Template:Section link/doc

Usage
This template is appropriate for use in hatnotes and See also sections, or to reference sections within the same article. When using in article body text, consider whether an overt link to a specific section in another article may be confusing to readers who cannot follow links, such as those viewing a printed version of the material, or a version republished without links (see WP:LINKSTYLE).

Syntax (overview)

 * or, link to section of other article. → Example:
 * , link to section of other article, only displaying the section's title → Example:
 * , for usage within the same article, supply an empty first parameter → Example:

Single section
This template, section link, or its shortcut, slink, is used to generate a link to a certain section of a local wiki page and render an appropriate section mark (§).

Instead of:

Albert Einstein

...you can write:

...or

Multiple sections
This template may generate consecutive links to several sections of the same page. You can write:

...or:



Suppressing page name
Sometimes the page name needs not to appear, e.g. to avoid redundancy and wordiness. For the page on which the template is used, not specifying a page name creates a section link only. The following: ...is the equivalent of: § Suppressing page name ...and renders as:

For other pages, y can be used to suppress the page name. This can be used when the page name is clear from context, such as on talk pages referring to the article being discussed.

This common case can be entered using. The template, alias , exists for this purpose.

Comparison of displayed results:

Styling page name
For some page names (e.g., titles of films or short stories) we're always supposed to present the core part of the page's name (without any parenthetic disambiguation) in italics, quotation marks, or some other markup (per MOS:TITLES). The display parameter can be used for this purpose:

Underscores
It is common practice to copy article and section name from the browser's address bar. When doing that, the article and section names may contain underscores:

This template automatically replaces the underscores with space characters:

There are articles that have underscores (see ). To retain the underscores in the rendered output, use yes:
 * article and section copied from browser address bar:
 * manual removal of extraneous underscores:
 * manual removal of extraneous underscores:

TemplateData
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