Template talk:Birth date
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Handle year and month only
[edit]Is there a way to easily update this to handle the case where the day is not known? For example:
{{dob|2025|9}}→ September Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{"., 2025{{dob|2025|9|}}→ September , 2025
Ideally both of those would produce September, 2025.
—~~ Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:48, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
- The problem is that output from the template includes Template:Birth date#hCard microformat and that requires a full date. Just put "September 2025" (no template) if that is all that is known. Johnuniq (talk) 04:03, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- BOOOOO. That is disappointing. But also glad that I checked before just implementing it! —Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:05, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- @Zackmann08: See Template:Birth date#Notes:
- ...
- The template will appear broken when the parameters are left blank.
- When only the month or year of a person's birth and/or death are known, ... consider using the templates {{Birth year}} or {{Birth year and age}} instead.
- In other words: you're attempting to use the wrong template. Try
{{birth year|September 2025}}→ September 2025. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 16:07, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
- @Zackmann08: See Template:Birth date#Notes:
- BOOOOO. That is disappointing. But also glad that I checked before just implementing it! —Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:05, 12 September 2025 (UTC)