සැකිල්ල:පිළිබඳ/ලේඛය

	මෙය සැකිල්ල:පිළිබඳ සඳහා සැකිලි ලේඛ පිටුව වේ.
	මෙම පිටුව සෘජුව දැක්ම අභිලාෂය නොවේ. Links using variables may appear broken; do not replace these with hardcoded page names or URLs.

{{about}} is a commonly used hatnote on Wikipedia, and so should be placed at the top of an article, linking the reader to articles with similar titles or concepts that they may have been seeking instead.

For reference, there is information about hatnotes in general, when and how to use them, a complete list of the other hatnotes available, and examples of their use.

For further information, see the talk page.

Usage

Note. When used in the main namespace, the word "page" in the following hat notes is replaced by "article".

{{about|USE1}}

{{about|USE1||PAGE2}} (When the disambiguation page has a different name — Note the empty second parameter)

{{about|USE1|USE2|PAGE2}} (When there is only one other use)

{{about|USE1|USE2|PAGE2|and|PAGE3}} (Two pages for USE2)

{{about|USE1|USE2|PAGE2|USE3|PAGE3|USE4|PAGE4|USE5|PAGE5}} (When there are up to five other uses — You should generally create a disambiguation page at this point)

{{about|USE1|USE2|PAGE2|USE3|PAGE3|other uses}} (When there are several standard other uses and also a disambiguation page with default name — Note that the last page name is not specified)

{{about|USE1|USE2|PAGE2|USE3|PAGE3|other uses|PAGE4}} (When there are several standard other uses and also a disambiguation page with non-default name)

{{about|USE1|USE2|PAGE2|USE3|PAGE3|other uses|PAGE4|and}}

{{about||USE2|PAGE2|USE3|PAGE3|other uses}} (When you don't need to state the focus of this article/page — Note the empty first parameter)

Otheruses templates

To discuss these templates as a whole, please see Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation If you wish to discuss general wordings, rather than the wording or formatting of this specific template, don't post here, or else what you say will probably go unnoticed.

For a summary page on how to use these templates, see Wikipedia:Otheruses templates (example usage).

Generic

{{Dablink|TEXT}}:

For example, {{dablink|For other senses of this term, see [[etc...]]}}. This template is adaptable, but fails to standardize hatnotes.

{{Selfref|TEXT}}:

(Similar to Dablink, but used for messages that wouldn't make sense on mirrors of Wikipedia, such as a link in the main article namespace that links to one in the Wikipedia namespace. See Wikipedia:Avoid self-references for more details.)

Otheruses

Note: All of these templates are special cases of {{Otheruses4}}

{{otheruses}} (disambiguous):
{{otheruses1|USE}} (disambiguous):
{{This|USE|PAGE}}:
{{otheruses2|PAGE}} (disambiguous):
{{otheruses3|PAGE}}:
{{otheruses4|USE1}} (disambiguous):
{{otheruses4|USE1|USE2}}:
{{otheruses4|USE1|USE2|PAGE2}}:
{{About||USE2|PAGE2|USE3|PAGE3|USE4|PAGE4|USE5|PAGE5}} (alias and empty first param):

{{otheruses4|USE1|USE2|PAGE2|USE3|PAGE3|USE4|PAGE4|USE5|PAGE5}} (fully specified):

{{otheruses5}}: සැකිල්ල:Otheruses5 (this is for when there are both a singular and plural disambiguation page; only works when the plural is formed simply by adding "s" at the end.)
{{otheruses6|PAGE1|PAGE2}}: සැකිල්ල:Otheruses6 (for when there are two disambiguation pages, such as noun and adjective, or singular and irregular plural; there are only two parameters, they are required, and they do not auto-add "(disambiguation)")

Other people

{{otherpersons}} (disambiguous):
{{otherpersons|USE}} (disambiguous):
{{otherpersons|USE|PAGE}}:
{{otherpeople2|PAGE}}:
{{otherpeople3|USE1|USE2}}: සැකිල්ල:Otherpeople3
{{otherpeople4|USE1|USE2|PAGE}}: සැකිල්ල:Otherpeople4

Other places

{{Otherplaces}}, analogous to {{Otheruses}}

{{Otherplaces2}}, analogous to {{Otheruses2}}

{{Otherplaces3}}, analogous to {{Otheruses3}}

Otherhurricaneuses

For articles on storms.

{{otherhurricaneuses}} (disambiguous):
{{otherhurricaneuses|DISAMBIG}}:
{{otherhurricaneuses|DISAMBIG|THIS}}:
{{otherhurricaneuses3|USE1|USE2|MAIN}}: සැකිල්ල:Otherhurricaneuses3

For (other topic)

Note: {{otheruses4}} ({{about}} is a convenient redirect) can often be used instead of {{for}}; you just have to add an empty first parameter (e.g. {{For|OTHER TOPIC|PAGE}} becomes {{About||OTHER TOPIC|PAGE}}

{{For}} (disambiguous):
{{For|OTHER TOPIC}} (disambiguous):
{{For|OTHER TOPIC|PAGE}}:
{{For|OTHER TOPIC|PAGE1|PAGE2}}:
{{For2|OTHER TOPIC|LINK TO [[PAGE1]] AND [[PAGE2]]}}:

Otherusesof (topic)

{{otherusesof}} (disambiguous):
{{otherusesof|TOPIC}}:
{{otherusesof|TOPIC|PAGE}}:

Redirect

{{Redirect|REDIRECT}} (disambiguous):
{{Redirect|REDIRECT||PAGE}}:
{{Redirect|REDIRECT|USE|PAGE}}:
{{Redirect2|REDIRECT1|REDIRECT2}} (disambiguous):
{{Redirect3|REDIRECT|TEXT}}:
{{Redirect4|REDIRECT1|REDIRECT2}} (disambiguous):
{{Redirect6|REDIRECT|USE1|PAGE1|USE2|PAGE2}}:

{{Redirect6|REDIRECT|USE1|PAGE1||}} (See note for {{Two other uses}} above)

"Not to be confused with"...

{{Distinguish|PAGE}}:
{{Distinguish2|TEXT}}:

Notes

Do not use subst: with these templates, as that will prevent:

propagating changes as the template is modified; and
the What links here (WLH) listing.

DO NOT EDIT THESE TEMPLATES UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING

These templates may be used in thousands of articles, and changing the syntax could therefore break thousands of articles. If you wish to edit a disambiguation template first ask yourself:

Is there already another template that will do this job? We have lots of disambiguation templates already, see Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates.
Do I really need a template for this? Will it ever get used on any other articles, or should I just use {{dablink}} instead?
Do I know what will happen if I change the parameters around? Will it break existing uses of the template, and if so, can I fix them all?

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