Template:Who's Who
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This template generates an external link to a given person's biographical profile in Who's Who at ukwhoswho
Usage
Two parameters, the bare minimum
{{Who's Who | id= ID | title = <title from person's Who's Who entry> }}
Five parameters:
{{Who's Who | author= AUTHOR | year= YEAR | title = <title from person's Who's Who entry> | id= ID | doi= DOI }}
Examples
Who's Who
For biographies of living people e.g.
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="1">[Anon.] (2017). "Hawking, Prof. Stephen William". Who's Who. A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.19510. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)</syntaxhighlight>
looks like
[Anon.] (2017). "Hawking, Prof. Stephen William". Who's Who. A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.19510. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
another example with different parameters
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="1">{{Who's Who
| title = Howarth, Toby Matthew
| id = U282438
| volume = 2017
| edition = November 2016 online
| access-date = </syntaxhighlight>27 October 2026
}}
looks like
"Howarth, Toby Matthew". Who's Who. Vol. 2017 (November 2016 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 27 October 2026. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
or a fuller version with more parameters
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="1">{{Who's Who
| author=Anon
| title = Martin, Christopher Anthony John
| id =U268294
| year = 2024
| doi =10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U268294
| edition = 176th
| publisher=Oxford University Press
|location=Oxford
|isbn=9781399409452
|oclc=1402257203</syntaxhighlight>
}}
looks like
Anon (2024). "Martin, Christopher Anthony John". Who's Who (176th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2736. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U268294. ISBN 9781399409452. OCLC 1402257203. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Who Was Who
For biographies of the deceased for example
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline="1">{{Who's Who
| title = Hayward, Henry Rudge
| id = U186956
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2016
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = </syntaxhighlight>27 October 2026
}}
looks like
"Hayward, Henry Rudge". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 27 October 2026. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
See also
Template data
TemplateData for Who's Who
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"required": false
}, "title": { "label": "title", "description": "Title of the subject's biography for example 'Hawking, Prof. Stephen William'", "type": "string",
"required": true
}, "id": { "label": "id", "description": "Locally unique identifier for the subject for example 'U19510' is the id for Stephen Hawking's entry. Typically the id is last six digits of the digital object identifier for that entry prefixed with a 'U'.", "type": "string",
"required": true
}, "type": { "label": "type", "description": "'Who's Who' is the default implied type, for 'Who Was Who' add string 'was'", "type": "string",
"required": false
}, "volume": { "label": "volume", "description": "Volume of book, often (though not always) same as year for example '2016'", "type": "string",
"required": false
}, "edition": { "label": "edition", "description": "edition of book for example 'November 2016 online'", "type": "string",
"required": false
}, "access-date": { "label": "access-date", "description": "Whole date that entry was accessed and read by a human editor", "type": "date",
"required": false
}, "doi": { "label": "doi", "description": "The Digital Object Identifier DOI of the entry for example '10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.19510'", "type": "string",
"required": false
} } } </templatedata>