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, use {{Ud}}.

Usage

Many users have only a User Talk page but no User page on Commons. This results in a red link with the standard linking [[User:UserName]].
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 the new user page with the user name,
or to the talk page with {{Uwt| when only this one exists.

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.

This template pings the mentioned user like a normal page link. To not ping the user, see {{Noping}}.

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
`link`	specify `link=no` to suppress the link	empty	optional
`0`	more parameters to format the namespace (when "+" or "-" is specified) » not every possible combination of parameter values is useful «	0	optional
`case`	for formatting of the namespace: `case=l` display "user" instead of "User" `case=i` display the national translation, in general a link `case=n` display the national translation without linking it	empty	optional
`i18n`	an ISO 639 language code, to follow another translation then yours when parameter setting is `case=i` or `case=n`	en	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

Relies on:
Main template code {{U/main}}

Example

Instead of [[User:Konstantinopoulosstephanopoulos|Konstantinopoulosstephanopoulos]]
write just {{U|Konstantinopoulosstephanopoulos}} 0for the same output Konstantinopoulosstephanopoulos

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; only in

combination with case=i or case=n the namespace can be translated using the "{{LangSwitch}}" construct (according to lang).

Uses Lua:

Module:LangSwitch

Table: different displays for {{U}} with the namespace option 0
{{ U \| username }} 0this is the standard	username
{{ U \| username \| - }}	User:username
{{ U \| username \| - \| case = l }}	user:username
{{ U \| username \| - \| case = i }}	user:username
{{ U \| username \| - \| case = n }}	user:username
{{ U \| username \| + }}	User:username
{{ U \| username \| + \| case = l }}	user:username
{{ U \| username \| + \| case = i }}	user:username
{{ U \| username \| + \| case = n }}	user:username
{{ U \| username \| link = n }}	‍username
{{ U \| username \| - \| link = n }}	User:‍username
{{ U \| username \| - \| link = n \| case = l }}	user:‍username
{{ U \| username \| - \| link = n \| case = i }}	user:‍username
{{ U \| username \| - \| link = n \| case = n }}	user:‍username
{{ U \| username \| + \| link = n }}	User:‍username
{{ U \| username \| + \| link = n \| case = l }}	user:‍username
{{ U \| username \| + \| link = n \| case = i }}	user:‍username
{{ U \| username \| + \| link = n \| case = n }}	user:‍username

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