Template:See above/doc

{{See above}} and {{See below}} are simple wrappers for {{crossreference|selfref=no|text=...}}.

The output is a parenthetical fragment, intended mostly for use in the middle of or at the end of a sentence, e.g. "In the Elbonian Uprising (see below), Addamasartus was used as the rebels' base of operations."

For more complex custom cross-references, use {{Crossreference}} directly. But please read WP:SELFREF, and avoid "talking at" the reader (Bad idea: For a fuller treatment of the Elbonian Uprising and its consequences, more information is provided at our article ...). Wikipedia is not a classroom.

For cross-references between articles, use {{See also}} or another in that family of hatnote templates.

Usage

The templates will format a "(see above)" or a "(see below)" or a custom message into a standardized style for an inline (not block-level) cross-reference to other content in the same article.

They are not Wikipedia self-references, to other pages, but self-references to the content at hand on the same page, and are thus printworthy. Their output is ultimately generated by Module:Hatnote inline.

Default: {{See above}} and {{See below}}

produce: (see above) and (see below), respectively (which are usually not very helpful).

Basic usage with parameter: {{See below|Radical Whigs}}

produces: (see Radical Whigs)

Linked: {{See below|below}}

produces: (see below)

Custom usage: {{See below|{{section link||Radical Whigs}}, below}}

produces: (see § Radical Whigs, below)

Another example, going to an anchor at an image: {{See above|1992 statistics graph}}

produces: (see 1992 statistics graph)

Parameters

• |text= AKA |content= AKA first unnamed parameter – the text to use between "(see " and ")".