Template:Year nationality television series debuts or endings category
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Creates a category of the form "YYYY nationality television series debuts" or "YYYY nationality television series endings", where YYYY is a 4-digit year and nationality is a valid nationality.
The template detects whether it is being used on a "debuts" or "endings" category, and adjusts its output to suit.
e.g.
It is not for use on other types of categories, e.g.
Usage
{{Year nationality television series debuts or endings category}}
No parameters needed
Errors
If the template is used on an invalid page, an error message is generated and the page is categorised in:
Errors include:
- The page is not in the category namespace
- The page's title does not take the form "YYYY nationality television series debuts" or "YYYY nationality television series endings"
- The value of "nationality" does not correspond to a country name. The conversion is made using {{GetCountryNameFromAdjective}}, so the problem may be a glitch in that template's lookup table