Template:coinage
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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 {{w}} inside the template is unnecessary and doesn't work. Alternatively, you can pass in a Wikidata QID (e.g. Q42), 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. The template will then automatically link to the article once it exists.
Example:
{{coinage|en|Josiah Willard Gibbs}}
evaluates to
Coined by Josiah Willard Gibbs
Example with more parameters:
{{coinage|en|Josiah Willard Gibbs|in=1881|nat=American|occ=scientist}}
evaluates to
Coined by American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1881
Example of automatic linking and description using a Wikidata ID:
evaluates to
Coined by American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs
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 Wiktionary: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.
Q42), which will automatically link to Wikipedia and prefill a description if possible. |w=(optional)- 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:
code:orcode:article.- The link can be disabled completely by supplying
-here.
- The link can be disabled completely by supplying
|in=(optional)- The year the word was coined; will be displayed after the coiner;
in=1852will be displayed as "... in 1852." |nationality=or|nat=(optional)- The nationality of the person, company or other entity that contained the term (such as "French", "German").
|occupation=,|occupation2=or|occ=,|occ2=(optional) …- {The occupation of the person (such as "scientist") or the type of the entity (such as "company").
|alt=(optional)- The name to display in the text, if different from the name the entry should be categorized under.
|sort=(optional)- The sort key to use for categories.
|exnihilo=1- Indicates that the term was coined ex nihilo and adds entry to the relevant category.
|nocap=1- Show the initial text with a lowercase initial letter.
|notext=1- Omit the initial text altogether. The first thing displayed will be the name of the coiner.
|nobycat=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.
|nocat=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).