Template:Section link/doc

Usage
This template is intended primarily for use in hatnotes. It should not be used in running body text.

Syntax (overview)

 * or, link to section of other article. → Example:
 * , link to section of other article, only displaying the section's title → Example:
 * , for usage within the same article, supply an empty first parameter → Example:

Single section
This template, section link, or its shortcut, slink, is used to generate a link to a certain section of a local wiki page and render an appropriate section mark (§).

Instead of:

Zombie

...you can write:

...or

Multiple sections
This template may generate consecutive links to several sections of the same page. You can write:

Suppressing page name
Sometimes the page name needs not to appear, e.g. to avoid redundancy and wordiness. For the page on which the template is used, not specifying a page name creates a section link only. The following: ...is the equivalent of: § Suppressing page name ...and renders as:

For other pages, can be used to suppress the page name. This can be used when the page name is clear from context, such as on talk pages referring to the article being discussed.

Comparison of displayed results:

Styling page name
For some page names (e.g., titles of films or short stories) we're always supposed to present the core part of the page's name (without any parenthetic disambiguation) in italics, quotation marks, or some other markup (per wikipedia:MOS:TITLES). The parameter can be used for this purpose: