Template:coinage/documentation

This template indicates that a term was coined by a certain person or group of people in a certain year or other date. It links the name of the coiner to Wikipedia, so using inside the template is unnecessary and doesn't work. Alternatively, you can pass in a Wikidata QID (e.g. ), which will automatically fetch the Wikipedia article, description, and name of the entity. This is especially useful for cases when a Wikidata item exists, but the corresponding Wikipedia article has not been created yet.

Example:

evaluates to

Example with more parameters:

evaluates to

Example of automatic linking and description using a Wikidata ID:

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The term will also be added to the respective categories, such as Category:English coinages and Category:English terms coined by Josiah Willard Gibbs.

Parameters

 * 1
 * The language code (see Languages) of the language the coined term belongs to.


 * 2
 * The name of the person, group or other entity that coined the term. Can optionally be specified as a Wikidata ID (e.g. ), which will automatically link to Wikipedia and prefill a description if possible.


 * w
 * The name of the article to link to. Defaults to the given name of the coiner on the English Wikipedia. To specify a different language code, use the colon syntax:  or.
 * The link can be disabled completely by supplying  here.


 * in
 * The year the word was coined; will be displayed after the coiner;  will be displayed as "... in 1852."


 * nationality or nat
 * The nationality of the person, company or other entity that contained the term (such as "French", "German").


 * occupation, occupation2 or occ, occ2 …
 * {The occupation of the person (such as "scientist") or the type of the entity (such as "company").


 * alt
 * The name to display in the text, if different from the name the entry should be categorized under.


 * sort
 * The sort key to use for categories.


 * 1
 * Show the initial text with a lowercase initial letter.


 * 1
 * Omit the initial text altogether. The first thing displayed will be the name of the coiner.


 * 1
 * Omits the "(language) terms coined by (coiner)" category. Used particularly when the coiner has only coined that specific term to avoid one-entry "coined by" categories.


 * 1
 * Omits both the "(language) coinages" and "(language) terms coined by (coiner)" categories. Use this when outlining the coinage of a term when the term wasn't coined in that language (e.g. in the etymology section of an English entry describing a term that was coined in German).