Template:Nationality television series debuts or endings by decade category
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Creates a category of the form "nationality television series debuts by decade", where nationality is a valid nationality.
The template detects whether it is being used on a "debuts" or "endings" category, and adjusts its output to suit.
e.g.
- Category:Danish television series debuts by decade
- Category:Irish television series endings by decade
But not
- Category:Colombian television series debuts
- Category:Mexican television series endings by year
- Category:2011 Israeli television series debuts
- Category:1990s Canadian television series endings
Usage
[edit]{{Nationality television series debuts or endings by decade category}}
No parameters needed
Errors
[edit]If the template is used on an invalid page, an error message is generated and the page is categorised in:
Errors include:
- The page is not in the category namespace
- The page's title does not take the form "nationality television series debuts by decade" or "nationality television series endings by decade"
- The value of "nationality" does not correspond to a country name. The conversion is made using {{GetCountryNameFromAdjective}}, so the problem may be a glitch in that template's lookup table