Template:About

This article is about something not specified. For information about something else not specified, please see some article not specified.

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This template is to be used at the top of articles about topics that may be easily confused with other topics. It requires at least three pieces of information: the topic of the article containing the template call, a related topic that people might have been looking for, and the title of the article about that related topic. A second article or topic–article pair can be specified, if necessary (see examples below). The template complains (as seen above) if fewer than three unnamed parameters have been specified in the template call.

Usage

• {{about|topic|related topic|title of related article}}
• {{about|topic|related topic|title of related article 1|title of related article 2}}
• {{about|topic|related topic|title of related article 1|title of related article 2|or=}}
• {{about|topic|related topic 1|title of related article 1|related topic 2|title of related article 2}}

The or parameter in the third form can be used to override the use of the word "or" between the two articles (it can be changed, for example, to "and").

Notice how template calls with 3, 4, and 5 unnamed parameters are treated very differently. In particular, calls with 4 unnamed parameters will assume that the final two of them both specify target articles, since it would not make sense to interpret them as a topic–article pair (as they are in the 3- and 5- parameter forms). A call with 6 or more unnamed parameters will be treated as if there are only 5; the subsequent parameters will be ignored.

Examples

In the article It's Magic:

• {{about|the song|the album of the same name|It's Magic (album)}}
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This article is about the song. For information about the album of the same name, please see It's Magic (album).

In the article Singing:

• {{about|her singing voice per se|the songs she has sung and where she has sung them|Songs|Timeline|or=and}}
  ⇓

This article is about her singing voice per se. For information about the songs she has sung and where she has sung them, please see Songs.

In the article Angelina Jordan Official:

• {{about|the YouTube channel|her official Facebook page|Facebook page|her website|Official website}}
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This article is about the YouTube channel. For information about her official Facebook page, please see Facebook page. For information about her website, see Official website.

Notice how the word "please" is only used when one target article is specified. This is Just Because.