Template:Pirate wealth
Samuel Bellamy | |
|---|---|
| Born | ca. February 23, 1689 |
| Died | April 26, 1717 (aged 28) |
| Piratical career | |
| Nickname | "Black Sam" Bellamy, "Prince of Pirates" |
| Type | Pirate |
| Commands | Postillion, Mary Anne, Sultana, Whydah Gally |
| Wealth | Equiv. US$169.8 million in 2023;[1] #1 Forbes top-earning pirates[2] |
In 2008, Forbes Magazine published a listing of the top 20 highest-earning pirates of all time. This information can be used to populate the |wealth= Infobox parameter in the Wikipedia articles for each of these 20 pirates. This template ensures that the information is presented accurately and consistently for each.
Usage[edit]
|wealth={{Pirate wealth | earnings | earnings_rank }}
- where
- earnings is the earnings, in millions of dollars, as listed in the Forbes article. Do not include the dollar sign or any other formatting. Note that the output will be adjusted for inflation since 2008, when the article was written.
- earnings_rank is the earnings rank of this pirate, as assigned by the Forbes article. Do not include the number sign (#).
Example[edit]
Forbes listed Samuel Bellamy as the highest-earning pirate, ranked #1 after having earned $120 million (in 2008 dollars). This would be coded as:
|wealth = {{Pirate wealth|120|1}}
This appears in the following code, which produces the infobox at the top of this page, including the two reference footnotes shown at the bottom of this page. Note that the earnings displayed in the infobox above was automatically adjusted to $169.8 million in today's dollars.
{{Infobox pirate
|name= Samuel Bellamy
|birth_date=[[Wiktionary:circa|ca.]] {{Birth date|1689|2|23|mf=yes}}
|death_date= {{Death-date and age|April 26, 1717|February 23, 1689}}
|nickname= "Black Sam" Bellamy,<br/>"Prince of Pirates"
|type= [[Pirate]]
|birth_place = {{flagicon|England}} [[Hittisleigh]], [[Devon]], [[England]]
|death_place = [[Wellfleet, Massachusetts]]
|commands= ''Postillion'', ''Mary Anne'', ''Sultana'', ''[[Whydah Gally]]''
|wealth = {{Pirate wealth|120|1}}
}}
Citation re-use[edit]
Should one desire to re-use the Forbes citation elsewhere in the article text, they may do so with one of these two techniques:
- Named reference
<ref name="ForbesRank"/>– The ref name must be "ForbesRank"; it produces the footnote at the end of this sentence.[2]- Shortened footnote
{{sfnp|Woolsey|2008}}– Such a Harvard-style shortened footnote appears at the end of this sentence.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
- ^ a b Woolsey, Matt (September 19, 2008). "Top-Earning Pirates". Forbes.com. Forbes Magazine. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- ^ Woolsey (2008).