Template:Category other/doc

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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Category other (see that page for the template itself).
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This is the {{category other}} meta-template.

It helps other templates detect what type of page they are on.

[edit] Basic usage

This template usually takes two parameters, like this:

{{category other | Category page text | Other pages text }}

If the template is on a category page, it will return this:

Category page text

If the template is on any other page, it will return this:

Other pages text

A typical usage case could be to make it so that a template only adds a category when on category pages. Thus not adding other pages that just show the template to the category. Like this:

{{category other | [[Category:Some category maintenance category]] }}

Or to warn that a template should not be used on other pages:

{{category other | | This template should only be used on category pages. }}

Note that in the first case above the "other" parameter was not used, and in the second example the "category" parameter was left empty.

[edit] Advanced usage

This template works like {{main talk other}}, see full documentation there. Note that it detects "Category talk:" pages as type other. The test parameter demospace for this template understands the values category and other.