Template:Infobox Rugby Union biography is intended to provide a quick overview of a Rugby Union player's details to enable a reader to extract the most oft-needed information without trawling through the article proper. It is most appropriately used for professional players and should not be leveraged for amateurs, no matter their profile.
{{{birth_date}}} — The player's date of birth. When the full date (year/month/day) is known, use {{birth date and age}} for living people or {{birth date}} ; for deceased individuals. If only year or year/month is known, use {{birth year and age}}.
{{{birth_place}}} — The location of the player's birth.
{{{death_date}}} — The player's date of death; use {{death date and age}}
{{{death_place}}} — The location of the player's death.
{{{height}}} — The player's height in the units most common within the country he plays. These units should not be linked. (see Units of measurement)
{{{weight}}} — The player's weight in the units most common within the country he plays. These units should not be linked. (see Units of measurement)
{{{occupation}}} — The player's other occupations.
{{{school}}} — The school(s) attended by the player.
{{{university}}} — The university(s) attended by the player.
{{{spouse}}} — The name of the player's spouse (should be accompanied by a citation)
{{{children}}} — The player's children (should be accompanied by a citation)
{{{relatives}}} — The player's other notable relatives. Bracket their relationship e.g. XXX (father)
Club information
{{{position}}} — The player's most common position. If a player is known for playing in multiple roles then the author should elect which are the most significant and explain the point more fully within the article.
{{{currentclub}}} — The club for which the player currently plays. Leave blank if retired.
Youth clubs
{{{youthyears}}} — A <br /> delimited list of years that the player has been at each youth club.
{{{youthclubs}}} — A <br /> delimited list of youth clubs that the player has been a member of.
Youth representative teams
{{{youthrepyears}}} — A <br /> delimited list of years that the player has been at each youth representative team.
{{{youthrepteam}}} — A <br /> delimited list of youth representative teams that the player has been a member of.
{{{youthrepcaps(points)}}} — A <br /> delimited list of appearances and (points) that the player has been awarded in their respective youth representative team.
Other clubs
{{{otheryears}}} —
{{{otherclubs}}} —
Senior clubs
{{{years}}} — A <br /> delimited list of years that the player has been contracted at each professional club.
{{{clubs}}} — A <br /> delimited list of professional clubs that the player has been contracted at.
{{{caps(points)}}} — A <br /> delimited list of appearances and (points) that the player has been awarded in first-team games only for each professional club.
Provincial sides
{{{ru_provinceyears}}} —
{{{ru_province}}} —
{{{ru_provincecaps}}} —
Super Rugby
{{{super14years}}} —
{{{super14}}} —
{{{super14caps}}} —
Representative teams
{{{repyears}}} — A <br /> delimited list of years that the player has been a participant in each national team.
{{{repteam}}} — A <br /> delimited list of representative teams that the player has been a member of, including non-senior teams such as U21.
{{{repcaps(points)}}} — A <br /> delimited list of appearances and (points) that the player has been awarded in all competitions and friendlies for each representative team.
Sevens National teams
{{{ru_sevensnationalyears}}} —
{{{ru_sevensnationalteam}}} —
{{{ru_sevensnationalcomp}}} —
Professional clubs coached
{{{coachyears}}} —
{{{coachclubs}}} —
Representative teams coached
{{{repcoachyears}}} —
{{{repcoachteams}}} —
Refereeing career
{{{refereeyears}}} — The years the referee was active in the competition.
{{{refereecomps}}} — The competitions the referee was in.
{{{refereecaps}}} — The number of caps, the referee has used in that competition.
Other information
{{{website}}} — The official site of the player. Use the {{URL}} template, i.e. {{URL|example.com}}
{{{pcupdate}}} — A timestamp of the last time the player's infobox career statistics were updated (not needed if the player has retired).
{{{repupdate}}} — A timestamp of the last time the player's infobox representative statistics were updated (not needed for former players).
Try to always consider that an infobox exists to support an article and provide a quick synopsis of important facts. This becomes vital when considering that the amount of space available within an infobox is significantly less than that available outside of it.
As per the ویکیپدیا:شیوهنامه/پیونددهی entry on linking, years should not be linked as they do not provide much benefit to the user. However, date of birth should be linked to enable date preferences to work (better still, use {{birth date and age}} for living people and {{birth date}} for the deceased). Linking of other entries is to be discouraged as most of these links will present themselves in the article's introduction; linking them in the infobox adds clutter and inhibits the speedy retrieval of facts.
In order to keep the infobox from ballooning laterally, it is wise to keep date formats as compact as possible. Highly accurate dates are more useful in the article itself. Typically editors will use the 2005-2006 incarnation but when very pressed for space, 05–06 may be useful.
If the start or end date of a players time at a club is unknown they should be aligned with the other years.
Where applicable, use only the location name of the team under the headings of "professional clubs" and "representative teams". That is, avoid using Sydney Roosters', but rather use Sydney. Also, in the event of a change of club name during the time in which the player served that club, use the name under which they joined. For example, Brad Fittler's infobox will show that he played for Sydney City rather than Sydney or Eastern Suburbs.
However, under "club name", use the full name of the club. For example, Craig Fitzgibbon currently plays for the Sydney Roosters rather than Sydney as will show below it. This naming system is in place for a number of reasons, the most important being consistency of information across all player entries on Wikipedia.
The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book or database. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.
