Template:Irregular category series navigation/doc

A template to assist making manually-configured category navigation for cases with very irregular seasons, which the regular {{Category series navigation}} cannot handle.

Background

{{Category series navigation}} is a very powerful tool. Without any parameters, it creates category navigation for sets of chronology categories of many types: years, decades, centuries, ordinals, and seasons (i.e. sets of categories where each category spans a range of years). However, technical limitations mean that it cannot handle seasons with irregular length and irregular inter-season gaps larger than 6 years.

This template eases the pain of manually creating category navigation for these irregular seasons, such as the subcats of Category:Legislators by term, where some parliaments have variable-length terms and large gaps.

Usage

{{Irregular chronology category navigation|prefix|suffix|season1|season2|season3|...}}

Explanation

A season category will usually take the form "prefix year-range suffix". There is rarely both a prefix and suffix: most categories have one or the other.

Example of prefix

• Category:Members of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2003 ... prefix = Members of the Scottish Parliament

Example of suffix

• Category:2000–2001 in Icelandic basketball ... suffix = in Icelandic basketball

Example

For the subcats of Category:Members of the Hellenic Parliament by term:

{{Irregular chronology category navigation|Greek MPs||1933–1935‎|1935–1936|1936‎|1946–1950‎|1950–1951‎}}

Note that since there is no suffix, the second parameter is left blank.

See also

• {{Category series navigation}}
• {{Irregular series navigation}}