Template:About

Template Documentation

This is a commonly used hatnote template, and should be placed at the top of an article or a section, linking the reader to other articles with similar titles or concepts that they may have been seeking instead.

Usage

Parameters

1: Info about this article/section.
2: Info about the first article.
3: The first artcle name. If not specified but 2 is not empty, will link to the current page's disambiguation page named with the format About (disambiguation).
4: Info about the second article.
5: The second artcle name. Same as 3.
section: If set to true, will display "section" instead of "article" in the first sentence.

Examples

{{About|Use1}}

This template is about Use1.

{{About|Use1|Article2}}

This template is about Use1. For Article2, see Template:About (disambiguation).

{{About|Use1|Use2|Article2}}

This template is about Use1. For Use2, see Article2.

{{About|Use1|Use2|Article2|Use3|Article3}}

This template is about Use1. For Use2, see Article2. For Use3, see Article3.

{{About|Use1|Use2|Article2|other uses}}

This template is about Use1. For Use2, see Article2. For other uses, see Template:About (disambiguation).

How to translate

This template is translatable.

Template code

Paste the following code into the <includeonly> tag of the translated template and translate the text after each = sign (except for #default =).

{{#if: {{{1|}}}
| This {{{2}}} is about {{{1}}}.
| [[Category:Incorrect template usage]]
}}

Template documentation

Copy the code wrapped in the <noinclude> tag in this template and translate the text after doc = in the {{Documentation}} template.

{{Translation guide}} template should be removed from the translated documentation.