Template:Species link/doc

Overview

Creates a link to a species' page.

Parameters

Species

The name of the species is the only required parameter. Use the name of the species as it appears in game. A missing or misspelled species name will result in an error.

If you do not wish to write the code species=, you may skip that, but you must specify the name of the species before any other parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
species	string	The name of the species, as it appears in the game, either singular or plural.

Output overrides

All of these parameters are optional and change how the link is formatted.

Parameter	Type	Description
iconsize	string	one of the following: small, medium, large, huge. You may also write none to skip the icon. The default is small, which is text-height for use in paragraphs. If you do not name this parameter, it must come second.
display	string	if you include display=notext, only the icon will be rendered. There are currently no other options for this parameter.

Examples

Basic usage

{{Species link|species=Humans}}

Yields Humans, a text-height icon that flows well in paragraphs without impacting line height.

{{Species link|human|iconsize=medium}}

Yields a slightly larger icon, suitable for easy recognition in tables:

Humans

{{Species link|human|large}}

Yields a larger icon, suitable for tables featuring the species as an important factor:

Humans

Other examples

{{Species link|species=Harpy|iconsize=small|display=notext}}

Yields just a linked icon for the Harpies. Use this sparingly, because it is not as accessible, and in paragraphs the icons can be hard to distinguish. This is good in tables where the icon functions as a reminder than an important factor. An example where this is useful is in the infoboxes of buildings which feature specialization as an important factor, and the species icon is shown next to the specialization as just a quick reminder.

{{Species link|human|none}}

Yields just the text link, Humans, suitable for when mentioning more than one time in the same paragraph to avoid cluttering the paragraph with icons. (This is preferable to using a regular wiki link, so the styling matches, even if it appears to have the same styling right now.)

{{Species link|Foxes|iconsize=gigantic}}

Providing an icon size that is not recognized does not return an error. Instead, the template shows the default, small icon size: Foxes

Errors

The following are error messages generated by calling the template incorrectly.

{{Species link}}

With no arguments:

{{Species link|Centaurs}}

Naming a species that doesn't exist in the game: