Template:Hurricane season bar button
Hurricane season bars templates
changeOverview
changeThe hurricane season button bars have had a major design overhaul recently. Everything is more user friendly, and every hurricane basin now relies on the same templates.
- You no longer need to find the basin-specific template for the hurricane season you want, every basin works the exact same way
- Scale legends are automatically handled by the template, no need to search for the templates, or create a custom table for it
- Links to portal, categories, books, wikiproject, and Wikimedia commons are now handled automatically
- Ability to link to list of storms, timelines, statistics, and other common articles
Four templates are used in total
- {{Hurricane season bar start}}
- {{Hurricane season bar button}}
- {{Hurricane season bar gap}}
- {{Hurricane season bar end}}
All are documented on this page.
Alright, first comes the start of the template. This is simple, just use
{{Hurricane season bar start
|region=
|year=
|type=
}}
| parameter | |year=
|
|region=
|
|type=
|
|---|---|---|---|
| possible values |
YYYY YYYY–YY |
Atlantic |
cyclone |
The basic idea is to match the title of the season. So for the 2005–06 Australian region cyclone season
|year=2005–06|region=Australian region|type=cyclone
In addition, if a list of storms, timeline, and/or statistics article exist for that season, add
|list=yes |timeline=yes |statistics=yes
If they do not exist, just leave them out (i.e. |timeline=no will still produce a link to the timeline)
This is a bit more complicated than the first template, but is still straightforward. It goes like this
{{Hurricane season bar button
|intensity=
|stormname=
|strength=
|linkname=
|storminitial=
}}
| parameter | value |
|---|---|
|intensity=
|
See {{storm colour}}, use directly, aka
and not
|
|stormname=
|
Name of the storm, without year, etc..., aka
Not
|
|strength=
|
Tropical Depression, Category 5, etc... |
|linkname=
|
Main article for this storm, e.g.
Alternatively, the "season#section" link, e.g.
|
|storminitial=
|
The initial for the storm. This is what is displayed as a button. |
{{Hurricane season bar gap}} [optional]
changeWhen there are over 14 buttons in a season insert {{Hurricane season bar gap}} between two {{Hurricane season bar button}} to make the button list split over an additional line.
- Place them so the second line has as many buttons as the first one, or one less.
When there's over 28 buttons, use two {{Hurricane season bar gap}} templates.
- The first and second lines should have an equal number of buttons.
- The third line can have one or two less buttons than the first two lines.
When there's over 42 buttons, use three {{Hurricane season bar gap}} templates.
- The first, second and third lines should have an equal number of buttons.
- The fourth line can have one, two, or three less buttons than the first three lines.
And so on. This template has no parameters.
This works just like {{Hurricane season bar start}}, except there is only three parameters.
{{Hurricane season bar start
|region=
|year=
|type=
}}
These are the same parameters as before, so use the same values.
If you did it right...
changeIf you did it right, you should end up with something that looks a lot like this