; example:

{{URL|1=https://www.somedomain.com/foo/bar?q=weird_stuff&xyz=more_stuff}}.

Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.

Classes

hCard uses HTML classes including:

adr
agent
bday
birthplace
category
country-name
deathdate
deathplace
extended-address
family-name
fn (required)
given-name
honorific-prefix
honorific-suffix
label
locality
n
nickname
note
org
role
url
vcard

Please do not rename or remove these classes nor collapse nested elements which use them.

Tracking categories

Category:Pages using infobox philosopher with unknown parameters (0)
Category:Pages using infobox philosopher with conflicting parameters (0)
Category:Pages using infobox philosopher with deprecated parameters (0)
Category:No local image but image on Wikidata (19) – Used by Template:Wikidata image to track articles where an infobox has no image but Wikidata has an image name. To exclude articles from this category, add an image or <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|nocat_wdimage=yes to the infobox.