Template:Distinguish

Template documentation

Usage

<tvar name=1>{{Distinguish}}</tvar> is used to create hatnotes to warn about possible confusion with a small number of other, related, titles at the top of article sections according to Wikipedia:Layout.

It is not for use in the "See also" section at the bottom of an article. </translate>

{{Distinguish|<translate> Article 1</translate>|...|<translate> Article 4</translate>|label 1=<translate> label1</translate>|...|label 4=<translate> label4</translate>}}

One to four articles can be listed.</translate>

The word "or" is always placed between the final two entries when displayed.</translate>

If more than 4 entries are supplied, a message will be displayed pointing out the problem.</translate>

You can use parameters label 1 to label 4 to specify alternative labels for the links.

</translate>

<translate> Adding newline characters will break article links.</translate>

Examples

</translate>

{{Distinguish|article1}}

{{Distinguish|article1|article2}}

{{Distinguish|article1|article2|article3}}

{{Distinguish|article1|article2|article3|article4}}

{{Distinguish|article1|label 1=label1}}

{{Distinguish|article1|article2|label 1=label1|label 2=label2}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Distinguish in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Distinguish

Adds warning "Not to be confused" on the reader's page, with a short list of related pages.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Page 1	`1`	Full name of related page	Page name	required
Label 1	`l1` `label 1`	Custom label for the link, instead of the page name. Default Page name	Line	optional
Page 2	`2`	Full name of related page	Page name	optional
Label 2	`l2` `label 2`	Custom label for the link, instead of the page name. Default Page name	Line	optional
Page 3	`3`	Full name of related page	Page name	optional
Label 3	`l3` `label 3`	Custom label for the link, instead of the page name. Default Page name	Line	optional
Page 4	`4`	Full name of related page	Page name	optional
Label 4	`l4` `label 4`	Custom label for the link, instead of the page name. Default Page name	Line	optional

[[Category:Hatnote templates{{#translation:}}]]

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