{{Representative }} looks up information about an incumbent member of a representative body. When this information is replicated across many articles, corrections and updates become laborious. Gathering it together on a single wiki page (herein called a 'dataset') eases the maintenance burden.
The first positional parameter indicates which dataset to use for lookup.
The second positional parameter, usually a numeric value, indicates which district or seat.
format= to specify the display format (name of formatting template)
fmt= to specify the display format (shorthand)
{{Representative|nycd|1}}
displays the representative of New York's 1st congressional district in the default format:
ढाँचा:Representative/current/New York congressional
{{Representative|caad|2|format=Representative/format/nameonly}}
displays the representative of California's 2nd State Assembly district using {{Representative/format/nameonly }} for formatting:
ढाँचा:Representative/format/nameonly
{{Representative|cacd|3|fmt=linked}}
displays the representative of California's 3rd congressional district using {{Representative/format/linked }} for formatting:
John Garamendi
Updates and corrections to data (such as the representative's name or political affiliation) should be made to the "dataset template". There are six dataset templates:
California
New York
Some display formats are not supported for all datasets.
fmt=
Sample output
Information displayed
Formatting template
adistrict
ढाँचा:Representative/format/adistrict
state assembly district, party affiliation, and rep's name
{{Representative/format/adistrict }}
block
ढाँचा:Representative/format/block
colored block, linked name, and party affiliation (single letter)
{{Representative/format/block }}
district
ढाँचा:Representative/format/district
congressional district, party affiliation, and rep's name
{{Representative/format/district }}
linked
Mike Garcia
rep's full name, linked
{{Representative/format/linked }}
nameonly
ढाँचा:Representative/format/nameonly
rep's full name without link
{{Representative/format/nameonly }}
party
ढाँचा:Representative/format/party
party affiliation without link
{{Representative/format/party }}
pfl
ढाँचा:Representative/format/pfl
party affiliation and rep's name
{{Representative/format/pfl }}
residence
ढाँचा:Representative/format/residence
place of residence without link
{{Representative/format/residence }}
sdistrict
ढाँचा:Representative/format/sdistrict
state senate district, party affiliation, and rep's name
{{Representative/format/sdistrict }}
sleader
Mike Garcia (R )
rep's name and state party affiliation
{{Representative/format/sleader }}
spfl
ढाँचा:Representative/format/spfl
state party affiliation and rep's name
{{Representative/format/spfl }}
us
ढाँचा:Representative/format/us
rep's name, party affiliation, and place of residence
{{Representative/format/us }}
usleader
Mike Garcia (R )
rep's name and party affiliation (single letter)
{{Representative/format/usleader }}
usleader3
ढाँचा:Representative/format/usleader3
rep's name and party affiliation (3-letter abbreviation)
{{Representative/format/usleader3 }}