Template talk:Multi-section link
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Development request[edit]
It would be exceedingly helpful for WP:POLICY documentation, and in-article cross-references in complex articles, to have a variant of this, whether it be {{Breadcrumbs link}}
or {{Multi-section link|breadcrumbs=y}}
that produced identical output to this, except that it:
- Linked each individual section, not just the last one (and linked those names without linking the section symbols)
- Linked the pagename also (when not suppresed), unless already on that page (we don't want to boldface by self-linking).
This should be used for pretty much every sub-sectional policy/guideline cross reference in hatnotes on such pages. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 18:52, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
PS: The function to do this should be reusable, e.g. by Module:Hatnote, etc. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 00:33, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Missing basic feature[edit]
Unlike Template:Section link, this one throws an error if you leave the first parameter blank. That's not desirable at all; it should just skip it. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 08:54, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
- @SMcCandlish: By "skip it", do you mean just creating a link like
[[#sectionname]]
instead of[[pagename#sectionname]]
? — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:32, 24 July 2015 (UTC)- @Mr. Stradivarius: Yeps. We use this all the time (with
{{Section link}}
for "See X section, below" in the same page. If this one and the above-proposed breadcrumbs version worked that way, that'd be hot. As in{{Breadcrumbs link| |Quotations|Attribution}}
to produce§ [[#Quotations|Quotations]] §§ [[#Attribution|Attribution]]
, and I think it'd be[[#Attribution|§ Quotations §§ Attribution]]
for{{Multi-section link| |Quotations|Attribution}}
itself. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 00:32, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
- @Mr. Stradivarius: Yeps. We use this all the time (with
Bug causes linking to wrong section[edit]
The code
{{mslink|Alexei Navalny|Yves Rocher case and home arrest|Case}}
should yield the URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny#Case_2
but instead yields
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny#Case
which is to an earlier section with the same title, i.e., Alexei Navalny § Kirovles case §§ Case.
Result: Alexei Navalny § Yves Rocher case and home arrest §§ Case
If this cannot be fixed, it could be explained as a technical limitation in the doc. Knr5 (talk) 20:19, 24 August 2020 (UTC)