Template:Italic disambiguation

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This template italicizes the disambiguation portion of page titles. Article titles cannot contain wiki-formatting, such as '', so cannot be italicized in the normal way. Instead, place this template in the article, normally at the top (right below the "short description"). It will then have the following effect:

• If the title contains parentheses () at the end, the text between the parentheses is italicized:
  • Foo (bar) → Foo (bar)
  • Talk:Foo (bar) → Talk:Foo (bar)
• Titles with no parentheses () are unaltered:
  • Foo → Foo
  • Talk:Foo → Talk:Foo

This template should only be used when the title disambiguation text meets the criteria for italic titles given in the Article titles policy.

Usage

Basic usage

{{Italic disambiguation}}

With error suppression

{{Italic disambiguation|noerror}}

Parameters

• 1: if this is set to "noerror", error messages are suppressed. See #Errors for more details.

Errors

Sometimes you may see red error messages like this at the top of the page:

This usually means that there is another instance of a title-italicizing template (e.g. {{Italic title}}) on the page, usually added by one of the infoboxes. Certain infoboxes, for example {{Infobox magazine}}, add {{Italic title}} by default. Check the template documentation for any infobox used on the page; it may have instructions about how to deal with italic titles. You may be able to adjust the italics from the infobox instead of using {{Italic title}} at the top of the article. Or if that doesn't work, you may be able to disable the infobox's italics code altogether.

If you are still having problems, try putting {{Italic disambiguation}} after the infobox. You can suppress the error message by using the code {{Italic disambiguation|noerror}}.

Technical details: this template uses the DISPLAYTITLE magic word to italicize the title. Error messages can be produced by any two templates which use this magic word, and are not limited to this template. If you are unsure why you are getting a particular error message, you can ask about it at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical).

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Italic disambiguation in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Italic disambiguation

<templatedata> { "description": "A template to italicize disambiguation text in article titles", "params": { "1": { "label": "Error options", "description": "If set to \"noerror\", suppresses error messages. Using this is a last-ditch fix – see the template documentation for other options.", "type": "string" } } } </templatedata>

See also

• WP:ITALICTITLE
• {{Italic title prefixed}}
• {{Italics correction}}

Title changing or correcting templates + magic word

Wiki markup Transclusion from template:	Involves	Correct name	Actual article name
{{Italic title}}	Title in italics	To Kill a Mockingbird	To Kill a Mockingbird
{{Italic title|all=yes}}	Complete title in italics, including parentheses	Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)	Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
{{Italic title|string=Ally McBeal}}	Phrase of |string= in italics	List of Ally McBeal episodes	List of Ally McBeal episodes
{{Italic title|all=yes|string=Fringe}}	Phrase of |string= in italics; also looks in parentheses	Peter (Fringe episode)	Peter (Fringe episode)
{{Italic disambiguation}}	Disambiguation in italics	The End (Lost)	The End (Lost)
{{Lowercase title}}	Lowercase first character	eBay	EBay
{{Lowercase title|italic=yes}}	Lowercase first character and place title in italics, not including disambiguation	iCarly (soundtrack)	ICarly (soundtrack)
{{Lowercase title|italic=yes|force=yes}}	Lowercase first character and place title in italics, including disambiguation
{{Lowercase title|dab=yes}}	Lowercase first character and place disambiguation in italics	iSpy (Modern Family)	ISpy (Modern Family)
{{Correct title|reason=bracket}}	< > [ ] { }	Benzo[a]pyrene	Benzo(a)pyrene
{{Correct title|reason=#}}	#	Pilot #5	Pilot No. 5
{{Correct title|reason=:}}	:	DK: King of Swing	DK King of Swing
Magic word:
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}	Various	_NSAKEY	NSAKEY

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