Template:PhilPapers/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:PhilPapers.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Purpose

This is a template to generate links to entries – an article, a journal, a category or a list of search results – in the PhilPapers, an online directory of philosophy articles.

Note: This template should generally only be used in the External links sections of articles; it should not be used in citations, references or bibliography. Consider using {{citation}}, {{cite web}} or related templates for those purposes.

Parameters and usage

This template takes (up to) three (unnamed) parameters – the first and the second are required, the third is optional:

 {{PhilPapers 
 | {{{1}}}
 | {{{2}}} 
 | {{{3}}} 
}}

{{{1}}}: either category, rec, search or journal
{{{2}}}: PhilPapers entry id (string)^[a]
{{{3}}}: Alternate link name (optional)^[b]

Example 1

Browsing from PhilPapers' homepage through "African/Africana Philosophy" > "African Philosophy" > "African Philosophy: History and Traditions" > "Ancient Egyptian Philosophy" will land you at https://philpapers.org/browse/ancient-egyptian-philosophy, which is the PhilPapers category (|1=category) on "Ancient Egyptian Philosophy"; then copying the URL extension string into the second unnamed parameter (|2=ancient-egyptian-philosophy):

{{PhilPapers|category|ancient-egyptian-philosophy|custom text}}

will produce "custom text at PhilPapers", where "custom text" is an external link to PhilPapers' category on Ancient Egyptian Philosophy.

Example 2

The article "Aristotle on Geometrical Potentialities", at https://philarchive.org/rec/IWAAOG, is a record (|1=rec) in the PhilPapers database; and its id is |2=IWAAOG. Thus:

{{PhilPapers|rec|IWAAOG|Aristortoise is an Aristurtle}}

will produce the external link: "Aristortoise is an Aristurtle at PhilPapers"^[c]

If you still have any doubts or questions about the use of the template, you can ask at User talk:Gregbard.

Notes

↑ Entries can be found by browsing topics from the PhilPapers' homepage or using their search box.
↑ If this value is empty, the link text defaults to the title of the Wikipedia page where this template is transcluded
↑ Remember: the third unnamed parameter overrides the default text, which is not the title of the article at PhilPapers.

[1] Entries can be found by browsing topics from the PhilPapers' homepage or using their search box.

[2] If this value is empty, the link text defaults to the title of the Wikipedia page where this template is transcluded

[3] Remember: the third unnamed parameter overrides the default text, which is not the title of the article at PhilPapers.

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