Template:Commons and category
Appearance
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Usage
Sometimes articles have both Commons articles (galleries) and categories about them. This template can be used to generate a right-aligned (default) message box link to a Commons gallery and a Commons category. It is intended for use in the "External links" section of an article.
Format
{{Commons and category|CommonsGalleryName|CommonsCategoryName}}
Please note that the Commons gallery (1st parameter) or the Commons category (2nd parameter) are both optional: if either is left blank, the template will search for them in Wikidata.
There are two optional parameters:
|position=
-- can specify whether the box is shifted to the left of the article|linktext=
-- can override the text in the main link
Location
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Generally:
Do not place this template in a section all by itself without floating left.
Do not place this template in a section containing columns without floating left.
Do not indent this template with colon (:) or a bullet (*) markup.
Specifically:
- In articles, this template should be placed at the top of the last section on the page so that it floats to the right of that section.
- See Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects#Where to place links for more information and alternatives.
- In disambiguation pages, this template is usually placed at the top of the page.
- In categories, this template should be grouped with other templates at the beginning of the category introduction. This avoids unnecessary white space as any text is floated around the template boxes.
Examples
{{Commons and category|Automobile|Automobiles}}
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{{Commons and category}}
when placed on Car (gallery and category both in wikidata):
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{{Commons and category}}
when placed on Beinn an Dòthaidh (only category in wikidata):
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{{Commons and category}}
when placed on Samuel Baker House (only gallery in wikidata):
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{{Commons and category}}
when placed on Chicago Lawn, Chicago (neither gallery nor category in wikidata):
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See also
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout § External links
- {{Commons}}—shows Commons box
- {{Commons-inline}}—shows Commons gallery inline
- {{Commons category}}—shows Commons category box
- {{Commons category-inline}}—shows Commons category inline
- {{Commons category multi}}—to list up to six categories
- {{Commons and category}}—shows Commons box with both gallery and category
- {{Commons and category inline}}—shows Commons gallery and category inline
- {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}}
- {{Wikimedia Commons redirect}}—specialized soft redirect template for Commons
- {{Wiki category}}—to link to a gallery hosted on Wikipedia
- mw:Manual:Pywikibot/commonscat.py
- {{Sister project links}}—to link all Wikinews, Wikisource, etc.
- {{Wikibooks}} / {{Wikibooks inline}}
- {{Wikinews}} / {{Wikinews inline}}
- {{Wikiquote}} / {{Wikiquote-inline}}
- {{Wikisource}} / {{Wikisource-inline}}
- {{Wikispecies}} / {{Wikispecies-inline}}
- {{Wikiversity}} / {{Wikiversity inline}}
- {{Wikivoyage}} / {{Wikivoyage inline}}
- {{Wiktionary}} / {{Wiktionary-inline}}