Template:Main

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When a Wikipedia article is large, it is often written in summary style. This template is used after the heading of the summary, to link to the sub-article that has been summarized. For Category namespace, please use {{Cat main}} instead.

Use of this template should be restricted to the purposes described above. It is not to be used as a substitute for inline links or {{Further}} template. The latter is used when the section expounds a specific aspect of the topic instead of summarizing its article. For example, in phthalate, the template under the "Endocrine disruptor" section should not be {{Main|Endocrine disruptor}}, because the section specifically deals with phthalate as an endocrine disruptor and not endocrine disruptors in general.

Usage

Basic usage

{{main|page}}

All parameters

{{main | page1 | page2 | page3 | ... | l1 = label1 | l2 = label2 | l3 = label3 | ... | selfref = yes}}

Parameters

• 1, 2, 3, ... - the pages to link to. If no page names are specified, the current page name is used instead (without the namespace prefix). Categories and files are automatically escaped with the colon trick, and links to sections are automatically formatted as page § section, rather than the MediaWiki default of page#section.
• l1, l2, l3, ...; optional labels for each of the pages to link to (this is for articles where a piped link would be used). Note that the extra parameters use a lower case 'L', for example, l1, not 11.
• selfref - if set to "yes", "y", "true" or "1", adds the CSS class "selfref". This is used to denote self-references to Wikipedia. See Template:Selfref for more information. This is only necessary in articles and other content (e.g. templates) that will appear in articles, and need not be added for uses of this template on Wikipedia: namespace pages.

Examples

• {{main|Article}} →
  Main article: Article
• {{main|Article#Section}} →
  Main article: Article#Section
• {{main|Article#Section|l1=Custom section label}} →
  Main article: Custom section label
• {{main|Article1|Article2|Article3}} →
  Main articles: Article1, Article2, and Article3
• {{main|Article1|l1=Custom label 1|Article2|l2=Custom label 2}} →
  Main articles: Custom label 1 and Custom label 2
• {{main|(15760) 1992 QB1|l1={{mp|(15760) 1992 QB|1}}}} →
  Main article: (15760) 1992 QB₁

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools. TemplateData for Main This template is used after the heading of a section, to link to a sub-article (or sub-articles) that is entirely about the topic of the section. The template will display, in italics, "Main article: Article 1, Article 2 and Article 3" Template parameters Parameter Description Type Status Page 1 1 The name of the first page that you want to link to. If this is not specified, the current page name (with no namespace prefix) is used instead. Line optional Page 2 2 The name of the second page that you want to link to. Line optional Page 3 3 The name of the third page that you want to link to. More pages can be added using the parameters "4", "5", "6", etc. Line optional Label 1 l1 What the first linked page is to be displayed as. Line optional Label 2 l2 What the second linked page is to be displayed as. Line optional Label 3 l3 What the third linked page is to be displayed as. Other labels can be added by using increasing numbers (starting with "l4" for page 4) as parameter names. Line optional Self reference selfref Set to "yes" if the template is a self-reference to Wikipedia that would not make sense on mirrors or forks of the Wikipedia site. Line optional

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