Jump to content

Template:Waterway-routemap/doc

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a universal template for all waterway Route Diagram Templates (RDT). It adds the following text (without the surrounding box) to an RDT:

This is a route-map template for a country waterway.

Note: Per consensus and convention, most route-map templates are used in a single article in order to separate their complex and fragile syntax from normal article wikitext. See these discussions [1],[2] for more information.

It will also place the template in Category:Waterway routemap templates unless there is an appropriate category for that country, or the parameter |cat=no is set which will omit any categorization.

Usage

[edit]

Country is specified by any valid ISO 3166-1 code.

Additional codes

[edit]

The template also recognizes these unofficial codes:

Code Location
AFR Africa
AA or ASA Asia
CT or CAT Catalonia
EU or EUR Europe
NIL Northern Ireland‎
UK United Kingdom‎

Optional parameters

[edit]

When included, the second (optional) parameter should be the parent article of the diagram.

{{Waterway-routemap|US|Colorado River}}

will change the first line of the template to:

This is a route-map template for the Colorado River, a waterway in the United States.


Including the optional named parameter |type= will change “a waterway in Country” to “a alternate text in Country”. For example,

{{Waterway-routemap|IT|type=[[Roman aqueduct]]}}

will change the first line of the template to:

This is a route-map template for a Roman aqueduct in Italy.

and,

{{Waterway-routemap|FR|Pont du Gard|type=[[aqueduct]]}}

will change the first line of the template to:

This is a route-map template for the Pont du Gard, an aqueduct in France.


The optional named parameter |the=anything will omit the word “the” before the linked page. For example,

{{Waterway-routemap|ZM|the=x|Victoria Falls|type=[[waterfall]]}}

will change the first line of the template to:

This is a route-map template for Victoria Falls, a waterfall in Zambia.


The optional named parameter |display= will replace the text of the article link. If display is set to either I or i the article link will automatically be italicized.

The optional named parameter |place= will change “a waterway in Country” to “a waterway in place, Country”. For example,

{{Waterway-routemap|UK|Grand Union Canal (old)|display=Grand Union Canal|place=[[Leicestershire, England]]}}

will change the first line of the template to:

This is a route-map template for the Grand Union Canal, a waterway in Leicestershire, England, the United Kingdom.

See also

[edit]
General
Specific


Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Waterway-routemap/doc&oldid=1243341533"