 | This is a documentation subpage for Template:About-distinguish. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
 | This template uses Lua: |
"This page is about … It is not to be confused with …"
{{About-distinguish}} is a template for noting other uses when there could be confusion with another topic.
{{about-distinguish|USE1|PAGE1}}→ Lua error in Module:About-distinguish at line 61: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).{{about-distinguish|USE1|PAGE1|PAGE2}}→ Lua error in Module:About-distinguish at line 61: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).{{about-distinguish|USE1|PAGE1{{!}}DISPLAY-TEXT|PAGE2#SECTION|PAGE3}}→ Lua error in Module:About-distinguish at line 61: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
For cases requiring custom text, use {{about-distinguish2}} instead:
{{about-distinguish-text|USE1|TEXT}}→
If the page's Wikidata item has the property of being an instance of "human", then the template will try to replace "It" in "It is not to be confused with" with a more appropriate pronoun, based on the value of the "sex or gender" property of the item.
template for noting other uses when there could be confusion with another topic. For a version with custom text instead of links to other pages, see Template:about-distinguish-text
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USE (what this page is about) | 1 | This is shown for the thing saying 'This page is about ...' | String | required |
| PAGE1 | 2 | First page to be shown in the 'Not to be confused with [[PAGE1]]' text. Enter the page name (and section)
| Page name | required |
| PAGE2 | 3 | Another thing that the subject of this page is not to be confused with | Page name | optional |
| PAGE3 | 4 | Yet another thing that the subject of this page is not to be confused with | Page name | optional |