See en:Wikipedia:Authority control for more information.

This metadata template links Wikipedia articles to various library catalogue systems (see authority control). At the moment, it is used almost exclusively in biographical articles.

The supported authority files include:

  1. Integrated Authority File (de:Gemeinsame Normdatei or GND)
  2. Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN)
  3. Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)

{{Authority control |GND= |LCCN=n/xx/xxxxxx |VIAF= }}

The following data sources are accepted:

Parameter name Scope Name Search Remarks
GND All Integrated Authority File (Gemeinsame Normdatei) [១] [២] Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the German National Library
LCCN People Library of Congress Control Number See Wikipedia:Authority control#LCCN for formatting instructions
VIAF People Virtual International Authority File International authority data from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)

{{Authority control|GND=135882591|LCCN=nb/2001/68162|VIAF=26568437}} for អង្គឌួង (Ang Duong) produces:

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