Template:BookCat
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This template puts the page on which it's used ({{FULLPAGENAME}}) into appropriate categories, based on certain page-naming and page-categorization conventions.
Usage
When used without parameters, it
- places subpages of a book in the book's category (
Category:{{ROOTBOOKNAME}}) and sorts them by chapter name. - places a book's templates in the book's template category (
Category:{{ROOTBOOKNAME}}/Templates). This only works if a book's templates begin withTemplate:{{ROOTBOOKNAME}}. - places a book's template category in the book's category and in
Category:Book-specific templates. - places any other category in its parent, sorted by the category's last name. The parent has the same name except removing everything from the last slash on; and the last name is the part that was removed after that last slash. For example,
Category:My Book/Imageswould go inCategory:My Bookwith sort keyImages.
Parameters
Optional parameter filing=deep changes the behavior on book pages, so that a book page with more than one slash in its name is placed in a subcategory of the category where its parent page would be placed, sorted by the page's last name. For example, using {{BookCat|filing=deep}} on page My Book/Maps/Asia would put that page in Category:My Book/Maps with sort key Asia .
Optional parameter template-filing=deep changes the behavior on template pages to deep filing (so Template:My book/Maps/Asia would go in Category:My book/Templates/Maps).
See also
See Using Wikibooks/Subjects, Categories, and Classifications#Deep filing (advanced) for more information.
