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This help page is a how-to guide. It details processes or procedures of some aspect(s) of BattleTechWiki's norms and practices. It is not one of BattleTechWiki's policies or guidelines, and may reflect varying levels of consensus and vetting. |
This is the page banner template for How-to.
It can be placed on top of administration pages (not-articles) when appropriate. This usually means pages in the "BattleTechWiki:" and "Help:" namespaces, but sometimes how-to guides also exist as user subpages.
Categorization[edit]
If a page that uses this template is in the "BattleTechWiki:" or "Help:" namespace, then this template adds Category:how-to to the page.
If the page is in the "User:" namespace, it will be put into Category:User Essays. If your page is just a draft, please use the |nocat=
parameter to prevent categorization, until it is finished.
If it is in some other namespace, it will not be auto-categorized, and it may be in the wrong place.
Usage[edit]
This template can be used as is, like this:
{{BattleTechWiki how-to}}
But it can also take up to three shortcuts as parameters. It then displays a small shortcut box inside it. Like this:
{{BattleTechWiki how-to|BTW:SHORT|BTW:LONG}}
Then it looks like this:
This help page is a how-to guide. It details processes or procedures of some aspect(s) of BattleTechWiki's norms and practices. It is not one of BattleTechWiki's policies or guidelines, and may reflect varying levels of consensus and vetting. |
If you want to feed more than one or two shortcuts then the shortcut box becomes too high, which doesn't look good. In such a case it is better to use a {{shortcut}}
box directly below this template, like this:
Optional parameters[edit]
|1=
or|sc1=
,|shortcut1=
,|shortcut=
, or first unnamed parameter – First shortcut. Don't include[[...]]
linking brackets in this or other shortcut parameters.|2=
or|sc2=
,|shortcut2=
, or first unnamed parameter – Second shortcut|3=
or|sc3=
,|shortcut3=
, or first unnamed parameter – Third shortcut (deprecated; please use separate Template:Shortcut for three or more)|interprets=
or|page=
or|pages=
– Specify name of page (policy, process, etc.) that this essay provides advice about. For a single page, it is not necessary to include[[...]]
linking brackets;. This will replace the wording "some aspect or aspects of BattleTechWiki's norms and practices". If more than one page and/or any notes are intended, links must be manually coded, e.g.:|interprets=[[BattleTechWiki:Verifiability]] policy and the [[BattleTechWiki:Identifying reliable sources]] guideline
|sort-by=
– Specify a sort key for the category. This has no effect on the user essays category.|category=
– Specify a complete wikilink (i.e, do include the[[...]]
linking brackets) to one or more categories to override the default Category:how-to. May include a category sort; example:[[Category:WikiProject Underwater Basketweaving|Article structure advice]]
This parameter does not replace the Category:Essays categorization for pages in the "User:" namespace, but can be used to add them manually to Category:how-to, in addition to the automatic user category.|nocat=y
or|demo=y
– Bypass all categorization, when the template is used for demo purposes, e.g. in template documentation, on talk pages, etc.|style=
– Pass arbitrary CSS to the Template:Ombox base template that this template uses.
TemplateData[edit]
TemplateData for BattleTechWiki how-to
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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Page | page | Guideline or other page being interpreted | Page | optional |
Shortcut1 | shortcut1 | Shortcut to this page | Page | optional |
Shortcut2 | shortcut2 | Shortcut to this page | Page | optional |
Shortcut3 | shortcut3 | Shortcut to this page | Page | optional |
Nocat | nocat | Any value prevents addition of project category | String | optional |
See also[edit]
{{Information page}}
– the banner template for pages that are more just informational than directly instructional.{{Essay|interprets=}}
– the banner template for pages that are more opinionated then instructional or technical; there are several parameters and variations.