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The external links guideline recommends avoiding links to LinkedIn unless the profile is an official account, "controlled by the subject (organization or individual person) of the Wikipedia article" and when the links to LinkedIn "provide the reader with unique content and are not prominently linked from other official websites". Wikipedia is not a directory for helping LinkedIn users find pages on LinkedIn.

This template uses the Wikidata property:

NO LABEL (P6634) (see uses)

This template uses Lua:

Module:EditAtWikidata (sandbox)

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

Usage

Unnamed parameters: {{LinkedIn user | user name or number }}; {{LinkedIn user | user name or number | Displayed Name }}

Named parameters: {{LinkedIn user | id= user name or number }}; {{LinkedIn user | id= user name or number | name= Displayed Name }}

Using Wikidata property (P6634): {{LinkedIn user}}; {{LinkedIn user | name= Displayed Name }}

Examples

Using Wikidata

Generally, Wikidata should contain article subjects' LinkedIn IDs in property (P6634), allowing the ID parameter to be omitted:

* {{LinkedIn user}}

* {{LinkedIn user |name=NAME }}

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

{{LinkedIn user}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.

Instances of this error are tracked in Category:LinkedIn template missing ID and not in Wikidata.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:LinkedIn user in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for LinkedIn user

<templatedata> {

   "description": "Generate a link to a LinkedIn profile in a standard format.",
   "params": {
       "id": {
           "label": "Account ID",
           "aliases": ["1"],
           "description": "ID of the LinkedIn account (part of the web page address, for www.Linkedin.com/in/example/ the account id is \"example\"). This parameter is optional if Wikidata property P6634 exists, but required if not.",
           "type": "string/line",
           "required": false,
           "default": "Wikidata property P2013"
       },
       "name": {
           "label": "Display name",
           "aliases": ["2"],
           "description": "Display name for the LinkedIn account",
           "type": "string/line",
           "required": false,
           "default": "Name of the page"
       }
   }

} </templatedata>

Usage

Examples

Using Wikidata

TemplateData

See also