Template:Italic title

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This template italicizes page titles, for example categories named after a ship. Page titles cannot contain wiki-formatting, such as '', so cannot be italicized in the normal way. Instead, place this template in the page, normally at the very top. It will then have the following effect:

• Titles with no parentheses () are fully italicised except the namespace:
  • Foo → Foo
  • Category:Foo → Category:Foo
• Titles which contain parentheses are italicised before the first opening parenthesis:
  • Foo (bar) → Foo (bar)
  • Category:Foo (bar) → Category:Foo (bar)
• Italicization can be forced on parenthesized text with the |all=yes parameter.

Usage

Basic usage

{{italic title}}

All parameters

{{italic title|string=text in title|all=yes}}

Sample

For Category:View of the Seacoast near Wargemont in Normandy (1880) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

{{italic title|string=View of the Seacoast near Wargemont in Normandy}}

Parameters

• all: if this is set to "yes", text in parentheses is italicized.
• string: instead of italicizing the whole title, italicize only some specific text. For example, using |string=Ark Royal on the page "Category:HMS Ark Royal (91)" would result in "Category:HMS Ark Royal (91)".

Technical

This template uses the magic word DISPLAYTITLE. It only affects how the name is displayed at top of the page and not elsewhere like in category listings or search results.