Wikipedia:Article series
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Article series are useful for tying together information on very broad subjects. For example, the article Israeli-Palestinian conflict could contain a table that provides links to all the major issues surrounding that subject.
Note that an alternative to an article series (for instance, where only one title is appropriate for the entire exposition) is a single, long, tightly written article. Wikipedia:Long article layout provides guidelines for such articles.
There are proposals to restyle these boxes. See Wikipedia_talk:Article_series#Change_the_style?
See also:
- Wikipedia:Long article layout
- Wikipedia:Long articles (a list)
- Wikipedia:List of article series
- Wikipedia:Incumbent series
- Wikipedia:Navigational templates (basics about the boxes that can be used for article series; templates of available series boxes)
- General policies governing article series: Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes
- Proposed policies about the series boxes and/or templates:
- Infoboxes are often used on related articles which do not necessarily form a series.
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Article series box guidelines
- Using Template {{foo}} syntax, the current article is bolded and de-linked (cf. talk).
- The number and order of the series items in the series box should be the same on every page in the series. This is automatically achieved with Templates.
Article series box formats
With the use of templates, there is now no need to have a separate template for "parent" article and template for daughter article, the same template should be used for both.
A vertical series box
| This article is part of the U.S. History series. |
| Pre-Colonial America |
| Colonial America |
| 1776 – 1789 |
| 1789 – 1849 |
| 1849 – 1865 |
| 1865 – 1918 |
| 1918 – 1945 |
| 1945 – 1964 |
| 1964 – 1980 |
| 1980 – 1987 |
| 1988 – present |
| Timeline · Topics |
Include in article using the following syntax: {{Ushistory}}
Source in template
{| cellpadding="1" style="float: right; border: 1px solid #8888aa; background: #f7f8ff; padding: 5px; font-size: 85%; margin: 0 15px 0 15px;"
| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | '''This article is part of'''<br>'''the [[History of the United States|U.S. History]]'''<br>'''series.'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[Colonial America]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1776-1789)| 1776 – 1789]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1789-1849)| 1789 – 1849]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1849-1865)| 1849 – 1865]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1865-1918)| 1865 – 1918]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1918-1945)| 1918 – 1945]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1945-1964)| 1945 – 1964]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1964-1980)| 1964 – 1980]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1980-1988)| 1980 – 1988]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1988-present)| 1988 – present]]
|-
|style="border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc"|
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|<small>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:Ushistory&action=edit Edit this box]</small>
|}
Sister articles
E.g. the footer of Netherlands showing all countries of the European Union. Self links do not give any complication: they are neatly displayed in bold and not as link.
Blended series tables
Generally this syntax is deprecated, because it does not lend itself to using identical templates, and thus is highly fragile
It is also possible to place an article in two different series. For example, Franks is part of both the History of France and History of Germany series.
| This article is part of the History of France series. |
| Gaul |
| Franks |
| France in the Middle Ages |
| Valois Dynasty |
| Bourbon Dynasty |
| French Revolution |
| First French Empire |
| French Restoration |
| Second Republic |
| Second French Empire |
| Third Republic |
| France during World War II |
| Fourth Republic |
| Fifth Republic |
| This article is part of the History of Germany series. |
| Franks |
| Holy Roman Empire |
| German Confederation |
| German Empire |
| Weimar Republic |
| Nazi Germany |
| Germany since 1945 |
