Template:Nth-century fooers from Northern Ireland/doc

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A category header template to create by-century categories for people by occupation from Northern Ireland, e.g. Category:20th-century writers from Northern Ireland.

This template is the only thing required to create such categories.

Usage[edit]

The template parses the category title to extract both the century and the occupation. So in simple cases, no parameters are required.

Example 1: On Category:20th-century writers from Northern Ireland; {{Nth-century fooers from Northern Ireland}}

Usage with a parent occupation[edit]

Many occupations are subsets of another occupation, e.g. poets are a subset of writers, so use the parameter |Supercategory=

Example 2: On Category:20th-century poets from Northern Ireland; {{Nth-century fooers from Northern Ireland |Supercategory=Writers}}

Example 3: On Category:20th-century physicists from Northern Ireland; {{Nth-century fooers from Northern Ireland |Supercategory=Scientists}}

Usage with two parent occupations[edit]

In some rarer cases, an occupation is a subset of two other occupations, e.g. biochemists is a subset of both biologists and chemists

Example 4: On Category:20th-century biochemists from Northern Ireland; {{Nth-century fooers from Northern Ireland |Supercategory=Biologists |Supercategory2=Chemists}}

Occupations where the first letter remains capitalised[edit]

Example 5: On Category:20th-century DJs from Northern Ireland; {{Fooers from Northern Ireland |Professionkeepcaps = yes | Supercategory =Musicians }}
(The Professionkeepcaps= yes is added because "DJs" needs to retain it capitalisation in all contexts)

Gendered categories[edit]

The template understands gendered categories: "men fooers", "male fooers", "women Fooers", "female fooers".

When applied to a gendered category, it makes the appropriate adjustments to the parent categories, and adds a link to the sibling category for the other gender (if it exists). This is actually one of its most helpful uses, because gendered by-century categories for Northern Ireland occupations have five parent categories. Manually-built categories rarely get them all right.

However, it doesn't work for "actresses" categories. Don't use it on actress categories.

Substitition[edit]

This template should not be substituted. Doing so makes a hideous mess,

Tracking[edit]

Category:Template:Nth-century fooers from Northern Ireland with Supercategory and Supercategory2 (2)