Template talk:Biographical Directory of Congress

message: By the way,  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)
thread_title: CongBio2

message: Does someone know how to create a bot?  There are approx. 2,600 articles that use:
:http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=
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)
thread_title:  Bot? 

message: how about listing the subjects name in the display thus:
* Barbara Billingsley Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress<noinclude>
it's a bit more in line with the other wp db referrals. --emerson7 | Talk 19:11, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Display format 

message: 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)
replies: text: The main reason I am asking is because a lot of articles were created by Polbot but don't include the proper attribution tag, .  If you don't want to add the category to this template, could you find a bot which would make sure all the articles created by Polbot have the  tag on them?  --Eastlaw (talk) 19:58, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: *I don't know much about bots, alas. I agree that all of the Polbot articles need the Bioguide tag, but I don't know much more about adding that tag to those articles.  I guess what you're asking really is to put that tag on those articles, not really to add this Category to this template.—Markles 20:46, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category request 

message: 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=, indicating that the  parameter's missing, which I'm fairly sure it isn't. Thanks. — Hysteria18 (Talk • Contributions) 18:02, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems that template doesn't support the use of named parameters. older ≠ wiser 18:09, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Black 

message: 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)
replies: text: Never mind; I figured it out. The documentation just needs to be rewritten. To make it work correctly you have to use "name=" and "findagrave=", not the given example format. Ntsimp (talk) 09:37, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Findagrave 

message: 
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)
replies: text: There is an inline parameter that you can pass to the template that prevents the bullet from being shown. For example,  produces "". — RockMFR 00:54, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  No bullet, pls 

message: 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:

Here is what the code currently looks like:
[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=
 ] at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
 
   {{#if:|
* 
--Kumioko (talk) 13:39, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I too can see no value in trying to subsume  in this template.  It is generic to (one supposes with very few exceptions - mostly under the witness protection program) a subset of dead people, and has no relation to Congress. Rich Farmbrough, 20:55, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change to this template 

message: The categories for CongBio should be:
*Category:People and person external link templates and 
Category:U.S. Congress external link templates
BioGuide is the template which should include:
*Category:United States government attribution templates
Flatterworld (talk) 18:06, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: * I have changed 's category, per your request.  But why change 's category?—Markles  21:26, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  CongBio and BioGuide template 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Ref at other than CongBio subject 

message: 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.  talk 22:43, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, it gets more complicated than that, since we also have the author parameter. I think the more relevant values for that are Historian of the United States Senate and Historian of the United States House of Representatives depending on the member, rather than the current quite generic "United States Congress". This all gets very complicated, and it makes me question a bit whether it makes sense to have this dual-function template work as a reference at all.  talk 23:01, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publisher for refs?