This template is designed to be used when creating a draft for new pages in the User namespace. It can produce a link (or transclusion) to a related page in the same namespace.
- When it appears in the user namespace, the link will be preceded with the same User prefix as the page it is displayed on.
- When it appears in the template namespace, the link will be preceded with Template:
- When it is moved to a different (or main) namespace, the link will be used without a prefix.
Parameters
- It accepts one unnamed parameter for the link text. If the parameter is not specified the BASEPAGENAME is used instead.
|transclude=no
Use this parameter if you want to link to a template page, instead of transcluding it.|transclude=yes
Use this parameter if you want to transclude a main page, instead of linking to it. This will prefix the output with a colon (:), but only when it appears in the main space.
Example Usage
Space | PAGENAME | DraftLink | Output |
---|---|---|---|
Main | Road Names | {{DraftLink}} |
Road Names |
User | User:PesachZ/Road Names | {{DraftLink}} |
User:PesachZ/Road Names |
Main | Road Names | {{DraftLink|Road Names/USA}} |
Road Names/USA |
Main | Road Names | {{DraftLink|Road Names/USA|transclude=yes}} |
:Road Names/USA |
User | User:PesachZ/Road Names | {{DraftLink|Road Names/USA}} |
User:PesachZ/Road Names/USA |
Template | Template:DraftLink | {{DraftLink}} |
DraftLink |
Template | Template:DraftLink | {{DraftLink|transclude=no}} |
Template:DraftLink |
Template | Template:DraftLink | {{DraftLink|Road Names/USA}} |
Road Names/USA |
The template can be placed inside double square OR curly braces depending on the desired effect. You can also append subpages after the template.
For example use the following code:
[[{{DraftLink|Topic page}}
/specific detail]]
When placed on a user page it will produce [[User:PesachZ/Topic page/specific detail]]When that page is moved to the main space the template will produce
[[Topic page/Specific detail]]
To use curly braces and transclude that same subpage use this code (notice the space between the sets of curly braces):
{{ {{DraftLink|Topic page}}
/specific detail}}
When placed on a user page it will produce {{User:PesachZ/Topic page/specific detail}}When that page is moved to the main space the template will produce
{{Topic page/Specific detail}}
Transition
This template smoothes the transition to publish a page, but after the page is published, the template can be replaced with proper wiki links.
To replace the template with proper links, simply edit the page, and (using find & replace) add subst:
directly before the word "DraftLink" throughout the page. During the next save the templates will be substituted, and converted into their output.
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The above documentation is transcluded from Template:DraftLink/doc. Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. |