Template:Broader/doc

This template is used to make summary style explicit. It looks like this:

It is used in sections for which there is also a separate article on the subject. It should be used when there should be a link to another article that discusses a subject more broadly, but is not a main article (which should use main), a narrower topic (which should probably use further), or at the same level of focus (which should probably use see also).

Usage

 * Basic usage:
 * With a topic:
 * With more than one target page:
 * All parameters:

Parameters
This template accepts the following parameters:
 * - the page to link to (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.
 * (and greater numbers) - any additional pages to link to. These links are also automatically formatted as with the first parameter.
 * - the name of the topic. If this is not specified, the text "this topic" is used.
 * - if set to "yes", "y", "true" or "1", adds the CSS class "selfref". This is used to denote self-references to Wikipedia. See Template:Selfref for more information.
 * - 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.

Examples

 * &rarr;
 * &rarr;

Errors
If no page name is supplied, the template will output the following message:

If you see this error message, it is for one of four reasons:
 * 1) No parameters were specified (the template code was  ). Please use   instead.
 * 2) Some parameters were specified, but the page name wasn't included. For example, the template text   will produce this error. Please use (for example)   instead.
 * 3) The 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 explictly by using   before the page name (like this:  ) or you can disable the equals being interpreted as delimiting a parameter name by surrounding the equals with double braces (like this:  ).

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

Pages that contain this error message are tracked in Category:Hatnote templates with errors.