Template talk:Showfacts biography

This is great. Note the utility of |default- it can be used to avoid needless if else logic. If the query returns nothing, you can insert text like "at an unknown date" or alternatively fire another query. EG if date is empty, then return " ".

Auto narratives like this are especially useful because the massive scale of details that are stored in the SMW fields cannot be practically displayed in the person infobox, and are unsuitable for tabular output. For example death causes, and other properties that I haven't added like physical description and medical history to general info. We might like to provide some way to clearly allow contributors a forms way of correcting/adding details to these narratives. Perhaps decoration like a border or subtle background color with a small text link for editing details like we have with showinfo person/ showfacts person? - ~  Ph l o x  18:34, 15 June 2009 (UTC)