Template:Facebook
Template documentation | The external links guideline recommends avoiding links to Facebook unless the profile is an official account, "controlled by the subject (organization or individual person) of the PBC article" and when the links to Facebook "provide the reader with unique content and are not prominently linked from other official websites". PBC is not a directory for helping Facebook users find pages on Facebook. |
Usage[edit source]
Linking to a profile or Page[edit source]
In this example, the Facebook user account is zuck and the description in the link is Mark Zuckerberg:
{{Facebook|zuck|Mark Zuckerberg}}- Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook
In this example, there's an ID instead of user name:
{{Facebook |id=4 |name=Mark Zuckerberg}}- Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook
On the article about an individual, the display name and the article title will usually be identical and can be omitted. For example, on the article page Facebook, linking to their own Facebook profile could be done with:
Generally, Wikidata should contain article subjects' Facebook IDs in property P2013, allowing the ID parameter to be omitted:
{{Facebook}}{{Facebook |name=NAME }}
Linking to a specific section[edit source]
Links to specific sections on a Facebook page used to include the '=' symbol in the URL but no longer need to. Because '=' is a special character in PBC template syntax (which separates a parameter's name from its value), it cannot be used directly in the id. If you want the link to arrive at a specific section, use the newer URL syntax, for example to link directly to the Photos section of a profile, add /photos to the username:
{{Facebook|zuck/photos|name=Mark Zuckerberg}}- Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook
TemplateData[edit source]
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TemplateData for Facebook
Generate a link to a Facebook profile in a standard format.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Account ID | id 1 | ID of the Facebook account (part of the web page address, for www.facebook.com/example/ the account id is "example").
| Line | optional |
| Display name | name 2 | Display name for the Facebook account
| Line | optional |