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Wikipedia is not a soapbox for individuals to espouse their views. However, views held by politicians, writers, and others may be summarized in their biography only to the extent those views are covered by reliable sources that are independent of the control of the politician, writer, etc.
This is a documentation subpage for Template:Biography. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{ subst:Biography }} ).
Template:WikiProject Biography for talk page Bio template Template:Simple biography for an in-line biography The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Academicbio/doc .
Wikipedia:List of infoboxes for infoboxes, which are small panels that summarize key features of the page's subject. Wikipedia:Categorization for templates used for categories; Wikipedia:Citation templates for templates used to format article references and citations; Wikipedia:Requested templates, to request creation of a template. Category ...
Stub templates People stubs. Navigate to this category to browse for the appropriate stub template. Infoboxes Category:People and person infobox templates • List of infoboxes. Navigate to this category to browse for the appropriate infobox template, or check out the WikiProject's tailored list.
A readily accessible and authoritative source for the accepted name of a person who has written books, or who has been written about, is the US Library of Congress Authorities database, which provides the accepted name and variant names used by the British Library, the National Library of Canada, and other English-language libraries.
This template is used to configure the articles found in the Selected person or Selected biography section found on most Wikipedia Portal main pages. Use it on the article pages that are linked to the Selected person sub-page, e.g. Portal: Foo /Selected person/1 .
A template can be excluded from content by using {}. Support for this feature in various rendering services cannot be guaranteed. Note: Many templates use other templates to function. Therefore groups/types of templates (such as navboxes, sidebars and article message boxes) are excluded by adding the commonly used template to this category.