Template:Section link/doc

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 General points on linking style).

Syntax (overview)

• {{section link|Article|Section}} or {{section link|Article#Section}}, link to section of other article. Example: Wikipedia:Albert Einstein § Scientific career
• {{section link|Article|Section|nopage=yes}}, link to section of other article, only displaying the section’s title. Example: § Scientific career
• {{section link||Section}}, for usage within the same article, supply an empty first parameter. Example: § Scientific career

Single section

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

Instead of:

[[Wikipedia:Albert Einstein#Scientific career]]

Wikipedia:Albert Einstein#Scientific career

you can write:

{{section link|Wikipedia:Albert Einstein|Scientific career}}

Wikipedia:Albert Einstein § Scientific career

or:

{{section link|Wikipedia:Albert Einstein#Scientific career}}

Wikipedia:Albert Einstein § Scientific career

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}}

Wikipedia:History of IBM §§ 1880s–1924: The origin of IBM, 1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services, and 1993–present: IBM's near disaster and rebirth

or:

{{section link|Wikipedia: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}}

Wikipedia:History of IBM §§ 1880s–1924: The origin of IBM, 1969: Antitrust, the Unbundling of software and services, and 1993–present: IBM's near disaster and rebirth

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:

§ Suppressing page name

For other pages, |nopage=yes can be used to suppress the page name. This can be used when the page name is clear from context, such as on talk pages referring to the article being discussed.

This common case can be entered using Template:Tlx.

Comparison of displayed results:

• {{section link|Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Quotations}} produces Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Quotations
• {{section link|Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Quotations|nopage=yes}} produces § Quotations
• {{section link|Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Quotations|Quotation marks|Commas}}produces Wikipedia:Manual of Style §§ Quotations, Quotation marks, and Commas
• {{section link|Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Quotations|Quotation marks|Commas|nopage=yes}} produces §§ Quotations, Quotation marks, and Commas

Styling page name

For some page names (e.g., titles of films or short stories) we’re always supposed to 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|Wikipedia:The Last Temptation of Christ (film)|General controversy|display=Wikipedia:''The Last Temptation of Christ'' (film)}} produces Wikipedia:The Last Temptation of Christ (film) § General controversy

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:

Wikipedia:Albert_Einstein#Scientific_career

This template automatically replaces the underscores with space characters:

{{section link|Wikipedia:Albert_Einstein#Scientific_career}} produces Wikipedia:Albert Einstein § Scientific career

There are articles that have underscores. To retain the underscores in the rendered output, use |keep-underscores=yes:

article and section copied from browser address bar:

Wikipedia:Dual_EC_DRBG#Timeline_of_the_Dual_EC_DRBG_cryptotrojan

manual removal of extraneous underscores:

Wikipedia:Dual_EC_DRBG#Timeline of the Dual_EC_DRBG cryptotrojan

{{section link|Wikipedia:Dual_EC_DRBG#Timeline of the Dual_EC_DRBG cryptotrojan|keep-underscores=yes}} → Wikipedia:Dual_EC_DRBG § Timeline of the Dual_EC_DRBG cryptotrojan