Context-link Templates Overview

Context-link templates are used to add short messages to an article that directs the reader to more information on other pages.

**At this time, these templates have not be added to this wiki, but will be soon**

Additional parameters that some of the following templates allow for:

* `extraclasses` - any extra CSS classes to be added.
* `selfref` - If set to "yes", "y", "true" or "1", adds the CSS class "selfref". This is used to denote self-references.
* `category` - If set to "no", "n", "false", or "0", suppresses the error tracking category (Category:Hatnote templates with errors). This has an effect only if the leftmost parameter (the hatnote text) is omitted.

**Note:** when entering your parameters do not use the <> in the examples, nor do you need to add anything extra to create a link, the templates will create links; so make sure you are entering valid page names.

## Simple

Context links to other articles.

{{See also}}: Used to link to additional articles on related topics. Up to 5 parameters.

* Enter {{See also|*<Advanced Formatting>*|*<How To>*|*<Using Quotes>*}}
	+ results in: *See also: Advanced Formatting, How To, and Using Quotes*

## Use for Articles with similar title

### Main and Further

{{Main}}, {{Further}} are very similar, but indicate either the primary page for a topic or more detailed related topic. They have a nearly identical set of parameters.

When an article is large, it often has a summary and a link to a main article. This template is used after the heading of the summary, to indicate a link to the subtopic article that has been summarized.

### Further

T|Further}}: : Used to link to articles containing further information on this topic. Further has up to 5 linked parameters but it doesn't have the shortened link names ability.

* Enter {{Further|*<Advanced Formatting>*|*<How To>*|*<Using Quotes>*}}
	+ results in: *Further information: Advanced Formatting, How To, and Using Quotes*

### Main

{{Main|*<Special:Community>*}} **Results in:**

*Main page: Special:Community*
{{Main|*<Special:Community>*|*<How To>*}} **Results in:**

*Main pages: Special:Community and How To*

The following is needed only if you are shortening or using an alternate name of a link parameter name.

`l3`, ... *or* `label 1`, `label 2`, `label 3`, ... – 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,

When using the 1= or the l1= etc, you have to define them for all of the parameters even if you are only shortening the name for one of the links.

## Not similar titles

Templates such as {{About}} and {{For}} are to be used in cases where a disambiguation is not needed. In general, disambiguation pages should only be used for 4 or more titles that are mostly or entirely identical, except for a qualifier.

### About

{{About}}: Links the reader to other articles with similar titles or concepts that they may have been seeking instead. The template has several formats, including

* {{About|*<Overall Policies>*|*<>*|*<For Editors>*}} *This article is about Overall Policies. For other uses, see For Editors.*

* {{About|*<Overall Policies>*|*<Policies for Editors>*|*<For Editors>*}} *This article is about Overall Policies. For Policies for Editors, see For Editors.*

Alternately, a `section=yes` parameter can be added to the {{About}} template for use at the top of a section. When using this parameter, the wording in the template changes to specify that it is being used in a section:

A *text* option adds text to the end; note that this should be only used when truly necessary, and the other hatnote templates don't suffice. This template also supports *selfref*.

### For

{{For}}: Provides links to up to four articles. It accepts zero to five parameters. The second parameter is used to change the resulting link, e.g.

* {{For|*<similar terms>*|*<How To>*}} yields: *For similar terms, see How To.*

The third, fourth and fifth parameters are used to give one, two, or three supplementary links

* Enter {{For|*<similar terms>*|*<How To>*|*<Advanced Formatting>*}} *For similar terms, see How To and Advanced Formatting.*