- Description
- This template displays headings, links, and optionally other detail for an overview page for an entity that exists in more than one game. It creates three sections:
- If the particular article exists, it will be listed in the top section of the page with optional summary text.
- If there is no existing article, the potential article name is listed in a second section "Other games," under a heading that says "Spaceship is not present in (or the article has not been created for) the following...".
- Finally, there is a "Not in the following games" section, where the topic is known not to exist. Entries will only appear here when "no" is set as a parameter after a game's abbreviation. The text "It has been confirmed that Spaceship is not present in..." is placed at the start of the section.
- Usage
- For the simplest use, just add {{overview}} after any desired introduction. You may append a category such as Category:Units.
To add more than the standard headings and links, expand as follows (either neatly like this or all in one line!):
{{overview |civ1 = |civ2 = |civ3 = |civ4 = |civ5 = |civ6 = |civbe = |civrev = |civrev2 = |freeciv = |ctp1 = |ctp2 = |cevo = |col = |freecol = |c4c = |smac = |starships = }}
If you know that the feature is not present in a particular game, you may add "no" after "=", which will show the game name, and what its article would have been, in the final section.
Any text (except "no") entered into any parameter (i.e., straight after an "=" sign) will be printed to the page as-is. Best kept to a couple of lines indicating what's distinctive compared with other games. A heading is created even if you leave the parameter empty.
Where the software detects that there is no matching article for a particular game (but the parameter has not been definitively set to "no") that game's potential page will be listed in the "Other games" section, along with a link to create that page.
If someone has used the simple version and you want to add detail about just a few games, you may just insert the appropriate lines from the above template. So it might look like {{overview|civ1=It is the cheapest strong defender, unlike the one in Civ2.|col=no|c4c=no}}
- Examples of use
- See Spaceship for the simple version. See http://civilization.wikia.com/index.php?title=Warrior&action=edit for an example of how to set out detail where wanted - and it is maybe an example of putting too much detail on an overview page.
- Differences in page names
- If the actual game uses a different word, such as "Warriors" instead of "Warrior", you need to create the page that this template points to, and make it a "Redirect" to the actual game article.
- Complete logic of what it does
- A section is included for each game if the field for the game is not "=no", which indicates that the feature is not present in that game.
- If there is any other coding or none specific to that game, it gives EITHER:
- "Main article" (or redirect) link in a separate line if there is an article (or redirect) with the matching name; OR
- A paragraph (in the bottom section of the page) saying the feature is not present or the article has not been created, if there is no matching page name
- If any other coding, it then reproduces that, as ordinary wikitext
- If the field for the game is "=no", that game will be listed at the bottom of the article under its own header and without a link
- Editing and maintenance information
- This template actually calls upon Lua code, which can be viewed at Module:Overview.