Template:Infobox rugby league biography/doc

Purpose
The rugby player infobox is intended to provide a quick overview of a football player's details to enable a reader to extract the most oft-needed information without trawling through the article proper. It is most appropriately used for professional players and should not be leveraged for amateurs, no matter their profile.


 * Mandatory
 * &mdash; The commonly used name of the player.
 * &mdash; The player's complete name, the same as playername, if full name isn't known.


 * Optional
 * &mdash; The player's date of birth, wikilinked.
 * Note: for living people, use birth date and age; for the deceased, use birth date
 * If the full birth date isn't known remove the template and just add what's known.
 * &mdash; The location of the player's birth.
 * &mdash; The country of the player's birth.


 * &mdash; A picture of the player, ideally on the pitch in the strip of his most recent team.


 * &mdash; The player's height in the units most common within the country he plays. (see Units of measurement)
 * &mdash; The player's most common nickname. Extensive lists of nicknames can be discussed in the article itself and the author should use their judgement to select the most appropriate entry for this parameter.


 * &mdash; The player's most common position. If a player is known for playing in multiple roles then the author should elect which is the most significant and explain the point more fully within the article.


 * &mdash; The club for which the player currently plays. Leave blank if retired.
 * &mdash; The shirt number of the player at his most recent club.


 * &mdash; Any other occupations the player might have.
 * &mdash; The school(s) this player went to.
 * &mdash; The university(s) this player went to.
 * &mdash; The spouse this player has. You may include girlfriends/boyfriends but please reference this by saying XXX (girlfriend)
 * &mdash; Any children this player has
 * &mdash; Any other relatives this person has, example parents. Bracket their relationship eg. XXX (father)


 * &mdash; A &lt;br /&gt; delimited list of years that the player has been contracted at each professional club.
 * &mdash; A &lt;br /&gt; delimited list of professional clubs that the player has been contracted at.
 * &mdash; A &lt;br /&gt; delimited list of appearances and (points) that the player has been awarded in league competition only for each professional club.


 * &mdash; A &lt;br /&gt; delimited list of youth clubs that the player has been a member of.
 * &mdash; A &lt;br /&gt; delimited list of years that the player has been at each youth club.
 * &mdash; A &lt;br /&gt; delimited list of youth representative teams that the player has been a member of.
 * &mdash; A &lt;br /&gt; delimited list of years that the player has been at each youth representative team.
 * &mdash; A &lt;br /&gt; delimited list of appearances and (points) that the player has been awarded in their respective youth representative team.


 * &mdash; A &lt;br /&gt; delimited list of years that the player has been a participant in each national team.
 * &mdash; A &lt;br /&gt; delimited list of representative teams that the player has been a member of, including non-senior teams such as U21.
 * &mdash; A &lt;br /&gt; delimited list of appearances and (points) that the player has been awarded in all competitions and friendlies for each representative team.


 * &mdash; The years the referee was active in the competition.
 * &mdash; The competitions the referee was in.
 * &mdash; The number of caps, the referee has used in that comptetion.


 * &mdash; A timestamp of the last time the player's infobox career statistics were updated (not needed if the player has retired).
 * &mdash; A timestamp of the last time the player's infobox representative statistics were updated (not needed for former players).


 * &mdash; The official site of the player.

Examples
The input:

Produces:

Density of information
Try to always consider that an infobox exists to support an article and provide a quick synopsis of important facts. This becomes vital when considering that the amount of space available within an infobox is significantly less than that available outside of it. Adding all seventy three nicknames that a player might have is highly informative, but will defeat the purpose of the infobox.

Wikilinking
As per the manual of style entry on linking, years should not be linked as they do not provide much benefit to the user. However, date of birth should be linked to enable date preferences to work (better still, use birth date and age for living people and birth date for the deceased). Linking of other entries is to be discouraged as most of these links will present themselves in the article's introduction; linking them in the infobox adds clutter and inhibits the speedy retrieval of facts.

You must link the parameter

Season year format
In order to keep the infobox from ballooning laterally, it is wise to keep date formats as compact as possible. Highly accurate dates are more useful in the article itself. Typically editors will use the 2005-2006 incarnation but when very pressed for space, 05-06 may be useful.

Club Name
Where applicable, use only the location name of the team under the headings of "professional clubs" and "representative teams". That is, avoid using Sydney Roosters', but rather use Sydney. Also, in the event of a change of club name during the time in which the player served that club, use the name under which they joined. For example, Brad Fittler's infobox will show that he played for Sydney City rather than Sydney or Eastern Suburbs.

However, under "club name", use the full name of the club. For example, Craig Fitzgibbon currently plays for the Sydney Roosters rather than Sydney as will show below it. This naming system is in place for a number of reasons, the most important being consistency of information across all player entries on Wikipedia.