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

Usage

Named parameters: {{Facebook page | id= page ID }}; {{Facebook page | id= page ID | name= Displayed Name }}; {{Facebook page | id= page ID | name= Displayed Name | link= no }}

Unnamed parameters: {{Facebook page | ID }}; {{Facebook page | ID | Displayed Name }}

Using Wikidata property (P4003): {{Facebook page}}; {{Facebook page | name= Displayed Name }}; {{Facebook page | name= Displayed Name | link= no }}

Parameters

Named parameters, for URLs such as https://www.facebook.com/pages/id

|id= is the page ID of the Facebook account.
|name= is the description or display name used in the link text.
|link= suppresses the wikilink to Facebook in the words "on Facebook".

Unnamed parameters, for URLs such as https://www.facebook.com/id

The first unnamed parameter is the ID of the Facebook account.
The second unnamed parameter is the description or display name used in the link text.
Named parameter |link= may be used here as well

Examples

Named parameters

In these examples, the Facebook page ID is wikipedia/103767749661773 and description in the link text is Wikipedia:

* {{Facebook page | id= wikipedia/103767749661773 | name= Wikipedia }}

Wikipedia on Facebook

This example is identical except for the suppress wikilink option:

* {{Facebook page | id= wikipedia/103767749661773 | name= Wikipedia | link= no }}

Wikipedia on Facebook

For these examples, the URL generated by the template is:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/wikipedia/103767749661773

Unnamed parameters

In this example, the Facebook user account is wikipedia and the description in the link is Wikipedia:

* {{Facebook page | wikipedia | Wikipedia }}

Wikipedia on Facebook

For this example, the URL generated by the template is:

https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia

Using Wikidata

Generally, Wikidata should contain article subjects' Facebook page ID in property P4003, allowing the ID parameter to be omitted:

{{Facebook page}}

{{Facebook page |name=NAME }}

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

{{Facebook page}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.

Tracking category

Category:Facebook template missing ID and not in Wikidata (0)