Template:Title decade

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Extract a 4-digit decade from the page title, without the trailing "s".

e.g. from "Lorem ipsum dolor 1510s it amet" it will extract "1510"

Note that the trailing letter "s" is stripped, to allow manipulation. In template coding, it can be easily be added after the template call, e.g. Famine in the {{Title decade}}s in Atlantis.

Usage

{{Title decade|match|nomatch|page=}}

or

{{Title decade|match=|nomatch=|page=}}

Decade from title which contains only a year

Note also that this template will not return the decade from a title which includes only a year. e.g.

• {{Title decade|page=Horticultural controversies in the 1790s in Xanadu}} → 1790
• {{Title decade|page=Horticultural controversies in 1797 in Xanadu}} →

However, the decade can easily be obtained by using {{DECADE}} as a wrapper around {{Title year}}: {{DECADE|{{Title year}}}}.

{{Title year|page=1953 riots in Narnia}} → 1953
and
{{DECADE|1953}} → 1950s
... so
{{DECADE|{{Title year|page=1953 riots in Narnia}}}} → 1950s

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Extracts a 4-digit decade from the current page title. All parameters are optional.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Match Instance	1 match	If multiple 4-digit decades are found, this specifies which match to return, where the first match is match= 1. If a negative number is specified then a match is returned counting from the last match. Hence match = -1 is the same as requesting the last match. Defaults to 1. Default 1	Number	optional
No match text	2 nomatch	If no 4-digit decades is found, output the "nomatch" value. Defaults to blank.	String	optional
Override page title	page	Specified a page title to use other than the current page. If left blank, the template will use the title of the current page Default {{BASEPAGENAME}}	Page name	optional

See also

• Template:Decade link
• Template:Title year
• Template:Title year+1
• Template:Title year-1
• Template:Title year range
• Template:Title year2range
• Template:Title year2range+1
• Template:Title year2range-1
• Template:Title monthname
• Template:Title decade
• Template:Title century
• Template:Title number
• Template:Make YYYY–YY
• Template:Century name from title year
• Template:Century name from title decade
• Template:Century name from decade or year

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