Template:UtComns

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[edit] Usage

This utility is a typing saver for use on talk pages to link another users's talk page on Wikimedia Commons. This template takes two or three parameters.

Note
This template calls the more general {{ute}}, which can link to any sister projects.
See also
{{ut}}

[edit] What to enter

Parameter 1 (username)
The first parameter must be a username as exists in the Common's User talk namespace (not a signature nor a nickname).
Parameter 3 (nickname)
The second parameter is optional. Any string is acceptable.

[edit] The result

The direction of the link
The link will be directed to a page in the User talk namespace of Wikimedia Commons as specified in parameter 1.
What is displayed
  • If a second parameter has been specified, then this will be what is displayed.
  • Where no second parameter is specified the username as specified in parameter 1 is displayed.

[edit] Examples

{{UtComns|Fudgebucket}}
This produces [[Commons:User talk:Fudgebucket|Fudgebucket]] i.e.
  • a link to User talk:Fudgebucket on the Commons
  • displaying Fudgebucket.
{{UtComns|Fudgebucket|Mr Fudge}}
This produces [[User talk:Fudgebucket|Mr Fudge]] i.e.
  • a link to User talk:Fudgebucket on the Commons
  • displaying Mr Fudge.