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By the way, {{CongBio2}} adds more information for Senators and members of the House who served in or since 1991. Therefore, I think it is better to use for them. —Markles 00:55, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Does someone know how to create a bot? There are approx. 2,600 articles that use:
instead of
This search here gives those results: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%5Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fbioguide.congress.gov%2Fscripts%2Fbiodisplay.pl%3Findex%3D&fulltext=Search
Can someone create a bot to replace all of these?—Markles 15:31, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Does anyone know of an inline reference version of this? This template won't work for reference purposes because it starts with *. —Wknight94 (talk) 20:35, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
<ref name="congbio">{{CongBio|d000191|inline}}</ref>
Done. Use {{CongBio|number|name if necessary|inline=1}}. east.718 at 21:44, December 22, 2007how about listing the subjects name in the display thus:
it's a bit more in line with the other wp db referrals. --emerson7 | Talk 19:11, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, can someone please be kind enough to add Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress to this template (within includeonly tags, of course)? —Eastlaw (talk) 21:47, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If you understand this template, could you please be so kind as to fix the use of it at John Black (U.S. Senator). I'm afraid it's beyond me what's actually wrong with it, but it's directing me to http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index={{{1}}}, indicating that the {{{1}}} parameter's missing, which I'm fairly sure it isn't. Thanks. — Hysteria18 (Talk • Contributions) 18:02, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think the automatic Findagrave functionality is working correctly. It's not showing up on Jacob Johnson (U.S. politician); did I do something wrong? Ntsimp (talk) 09:33, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
{{editprotected}} Please remove the leading asterisk output from this template. This is more useful as a <ref> than as an item in an External links section, but it formats oddly. Some older uses in External links might have to be updated, but it is a small price to pay for progress.--Workbrick (talk) 00:12, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
inline parameter that you can pass to the template that prevents the bullet from being shown. For example, {{CongBio|s123456|name=John Smith|inline=y}} produces "United States Congress. "John Smith (id: s123456)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.". — RockMFR 00:54, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]I made a few changes to this template in its sanbox and I wanted to present them here before implementing. First I simplified the coding by using the Cite web template, I added a couple more option fields (such as work and accessdate) and I removed the logic that links it to the Find a Grave template. In my opinion if we are going to link to the Find a Grave template we should use the Cong links template or keep them separate. If the decision is made to keep the logic however then it can be added in before implementing it. Any comments on these new changes? I alinged it so its easier to read but here is what I changes the code to look like:
{{Cite web
|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index={{{1|{{{grid}}}}}}
|title={{{2|{{{name|{{PAGENAME}}}}}}}}
|publisher= [[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]: 1774 - Present
|work={{{work|}}}
|accessdate={{{accessdate|}}}}}
Here is what the code currently looks like:
{{#if:
{{{inline|}}}||*}}[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index={{{1}}}
{{{2|{{{name|{{PAGENAME}}}}}}}}] at the ''[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]
''{{#if:{{{date|}}}|. Retrieved {{{date}}}|}}
{{#if:{{{findagrave|}}}|
* {{Find a Grave|name={{{2|{{{name|{{PAGENAME}}}}}}}}|{{{findagrave}}}|accessdate={{{date|}}}}}
--Kumioko (talk) 13:39, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've been bold and implemented the template with {{cite web}}. I did not see this suggestion from 6 years ago until after I had made the changes, but my changes are very close to those that were proposed here. I modelled them on the template {{National Heritage List for England}} -- PBS (talk) 20:23, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The categories for CongBio should be:
BioGuide is the template which should include:
Flatterworld (talk) 18:06, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Could someone adjust the code to make it possible to use the template for refs somewhere other than at the WP article for the CongBio subject? This would be especially helpful for simplifying code at lists. -Rrius (talk) 05:34, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
When this is used as a reference, I think we ought to add United States Government Publishing Office as the publisher. It's not clear just from the work name that it's an official government website, and the citeweb documentation seems to advise including the publisher in situations like this where it can't automatically be inferred. Please let me know if there are any objections; otherwise I'll implement in a bit. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 22:43, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
