Template:TV Guide person
Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]Template:TV Guide person displays an external link to a page for a person at the TV Guide website. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.
Usage
- Unnamed parameters
{{TV Guide person | ID }}{{TV Guide person | ID | NAME }}
- Named parameters
{{TV Guide person | id= ID }}{{TV Guide person | id= ID | name= NAME }}
- Using Wikidata property
{{TV Guide person}}{{TV Guide person | name= NAME }}
Instructions
- Go to TVGuide.com and search for the person you want.
- Click on the correct link to go to the person's page. Be sure you're getting the right person.
- The page URL should look like:
https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/first-last/#######/- and "#######" indicates a number.
- Add this text to the External links section:
{{TV Guide person | ####### | Name }}- where
#######is the number you've copied - and
Nameis the person's name (default is article name).
Examples
Current ID number (10 digits)
- Usage in the article Pauley Perrette, with article name as link text
* {{TV Guide person | 3030173187 }}* {{TV Guide person | id= 3030173187 }}
- Usage with name parameter as link text
* {{TV Guide person | 3030173187 | Pauley Perrette }}* {{TV Guide person | id= 3030173187 | name= Pauley Perrette }}
- Output
- URL in template
- https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/-/3030173187/
Former ID number (6 or 7 digits)
- Usage in the article Pauley Perrette, with article name as link text
* {{TV Guide person | 190740 }}* {{TV Guide person | id= 190740 }}
- Usage with name parameter as link text
* {{TV Guide person | 190740 | Pauley Perrette }}* {{TV Guide person | id= 190740 | name= Pauley Perrette }}
- Output
- URL in template
- https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/-/190740/
ID in Wikidata
- Usage in the article Vanessa Williams
* {{TV Guide person}}* {{TV Guide person | name= Vanessa Williams }}
- Output
- URL in template
- https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/-/288378/
No ID in template or Wikidata
- Usage
* {{TV Guide person}}
- Output
-
- {{TV Guide person}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
See also
- {{TV Guide show}} which uses Wikidata property TV Guide show ID (former scheme) (P3804)
- {{TV Guide movie}}
- Selected filmography … examples of other templates