Module:Authority control/doc

This is the documentation page for Module:Authority control

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This module depends on the following other modules:

This module contains the code of the {{Authority control}} template. See its documentation.

Parameters, Wikidata properties, and tracking categories

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Additional tracking categories

This module also implements the following hidden tracking categories:

Category:Pages with red-linked authority control categories (9) – error category to identify missing categories
Category:Wikipedia articles with deprecated authority control identifiers (0) – fix/migrate/remove deprecated IDs
Category:Wikipedia articles with suppressed authority control identifiers (0) – tracking only (no error)
Category:Pages using authority control with parameters (0) – articles and categories transcluding this template with explicit parameters, i.e. not loaded from WikiData (no error)
Category:VIAF not on Wikidata (0)
Category:VIAF different on Wikidata (0)
Category:Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers (0)
Category:Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-LCCN identifiers (0)
Category:Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers (4)

Number of identifiers