Template:Cfb link

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This template employs intricate features of template syntax. You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages. Remember that you can conduct experiments, and should test all improvements, in either the general Template sandbox or your user space before changing anything here.

This template will allow you to link 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 2010 Richmond Spiders football team that may or may not exist, I would make this call:

{{cfb link|year=2010|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.

[edit] 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 article you really want to link to 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.

[edit] Naming conventions

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

• Season articles: Season SchoolShortName TeamName football team, eg, 2007 Virginia Tech Hokies football team or 2004 Auburn Tigers football team
• Football team articles: SchoolShortName TeamName football, eg, Virginia Tech Hokies football, Florida State Seminoles football
• Athletics department articles: SchoolShortName TeamName, eg, North Carolina Tarheels, Virginia Cavaliers

[edit] Parameters

[edit] Examples

[edit] See also

• {{alternate links}}
• {{cbb link}}