Template:Marriage/doc

This template specifies in a structured form the particulars of a marriage: the names of the spouses, the period of the marriage, and the location of the ceremony where the two were joined. This adds the ability to interoperate with net applications that understand relationships between people and time and place information. For instance, seeing a 1000 foot view of a location of a wedding described in wikipedia article is a single click away. This is possible with Google/Mapquest/Yahoo used directly from wikipedia articles when viewed with a microformats aware browser. Unlike coord, no intermediate jumps are necessary, and simple text descriptions may be used to describe the location. This is not limited to map applications and it is currently thought that this functionality will be standard in browsers in the 2010 time frame. For step by step information on how to enable this functionality, see instructions here. If the individuals specified in the template consider themselves to be in a marriage as defined in the article Marriage, then this template is applicable.

Usage: The template would typically be in an infobox, such as in 's spouse field. However, it may be used anywhere in an article.

Example usage
The typical use of is to specify a spouse in an article. See: Joseph Needham, spouse parameter:
 * Lu Gwei-Djen (m. 1989-1991)
 * Full dates are supported in any format with standard output as years only
 * Michelle Obama (m. October 3, 1992) produces Michelle Obama (m. October 3, 1992)

Example demonstrating multiple options: Michelle Obama (m. October 3, 1992) produces Michelle Obama (m. October 3, 1992)