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Template:Asia topic




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Asia
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1 Transcontinental country.  2 Only recognised by Turkey.  3 Not fully independent.</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>
[edit] Template documentation
This documentation is transcluded from Template:Asia topic/doc. (edit | history)
This template employs intricate features of template syntax.
You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
Remember that you can conduct experiments, and should test all improvements, in either the general Template sandbox or your user space before changing anything here.

The continent/region-topic templates allow quick creation of navigational template for groups of articles about a common topic in different countries of a continent/region. It uses Template:Navbox to create the navigation box.

The lists of countries included in the "Continent topic" templates are broadly those found in the "Countries of" templates. Discussions on which countries to include are best conducted on the talk pages of these latter templates.

For example, Oceania generally includes Australia and the nations of the Pacific and islands in the Pacific Ocean that have closer ties to Asia or the Americas are usually grouped accordingly.

Contents

Usage

1st parameter (prefix)

The most basic usage of template is with a single unnamed parameter in the format {{Continent/region topic|Topic [of/in]}}, replacing Continent/region with the name of a continent or region and Topic with the name of a topic followed by "of" or "in". For example, {{Africa topic|Geography of}} generates a navigation box titled "Geography of Africa" with a list of country names linked to articles such as Geography of Angola, etc.

Code 
{{Africa topic|Geography of}}
Result
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Geography of Africa
Sovereign states
Dependencies,
autonomies,
other territories

Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain) · Madeira (Portugal) · Mayotte / Réunion (France) · Puntland · St. Helena (UK) · Socotra (Yemen) · Somaliland · Southern Sudan · Western Sahara · Zanzibar (Tanzania)

Italics indicate an unrecognised or partially recognised country.


The named parameter prefix can be used in place of the unnamed 1st parameter.

Code 
{{Asia topic|prefix=Geography of}}
Result
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Geography of Asia
</td></tr>
</td></tr>
1 Transcontinental country.  2 Only recognised by Turkey.  3 Not fully independent.</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>


2nd parameter (suffix)

The template accepts a second unnamed parameter for text to be placed after the country name. There is no space between the country name and the suffix, to allow for links to articles such as List of Spain-related topics.

Code 
{{Europe topic|List of|-related topics}}
Result
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List of Europe
Sovereign
states		</td></tr>
</td></tr>
Dependencies,
autonomies,
other territories</td>		</td></tr>
</td></tr>
Italics indicates an unrecognised or partially recognised country. 1 Entirely in Southwest Asia.  2 Partially or entirely in Asia, depending on the border definitions.  3 / 4 / 5 / 6 Has part of its territory in Asia / North America / South America / Africa.  7 / 8 Entirely on the North American Plate / African Plate.</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>


An underscore can be used to place a space between the country name and the text:

Code 
{{North America topic|List of basic|_topics}}
Result
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List of basic North America_topics
Sovereign states
Dependencies and
other territories
1 Territories also in or commonly reckoned elsewhere in the Americas (South America). 2 Territories also in or commonly reckoned to be in the Pacific basin.


Note that in the above example the links work but the underscore is displayed in the title. This can be fixed by specifying a title (see next section) or by using the named parameter suffix which always places a space between the country name and text.

Code 
{{South America topic|prefix=List of basic|suffix=topics}}
Result
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List of basic South America topics
Sovereign states
Dependencies
1 Territories also in or commonly reckoned elsewhere in the Americas (North America).


Changing the title

The title parameter is used to specify text which appears in the title bar at the top of the navigation box. This is optional because the use of prefix, suffix or both will automatically generate a title, as shown in the previous examples. This title is not automatically wiki-linked, so add brackets as needed.

The following shows a navigation box with links to articles such as Flag of Australia, but replaces the default title "Flag of Oceania" with the specified title "Flags of Oceania".

Code 
{{Oceania topic|Flag of|title=[[Flags of Oceania]]}}
Result
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Flags of Oceania
 Australasia
  Melanesia
 Micronesia
  Polynesia
1 Often included in Polynesia.  2 Often included in Southeast Asia.  3 Often included in Australasia.


Displaying template in show mode

These navigation boxes are set to autocollapse when there is more than one on a page. To force it into collapsed or expanded mode use the state parameter. If set to collapsed, the navbox will always start out in a collapsed state. If set to blank or anything other than autocollapse or collapsed, the navbox will always start out in an expanded state.

Code 
{{Africa topic|prefix=Geography of|state=expand}}
Result
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Geography of Africa
Sovereign states
Dependencies,
autonomies,
other territories

Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain) · Madeira (Portugal) · Mayotte / Réunion (France) · Puntland · St. Helena (UK) · Socotra (Yemen) · Somaliland · Southern Sudan · Western Sahara · Zanzibar (Tanzania)

Italics indicate an unrecognised or partially recognised country.


Disabling dependencies and other territories

Not all dependencies or similar territories have their own articles on particular topics. To disable the inclusion of such territories in a template (that would otherwise appear as red links), include the parameter "countries_only=yes".

Code 
{{Europe topic|prefix=Islam in|state=expand|countries_only=yes}}:
Result
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Islam in Europe
Sovereign
states		</td></tr>
</td></tr>
1 Entirely in Southwest Asia.  2 Partially or entirely in Asia, depending on the border definitions.  3 / 4 / 5 / 6 Has part of its territory in Asia / North America / South America / Africa. </td></tr></table></td></tr></table>


Creating a new template

Although these templates can be used in an article, they can also be used to create a new template. The name parameter is mandatory when creating a new template, because it allows the "v · d · e" links to work properly. The following example shows code that could be used to create Template:Flags of Europe. 

{{Europe topic
| name   = Flags of Europe
| title  = [[Flags of Europe]]
| prefix = Flag of
| state  = {{{state|