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== Usage == | == Usage == | ||
This template is appropriate for use in [[Wikipedia:Hatnote|hatnotes]] and [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#"See also" section|See also]] sections, or to reference sections within the same article. When using in article body text, consider whether an overt link to a specific section in another article may be confusing to readers who cannot follow links, such as those viewing a printed version of the material, or a version republished without links (see [[WP:LINKSTYLE]]). | This template is appropriate for use in [[Wikipedia:Hatnote|hatnotes]] and [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#"See also" section|See also]] sections, or to reference sections within the same article. When using in article body text, consider whether an overt link to a specific section in another article may be confusing to readers who cannot follow links, such as those viewing a printed version of the material, or a version republished without links (see [[WP:LINKSTYLE]]). | ||
Latest revision as of 11:15, 22 October 2022
Usage
This template is appropriate for use in hatnotes and See also sections, or to reference sections within the same article. When using in article body text, consider whether an overt link to a specific section in another article may be confusing to readers who cannot follow links, such as those viewing a printed version of the material, or a version republished without links (see WP:LINKSTYLE).
Syntax (overview)
{{section link|Article|Section}}or{{section link|Article#Section}}, link to section of other article. → Example: Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.{{section link|Article|Section|nopage=y}}, link to section of other article, only displaying the section's title → Example: Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.{{section link||Section}}, for usage within the same page, supply an empty first parameter → Example: Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.
Single section
This template, {{section link}}, or its shortcut, {{slink}}, is used to generate a link to a certain section of a local wiki page and render an appropriate section mark (§).
Instead of:
[[Albert Einstein#Scientific career]]
Albert Einstein#Scientific career
...you can write:
{{section link|Albert Einstein|Scientific career}}
Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.
...or
{{section link|Albert Einstein#Scientific career}}
Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.
Multiple sections
This template may generate consecutive links to several sections of the same page. You can write:
{{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}}
- Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.
...or:
{{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}}
- Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.
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:
- Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.
Use |nopage=y for the same visual effect.
When discussing an article from its talk page, Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.—or its alias, Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.—is preferable to the longer Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127..
Comparison of displayed results:
{{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations}}→ Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.{{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations|nopage=y}}→ Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.{{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations|Quotation marks|Commas}}→ Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.{{section link|WP:Manual of Style|Quotations|Quotation marks|Commas|nopage=y}}→ Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.
Styling page name
For titles of films and short stories, always present the core part of the page's name (without any parenthetic disambiguation) in italics, quotation marks, or some other markup (per MOS:TITLES). The |display= parameter can be used for this purpose:
{{section link|The Last Temptation of Christ (film)|General controversy|display=''The Last Temptation of Christ'' (film)}}→ Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.
Underscores
It is common practice to copy article and section name from the browser's address bar. When doing that, the article and section names may contain underscores:
Albert_Einstein#Scientific_career
This template automatically replaces the underscores with space characters:
{{section link|Albert_Einstein#Scientific_career}}→ Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.
There are articles that have underscores (see Category:Articles with underscores in the title). To retain the underscores in the rendered output, use |keep-underscores=yes:
- article and section copied from browser address bar:
Dual_EC_DRBG#Timeline_of_Dual_EC_DRBG
- manual removal of extraneous underscores:
Dual_EC_DRBG#Timeline of Dual_EC_DRBG{{section link|Dual_EC_DRBG#Timeline of Dual_EC_DRBG|keep-underscores=yes}}→ Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.
- article and section copied from browser address bar:
TemplateData
TemplateData for Section link
Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 127.
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.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Page name | 1 | 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. | Page name | suggested |
| Section name 1 | 2 | Name of the (first) section to which the link must be created. This parameter is mandatory. | String | required |
| Section name 2 | 3 | This template can link to additional sections within one page. You can supply another section name in this field. | String | optional |
| Section name 3 | 4 | This template can link to additional sections within one page. You can supply another section name in this field. | String | optional |
| Section name 4 | 5 | This template can link to additional sections within one page. You can supply another section name in this field. | String | optional |
| Hide page name | nopage | If set to "yes", "y" or "true", hides the page name (only section names are displayed). | Boolean | optional |
| Keep underscores | keep-underscores | If set to "yes", "y" or "true", doesn't replace underscores with spaces in the page name and section names. | Boolean | optional |
| Displayed page name | display | If the page name must be displayed differently (e.g. in italics), enter it here. | String | optional |
See also
- {{Anchor}}
- {{Article link}} – for linking to a mainspace section from its talk page
- {{Multi-section link}} – for linking to a section listing nested section names
- {{Pslink}} – for linking to a section without displaying the section sign (§)