Many of Wikipedia's country-related articles (e.g., Demographics of Egypt) contain text from the U.S. Department of State's Background Notes ( link). I wanted to use a template similar to {{ CIA World Factbook}} (for CIA World Factbook}} or {{ Loc}} (for Library of Congress Country Studies). I couldn't find such a template so I've created one.
I have also added this template to Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles, which is where I would have expected to find this.
Originally I had added a variable (or whatever "{{{1}}}" is called) in which the user could put the name of the country. But as the link points to the list of Background Notes, and not that of an individual country, I removed this feature (anyway, neither {{ CIA World Factbook}} nor {{ Loc}} work this way). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 05:09, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
Why does this template presume the source is State's "Background Notes"? Surely there is other content available at the State Dept that is not in Background Notes but still qualifies as a PD source. This is out of sync with other Federal Agency source templates such as {{ DoE}} or {{ USGS}}. What's the template for State Dept sources that are not part of Background Notes? - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 20:35, 3 May 2012 (UTC)