Template:Main/doc

When a wiki article is large, it is often rewritten in summary style. This template is used after the heading of the summary, to link to the sub-article that has been (or will be) summarised. This template can also be used in the Category namespace, but the preferred template for categories is Cat main.

This template can also be used in articles leads when an article is not the "main" article for its subject, but this is controversial. When there are multiple articles, distinct enough to warrant separate articles, but not enough to be very separate subjects. One to be the main article describing the topic, and the others avoiding unnecessary duplication of the main article. This can be thought of as a halfway point between having fully separate articles, and having a redirect.

Its usage should be restricted to the purposes described above. This template is not to be used as a substitute for inline links or as a "see also". The latter includes e.g. when a section has a title that happens to have a main article, but the section actually refers to a specific aspect of the article at hand.

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

For each link, you may optionally specify a link appearance (this is for articles where a piped link would be used). Note that the extra parameters use a lower case 'L', for example,, not  :

Examples
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TemplateData
{ "description": "This template is used after the heading of a section, to link to the sub-article(s) that is entirely about this topic. The final template will show in italics: Main article: Article 1, Article 2 and Article 3", "params": { "1": {   "label": "Article 1 page location", "description": "Gives the name of the first article to which you want to link", "type": "string", "required": true }, "2": {    "label": "Article 2 page location", "description": "Gives the name of the second article to which you want to link", "type": "string", "required": false }, "3": {    "label": "Article 3 page location", "description": "Gives the name of the third article to which you want to link", "type": "string", "required": false }, "4": {    "label": "Article 4 page location", "description": "Gives the name of the fourth article to which you want to link", "type": "string", "required": false }, "5": {    "label": "Article 5 page location", "description": "Gives the name of the fifth article to which you want to link", "type": "string", "required": false }, "6": {    "label": "Article 6 page location", "description": "Gives the name of the sixth article to which you want to link", "type": "string", "required": false }, "7": {    "label": "Article 7 page location", "description": "Gives the name of the seventh article to which you want to link", "type": "string", "required": false }, "8": {    "label": "Article 8 page location", "description": "Gives the name of the eighth article to which you want to link", "type": "string", "required": false }, "9": {    "label": "Article 9 page location", "description": "Gives the name of the ninth article to which you want to link", "type": "string", "required": false }, "10": {    "label": "Article 10 page location", "description": "Gives the name of the tenth article to which you want to link", "type": "string", "required": false }, "l1": { "label": "Article 1 visible link text", "description": "Gives the text which will appear in the hyperlink to article 1. If not set, the article name will be used.", "type": "string", "required": false }, "l2": { "label": "Article 2 visible link text", "description": "Gives the text which will appear in the hyperlink to article 2. If not set, the article name will be used.", "type": "string", "required": false }, "l3": { "label": "Article 3 visible link text", "description": "Gives the text which will appear in the hyperlink to article 3. If not set, the article name will be used.", "type": "string", "required": false }, "l4": { "label": "Article 4 visible link text", "description": "Gives the text which will appear in the hyperlink to article 4. If not set, the article name will be used.", "type": "string", "required": false }, "l5": { "label": "Article 5 visible link text", "description": "Gives the text which will appear in the hyperlink to article 5. If not set, the article name will be used.", "type": "string", "required": false }, "l6": { "label": "Article 6 visible link text", "description": "Gives the text which will appear in the hyperlink to article 6. If not set, the article name will be used.", "type": "string", "required": false }, "l7": { "label": "Article 7 visible link text", "description": "Gives the text which will appear in the hyperlink to article 7. If not set, the article name will be used.", "type": "string", "required": false }, "l8": { "label": "Article 8 visible link text", "description": "Gives the text which will appear in the hyperlink to article 8. If not set, the article name will be used.", "type": "string", "required": false }, "l9": { "label": "Article 9 visible link text", "description": "Gives the text which will appear in the hyperlink to article 9. If not set, the article name will be used.", "type": "string", "required": false }, "l10": { "label": "Article 10 visible link text", "description": "Gives the text which will appear in the hyperlink to article 10. If not set, the article name will be used.", "type": "string", "required": false } }} -->