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	'''Authority control''' is a way of linking a [[wikt:identity\|unique identity]] to an article on Bharatpedia. Authority control is often used on articles about people because it is common for more than one person to have the same name. It also helps to establish a standard title for the article. The authority control box has links to records from [[wikt:catalogue\|catalogue]]s in [[library\|libraries]] around the world. It is placed at the bottom of the article. If the article already exists in other Bharatpedias, simply place '''<nowiki>{{Authority control}}</nowiki>''' at the bottom of the page. The information and links will appear [[wikt:automatically\|automatically]] once the article is saved. Some of the common links in the Authority control box are:
	*[[Virtual International Authority File\|VIAF]] (Virtual International Authority File)
	*[[Library of Congress Control Number\|LCCN]] (Library of Congress Control Number)
	*[[WorldCat\|WorldCat Identities]] (lists of works by and about a person held in libraries around the world)

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			'''Authority control''' is a way of associating a unique identifier to articles on Wikipedia. This is useful to disambiguate different items with similar or identical headings, as well as establish a single standard title for an item that is commonly known by two or more titles. When used, authority control data links can be found near the bottom of Wikipedia pages, linking to bibliographical records on worldwide [[library catalog]]s. Authority control is often used in biographical articles because it is quite common for more than one person to share the same name. It is commonly used in other subject material, as well.

			Authority control enables researchers to search more easily for pertinent information on the subject of an article, without needing to disambiguate the subject manually. For example, authority control is used on music articles so that the information in the article can be easily cross-referenced with popular databases.

			More generally, [[authority control]] is a method of creating and maintaining index terms for bibliographical material in a library catalog, similar to the [[Dewey Decimal Classification\|Dewey Decimal System]]. The links produced by the [[Template: Authority control\|authority control template]] on Wikipedia go to authority control data in worldwide library catalogs. As an example, the Wikipedia authority control information for [[Alexander Graham Bell]] looks like this:

			{\|
			\|{{Authority control \|ISNI=0000000081386064\|VIAF=59263727\|LCCN=n/79/113947\|GND=119408643}}
			\|}

			The abbreviations in the box represent the following: [[Virtual International Authority File]] (VIAF); [[Library of Congress Control Number]] (LCCN); [[International Standard Name Identifier]] (ISNI); and [[Integrated Authority File]] (GND), ''Gemeinsame Normdatei'' in German. [[WorldCat]] is a global cooperative [[union catalog]] which itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories.

			==Supported files==
			{{main\|Module:Authority control}}
			Supported authority files on the English Wikipedia include, among others:

			# [[Integrated Authority File]] (''{{lang\|de\|Gemeinsame Normdatei}}'' or GND)
			# [[Library of Congress Control Number]] (LCCN)
			# [[Virtual International Authority File]] (VIAF)
			# [[LIBRIS]] by the [[National Library of Sweden]] (SELIBR)
			# [[ORCID\|Open Researcher and Contributor ID]] (ORCID)
			# Outdated: [[Name Authority File]] (''{{lang\|de\|Personennamendatei}}'' or PND), now part of GND
			# Outdated: [[Corporate Bodies Authority File]] (''{{lang\|de\|Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei}}'' or GKD), now part of GND
			# Outdated: [[Subject Headings Authority File]] (''{{lang\|de\|Schlagwortnormdatei}}'' or SWD), now part of GND

			== See also ==
			* [[Authority control]]

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	'''Authority control''' is a way of linking a [[wikt:identity\|unique identity]] to an article on ~~Wikipedia~~. Authority control is often used on articles about people because it is common for more than one person to have the same name. It also helps to establish a standard title for the article. The authority control box has links to records from [[wikt:catalogue\|catalogue]]s in [[library\|libraries]] around the world. It is placed at the bottom of the article. If the article already exists in other ~~Wikipedias~~, simply place '''<nowiki>{{Authority control}}</nowiki>''' at the bottom of the page. The information and links will appear [[wikt:automatically\|automatically]] once the article is saved. Some of the common links in the Authority control box are:		'''Authority control''' is a way of linking a [[wikt:identity\|unique identity]] to an article on Bharatpedia. Authority control is often used on articles about people because it is common for more than one person to have the same name. It also helps to establish a standard title for the article. The authority control box has links to records from [[wikt:catalogue\|catalogue]]s in [[library\|libraries]] around the world. It is placed at the bottom of the article. If the article already exists in other Bharatpedias, simply place '''<nowiki>{{Authority control}}</nowiki>''' at the bottom of the page. The information and links will appear [[wikt:automatically\|automatically]] once the article is saved. Some of the common links in the Authority control box are:
	*[[Virtual International Authority File\|VIAF]] (Virtual International Authority File)		*[[Virtual International Authority File\|VIAF]] (Virtual International Authority File)
	*[[Library of Congress Control Number\|LCCN]] (Library of Congress Control Number)		*[[Library of Congress Control Number\|LCCN]] (Library of Congress Control Number)

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'''Authority control''' is a way of linking a [[wikt:identity|unique identity]] to an article on Wikipedia. Authority control is often used on articles about people because it is common for more than one person to have the same name. It also helps to establish a standard title for the article. The authority control box has links to records from [[wikt:catalogue|catalogue]]s in [[library|libraries]] around the world. It is placed at the bottom of the article. If the article already exists in other Wikipedias, simply place '''<nowiki>{{Authority control}}</nowiki>''' at the bottom of the page. The information and links will appear [[wikt:automatically|automatically]] once the article is saved. Some of the common links in the Authority control box are:
*[[Virtual International Authority File|VIAF]] (Virtual International Authority File)
*[[Library of Congress Control Number|LCCN]] (Library of Congress Control Number)
*[[WorldCat|WorldCat Identities]] (lists of works by and about a person held in libraries around the world)

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