Template:Marriage
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Usage
Intended for use in Infoboxes, specifically {{Infobox person}} and templates calling Infobox person. {{Marriage}} takes up to three unnamed parameters (name, start date, end date) plus an optional named parameter "end=" to provide the reason for the end of the marriage.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spouse's name | 1 | Name of the person to whom the subject married. May be omitted, typically for remarriages to the same spouse. | String | suggested |
| Date married | 2 | Date the marriage began. | Date | suggested |
| Date ended | 3 | Date the marriage was dissolved or the spouse of the article's subject died. | Date | optional |
| Reason marriage ended | end reason | Reason for marriage's end. Suggested reasons are automatically abbreviated. If the marriage ended due to death of article's subject, do not provide a reason.
| String | optional |
Examples and usage notes
{{Infobox person}} | |
|---|---|
| Spouses | John Smith (m. 1895–1905)John Doe
(m. 1885; died 1888)Jane Doe (m. 2002)John Q. Public (m. 2002–2010)John Q. Citizen
(m. 2002; div. 2010)
(m. 2012)John Q. Taxpayer
(m. 2002, divorced)Joe Blow (div. 2010)Joe Bloggs (before 2010)Joe Sixpack (until 2010)Joe Schmo (divorced)Juan Perez (after 2010) |
Infoboxes already reduce text size to 88%, and MOS:FONTSIZE sets a lower limit for text size at 85% of the normal page font size, so it is not appropriate to use font size reduction when this template is used in an infobox. The example here is produced by: <syntaxhighlight style="font-size:small;" lang="wikitext">
Marriage | |
|---|---|
| Spouses | John Smith (m. 1895–1905)John Doe
(m. 1885; died 1888)Jane Doe (m. 2002)John Q. Public (m. 2002–2010)John Q. Citizen
(m. 2002; div. 2010)
(m. 2012)John Q. Taxpayer
(m. 2002, divorced)Joe Blow (div. 2010)Joe Bloggs (before 2010)Joe Sixpack (until 2010)Joe Schmo (divorced)Juan Perez (after 2010) |
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- None of the parameters are required on their own, but if a template is missing all three of start date, end date, and reason, an error message will be displayed.
- Use of the first two parameters with
|end=(|reason=) will cause a line break between the name and the start date. - Use of Template:Dc or Template:Dc for this purpose has been deprecated (see discussion).
- If the marriage ended with the death of the article's subject, Template:Insource.
- For either date parameter, only the year will be displayed; if a full date is provided, it is included via a tooltip; i.e., Template:Tla.
Tracking categories
- Category:Marriage template errors (0)Template:Sup
- Category:Pages using Marriage with duplicate parameters (0) Template:Sup
- Category:Pages using Marriage with unknown parameters (0) Template:Sup
- Category:Pages using Marriage with deprecated parameters (0) Template:Sup
- Template:Sup Populated by template logic; contains invalid/missing dates and unsupported parameters/values.
- Template:Sup Populated via parameter validation.