Template:Wy/syl/Template category

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{{Wy/syl/Template category}} should be placed at the top of categories that contain template pages and their related subcategories. This template populates Category:Wy/syl/Wikipedia template categories.

Usage

Syntax

Basic

{{Wy/syl/Template category
|description=
}}

Basic topical

Syntax of {{Wy/syl/Template category}}

No type	Navbox	Sidebar	Stub
{{Wy/syl/Template category |topic= }}	{{Wy/syl/Template category |type=navbox |topic= }}	{{Wy/syl/Template category |type=sidebar |topic= }}	{{Wy/syl/Template category |type=stub |topic= }}

Full

{{Wy/syl/Template category
| onright = 
| type = 
| container = 
| topic = 
| description = 
| ALTTEXT = 
| help = 
}}

Parameters and examples

The template may be used without any parameters.

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The following, however, may be used to make the template more informative:

onright

---

Use onright (or rhs) to place right-aligned boxes beside the template such as {{Wy/syl/Portal}} (to provide link/s to related portal/s), {{Wy/syl/Commons category}} (to provide a link to the same or a similarly-named Commons category), etc. If more than one box is included, ensure the widest one appears first (see example below) otherwise overlapping may occur.

{{Wy/syl/Template category
| topic = the [[United States]]
| onright = {{Wy/syl/Commons category|United States|the United States}}{{Wy/syl/Portal|United States}}
}}

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type

---

Setting type to one of the following values adds a preset note as to which type of template the category (but not necessarily its subcategories) is meant to contain. The values are:

• ambox
• campaignbox
• (category header
• category heading
• catheader
• cat header
• cathead)
• conversion
• external link
• formatting
• function
• infobox
• message
• meta
• module
• (navigation
• navigational
• navbox)
• sidebar
• stub
• sub
• timeline
• (user
• userbox)

If type is set to something other than one of these values, the default "The pages listed in this category are templates" note appears unmodified.

{{Wy/syl/Template category |type=sidebar}}

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container

---

Set container as true, yes, etc. to identify the category as a container category, i.e. a category meant to contain only subcategories. A note requesting that no templates are added to the template category is then included. The category is automatically added to Category:Container categories.

{{Wy/syl/Template category |container=true}}

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An alternative to using container is to place {{Wy/syl/Container category}} after the {{Wy/syl/Template category}} template:

{{Wy/syl/Template category
| type = ''type''
| topic = ''[[topic]]''
| description = This text supplied by the ''description'' parameter.
}}
{{Wy/syl/Container category}}

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topic

---

Use topic to add a default description ending "...relating to topic", where topic is usually a wikilink to the main article associated with the category (e.g. United States for the Category:United States templates).

{{Wy/syl/Template category |topic=the [[United States]]}}

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{{Wy/syl/Template category |type=infobox |topic=the [[United States]]}}

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description

---

Use description if a customised description is needed instead of – or, if topic also used, to follow – the default description above.

{{Wy/syl/Template category
| type = navbox
| topic = [[China]]
| description = <br />{{Wy/syl/Small|For templates relating specifically to the [[People's Republic of China|People's Republic of China (PRC)]] or the current [[Taiwan|Republic of China (ROC, "Taiwan")]], see, respectively, {{Wy/syl/C|People's Republic of China templates}} and {{Wy/syl/C|Taiwan templates}}.}}
}}

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{{Wy/syl/Template category |description=This text is supplied by the ''description'' parameter.}}

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help

---

Use help to replace the instructions on adding a template to the category (second paragraph of the "Further template category notes" section):

{{Wy/syl/Template category |help=This text supplied by the ''help'' parameter.}}

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To omit the default instructions, set help to no:

{{Wy/syl/Template category |help=no}}

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Tracking category

Uses with a topic or description parameter are tracked:

• Template:Wy/syl/Clc

TemplateData

This template is used as a header for category pages that contain templates.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
onright	onright rhs	no description	Unknown	optional
type	type	no description	Unknown	optional
container	container	no description	Unknown	optional
topic	topic	no description	Unknown	optional
description	description 1	no description	Unknown	optional
ALTTEXT	ALTTEXT	no description	Unknown	optional
help	help 2	no description	Unknown	optional
category	category	no description	Unknown	optional

See also

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Wy/syl/Template category/doc. (edit | history)
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