Template:U/doc

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Link to a user, either internal or interwiki

• For users without a user page you may link to their talk page with {{Ut}}.
• For links to users of the German Wikipedia choose the effective {{Ud}}.

Usage

{{U |1= |2= |3= }}

Many users own in the Commons just a User Talk page, but no User page.

The template {{Uc}} checks whether the user page exists, and links to it if yes.

Otherwise it checks whether the user talk page exists, and links to it if yes.

Otherwise it links to the special page "user contributions".

If later the other pages are created, it prefers automatically the talk page or user page.

Since existence checks are not possible in other Wikipedias, these checks are performed only when no language code is specified.

Template parameters

Parameter	Description		Default	Status
1	user name: it is recommended to define the user name. If absent, the name is shown of the last editing user		empty	optional
2	nick name: display text, may be formatted		empty	optional
3	language code: for interwiki link. If absent, link to user entry in the Commons		empty	optional

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: all namespaces

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Localization

This template is not intended to be localized.

{{Commons:Link templates/User and user talk links}}