Template:Hurricane season bar start
Hurricane season bars templates change
Overview change
The 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.
{{Hurricane season bar start}} change
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)
{{Hurricane season bar button}} change
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] change
When 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.
{{Hurricane season bar end}} change
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... change
If you did it right, you should end up with something that looks a lot like this