Template:Section link/doc

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Usage

Single section

This template is used to generate a link to a certain section of a local wiki page and render an appropriate section mark (§).

Instead of:

[[History of IBM#1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services|History of IBM § 1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services]]

...you can write:

{{section link|History of IBM|1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services}}

...which is much shorter and does not require you to search for the section mark character.

Both generate:

{{#invoke:Section link|main}}

Multiple sections

This template may generate consecutive links to several sections of the same page:

{{section link|History of IBM|1880s–1924: The origin of IBM|1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services|1993–present: IBM's near disaster and rebirth}}

...will generate:

{{#invoke:Section link|main}}

Suppressing page name

Sometimes the page name needs not to appear, e.g. to avoid redundancy and wordiness. For the page on which the template is used, not specifying a page name creates a section link only. The following:

{{Section link||Suppressing page name}}

...is the equivalent of:

[[#Suppressing page name|§ Suppressing page name]]

...and renders as:

{{#invoke:Section link|main}}

For other pages, |nopage=y can be used to suppress the page name.

Comparison of displayed results:

• {{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations}} → {{#invoke:Section link|main}}
• {{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations|nopage=y}} → {{#invoke:Section link|main}}
• {{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations|Quotation marks|Commas}} → {{#invoke:Section link|main}}
• {{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations|Quotation marks|Commas|nopage=y}} → {{#invoke:Section link|main}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Section link

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}} <templatedata> { "description": "This template is used to generate a link to a certain section of a local wiki page and render an appropriate section mark (§). This template may generate consecutive links to several sections of the same page.", "params": { "1": { "label": "Page name", "description": "Name of the page to which the link must be created. Leave empty to link to the current page. Doing so causes no page name to appear.", "type": "wiki-page-name", "suggested": true }, "2": { "label": "Section name 1", "description": "Name of the (first) section to which the link must be created. This parameter is mandatory.", "type": "string", "required": true }, "3": { "label": "Section name 2", "description": "This template can link to additional sections within one page. You can supply another section name in this field.", "type": "string" }, "4": { "label": "Section name 3", "description": "This template can link to additional sections within one page. You can supply another section name in this field.", "type": "string" }, "5": { "label": "Section name 4", "description": "This template can link to additional sections within one page. You can supply another section name in this field.", "type": "string" }, "nopage": { "label": "Suppress page name?", "description": "If set to \"yes\", \"y\" or \"true\", suppresses the page name.", "type": "boolean", "autovalue": "y" } } } </templatedata>

See also

• {{Multi-section link}}Template:Sndfor linking to a section listing nested section names