Template:Title year range/doc

Extracts a year range from a page title.

Explanation

A "year range" is a four-digit number followed by an endash with no spaces, and then two or four digits: YYYY–YY or YYYY–YYYY.

Note that separator must be an endash: –

The template will not recognise other separators, such as

• hyphen: -
• emdash: —

Examples of valid year ranges

• 1651–1652 Y
• 1427–1509 Y
• 1706–1707 Y
• 1706–07 Y
• 1924–29 Y
• 1806–2014 Y

Examples of invalid year ranges

• 1725-34 N (not an endash)
• 1966—67 N (not an endash)
• 601–08 N (leading year is only 3 digits)
• 45025–34 N (five digits in leading year, will be read as 5025–34)

Usage

• {{Title year range}}

or

• {{Title year range|match|nomatch|page=}}

or

• {{Title year range|match=|nomatch=|page=}}

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Title year range

Extracts a year ranges from the current page title. All parameters are optional.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Match Instance	1 match	If multiple year ranges 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 year range 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: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:Century name from title year
• Template:Century name from title decade
• Template:Century name from decade or year