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This template's initial visibility currently defaults to expanded, meaning that it is fully visible. To change this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used: {{ Birth, death and age templates | state = collapsed }} will show the template collapsed, i.e. hidden apart from its title bar.
If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages. You can conduct experiments, and should test all major changes, in either this template's sandbox , the general template sandbox , or your user space before changing anything here.
Wikipedia uses several templates that self-update every day to keep date and age information current. These are very useful for a dynamic online encyclopedia and save users from having to regularly update that kind of information. However, when using this kind of template, a few things should be kept in mind.
This is a documentation subpage for Template:Birth-date and age. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. This template is used on approximately 14,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed.
The templates {{Birth year and age}} and {{Death year and age}} return a person's year of birth or death and their approximate age. The templates are useful when only the year, or year and month, of a person's birth and/or death are known, or if it is desired not to state a person's full dates of birth and death for privacy reasons.
This template will return a living person's date of birth and age. Using this template rather than simply inserting the date into articles allows for the inclusion of hidden metadata about the date. This metadata can be used by web browsers and other software tools to extract the details, and display them using some other website or mapping tool, index, or search them. Template parameters ...
Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status; 1: 1: Insert 'B' for a birth date, leave blank for a death date. Suggested values B Auto value: String: suggested: Year of birth: 2: no description. Default Example 1942: Number: suggested: Month of birth: 3: as a ...
Template:Birth date will return a person's date of birth. Using this template rather than simply inserting the date into articles allows for the inclusion of hidden metadata about the date. This metadata can be used by web browsers and other software tools to extract the details, and display them using some other website or mapping tool, index ...