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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 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 .
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 }} ).
The project notice designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that relates to this WikiProject. Please see the assessment page for parameters to use in rating articles. {{Portal|Biography}} Biography portal; Shows a standardized link to the Biography portal, and may be suitable for the "See also" sections of biographies. {{User ...
Wikipedia:Navigation templates, templates that link between multiple articles belonging to the same topic; 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 ...
[[Category:WikiProject Biography templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:WikiProject Biography templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.
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 .
So, if you are intending to apply one of the templates to an article about a scientist, academic, or classical composer, musician or singer, first ask on the Talk page. In addition, other infoboxes may be available that are not listed here but recommended by a particular work group (see Category:People and person infobox templates ) .