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Template:CongLinks

This template uses Lua: Module:Check for unknown parameters (sandbox)

Wikidata has the properties:

• US Congress Bio ID (P1157) (see uses)

Vote Smart candidate ID (P3344) (see uses)

US Federal Election Commission ID (P1839) (see uses)

Template:CongLinks allows linking to external links found on most current U.S. Congress biographies and on many state-level political biographies. This will aid in the maintenance and standardization of these external links.

Usage

• This template is only appropriate for legislators who served any time during or after 1991.
• This template should notbesubstituted.

Cut and paste

{{CongLinks | congbio = | fec = | congress = | votesmart = }}

The order of the fields does not matter for results, but is useful for consistency and to see what's missing.

Fields

• All parameters are optional, but if you don't include any of them, nothing will show up.
• Do not use capital letters. They might disrupt the code.

Example

John Boehner:

* {{CongLinks | congbio = b000589 | fec = H0OH08029 | congress = john-boehner/102 | votesmart = 27015 }}

• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
• Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
• ProfileatVote Smart

Tracking category

• Category:Pages using Template:CongLinks with unknown parameters (0)

See also

• {{Bioguide}}
• {{Biographical Directory of Congress}}
• {{Cleanup Congress bio}} puts articles in the category Category:Biographical Directory of the United States Congress cleanup.
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Congress/Bioguide, a subpage of Project Congress, tracks how well information is imported from the Bioguide.