Template : Broader

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Module:Broader

This template is used to make summary style explicit. It looks like this:

It is used in sections for which there is also a separate article on the subject. It should be used when there should be a link to another article that discusses a subject more broadly, but is not a main article (which should use {{ Main }} ), a narrower topic (which should probably use {{ Further }} ), or at the same level of focus (which should probably use {{ See also }} ).

Usage

Basic usage: {{Broader| article }}
With a topic: {{Broader| article |topic= topic }}
With more than one target page: {{Broader| article1 | article2 | article3 |topic= topic }}
All parameters: {{Broader| article |topic= topic |selfref= yes |category= no }}

Parameters

This template accepts the following parameters:

1 - the page to link to (required). Categories and files are automatically escaped with the colon trick , and links to sections are automatically formatted as page § section , rather than the MediaWiki default of page#section .
2 (and greater numbers) - any additional pages to link to. These links are also automatically formatted as with the first parameter.
topic - the name of the topic. If this is not specified, the text "this topic" is used.
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:Self ref 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 page to link to) is omitted.

Examples

{{Broader|Article}} →
{{Broader|Article|topic=some topic}} →

Errors

If no page name is supplied, the template will output the following message:

Error: no page name specified ( help ).

If you see this error message, it is for one of four reasons:

No parameters were specified (the template code was {{Broader}}). Please use {{Broader| page }} instead.
Some parameters were specified, but the page name wasn't included. For example, the template text {{Broader|selfref=yes}} will produce this error. Please use (for example) {{Broader| page |selfref=yes}} instead.
The page name was specified, but it 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 {{Broader|2+2=4}} will produce this error. To work around this, you can specify the parameter name explictly by using 1= before the page name (like this: {{Broader|1=2+2=4}}) or you can disable the equals being interpreted as delimiting a parameter name by surrounding the equals with double braces (like this: {{Broader|2+2{{=}}4}}).

If you see this error message and are unsure of what to do, please post a message on the help desk , and someone should be able to help you.

Pages that contain this error message are tracked in Category:Hatnote templates with errors .

Template parameters [ Edit template data ]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Article	`1`	The name of the article that you want to link to	Page name	required
Article 2	`2`	The name of an additional article that you want to link to	Page name	optional
Article 3	`3`	The name of an additional article that you want to link to	Page name	optional
Article 4	`4`	The name of an additional article that you want to link to	Page name	optional
Topic	`topic`	A brief description of the topic related to which a broader coverage will be provided. If left blank, the template will read 'For broader coverage related to this topic...'	String	optional
Self reference	`selfref`	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]]".)	Line	optional
Category	`category`	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.	Unknown	optional

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Broader/doc .
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template .

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