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This page is intended to summarise the current (as of October 2008) state of biographical metadata on Misplaced Pages. Where such data exists, what tools are available to extract and use it, and what systems are in place to synchronise, update and extend existing data. Please add more to this summary as needed.
Examples of biographical metadata include:
- Date of birth
- Date of death
- Surname and given names
- Gender (currently not covered at all)
- Place of birth
- Place of death
- Relationships (marriages and genealogy)
- Location of grave or other resting place (see Geographical coordinates)
Examples of biographical metadata systems used on Misplaced Pages-EN include:
- Misplaced Pages:Persondata
- Year of birth and year of death categories
- Birth and death and age data in an article and an article infobox
- hCard microformats
- See WikiProject Microformats & WikiProject Microformats/hcard
- Currently applied mainly through biographical infoboxes; see Category:Templates generating hCards
- There is a need for a template to apply hCards in inline text, for people whose biographical article has no infobox, or who appear in articles but who are not the subject of a biographical article.
- Misplaced Pages:DEFAULTSORT values
- The {{Lifetime}} template combines year categories and DEFAULTSORT
Missing data
Various systems exist to track and update missing data.
- Category:Missing middle or first names
- Category:Articles missing birth or death information
- Category:Template computed age - allows tracking of ages and correction of mistakes
External databases
Examples of external databases that include biographical metadata include:
- Freebase website
- NNDB website
- WorldCat Identities, which links to the Library of Congress Name Authority File (especially useful for providing variant name forms)
- Internet Movie Database - biographies of actors and related professional