Template:Italic title

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Template:Italic title italicizes page titles. Article titles cannot contain wiki formatting, such as '', so article titles cannot be italicized in the normal way. This template has the following effects:

• Titles with no parentheses () are fully italicised:
  • Foo → Foo
  • Talk:Foo → Talk:Foo
• Titles which contain parentheses are italicised before the first opening parenthesis:
  • Foo (bar) → Foo (bar)
  • Talk:Foo (bar) → Talk:Foo (bar)
• Italicization can be forced on parenthesized text with the |all=yes parameter.

Meta templates which use this template should place {{Auto italic title}} in their documentation.

Location on page

Add this template at the very top of the page, above everything else. There ought to be no blank line after {{Italic title}} because that will cause an extra blank line in the page's rendered appearance.

Usage

Basic usage

{{Italic title}}

All parameters

{{Italic title|noerror|string=text in title|all=yes}}

Parameters

• |1=: if this is set to |1=noerror, error messages are suppressed. See #Errors for more details.
• |all=: if this is set to |all=yes, text in parentheses is italicized.
• |string=: instead of italicizing the whole title, italicize only some specific text. For example, using |string=Ally McBeal on the page "List of Ally McBeal episodes" would result in "List of Ally McBeal episodes".

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Desired Title}} can be used instead in cases not covered by the parameters, e.g. two substrings with italics, or italics combined with lowercase first character.

Errors

Sometimes you may see red error messages like this at the top of the page:

This usually means that there is another instance of {{Italic title}} on the page, usually added by one of the infoboxes. Certain infoboxes, add {{Italic title}} by default. Check the template documentation for any infobox used on the page; it may have instructions about how to deal with italic titles. You may be able to adjust the italics from the infobox instead of using {{Italic title}} at the top of the article. Or if that doesn't work, you may be able to disable the infobox's italics code altogether.

If you are still having problems, try putting {{Italic title}} after the infobox. You can suppress the error message by using the code {{Italic title|noerror}}.

Tracking categories

If the |string= parameter is used but that string is not found in the title, the page is added to Category:Pages using italic title with no matching string.

TemplateData

A template to italicize article titles

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Error options	1	If set to "noerror", suppresses error messages. Using this is a last-ditch fix - see the template documentation for other options.	String	optional
All	all	If set to "yes", italicization is forced on parenthesized text.	String	optional
String	string	Specify a string in the title to italicize, rather than italicizing the entire title.	String	optional

See also

• {{Italic title prefixed}}
• {{Italics correction}}

Title changing or correcting templates + magic word

Wiki markup Transclusion from template:	Involves	Correct name	Actual article name
{{Italic title}}	Title in italics	To Kill a Mockingbird	To Kill a Mockingbird
{{Italic title|all=yes}}	Complete title in italics, including parentheses	Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)	Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
{{Italic title|string=Ally McBeal}}	string= in italics	List of Ally McBeal episodes	List of Ally McBeal episodes
{{Italic title|all=yes|string=Fringe}}	string= in italics; also looks in parentheses	Peter (Fringe episode)	Peter (Fringe episode)
{{Italic disambiguation}}	Disambiguation in italics	The End (Lost)	The End (Lost)
{{Lowercase title}}	Lowercase first character	eBay	EBay
{{Lowercase title|italic=yes}}	Lowercase first character and place title in italics, not including disambiguation	iCarly (soundtrack)	ICarly (soundtrack)
{{Lowercase title|italic=yes|force=yes}}	Lowercase first character and place title in italics, including disambiguation
{{Lowercase title|dab=yes}}	Lowercase first character and place disambiguation in italics	iSpy (Modern Family)	ISpy (Modern Family)
{{Correct title|reason=bracket}}	< > [ ] { }	Benzo[a]pyrene	Benzo(a)pyrene
{{Correct title|reason=#}}	#	Pilot #5	Pilot No. 5
{{Correct title|reason=:}}	:	DK: King of Swing	DK King of Swing
Magic word:
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}	Various	_NSAKEY	NSAKEY

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