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Revision as of 21:18, 26 January 2013

{{Cfb link}} allows linking to a college football team page that may not yet exist. It will display the best available link.

For example, if I want to link to the article about the 2020 Richmond Spiders football team that may or may not exist, I would make this call:

{{cfb link|year=2020|team=Richmond Spiders|school=University of Richmond|title=Richmond}}

This would yield: Richmond

Important - whitespace cannot be included or it will be added to the wiki link and it will not function properly.

Use of this template

Due to restrictions on use of #ifexist, it is important to not use this template if it isn't needed. In other words, if the link already exists, just link to it. Category:Excessive uses of cfb link contains a list of occasions where this template is used and doesn't need to be.

Please do not use this template on disambiguation pages (dab pages) due to requirements for links on dab pages.

Naming conventions

In order for this template to work, articles MUST be named correctly. The football naming convention is:

Parameters

parameter meaning
year (optional) Supply a year if you want to link to the yearly page, eg, 2007 Virginia Tech Hokies football team
team The athletics program article for this school, eg, Virginia Tech Hokies, Wake Forest Demon Deacons, Miami Hurricanes, etc
school The main article for this school, eg, Florida State University, University of Virginia, etc
title (optional) The display name for this link. Usually, this will be the common name for the school (without "university"), like Duke, Florida State, Virginia Tech, etc. If left blank, the link will be non-piped, i.e., it will display the name of the article linked to.

Examples

{{cfb link|year=2099|team=Virginia Tech Hokies|school=Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University|title=Virginia Tech}} Virginia Tech
{{cfb link|year=2006|team=Virginia Tech Hokies|school=Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University|title=Virginia Tech}} Virginia Tech
{{cfb link|team=Florida State Seminoles|school=Florida State University|title=FSU}} FSU
{{cfb link|year=2008|team=Utah Utes}} [[{{{school}}}]]

See also