Template:Distinguish/doc

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There is a documentation subpage housing the metadata about parent template: Distinguish.

Description

The "distinguish" template produces a hatnote to point out to our readers the existence of one or more articles whose title(s) is, or are, similar to the page in question. It is used in cases where the distinction between the titles is generally obvious and does not need further explanation.

For those cases where an explanation is required, please use the templates {{For}} and {{About}}. For use on category pages, the corresponding template is {{Category distinguish}}.

Template Data

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TemplateData for Distinguish

A hatnote used when there is an ambiguity in an article's title.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Name of article	1	Name of article that you want to link to	Page name	suggested
Optional additional article to link (2)	2	Optional additional article to link	Page name	optional
Optional additional article to link (3)	3	Optional additional article to link	Page name	optional
Optional additional article to link (4)	4	Optional additional article to link	Page name	optional
Custom text	text	Custom message in wikitext; e.g. "[[foo]] and [[Bar (computer science)|bar]]" produces "Not to be confused with [[foo]] and [[Bar (computer science)|bar]]."	String	optional
Self reference	selfref	If set, marks note as being a self reference, to not be shown when content is reused	Boolean	optional