Template:CBSB link/doc

{{CBSB link}} allows linking to a college baseball team page that may not yet exist. It will display the best available link.

For example, if I want to link to the article about the 2020 Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team that may or may not exist, I would make this call:

{{cbsb link|year=2020|team=Alabama Crimson Tide|school=University of Alabama|title=Alabama}}

This would yield: Alabama

Important - whitespace cannot be included or it will be added to the wiki link and it will not function properly.

Use of this template

Due to restrictions on use of #ifexist, it is important to not use this template if it isn't needed. In other words, if the link already exists, just link to it. Category:Excessive uses of cbsb link contains a list of occasions where this template is used and doesn't need to be.

Please do not use this template on disambiguation pages (dab pages) due to requirements for links on dab pages.

Naming conventions

In order for this template to work, articles MUST be named correctly. The baseball naming convention is:

• Season articles: Season SchoolShortName TeamName baseball team, e.g., 2010 LSU Tigers baseball team or 2008 UCLA Bruins baseball team
• Baseball team articles: SchoolShortName TeamName baseball, e.g., Michigan Wolverines baseball, Arkansas Razorbacks baseball
• Athletics department articles: SchoolShortName TeamName, e.g., North Carolina Tar Heels, Virginia Cavaliers

Parameters

parameter	meaning
year (optional)	Supply a year if you want to link to the yearly page, e.g., 2007 Virginia Tech Hokies baseball team
team	The athletics program article for this school, e.g., Virginia Tech Hokies, Wake Forest Demon Deacons, Miami Hurricanes, etc.
school	The main article for this school, e.g., Florida State University, University of Virginia, etc.
title (optional)	The display name for this link. Usually, this will be the common name for the school (without "university"), like Duke, Florida State, Virginia Tech, etc. If left blank, the link will be non-piped, i.e., it will display the name of the article linked to.

Examples

{{cbsb link|year=2099|team=Virginia Tech Hokies|school=Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University|title=Virginia Tech}}	Virginia Tech
{{cbsb link|year=2006|team=Virginia Tech Hokies|school=Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University|title=Virginia Tech}}	Virginia Tech
{{cbsb link|team=Florida State Seminoles|school=Florida State University|title=FSU}}	FSU
{{cbsb link|year=2008|team=Utah Utes}}	Utah Utes baseball

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:CBSB link in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for CBSB link

TemplateData

Link to article about a school baseball team, if it exists

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
year	year	if team article is of the form "YEAR TITLE baseball team", link to it	Number	optional
team	team	The article to link to should contain this team name. Example Florida State Seminoles	String	optional
title	title	If supplied, the displayed string for the wikilink	String	optional
cat	cat	If "no", suppress tracking category	String	optional
school	school	The name of the school. If the "TEAM baseball" article does not exist, link to article with this parameter value, Example Florida State University	String	optional

See also

• {{alternative links}}
• {{cfb link}}
• {{cbb link}}
• {{College sports team link}}