Template:Sfnlinka
 | This template is a customized wrapper for {{Sfnlink}}. Any field from {{Sfnlink}} (except rev and lang) can work so long as it is added to this template first. Questions? Just ask at Template talk:Sfnlink. |
Simpler version of {{Sfnlink}} intended for use on a Talk page to refer to refs in the main page, without having to specify the page name.
Usage
{{sfnlinka|lastname|year|pp=12–15}} – typical usage; links a citation in an article from a discussion on the Talk page
When to use
This template may be used from the Talk page (of any namespace) in order to link a citation on the main page (formally, {{SUBJECTPAGENAME}} ); typically, from the Talk page of an article linking to a citation in the mainspace article.
Contrast with Sfnlink
The following two uses of {{sfnlink}} and {{sfnlinka}} from an article Talk page produce identical links:
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{{sfnlink|last1|last2|...|year|p=91|article=*}} {{sfnlinka|last1|last2|...|year|p=91}}
Parameters
Basic
These parameters are the same as the parameters of sfn:
- <last1> – surname of first author or corporate author (required)
- <last2> – <last4> – positional parameters; surnames of next three authors
- <year> – four-digit year; may have a lowercase disambiguation letter like 2012a
|p=– specific page referenced in the source (alias:|page=)|pp=– comma-separated list of individual pages and / or range(s) of pages referenced in the source (alias:|pages=)|loc=– in-source location: information such as a section or figure number; usually used when|p=and|pp=are inappropriate, but may be used to supplement them.
Supplementary
Parameters for configuring the link, how it is displayed, and extending its range:
|nb=yes– removes parentheses ('nb' = 'no brackets') from around the year. Default: year is displayed in parens.|text=– display text for the link. (default: <last1> – <last4> in comma series, plus the year)
Details
By design, positional parameters 1 – 5 and the page params are the same as parameters in template Sfn. In most cases where {{sfn}} generates a false missing key error, it can be resolved simply by changing sfn to sfnlink and leaving everything else alone.
You can specify any value for |nb= to remove parentheses from around the year, such as |nb=yes, |nb=1 etc. (Even |nb=no does it.) Param |text= overrides any value for |nb=; if you want parens while using 'text', just supply them in the param value.
This template excludes {{sfnlink}} params |rev= and |lang=, which make no sense when referring to a main space article. For complete usage and parameter details, please see Template:Sfnlink.
Examples
Live examples cannot be shown on this page because they only work from Talk namespaces. However, here is a citation that can be targeted from the talk page of this template, using the example there:
- Gethin, Rupert (1998). The foundations of Buddhism. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192892231. OCLC 38392391.
To see a working example of this template, see the pinned example discussion, which links to this citation from the Talk page using {{sfnlinka}}.
Notes
Sfnlinka creates only a wikilink, namely, the same link as the Harvard citation templates; compare {{harvnb}} and {{harvid}}. In contradistinction to template sfn, Sfnlinka does not create a named footnote, and two identical Sfnlinkas are not combined, they are like two on-page wikilinks that happen to point to the same destination. Using CITEREF directly is equivalent to the wikilink portion of Sfnlinka.
In general, this template should be used from discussions on article Talk pages that refer to citations in the article itself that use CS1 templates like {{cite book}}, {{cite journal}}, and {{cite web}}.
See {{Sfnlink}} for use cases, and more details on § When to use and § When not to use this template.