Template:Given name

This page or section lists people that share the same given name.
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This template adds an automatically generated short description. If the automatic short description is not optimal, replace it by adding {{Short description}} at the top of the article.

Template:{{given name}} is only for use on Wikipedia set index articles.

It is not for and should not be used on disambiguation pages! The template will not render output if transcluded on a page that ends with "(disambiguation)" and its title will sort in Category:Wikipedia page transclusions with strong class errors until corrected.

When disambiguation pages have lists of people by given name, among the ambiguous clarifications, on the page, therein made: set |1= to "given name" in the {{disambiguation}} template (for example, {{Disambiguation|given name}}). This will sort the disambiguation page in Category:Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists.

Usage

When a page is titled in the following form: "Name (given name)" where "Name" is any given name and "(given name)" is the parenthetical index identifier, use template "{{given name}}"; placed at the bottom of a page to identify it as a set index article and, without parameters, will render text in broad generalizations. For example, the introduction says: "this page or section" lists ...". For more specific text, use |page= or |section= to modify the template's output to say: "this page lists ..." or "this section lists ..." respectively.

By default, articles that include this template will be auto-categorized into Category:Given names. To override this functionality:

Use cat=name of category when the category should be changed to something else.
Example: {{Given name|cat=Welsh given names}}
Use cat=none when no category should be included at all (e.g. when using as an example in discussion or template documentation).
Example: {{Given name|cat=none}}

If it's just for a section, you can say so:

Example: {{Given name|section=y}}

Multiple categories are also possible. To accomplish this, use cat1= for the first category, cat2= for the second, and so on. Note that this will auto-categorize the article into Category:Given names.

Example: {{Given name|cat1=Welsh given names|cat2=English given names}}

cat= can still be used with multiple categories to suppress auto-categorization into Category:Given names:

Example: {{Given name|cat=English given names|cat1=French given names|cat2=German given names}}

Pages that include both given names and family names may be tagged with type=both. This adjusts the displayed text accordingly, and obviates the need to include multiple templates.

Example: {{Given name|type=both}}

However, category names must still be provided in full.

Example: {{Given name|type=both|cat1=Welsh given names|cat2=Welsh surnames}}

In addition, cat= must still be used in order to avoid auto-categorization into Category:Given names and Category:Surnames:

Example: {{Given name|type=both|cat=Welsh given names|cat1=English given names|cat2=Welsh surnames}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Given name in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Given name

Indicates that an article is about a given name. Typically, such articles contain a list of notable people with this name.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
section	`section`	no description	Unknown	optional
page	`page`	no description	Unknown	optional
Type	`type`	If set to "both", it indicates that the article also covers people having the same name as their surname. Example both	String	optional
nocat	`nocat`	no description	Unknown	optional
First category	`cat` `cat1` `1`	The first category to categorize the article into. Example Welsh given names	String	optional
Second category	`cat2` `2`	The second category to categorize the article into.	String	optional
Third category	`cat3`	The third category to categorize the article into.	String	optional
cat4	`cat4`	no description	Unknown	optional
cat5	`cat5`	no description	Unknown	optional
cat6	`cat6`	no description	Unknown	optional
cat7	`cat7`	no description	Unknown	optional
cat8	`cat8`	no description	Unknown	optional
cat9	`cat9`	no description	Unknown	optional

Usage

TemplateData

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