Template:Facebook page/doc

See also: Template:Facebook and Wikipedia:External links/Perennial websites

Template:Facebook page 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

Named parameters

{{Facebook page | id= page ID }}

{{Facebook page | id= page ID | name= Displayed Name }}

{{Facebook page | id= page ID | name= Displayed Name | link= no }}

Unnamed parameters

{{Facebook page | ID }}

{{Facebook page | ID | Displayed Name }}

Using Wikidata property Facebook page ID (P4003)

{{Facebook page}}

{{Facebook page | name= Displayed Name }}

{{Facebook page | name= Displayed Name | link= no }}

Parameters

Named parameters, for URLs such as https://www.facebook.com/pages/id

1. |id= is the page ID of the Facebook account.
2. |name= is the description or display name used in the link text.
3. |link= suppresses the wikilink to Facebook in the words "on Facebook".

Unnamed parameters, for URLs such as https://www.facebook.com/id

1. The first unnamed parameter is the ID of the Facebook account.
2. The second unnamed parameter is the description or display name used in the link text.
3. Named parameter |link= may be used here as well

Examples

Named parameters

In these examples, the Facebook page ID is wikipedia/103767749661773 and description in the link text is Wikipedia:

* {{Facebook page | id= wikipedia/103767749661773 | name= Wikipedia }}

• Wikipedia on Facebook

This example is identical except for the suppress wikilink option:

* {{Facebook page | id= wikipedia/103767749661773 | name= Wikipedia | link= no }}

• Wikipedia on Facebook

For these examples, the URL generated by the template is:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/wikipedia/103767749661773

Unnamed parameters

In this example, the Facebook user account is wikipedia and the description in the link is Wikipedia:

* {{Facebook page | wikipedia | Wikipedia }}

• Wikipedia on Facebook

For this example, the URL generated by the template is:

https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia

Using Wikidata

Generally, Wikidata should contain article subjects' Facebook page ID in property P4003, allowing the ID parameter to be omitted:

{{Facebook page}}

{{Facebook page |name=NAME }}

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

Tracking category

• Category:Facebook template missing ID and not in Wikidata (1)

See also

• {{Facebook}}, which uses Wikidata property Facebook username (P2013)
• Wikipedia:FACEBOOK
• {{Facebook navbox}}