Editing Template:Authority control/doc (section)

==Usage==
:{{kbd|<nowiki>{{Authority control}}</nowiki>}}
As a general guideline:
# Insert the empty version
# Click "[[Help:Show preview|Show preview]]" to see which sources are automatically pulled from Wikidata
# If you know of more sources, add those sources to the article's [[WP:Wikidata#Access from Wikipedia|Wikidata item]], so that other language versions of Wikipedia will automatically benefit.

=== Suppression of identifiers ===
Identifiers can be selectively suppressed via the {{para|suppress}} parameter. For example {{Q|P434}} can be suppressed by typing:
:{{kbd|<nowiki>{{Authority control |suppress=P434}}</nowiki>}}

=== Specifying the Wikidata item ===
If a page is not connected to a Wikidata item (for example, a page in draft space, user space or project space), you can specify the appropriate item to draw data from, by using the {{para|qid}} parameter.
:{{kbd|<nowiki>{{Authority control |qid=Q49605590}}</nowiki>}}

To find the correct item, you can [[wikidata:Special:Search|search the database]]. If there is not yet an existing item, you can [[wikidata:Special:NewItem|create a new item]].

As soon as the page is connected to a Wikidata item, this parameter will be ignored so you can remove it from the template.

=== Additional Wikidata items ===
In some cases, you might need to specify additional items to draw data from. For example,
* [[Bonnie and Clyde]] also draws data from {{Q|Q2319886}} and {{Q|Q3320282}}
* [[North Rona]] also draws data from {{Q|Q28831543}}

To specify additional items, you can use the {{para|additional}} parameter. For example:
{{kbd|<nowiki>{{Authority control | additional = Q2319886, Q3320282}}</nowiki>}}

To automatically add additional links from related items, use {{para|additional|auto}}. This is useful for married couples, musical groups, etc.

=== Whitelists ===
A number of whitelists are configured, which allow only a limited selection of identifiers to be displayed. These can be used with the {{para|show}} parameter. For example, including {{para|show|arts}} will only show identifiers which have identified as particularly relevant to the arts.

Multiple whitelists may be used. For example:
{{kbd|<nowiki>{{Authority control|show=arts,SV}}</nowiki>}} adds identifiers from the arts and Sweden whitelists.

{{para|country}} can be used as an alias for {{para|show}} (but they can't both be used simultaneously). 

{{collapse|{{#invoke:Authority control/documentation|whitelisttable}}|List of whitelists}}