Template:Facebook page

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{{{CRITERION}}}{{{name}}} on Facebook

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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 Wikipedia article" and when the links to Facebook "provide the reader with unique content and are not prominently linked from other official websites". Wikipedia is not a directory for helping Facebook users find pages on Facebook.

This template uses the Wikidata property:

NO LABEL (P4003) (see uses)

This template uses Lua:

Module:EditAtWikidata (sandbox)

Template:Facebook page displays an external link to a page at Facebook, a social networking website. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.

1 Usage
2 Parameters
3 Examples
4 Tracking category
5 See also

Usage

Named parameters: {{Facebook page | id= page ID }}; {{Facebook page | id= page ID | name= Displayed Name }}; {{Facebook page | id= page ID | name= Displayed Name | link= no }}

Unnamed parameters: {{Facebook page | ID }}; {{Facebook page | ID | Displayed Name }}

Using Wikidata property (P4003): {{Facebook page}}; {{Facebook page | name= Displayed Name }}; {{Facebook page | name= Displayed Name | link= no }}

Parameters

Named parameters, for URLs such as https://www.facebook.com/pages/id

|id= is the page ID of the Facebook account.
|name= is the description or display name used in the link text.
|link= suppresses the wikilink to Facebook in the words "on Facebook".

Unnamed parameters, for URLs such as https://www.facebook.com/id

The first unnamed parameter is the ID of the Facebook account.
The second unnamed parameter is the description or display name used in the link text.
Named parameter |link= may be used here as well

Examples

Named parameters

In these examples, the Facebook page ID is wikipedia/103767749661773 and description in the link text is Wikipedia:

* {{Facebook page | id= wikipedia/103767749661773 | name= Wikipedia }}

Wikipedia on Facebook

This example is identical except for the suppress wikilink option:

* {{Facebook page | id= wikipedia/103767749661773 | name= Wikipedia | link= no }}

Wikipedia on Facebook

For these examples, the URL generated by the template is:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/wikipedia/103767749661773

Unnamed parameters

In this example, the Facebook user account is wikipedia and the description in the link is Wikipedia:

* {{Facebook page | wikipedia | Wikipedia }}

Wikipedia on Facebook

For this example, the URL generated by the template is:

https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia

Using Wikidata

Generally, Wikidata should contain article subjects' Facebook page ID in property P4003, allowing the ID parameter to be omitted:

{{Facebook page}}

{{Facebook page |name=NAME }}

If the Wikidata property is not defined, the output is:

{{Facebook page}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.

Tracking category

Category:Facebook template missing ID and not in Wikidata (672)