Module:Navseasoncats/doc
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About
| Type | Example category | BC(E)? | Example output | |
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| Season | 2001–02 FA Cup | No |
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| TV season | Futurama (season 1) episodes | – |
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| Office term | MEPs 2004–2009 | No | Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 209: too many expensive function calls. | |
| Numerical range | Taxonbars with 30–34 taxon IDs | – | Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 209: too many expensive function calls. | |
| Decade | 2020s awards | BC | Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 209: too many expensive function calls. | |
| Year | 1999 in Scotland | BC(E) | Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 209: too many expensive function calls. | |
| Year (auto-condensed) | Candidates in the 2000 US presidential election | – | Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 209: too many expensive function calls. | |
| Year (|skip-gaps=yes) | Nations at the 1980 World Championships in Athletics | – | Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 209: too many expensive function calls. | |
| Ordinal (temporal) | 2nd-century rabbis | BC(E) | Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 209: too many expensive function calls. | |
| Ordinal (numeric) | 1st Lok Sabha members | – | Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 209: too many expensive function calls. | |
| Ordinal (word) | First Dynasty of Egypt | – | Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 209: too many expensive function calls. | |
| Roman numeral | Deputies of Legislature X of the Kingdom of Italy | – | Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 209: too many expensive function calls. | |
| Mixed decade | 1760s in the Province of Quebec (1763–1791) | – | Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 209: too many expensive function calls. | |
| Mixed year | 1778 establishments in the Province of Quebec (1763–1791) | – | Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 209: too many expensive function calls. | |
Searching behavior
Multi-year seasons/office terms/numerical ranges are acceptable as long as the duration/range size remains constant, and no years/numbers are irregularly skipped. The length of each duration/range is automatically determined from the originating category name, up to and including 10 years. MOS:DATERANGE compliance is preferred, but some deviation is allowed and tracked. {{Category redirect}}s are followed, and tracked for either MOS contravention (to be corrected) or for navigational aid (no error). The gap size between successive durations/ranges is also automatically determined, up to and including 5 years if a surrounding category is found, and defaults to 0 (e.g. 1995–96 → 1996–97).
Automatically condensed year display is supported for presidential categories only (but can be easily expanded as needed), for gaps up to and including 5 years, and defaults to 1. To skip gaps up to 10–15 years (position-dependent) in any year categories, use |skip-gaps=yes.
Limitations
- Season/office term categories do not work for any years BC, which will be hidden, because no working examples were found.
- Decade categories recognize BC, but not BCE, because no working examples were found.
- Automatically condensed year display is supported for
presidentialcategories only, due to their consistency. Use|skip-gaps=yesas desired elsewhere. - Automatically condensed Olympics display is not supported due to peculiarities; use {{Winter Olympics by year category navigation}}, etc., instead.
- Ordinal words do not work above the ninety-ninth, because no higher working examples were found.
- General: for large, permanent gaps between successive categories, or when the base category name changes, use {{Category pair}} in addition to {{Navseasoncats}} on both sides of the gap/name change. Even if {{Navseasoncats}} is isolated, it has the benefit of confirming the absence of nearby categories to the reader or maintainer.
Related CfDs
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 June 8#Category:Northern Ireland MLAs 2016–17
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 May 29#Category:MEPs 1952–58
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 April 19#Category:Aircraft piston engines 1900–1909
Usage
- Typical usage
{{Navseasoncats}}
- Specify a minimum and/or maximum year to display
{{Navseasoncats|min=-100}}{{Navseasoncats|min=100 BC}}{{Navseasoncats|min=1753|max=1810}}{{Navseasoncats|max=2025}}
- To skip gaps in year categories
{{Navseasoncats|skip-gaps=yes}}
- To not automatically follow {{Category redirect}}s
{{Navseasoncats|follow-redirects=no}}
- Exceptional cases
{{Navseasoncats|cat=2010s albums}}— to behave as if placed on|cat=; consider using {{Category pair}} instead of|cat=
Testing & debugging
To test the output of the template on a particular category name, use the |testcase= parameter, and |testcasegap= if necessary:
{{Navseasoncats|testcase=Birds described in 1761 |min=1758}}
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{{Navseasoncats|testcase=2024 elections |max=2026}}
Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 209: too many expensive function calls.
{{Navseasoncats|testcase=Nations at the 2013 World Athletics Championships |min=2008 |skip-gaps=yes |list-all-links=yes}}
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- Which is technically an inappropriate category for {{Navseasoncats}} placement, but it best shows the
|list-all-links=yesbehavior for all element variants (blue, red/grey, hidden, and redirect), and would otherwise display as:
- Which is technically an inappropriate category for {{Navseasoncats}} placement, but it best shows the
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Tracking categories
If the template encounters an issue, it displays an error message and/or places the category into one or more of the following tracking categories:
Maintenance required
- Category:Navseasoncats failed to generate navbox (0)
- Category:Navseasoncats range abbreviated (0)
- Category:Navseasoncats range redirected (MOS) (0)
- Category:Navseasoncats range not using en dash (0)
Maintenance possible
- Category:Navseasoncats default season gap size (0)
- Category:Navseasoncats using cat parameter (0)
- Category:Navseasoncats using testcase parameter (0)
- Category:Navseasoncats isolated (0)
Tracking only
- Category:Navseasoncats range redirected (base change) (0)
- Category:Navseasoncats TV season redirected (0)
- Category:Navseasoncats decade redirected (0)
- Category:Navseasoncats year redirected (0)
- Category:Navseasoncats roman numeral redirected (0)
- Category:Navseasoncats nordinal redirected (0)
- Category:Navseasoncats wordinal redirected (0)
- Category:Navseasoncats using skip-gaps parameter (0)
See also
- {{Navseasoncats with centuries below decade}}
- {{Navseasoncats with decades below year}}
- {{Year by category}}
- {{R from category navigation}}
