Template:Authority control/doc

Description
This metadata template links Wikisource pages to various library catalogue systems.

Authority control data should be added to the corresponding item at Wikidata, and the template will access authority control information from that project.

Authors
Add as an empty template. [Local parameter addition is deprecated, as all authority control data is to be added to the author's Wikidata page.]

Note: Add below copyright tags.

Texts
As some local works are yet to be added to Wikidata, it is possible to locally add that data to a work.

For Picturesque New Guinea:

VIAF link errors
Errors in the VIAF records can be reported on Wikipedia, from whence they will be passed on to the VIAF maintainers themselves.

See Authority control for more information.

Tracking categories
Pages using this template can be tracked with the following categories:
 * Category:Main pages with authority control data—for pages in the main namespace
 * Category:Author pages with authority control data—for pages in the author namespace
 * Category:Portal pages with authority control data—for pages in the portal namespace
 * Category:Miscellaneous pages with authority control data

Pages with identified errors will be sorted into this maintenance category:
 * Category:Wikisource articles with faulty authority control identifiers

All contained in one overall category:
 * Category:Pages with authority control data

Maintenance categories
 * Category:VIAF not on Wikidata
 * Category:VIAF different on Wikidata