Template:NFL.com player/sandbox

{{{name}}} at NFL.com

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Template:NFL.com player displays an external link to an American football player's profile at NFL.com, the official website of the National Football League. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.

Usage

Active player (ID in Wikidata)

{{NFL.com player}}

{{NFL.com player | name= Displayed Name }}

Active player (ID in template)

{{NFL.com player | firstname-lastname }}

{{NFL.com player | id= firstname-lastname }}

{{NFL.com player | firstname-lastname | Displayed Name }}

{{NFL.com player | id= firstname-lastname | name= Displayed Name }}

Former player (ID in template)

{{NFL.com player | firstname-lastname | archive= NUMBER }}

{{NFL.com player | id= firstname-lastname | archive= NUMBER }}

{{NFL.com player | firstname-lastname | Displayed Name | archive= NUMBER }}

{{NFL.com player | id= firstname-lastname | name= Displayed Name | archive= NUMBER }}

Examples

ID in Wikidata or template

Usage in the article Tom Brady

* {{NFL.com player}}

* {{NFL.com player|tom-brady}}

* {{NFL.com player|tom-brady|archive=20200516070320}}

Output

• Tom Brady at NFL.com Error creating thumbnail: File missing
• Tom Brady at NFL.com
• Tom Brady at NFL.com (archived)

Current URL with first-last ID — Wikidata property (P9338)

https://www.nfl.com/players/tom-brady/

https://web.archive.org/web/20200516070320/https://www.nfl.com/players/tom-brady/

Former URLs with numeric ID — Wikidata property (P3539)

http://www.nfl.com/player/wd/2504211/profile (archived 2019)

http://www.nfl.com/player/tombrady/2504211/profile (archived 2011)

Other previous URLs with different IDs

http://www.nfl.com/players/profile?id=BRA371156 (archived 2007)

http://www.nfl.com/players/tombrady/profile?id=BRA371156 (archived 2007)

http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/187741 (archived 2002)

No ID in Wikidata or template

Usage

* {{NFL.com player}}

Output

• NFL.com player/sandbox at NFL.com

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for NFL.com player

This template displays an external link to an American football player's profile at NFL.com, the official website of the National Football League. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
ID	id 1	The ID portion of the URL, such as tom-brady in https://www.nfl.com/players/tom-brady/. This parameter is optional if Wikidata property P9338 exists, but required if not. Default Wikidata property P9338 Example tom-brady	String	optional
Name	name 2	The link text, which should be the name of the player. This parameter is optional; it defaults to the Wikipedia article name, without any disambiguation such as "(football player)". Default {{PAGENAMEBASE}} Example Tom Brady	String	optional
Internet Archive date/time	archive	A number indicating the date and time of an archive at the Internet Archive website, such as 20200516070320 in https://web.archive.org/web/20200516070320/https://www.nfl.com/players/tom-brady/ (2020-05-16 07:03:20 archive of https://www.nfl.com/players/tom-brady/). Example 20200516070320	Number	optional

Tracking categories

template with ID

• Category:NFL.com player template with ID different from Wikidata (0)
• Category:NFL.com player template with ID not in Wikidata (0)

template missing ID

• Category:NFL.com player template missing ID and not in Wikidata (0)

External links

• Player search at NFL.com
• Player list at NFL.com

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