ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Sports-reference/doc

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Module:SportsReference

ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Sports-reference displays an external link to an Olympic Games athlete profile at the Sports Reference web site (Sports-Reference.com).

Usage

The basic way to use the template is to insert this:

{{Sports-reference}}

If this results in an error, that means there is no Sports Reference statement for the item in Wikidata. If you would like, you can fix it; if you don't want to, you can use the optional backup parameter thusly:

{{Sports-reference|optional backup parameter}}

This parameter is the page's ID on the Sports Reference website (found in the URL). For Bjørn Dæhlie, that is da/bjorn-daehlie-1, from the URL: https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/bjorn-daehlie-1.html

Do not use this template for references. For that, see {{Cite sports-reference}}.

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Sports-reference

This template displays an external link to an Olympic Games athlete profile at the Sports Reference web site (Sports-Reference.com).

Template parameters
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
ID	`1` `id`	ID portion of the URL for an athlete's Sports Reference web page. Example: ab/jeremy-abbott-2 is the ID portion of https://www.sports-reference/olympics/athletes/ab/jeremy-abbott-2.html Default	String	required

Examples

When the ID is in Wikidata

Usage in the article Bjørn Dæhlie:

{{Sports-reference}}

Output:

Bjørn Dæhlie at Sports Reference

When there is no ID in Wikidata

Usage in the article Paul Elvstrøm:

{{Sports-reference|el/paul-elvstrom-1}}

Output:

Paul Elvstrøm at Sports Reference

Add ID in Wikidata

Find the athlete's ID on the Sports Reference website. To do this, search for the athlete here, and look at the URL. The ID is everything between https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ and .html, so for Livio Berruti, the ID is be/livio-berruti-1.
In order to add this to Wikidata:
1. Click "Wikidata item" under "Tools" to the left of the article.
2. Go to the bottom of the section called "Statements" (just above the one called "Wikipedia pages linked to this item")
3. Click the bottom-most link called "[add]"
4. Type in "Sports Reference" in the first box that appears, and click "Sports Reference ID" in the dropdown that appears
5. In the next box, paste the ID (be/livio-berruti-1 in the example above) and press enter
6. You're done! If you go back to the article and refresh it (maybe try to purge the page by adding ?action=purge at the end of the URL), the link should work properly.
If you find this process too cumbersome, you are always free to use the optional backup parameter instead.