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{{See also|Template:Facebook page|Wikipedia:External links/Perennial websites}}
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{{Template redirect|Facebook.com|Facebook user|Official Facebook page}}
{{Tracks and uses Wikidata|P2013}}
{{Lua|Module:EditAtWikidata|Module:WikidataCheck}}
{{Warning|The [[Wikipedia:External links|external links guideline]] recommends [[WP:ELNO|avoiding links to Facebook]] unless the profile is an [[WP:ELOFFICIAL|official account]], "controlled by the subject (organization or individual person) of the Wikipedia article" '''and''' when the links to Facebook "provide the reader with unique content and are not prominently linked from other official websites". Wikipedia is not a directory for helping Facebook users find pages on Facebook.}}
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'''{{NAMESPACE}}:{{BASEPAGENAME}}''' displays an external link to a page at [[Facebook]], a [[social networking]] website. It is intended for use in the [[Wikipedia:External links|external links]] section of an article.
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==Usage==
; Unnamed parameters
: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}} | <var>user name or number</var> }}</code>
: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}} | <var>user name or number</var> | <var>Displayed Name</var> }}</code>

; Named parameters
: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}} | id= <var>user name or number</var> }}</code>
: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}} | id= <var>user name or number</var> | name= <var>Displayed Name</var> }}</code>

; Using Wikidata property
: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}}<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}} | name= <var>Displayed Name</var> }}</code>

== Examples ==

=== Linking to a profile or page ===
In this example, the Facebook user name is ''zuck'' and the [[link text]] is ''Mark Zuckerberg'':

: <samp><nowiki>https://</nowiki>www.facebook.com/{{highlight|zuck}}</samp>
: <code><nowiki>* {{Facebook | zuck | Mark Zuckerberg }}</nowiki></code>
:* {{{{BASEPAGENAME}} | zuck | Mark Zuckerberg }}

In this example, there is a Facebook user number instead of a user name:

: <samp><nowiki>https://</nowiki>www.facebook.com/{{highlight|4}}</samp>
: <code><nowiki>* {{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}} |id= 4 |name= Mark Zuckerberg }}</code>
:* {{{{BASEPAGENAME}} |id= 4 |name= Mark Zuckerberg }}

On the article about an individual, the display name and the article title will usually be identical and can be omitted. For example, on the article page [[Facebook]], linking to their own Facebook profile could be done with:

: <samp><nowiki>https://</nowiki>www.facebook.com/{{highlight|facebook}}</samp>
: <code><nowiki>* {{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}} | facebook }}</code>
:* {{{{BASEPAGENAME}} | facebook }}

=== Linking to a specific section ===
Links to specific sections on a Facebook page used to include the '=' symbol in the URL but no longer need to. Because '=' is a special character in Wikipedia template syntax (which separates a parameter's name from its value), it cannot be used directly in the id. If you want the link to arrive at a specific section, use the newer URL syntax, for example to link directly to the Photos section of a profile, add <code>/photos</code> to the username:

: <samp><nowiki>https://</nowiki>www.facebook.com/{{highlight|zuck/photos}}</samp>
: <code><nowiki>* {{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}}|zuck/photos|name=Mark Zuckerberg}}</code>
:* {{{{BASEPAGENAME}}|zuck/photos|name=Mark Zuckerberg}}

=== Using Wikidata ===
Generally, [[Wikidata]] should contain article subjects' Facebook IDs in property {{Wikidata property link|P2013}}, allowing the ID parameter to be omitted:
: <code><nowiki>* {{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}}<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
: <code><nowiki>* {{</nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}} |name=<var>NAME</var> }}</code>

If the Wikidata property is not defined, the output is:
:* {{ {{BASEPAGENAME}} }}

== TemplateData ==
{{TemplateData header}}
<templatedata>
{
"description": "Generate a link to a Facebook profile in a standard format.",
"params": {
"id": {
"label": "Account ID",
"aliases": ["1"],
"description": "ID of the Facebook account (part of the web page address, for www.facebook.com/example/ the account id is \"example\"). This parameter is optional if Wikidata property P2013 exists, but required if not.",
"default": "Wikidata property P2013",
"example": "zuck",
"type": "string/line",
"required": false
},
"name": {
"label": "Display name",
"aliases": ["2"],
"description": "Display name for the Facebook account",
"default": "Name of the page",
"example": "Mark Zuckerberg",
"type": "string/line",
"required": false
}
}
}
</templatedata>

== Tracking category ==
* {{clc|Facebook ID different from Wikidata}} – ''comparison is [[case insensitive]], so [https://www.facebook.com/zuck zuck] matches [https://www.facebook.com/Zuck Zuck]''
* {{clc|Facebook ID not in Wikidata}}
* {{clc|Facebook template missing ID and not in Wikidata}}
* {{clc|Pages using Facebook with unknown parameters}}

== See also ==
* [[Wikipedia:FACEBOOK]]
* {{tl|Meta Platforms}}
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{{Sandbox other||

[[Category:Social media external link templates]]
[[Category:People and person external link templates]]
[[Category:External link templates using Wikidata]]
[[Category:Templates that add a tracking category]]
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