Module:Person date/doc

This is the documentation page for Module:Person date

This module is intended to aid in calculating/formatting birth dates and death dates in {{Infobox person}} and other People and person infobox templates.

This module generates errors when it encounters invalid input. Error descriptions and how to fix them are listed at Category:Pages using age template with invalid date.

Usage

{{#invoke:person date|birth}}
{{#invoke:person date|death}}

In infoboxes

{{Infobox
...
| label# = Born
| data#  = {{#invoke:person date|birth}}

| label# = Died
| data#  = {{#invoke:person date|death}}
...
}}

Or

{{Infobox
...
| label#    = Born
| data#     = {{br separated entries
   |1={{#if:{{{birth_name|}}}|<div style="display:inline" class="nickname">{{{birth_name|}}}</div>}}
   |2={{#invoke:person date|birth}}
   |3={{#if:{{{birth_place|}}}|<div class="birthplace">{{{birth_place|}}}</div>}}
}}

| label#    = Died
| data#     = {{br separated entries
  |1={{#invoke:person date|death}}
  |2={{#if:{{{death_place|}}}|<div class="deathplace">{{{death_place|}}}</div>}}
}}
...
}}

Areas for improvement

Currently the module does not handle anything that is not a simple date. So anything with a reference tag is not evaluated by the code.
If |birth_date={{bda|1993|11|7}} (for example) then |death_date= will not be parsed. It will just be returned as the original string. Thus no age is calculated.

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