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Converts various aliases/pen names of a person into a canonical name. Created primarily to be used inside template {{CiteTemp|Lyricist}}, but may be expanded for composers as well. | Converts various aliases/pen names of a person into a canonical name. Created primarily to be used inside template {{CiteTemp|Lyricist}}, but may be expanded for composers as well. | ||
The variant name (or names) should be added '''in all lowercase''' to the left of the equal sign, while the canonical name (which must be identical to the page title) goes after the equal sign. | |||
;Example: | ;Example: |
Revision as of 16:35, 13 June 2017
| anonymous | traditional | unknown = Anonymous lyricist
| horace = Quintus Horatius Flaccus
| mary macdonald = Màiri Dhòmhnallach
| ossian = James Macpherson
| petrarch = Francesco Petrarca
| phileas lebesgue = Philéas Lebesgue
| picander = Christian Friedrich Henrici
| shakespeare = William Shakespeare
| thomas of aquin | thomas of aquino | tommaso d'aquino = Thomas Aquinas
| tony kline = Anthony S. Kline
|#default = {{{1}}}
Converts various aliases/pen names of a person into a canonical name. Created primarily to be used inside template Lyricist, but may be expanded for composers as well.
The variant name (or names) should be added in all lowercase to the left of the equal sign, while the canonical name (which must be identical to the page title) goes after the equal sign.
- Example
{{Alias|Horace}} returns Quintus Horatius Flaccus