Template:Hatnote
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This template produces formatted text, following the guideline for a Wikipedia hatnote.
{{hatnote|Example hatnote text.}}→
Broadly speaking, a hatnote should answer a readers' question (maybe preemptively): Am I on the right page?
Function
This template is primarily used to add a correctly formatted hatnote to a page. Often, but not always, this is a disambiguation link at the top of article pages. It places an HTML div- / div block around the text entered as its only argument, which provides standardized formatting (contents are indented and italicized in most displays); it also isolates the contained code to make sure that it is interpreted correctly.
This template is also used as the "meta-template" for additional specialized disambiguation link templates; see Category:Hatnote templates for a list.
The template does not automatically create links of any kind. Links and other desired formatting must be explicitly added, using normal Wikipedia markup.
Usage
- Basic usage
{{hatnote|text}}
- All parameters
{{hatnote|text|extraclasses=extra classes|selfref=yes|category=no}}
Parameters
This template accepts the following parameters:
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1- the hatnote text. (required) -
extraclasses- any extra CSS classes to be added. For example, the {{see also}} template adds the classes|extraclasses=boilerplate seealso. -
selfref- if set to "yes", "y", "true" or "1", adds the CSS class "selfref". This is used to denote self-references to Wikipedia. See Template:Selfref for more information. -
category- if set to "no", "n", "false", or "0", suppresses the error tracking category (Category:Hatnote templates with errors). This only has an effect if the first positional parameter (the hatnote text) is omitted.
Example
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{{hatnote|Example hatnote text}}→Example hatnote text
Errors
If no hatnote text is supplied, the template will output the following message:
- {{{1}}}
If you see this error message, it is for one of four reasons:
- No parameters were specified (the template code was
{{hatnote}}). Please use{{hatnote|text}}instead. - Some parameters were specified, but the hatnote text wasn't included. For example, the template text
{{hatnote|extraclasses=seealso}}will produce this error. Please use (for example){{hatnote|text|extraclasses=seealso}}instead. - The hatnote text was specified, but that text contains an equals sign ("="). The equals sign has a special meaning in template code, and because of this it cannot be used in template parameters that do not specify a parameter name. For example, the template code
{{hatnote|2+2=4}}will produce this error. To work around this, you can specify the parameter name explictly by using1=before the hatnote text, like this:{{hatnote|1=2+2=4}}.
If you see this error message and are unsure of what to do, please post a message on Template talk:Hatnote, and someone should be able to help you.
Pages that contain this error message are tracked in Category:Hatnote templates with errors.
Technical details
The HTML code produced by this template looks like this:
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<div class="hatnote">hatnote text</div>
Template:Hatnote templates documentation
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This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.
TemplateData for Hatnote <templatedata> { "description": "Template for creating a standard Wikipedia hatnote. A hatnote is a short note placed at the top of an article to provide disambiguation of closely related terms or summarise a topic, explaining its boundaries.",
"params": {
"1": {
"label": "Text",
"description": "This field should contain the text that will be displayed in the hatnote.",
"type": "string",
"required": true
},
"extraclasses": {
"type": "string/line",
"label": "Extra classes",
"description": "Extra CSS classes to be added to the tags surrounding the hatnote text."
},
"selfref": {
"type": "string/line",
"label": "Self reference",
"description": "Set to \"yes\" if the hatnote text is a self-reference to Wikipedia that would not make sense on mirrors or forks of the Wikipedia site. (E.g. \"For the Wikipedia Sandbox, see WP:SAND\".)"
},
"category": {
"label": "Category",
"description": "Set to \"no\", \"n\", \"false\", or \"0\" to suppresses the error tracking category (Category:Hatnote templates with errors). This only has an effect if the hatnote text is omitted."
}
}
} </templatedata> |
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