Template:See also/doc

This template is used to create hatnotes to point to a small number of other, related, titles at the top of article sections according to Layout. It looks like this:

Do not use this template inside the "See also" section at the end of an article, or for links to other articles or subsections of the same article within regular article text. Where subsections are linked to, Template:Section link may be suitable instead.

Refer to the examples below to see how the template handles link targets containing section links and commas.

Usage
&#123;{see also|page1|page2|page3|...}}
 * Basic usage:

&#123;{see also | page1 | page2 | page3 | ... | label 1 = label 1 | label 2 = label2 | label 3 = label3 | ... | l1 = label1 | l2 = label2 | l3 = label3 | ... | selfref = yes | category = no | altphrase = alternate phrase }}
 * All parameters:

Parameters
This template accepts the following parameters:
 * ,,  , ... – the pages to link to. At least one page name is required. Categories and files are automatically escaped with the colon trick, and links to sections are automatically formatted as page § section, rather than the MediaWiki default of page#section.
 * ,,  , ...; or  ,  ,  , ...; optional labels for each of the pages to link to.
 * – if set to "yes", "y", "true" or "1", adds the CSS class "selfref". This is used to denote self-references to Wikipedia. See Template:Selfref for more information.
 * – if set to "no", "n", "false", or "0", suppresses the error tracking category (Category:Hatnote templates with errors). This only has an effect if the first positional parameter (the page to link to) is omitted.
 * – can override the default "See also" message at the beginning with a customized message.

Errors
If no page names are supplied, the template will output the following message:

If you see this error message, it is for one of four reasons:
 * 1) No parameters were specified (the template code was  ). Please use   instead.
 * 2) Some parameters were specified, but no page names were included. For example, the template text   will produce this error. Please use (for example)   instead.
 * 3) A page name was specified, but it contains an equals sign ("="). The equals sign has a special meaning in template code, and because of this it cannot be used in template parameters that do not specify a parameter name. For example, the template code   will produce this error. To work around this, you can specify the parameter name explicitly by using ,  , etc., before the page name, like this:.
 * 4) You tried to access Module:See also directly by using  . Use of #invoke in this way has been disabled for performance reasons. Please use   instead.

If you see this error message and are unsure of what to do, please post a message on the help desk, and someone should be able to help you.

Pages that contain this error message are tracked in Category:Hatnote templates with errors.