Template:Facebook/sandbox

This is the template sandbox page for Template:Facebook (diff).
See also the companion subpage for test cases.

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Template:Facebook 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

Unnamed parameters: {{Facebook | user name or number }}; {{Facebook | user name or number | Displayed Name }}

Named parameters: {{Facebook | id= user name or number }}; {{Facebook | id= user name or number | name= Displayed Name }}

Using Wikidata property: {{Facebook}}; {{Facebook | name= Displayed Name }}

Examples

Linking to a profile or page

In this example, the Facebook user name is zuck and the link text is Mark Zuckerberg:

https://www.facebook.com/zuck

* {{Facebook | zuck | Mark Zuckerberg }}

Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook

In this example, there is a Facebook user number instead of a user name:

https://www.facebook.com/4

* {{Facebook |id= 4 |name= Mark Zuckerberg }}

Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook

On the article about an individual, the display name and the article title will usually be identical and can be omitted. For example, on the article page Facebook, linking to their own Facebook profile could be done with:

https://www.facebook.com/facebook

* {{Facebook | facebook }}

Facebook/sandbox on Facebook

Linking to a specific section

Links to specific sections on a Facebook page used to include the '=' symbol in the URL but no longer need to. Because '=' is a special character in Wikipedia template syntax (which separates a parameter's name from its value), it cannot be used directly in the id. If you want the link to arrive at a specific section, use the newer URL syntax, for example to link directly to the Photos section of a profile, add /photos to the username:

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/photos

* {{Facebook|zuck/photos|name=Mark Zuckerberg}}

Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook

Using Wikidata

Generally, Wikidata should contain article subjects' Facebook IDs in property Facebook username (P2013), allowing the ID parameter to be omitted:

* {{Facebook}}

* {{Facebook |name=NAME }}

If the Wikidata property is not defined, the output is:

{{Facebook}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Facebook in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Facebook

Generate a link to a Facebook profile in a standard format.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Account ID	`id` `1`	ID of the Facebook account (part of the web page address, for www.facebook.com/example/ the account id is "example"). This parameter is optional if Wikidata property P2013 exists, but required if not. Default Wikidata property P2013 Example zuck	Line	optional
Display name	`name` `2`	Display name for the Facebook account Default Name of the page Example Mark Zuckerberg	Line	optional

Tracking category

Category:Facebook ID different from Wikidata (873) – comparison is case insensitive, so zuck matches Zuck
Category:Facebook ID not in Wikidata (4,173)
Category:Facebook template missing ID and not in Wikidata (0)
Category:Pages using Facebook with unknown parameters (0)