Template:WD translator

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To list a work on the Author page of a translator, where use of their name is redundant; using information imported from Wikidata.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
QID Main	1 qidmain	The qid number from the main wikidata record.	String	required
QID Scan	2 qidscan	adds a small scan link to the citation	String	suggested

Example

For a work translated by William Rae Macdonald, on his Author page:

{{WD translator|Q107661385|Q107644932}} produces:

The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms by John Napier (1889) (transcription project)

The second parameter is optional, so:

{{WD translator|Q107661385}} produces:

The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms by John Napier (1889) (transcription project)

more examples

The template is fairly flexible for the information it needs and can use and that is available:

• Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, illustrated by Walter Crane (1874)
• "The tale of a youth who set out to learn what fear was" by Brothers Grimm, edited by Andrew Lang, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, in The Blue Fairy Book (1889)

See Also

{{WD version}} -- the full template

There are versions with each of the people fields excluded, for use on Author pages of the named person:

{{WD author}}

{{WD editor}}

{{WD illustrator}}

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