Template:Person-infobox/doc

From SABR Encyclopedia

The person infobox summarizes basic biographical and demographic information about a person. The information in infoboxes is synchronized against a master database of people. As such, editing these infoboxes is a primary way of submitting new and revised information about people. Following the conventions described below is very helpful in keeping the database clean and standardized.

The infobox implements the following parameters.

• nameLast: The last (family) name of a person. Where a person plays under an assumed or Anglicized name, indicate the name he played under here. Be sure to indicate his legal name in the article.
• nameFirst: The name by which the person was commonly addressed. This may be a diminutive, his middle name, or a common nickname. For instance, the "nameFirst" for George Herman Ruth would be "Babe."
• nameGiven: The given name of the person, excluding the family name. Suffixes such as "Jr" or "Sr" should be included here (e.g., "Jonathan Michael, Sr.") For Latin players, the matrilineal name is included in parentheses -- Minnie Minoso would be "Saturnino Orestes Armas (Arrieta)" for example.
• nameNick: Any nicknames associated with the person. For our purposes, these would be names used to refer to a person, for example, in print, but he would not typically be addressed by. "The Sultan of Swat" would be a nameNick for Babe Ruth.
• bats, throws: The player's preferred batting and throwing hand; use 'R', 'L', or 'S'. Indicate the hand used most often; if the player experimented with switch-hitting, for instance, indicate that as a note in his page.
• height: The person's height in inches.
• weight: The person's playing weight in pounds.
• birthYear, birthMonth, birthDay: The person's date of birth. Use four digits for the year.
• birthCity, birthState, birthCountry: The person's place of birth. Use the two-letter postal codes for US states and Canadian provinces. The two-letter ISO code for countries is preferred (e.g., the United States is US).
• deathYear, deathMonth, deathDay, deathCity, deathState, deathCountry: The person's date and place of death, following the same conventions as the date and place of birth.
• cemeteryName, cemeteryCity, cemeteryState, cemeteryCountry: The burial place of the person.
• schoolCollege: The college(s) or university(ies) attended by the person. Use a semicolon to separate multiple entries, if the person attended more than one postsecondary school.
• schoolSecondary: The high school (or equivalent) attended by the person. Indicate city and state/country, where known.