Template:See also/doc

Description
This template is to be used at the top of an article section (excluding the lead) and links to a small number of related articles.

Do not use this template as a substitute for inline links. Do not use it in the lead section of an article; a disambiguation link should be used instead.

Large parts of this documentation are borrowed from Developer Fandom's Hatnote documentation and Wikipedia's See Also documentation.

Usage
Basic usage:

All parameters:

Parameters

 * ,,  , ... – the pages to link to. At least one page name is required. Categories and files are automatically escaped with the colon trick, and links to sections are automatically formatted as page § section, rather than the MediaWiki default of page#section. (Note: These parameters also work positionally, so long as no  /  parameters are inserted in between links.
 * ,,  , ... or ,  ,  , ... – optional labels for each of the pages to link to (this is for articles where a piped link would be used). Note that the extra parameters use a lower case 'L', for example,  , not.
 * – if set to "yes", "y", "true" or "1", adds the CSS class "selfref". This is used to denote self-references.
 * – if set to "no", "n", "false", or "0", suppresses the error tracking category (Category:Hatnote templates with errors). This only has an effect if the first positional parameter (the page to link to) is omitted.

Template data
This template data is taken from Wikipedia's Main template's documentation. {	"params": { "1": {			"label": "Link 1", "description": "The name of the first page that you want to link to.", "type": "wiki-page-name", "required": true },		"2": {			"label": "Link 2", "description": "The name of the second page that you want to link to.", "type": "wiki-page-name" },		"3": {			"label": "Link 3", "description": "The name of the third page that you want to link to. More pages can be added using the parameters \"4\", \"5\", \"6\", etc.", "type": "wiki-page-name" },		"l1": { "aliases": [ "label1" ],			"label": "Link 1 label", "description": "What the first linked article is to be displayed as. ", "type": "string", "suggested": true },		"l2": { "aliases": [ "label2" ],			"label": "Link 2 label", "description": "What the second linked article is to be displayed as.", "type": "string" },		"l3": { "aliases": [ "label3" ],			"label": "Link 3 label", "description": "What the third linked article is to be displayed as. Other labels can be added by using increasing numbers (starting with \"label 4\" or \"l4\" for page 4) as parameter names.", "type": "string" },		"selfref": { "label": "Self-reference?", "description": "Set to \"yes\" if the template is a self-reference to Wikipedia that would not make sense on mirrors or forks of the Wikipedia site.", "type": "boolean" },		"category": { "label": "Include in error-tracking category?", "description": "Set to \"no\", \"n\", \"false\", or \"0\" to suppresses the error tracking category (Category:Hatnote templates with errors). This only has an effect if no page names are specified.", "type": "string", "default": "yes" }	},	"description": "This template creates a hatnote to point to a small number of related pages. It is placed at the top of a section, directly underneath the section heading.", "format": "inline" }

Errors
If no page names are supplied, the template outputs the following message with the (help) wikilink pointing to the "Errors" section of this page:



If you see this error message, it is for one of three reasons:


 * 1) No parameters were specified (the template code was   with no pipe character nor page to link to). Please use   instead.
 * 2) Some parameters were specified, but no page names were included. For example, the template text   will produce this error. Please use (for example)   instead.
 * 3) A page name was specified, but it contains an equals sign ("="). The equals sign has a special meaning in template code, and because of this it cannot be used in template parameters that do not specify a parameter name. For example, the template code   will produce this error. To work around this, you can specify the parameter name explicitly by using ,  , etc., before the page name, like this:.

If you see this error message and are unsure of what to do, please post a message on the discussion board, and someone should be able to help you.

To see a list of articles that contain this error message, see the maintenance category: Category:Hatnote templates with errors.