Template:U/doc

This subpage contains documentation, categories, or other content that is not part of the template.
To view the template page itself, see Template:U.

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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

Many users have only a User Talk page but no User page on Commons. This results in a red link when the user is mentioned using a standard {{user|UserName}} template.
An easy edit to fix this link is just to change the {{U| to {{Ut| to link the user talk page with the user name.

Another reason for a redlink may result of changing the user name by the postfix "~commonswiki".
An easy edit to fix this link is just to change it to {{Uw| to link to the new user page with the user name.

Sometimes neither user page nor the user talk page exist on Commons.

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" that lists the editor's contributions on Commons.

If the other pages are created later, it automatically prefers the talk page over the 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 wikitext or html	empty	optional
`3`	language code: for interwiki link. If absent, link to user entry in the Commons	empty	optional
`4`	+ or - to precede the user name with the namespace `User:` + ("plus" sign) to make `User:` a part of the link, - ("minus" sign) to precede `User:` as plain text; (if both signs are specified, "+" is used and "-" is ignored) The +/- parameter can as well be specified with parameter 2 or 3.	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.

The template does not generate any localizable text; with + or - always the namespace in English: "User" is displayed.