Template:National Gazetteer lkpl/doc

Purpose
This template provides a plain link to an entry in The National Gazetteer: A Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, and is based on Template:authority/lkpl.

Links within The National Gazetteer usually use small-caps for presentation purposes, so the basis of the link is:

is mandatory, and is optional


 * produces that links to The National Gazetteer: A Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles/Manchester
 * produces that links to The National Gazetteer: A Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles/Manchester


 * produces that links to The National Gazetteer: A Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles/Hampshire
 * produces that links to The National Gazetteer: A Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles/Hampshire


 * produces that links to The National Gazetteer: A Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles/Hampshire
 * produces that links to The National Gazetteer: A Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles/Hampshire

Note that small-caps is only included by default if is not specified.

Note
1) This template does not automatically provide links from lower-case forms of entry names.


 * gives: ,
 * which will not provide a link to an article titled “Salop”. Instead, one must provide the capitalized form manually, as
 * , which gives.

In practice this should not be a significant limitation, as place names are usually capitalized.

2) Most entries in the gazetteer do not have disambiguation pages, such that a template being used for "Abbey" will red-link even though there may exist several articles under dabbed titles, such as "Abbey (Devon)", "Abbey (Hampshire)", "Abbey Green", "Westminster Abbey", &c.

3) Similarly, some q.v and see notices in the gazetteer may direct to names which do not exist as separate titles, such as, which is actually dealt with under the entry named.

This template is based on Template:authority/lkpl

{	"params": { "link": { "aliases": [ "1"			],			"label": "link", "description": "name of article", "example": "", "type": "string", "required": true },		"text": { "aliases": [ "2"			],			"label": "displayed text", "description": "overrides link text with text to preferentially display", "example": "", "type": "string" }	},	"description": "Internal link template for The National Gazetteer: A Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles", "format": "inline" }