Template:AuthorHeader/Doc

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Purpose
This template provides a standard header for bibliography & comment pages in the ISFDB (normally found in the "Author:" namespace). It provides a link to the author or artist's summery bibliography in the ISFDB database, using A.

Usage
Please place this template at the top (first line) of an author page.

It may be called as:

(which will take the author name from the page name, and form the link accordingly). This format should be used in almost every case.

or as

(which will display the link with the name specified in the name parameter. This might be useful when there are different forms of the author name in use.)

In the very very unusual case that the wiki page has a name that is NOT the name of the author to be linked to in the DB, or when the name includes special characters such as ( or ) or ', call this template as

or as

Parameters
There are two optional parameters:

name This is the text used for the link display. It defaults to the page name or the altName parameter, if specified. If altName is specified, name should probably be specified as well.

altName This is the name of the author. It can be used to directly link to the author via , in case the author's name contains special characters (which would be transformed by the URLENCODE process used by A to auto-convert URL encodings, but also converts other non-alphanumeric characters to UTF-8) or in the very rare case where the wiki page has a different name that the author page in the db to which a link is desired.

Aliases
The following alternate names redirect to this template, and may be used in place of this template.


 * BibHeader
 * Author Header
 * BibliographyHeader
 * BibliographicCommentsHeader

Documentation source
This is documentation for the template AuthorHeader, transcluded from AuthorHeader/Doc.