Template:Foo–Bar relations category/doc

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This creates a category page for the category of bilateral relations between two countries named "Foo" and "Bar."

The page name must take the form "Category:Foo–Bar relations", with an endash between the two country names. The template will report an error if the title does not take this form.

Note that using "Category:Foo-Bar relations" will be treated as an error because it uses a dash rather than an endash.

Usage change

{{Foo–Bar relations category}}

Two optional parameters are available:

main=, which sets the name of the "main article" link in the category header. The default is the category title, but in some cases, this may not be appropriate:
map=, which sets the filename of the map displayed in the category header. The default is derived from the category title, but in some cases, this may be inappropriate or unavailable

{{Foo–Bar relations category|main=Some article|map=somefile}}

Output change

Most countries change

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{{Cat main}}

[[Category:Bilateral relations of Foo|Bar]]
[[Category:Bilateral relations of Bar|Foo]]

"The" Country change

This template uses {{CountryPrefixThe}} to intelligently handle countries whose name is prefixed by "the" in running text. e.g. "the United States" or "the Soviet Union"

Example: Category:Comoros–Ghana relations

{{Cat main}}

[[Category:Bilateral relations of Ghana|Comoros]]
[[Category:Bilateral relations of the Comoros|Ghana]]

Exceptions change

In some cases, the parent Category:Bilateral relations of SomeCountry may use a different name to that used in "Category:SomeCountry–OtherCountry relations" categories. In such cases, a sub-template Template:Foo–Bar relations category/fixcountryname handles the correction. As of December 2018, its only entry is Palestine/State of Palestine: e.g. Category:Ireland–State of Palestine relations is a subcat of Category:Bilateral relations of the State of Palestine.