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• Template talk:Main/Archive

[edit] Documentation

[edit] Purpose

{{Main}} — When Wikipedia articles become too large, subarticles are usually created. This template, used in the subarticle, uses the name of the main article as a parameter to produce a link to the main article:

[edit] Usage

{{main
  |Article 1
}}

You may also include additional links, up to five in total:

{{main
  |Article 1
  |Article 2
  |Article 3
  |Article 4
  |Article 5
}}

For each link, you may optionally specify a link appearance (this is mostly intended for articles whose titles suffer from technical limitations):

{{main
  |Article 1
  |Article 2
  |Article 3
  |Article 4
  |Article 5
  |l1=Article 1 link appearance
  |l2=Article 2 link appearance
  |l3=Article 3 link appearance
  |l4=Article 4 link appearance
  |l5=Article 5 link appearance
}}

[edit] Example

{{Main|Article}}

{{Main|Article1|Article2|Article3}}

{{Main|Article1|Article2|Article3|Article4|Article5}}

{{Main|2003 UB313|l1={{mp|2003 UB|313}}}}

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Long article layout
• Wikipedia:Summary style
• m:Help:Template

[edit] Development

This template has a development branch at Template:Main/dev. This can be used for change proposals.

[edit] History

Created

_→AzaToth 17:24, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

De-metafied

— FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 08:10, Jan. 8, 2006

m:ParserFunctions

— Apr. 28, '06 [19:48] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

[edit] Discussion

[edit] Printing

Should a noprint class be applied to this template? It would make it truely pertinent then to use it instead of formatted text (noprinting is a reason to favor hatnotes over formatted text). besides, knowing there is a subarticle is useless on a printed form. Also, very few subarticles actually USE the template at the top. A link is usually present within the first few lines anyway, so maybe the use guideline should be rewrote to take that into account. Circeus 17:22, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edits needed July,09,2006

1. Someone should add this (and the See Also's to
2. Add {{MainBold}} to See also list as well as Template:Mainlist.

regards, // FrankB 18:40, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

done. Circeus 21:36, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] interwikilinks

Updated interwikilinks of other wikis, but this is semi-protected and therefor still needs updating. And no, I won't ever create an account if anonymous editing in general is possible, b/c it's a good idea in general :) 129.35.204.162 06:12, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SubArticle template

Would someone please add Template:SubArticle to the see also section. --Ephilei 00:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Last Change Breaks Template - Please Revert

See Wikipedia:About#Making the best use of Wikipedia for 2 examples on one screen. --Quiddity·(talk) 02:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What's the point?

Why not just write :''Main article: [[article name]]''? This template seems to be totally useless and overcomplicated. /Grillo 14:05, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Italics

The article's name should not be in italics. It looks unprofessional. ☆ CieloEstrellado 04:01, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Comparison with related templates"

I've removed that section from the "Documentation", as I couldn't make heads or tails of it (are the first and third bullets talking about the same thing?). The difference between this and Template:Details certainly needs to be illustrated, especially as Wikipedia:Summary style seems to treat them as synonymous. --zenohockey 21:49, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This was it:

The following two are meant to be used in connection with each other:

• At the top of a brief section concerning a subject that has a more detailed article (this is the only form specified by the Wikipedia Manual of Style);
• or at the top of the specialized article, to refer to the more general article: Template:main (talk, backlinks, edit):

Main article: [[{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]

• at the top or bottom of a section of the more general article, to refer to the specialized article: Template:Details (talk, backlinks, edit):

What do the three braces mean? -lysdexia 23:28, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

They indicate variables. The text in {{main|THE VARIABLE}} is placed there. The pipe in variables ({{{1|text}}})serves to give default text if the variable is not defined. Circeus 00:56, 31 October 2006 (UTC)