Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]Template:Facebook page displays an external link to a page at Facebook, a social networking website. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.
Usage
- Named parameters
{{Facebook page | id= page ID }}{{Facebook page | id= page ID | name= Displayed Name }}{{Facebook page | id= page ID | name= Displayed Name | link= no }}
- Unnamed parameters
{{Facebook page | ID }}{{Facebook page | ID | Displayed Name }}
- Using Wikidata property Facebook page ID (P4003)
{{Facebook page}}{{Facebook page | name= Displayed Name }}{{Facebook page | name= Displayed Name | link= no }}
Parameters
Named parameters, for URLs such as https://www.facebook.com/pages/id
|id=is the page ID of the Facebook account.|name=is the description or display name used in the link text.|link=suppresses the wikilink to Facebook in the words "on Facebook".
Unnamed parameters, for URLs such as https://www.facebook.com/id
- The first unnamed parameter is the ID of the Facebook account.
- The second unnamed parameter is the description or display name used in the link text.
- Named parameter
|link=may be used here as well
Examples
Named parameters
In these examples, the Facebook page ID is wikipedia/103767749661773 and description in the link text is Wikipedia:
This example is identical except for the suppress wikilink option:
* {{Facebook page | id= wikipedia/103767749661773 | name= Wikipedia | link= no }}- Wikipedia on Facebook
For these examples, the URL generated by the template is:
- https://www.facebook.com/pages/wikipedia/103767749661773
Unnamed parameters
In this example, the Facebook user account is wikipedia and the description in the link is Wikipedia:
For this example, the URL generated by the template is:
- https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia
Using Wikidata
Generally, Wikidata should contain article subjects' Facebook page ID in property P4003, allowing the ID parameter to be omitted:
{{Facebook page}}{{Facebook page |name=NAME }}
If the Wikidata property is not defined, the output is:
- {{Facebook page}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
Tracking category
See also
- {{Facebook}}, which uses Wikidata property Facebook username (P2013)
- Wikipedia:FACEBOOK
- {{Facebook navbox}}