Template:Faction

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Summary

This template makes it easier to link NPCs to their faction pages.

The template makes two assumptions:

1. There exists a "faction" page in the specified namespace (the current one if none is specified).
2. The faction you specify is present on the relevant page exactly as specified (e.g., if the faction is called "Joe's Faction", you must specify "Joe's Faction" as the name).

Parameters

Faction

Parameter	Scope	Description
1	required	Faction to which to link.
2	optional	Rank of NPC within the faction.
altname	optional	Value to display in the link to the faction. (This should only be used in User space; in gamespaces, this is normally loaded from the faction page.)
ns_base	optional	Alternate namespace for the faction pages if the default is not to be used.
nocat	optional	Set to yes to not add category (for example, within tables of NPCs).

Examples

{{Faction|Mages Guild|Evoker}}

Guild for Mages Evoker(Evoker )

{{Faction|Fighters Guild|0|ns_base=Oblivion}}

Fighters Guild 0(Associate )

Loaded Values

The following values are loaded internally by the template from faction pages. They should normally be saved by using {{Save Named Values}} on the page.

Faction

Parameter	Scope	Description
Rank_rank	optional	The name of the character's rank in the faction.
RankIcon_rank	optional	The image to display after the rank.
altname	optional	The value to display in the link to the faction. If not found, the name of the faction will be used, less any disambiguation text.
catname	optional	The name to use in the categories used to group the members of the faction. If not found, the name of the faction will be used, less any disambiguation text.
link	optional	The full faction link for the redirect, including the namespace, but without the [[ ]]. This allows for both page name conflicts as well as cross-namespace linking, when necessary.

Saved Values

The following values are saved to pages in Morrowind-related spaces only. This functionality can probably be moved to the NPC Summary and NPC Data templates in the future.

Faction

Parameter	Scope	Description
faction	required	Same as faction parameter.
factionRank	optional	Specified rank parameter or corresponding Rank_rank from faction page, if available.