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Revision as of 12:46, 7 March 2009 by MSGJ (talk | contribs) (use common documentation for user link templates)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge] Shortcuts For the template that only gives a link to a user's user page, see Template:User link. For the template that gives links related to a user's page, see Template:lu.This template is used on approximately 28,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them. |
Sandbox
Template:User/sandbox can be used for testing. Additional edit history for this template is contained there.
TemplateData
This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:User0 in articles based on its TemplateData.TemplateData for User0
This template is used to create a link to a user's user page (unless using {{Useranon}}), talk page, and contributions, and generates a special notification (aka 'ping').
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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User name | 1 user | The user name that you want to create links to and notify. | User | required |
Sister project | project | Used to link to a sister project instead of the English Misplaced Pages. Use the standard interwiki prefix.
| String | optional |
Other language project | lang | Used to link to another language project. If used with the "sister project" parameter, links to another language of a sister project. Otherwise links to another language Misplaced Pages. Use the standard language code. | String | optional |
Separator | separator | Used to change the separator between the links. If unused, defaults to a dot. | Unknown | optional |
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (create) pages.
Subpages of this template. Category: