Wikipedia:Article series

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Article series are useful for tying together information on very broad subjects. For example, the article Israeli-Palestinian conflict could contain a table that provides links to all the major issues surrounding that subject.

Note that an alternative to an article series (for instance, where only one title is appropriate for the entire exposition) is a single, long, tightly written article. Wikipedia:Long article layout provides guidelines for such articles.

There are proposals to restyle these boxes. See Wikipedia_talk:Article_series#Change_the_style?

1 Article series box guidelines
2 Article series box formats
3 See also

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Article series box guidelines

Using Template {{foo}} syntax, the current article is bolded and de-linked (cf. talk).
The number and order of the series items in the series box should be the same on every page in the series. This is automatically achieved with Templates.

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Article series box formats

With the use of templates, there is now no need to have a separate template for "parent" article and template for daughter article, the same template should be used for both.

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A vertical series box

Template:Ushistory

Include in article using the following syntax: {{Ushistory}}

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Source in template

See Template:Ushistory

{| cellpadding="1" style="float: right; border: 1px solid #8888aa; background: #f7f8ff; padding: 5px; font-size: 85%; margin: 0 15px 0 15px;"
| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | '''This article is part of'''<br>'''the [[History of the United States|U.S. History]]'''<br>'''series.'''
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[Colonial America]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1776-1789)| 1776 – 1789]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1789-1849)| 1789 – 1849]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1849-1865)| 1849 – 1865]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1865-1918)| 1865 – 1918]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1918-1945)| 1918 – 1945]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1945-1964)| 1945 – 1964]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1964-1980)| 1964 – 1980]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1980-1988)| 1980 – 1988]]
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United States (1988-present)|  1988 – present]]
|-
|style="border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc"|
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|<small>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:Ushistory&action=edit Edit this box]</small>
|}

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Sister articles

E.g. the footer of Netherlands showing all countries of the European Union. Self links do not give any complication: they are neatly displayed in bold and not as link.

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Blended series tables

Generally this syntax is deprecated, because it does not lend itself to using identical templates, and thus is highly fragile

It is also possible to place an article in two different series. For example, Franks is part of both the History of France and History of Germany series.

This article is part of the

History of France series.

Gaul

Franks

France in the Middle Ages