Template:Categories by date/doc

For editors

All templates using {{categories by date}} have identical usage. The output will change depending on what information you provide it:

• year categories: provide the century, decade, and year digits;
• decade categories: provide the century and decade digits;
• century categories: provide the century digit.

Examples:

Example

1985 (year):

{{births by year
 |century = 19
 |decade  = 8
 |year    = 5
}}

Authors who were born in the year 1985.

1980s births:

← 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 →

Example

1980s (decade):

{{births by year
 |century = 19
 |decade  = 8
 |year    = 
}}

Authors who were born in the 1980s.

20th century births:

← 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s →

Example

20th century:

{{births by year
 |century = 19
 |decade  = 
 |year    = 
}}

Authors who were born in the 20^th century.

2nd millennium births:

← 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century →

Example

50 (year):

{{births by year
 |century = 0
 |decade  = 5
 |year    = 0
}}

Authors who were born in the year 50.

50s births:

← 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 →

Example

1250s BCE (decade):

{{births by year
 |century = 12
 |decade  = 5
 |year    =
 |bce     = true
}}

Authors who were born in the 1250s BCE.

13th century BCE births:

← 1300s BCE 1290s BCE 1280s BCE 1270s BCE 1260s BCE 1250s BCE 1240s BCE 1230s BCE 1220s BCE 1210s BCE 1200s BCE 1190s BCE →

Example

Decade one (years 1–9):

{{births by year
 |century = 0
 |decade  = 0
 |year    = 
}}

Authors who were born in the 0s.

1st century births:

← 0s BCE 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s →

Example

First century:

{{births by year
 |century = 0
 |decade  = 
 |year    = 
}}

Authors who were born in the 1^st century.

1st millennium births:

← 1st century BCE 1st century 2nd century 3rd century 4th century 5th century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century →

Example

2017 (year):

{{Thai law by year
 |century = 20
 |decade  = 1
 |year    = 7
}}

Thai law in in the year 2017.

Thai law by year:

← 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 →

For coders

Note: {{Categories by date}} is not intended to be used directly by editors; if you are looking for documentation on a template like {{births by year}}, see For editors above. Currently, the following templates use this system:

• {{births by year}}
• {{deaths by year}}
• {{works by year}}
• {{plays by year}}
• {{Thai law by year}}

Parameters

This template is used as part of specific templates to generate lists of dated categories (century, decades, years). It deduces the depth from how much information is provided. The code below is standard (change values as appropriate):

{{categories by date
 |century = {{{century|}}}
 |decade  = {{{decade|}}}
 |year    = {{{year|}}}
 |era     = {{{era|}}}
 |bce     = {{{bce|}}}
 |caption = Thai law in
 |name    = in Thai law
 |parent-category = Thai law by year
 |parent-category-display = 
 |by-date-category = Thai law by year
 |supercatname = works
 |century-hyphen = false
 |supercat-century-hyphen = false
}}<noinclude>{{documentation|Template:Categories by date/doc}}</noinclude>

• Pass-through parameters:
  • century, decade, year: The date split into century, decade, and year digits.
  • bce: set to true to add "BCE" to the category names.
  • era: set to BCE to add "BCE" to the category names.
• caption: The text used as part of the category description (for example, "{caption} in the year 1986").
• name: The text used in the categories (for example, [[Category:1986 {name}]]).
• parent-category: optional; defaults to the category at the previous level of granularity (for example, the parent category for Category:1910s plays is Category:20th-century plays).
• parent-category-display: optional; defaults to the name of the parent category.
• by-date-category: optional; defaults to [[Category:{name} by {granularity}]] (for example, Category:1910s plays is in Category:Plays by decade).
• supercatname: optional; use if there is a parent category that also categorizes by date.
• century-hyphen: optional; set to true if the century categories use a hyphen (for example, Category:10th-century plays).
• supercat-century-hyphen: optional; set to true if the century categories for the parent category use a hyphen (for example, Category:10th-century plays).