Template:Templates linking contents

Templates linking contents

"1-N" means from one to many.

Upwards links

• Template:Main gallery (Edit Discussion links Page history) – "Main gallery" link from gallery or category to 1-N main galleries.
• Template:Maincat (Edit Discussion links Page history) – "Main category" link from gallery or category to 1-N main categories.

Downwards links

• Template:See (Edit Discussion links Page history) – "Further information" link to 1-N detailed galleries or categories.

Sideways page links

• Template:See also (Edit Discussion links Page history) – (box or inline) "See also" link to 1-N related pages.
• Template:For2 (Edit Discussion links Page history) – "For" a single alternative page with explanation.
• Template:Otheruses (Edit Discussion links Page history) – As "For2" with an explanation of the current page.
• Template:Distinguish (Edit Discussion links Page history) – "Not to be confused with" link to 1-N related pages.
• Template:See more images (Edit Discussion links Page history) – (box) Internationalized "See also" (or other caption) to related images.
• Template:Case images (Edit Discussion links Page history) – (box) Internationalized with icon-links to related images of the same (medical) case.
• Template:@see (Edit Discussion links Page history) – "See" link from gallery to gallery.

Sideways category links

• Template:Cat see also (Edit Discussion links Page history) – (box or inline) "See also Categories" link to 1-N related categories.

  This template may be tracked by file uploading tools, to suggest alternate categories to use, or by people maintaining the contents of categories or visiting them.

• Template:Cat disambig (Edit Discussion links Page history) – (box or inline) "Not to be confused with categories" link from category with ambiguous names to 1-N unrelated categories.

  This template should be tracked by file uploading tools to suggest unambiguous categories to use for these new files.

Interproject links

• Template:Mainw (Edit Discussion links Page history) – "Main Wikipedia article" link to 1 article (don't forget the purpose of interwiki links).
• Template:See also w (Edit Discussion links Page history) – "See also Wikipedia article" link to 1-N articles (don't forget the purpose of interwiki links).

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This documentation is transcluded from Template:Templates linking contents/doc.

Usage

What

{{Templates linking contents}}

Where

Appended to the documentation of each template listed above.

Why

Common list summarizing and comparing the main templates available for user-oriented links between contents in galleries, categories, images, and sister projects. Excluded are disambiguation and redirection templates such as {{For2}}, and meta-templates such as {{Lts}}, etc.

Notes

The template embeds its own heading so that section-editing edits the transcluded instead of the transcluder.