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Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/By-county category navigation

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A series of navigation templates has been created to facilitate navigation between categories by county in the Island of Ireland.

Each of them works in the same way: without requiring any parameters, each of them will create a navbox with links to identically-named categories for other counties.

So, on "Category:History of County Foo", they create a set of links "Category:History of County Bar" etc.

Non-existent categories are not linked. Instead, they are greyed out.

Variations

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Several variations exist, for different purposes.

By far the most commonly-used is Template:AllIrelandByCountyCatNav. This is for category sets which cover the whole Island of Ireland

Some situations require slightly different treatment:

Republic of Ireland only
Northern Ireland only
Pre-partition
GAA
  • See Template:GAAbyCountyCatNav. This is for use on Gaelic Athletic Association category sets. The differences are that
    1. The word "County" is not used in these categories
    2. The list is not divided between the Republic/Norniron
    3. Some overseas counties of the GAA are included
    4. The GAA uses "Derry" rather than Londonderry

Errors

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If the template is used on a category whose name does not include a valid county, then an error message is displayed.

Development

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These template started off as a proposal at WP:WikiProject Ireland/CatNavProposal. The idea was refined through discussion at WT:WikiProject Ireland/CatNavProposal, and deployed in May 2018 after a 15-day trial on 150 pages.

See also

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