Template:Hurricane season bar start/doc

Hurricane season bars templates

Overview

The hurricane season button bars have had a major design overhaul recently. Everything is more user friendly, and every hurricane basin now relies on the same templates.

• You no longer need to find the basin-specific template for the hurricane season you want, every basin works the exact same way
• Scale legends are automatically handled by the template, no need to search for the templates, or create a custom table for it
• Links to portal, categories, books, wikiproject, and Wikimedia commons are now handled automatically
• Ability to link to list of storms, timelines, statistics, and other common articles

Four templates are used in total

• {{Hurricane season bar start}}
• {{Hurricane season bar button}}
• {{Hurricane season bar gap}}
• {{Hurricane season bar end}}

All are documented on this page.

{{Hurricane season bar start}}

Alright, first comes the start of the template. This is simple, just use

{{Hurricane season bar start
 |region=
 |year=
 |type=
}}

parameter	|year=	|region=	|type=
possible values	YYYY YYYY–YY	Atlantic Australian region North Indian Ocean Pacific South-West Indian Ocean South Pacific	cyclone hurricane typhoon

The basic idea is to match the title of the season. So for the 2005–06 Australian region cyclone season

• |year=2005–06
• |region=Australian region
• |type=cyclone

In addition, if a list of storms, timeline, and/or statistics article exist for that season, add

 |list=yes
 |timeline=yes
 |statistics=yes

If they do not exist, just leave them out (i.e. |timeline=no will still produce a link to the timeline)

{{Hurricane season bar button}}

This is a bit more complicated than the first template, but is still straightforward. It goes like this

{{Hurricane season bar button
 |intensity=
 |stormname=
 |strength=
 |linkname=
 |storminitial=
}}

parameter	value
|intensity=	See {{storm colour}}, use directly, aka |intensity=cat1 and not |intensity={{storm colour|cat1}}
|stormname=	Name of the storm, without year, etc..., aka Arthur Not Arthur (1996)
|strength=	Tropical Depression, Category 5, etc...
|linkname=	Main article for this storm, e.g. Tropical Storm Kyle (1996) Alternatively, the "season#section" link, e.g. 1996 Atlantic hurricane season#Tropical Storm Gustav
|storminitial=	The initial for the storm. This is what is displayed as a button.

{{Hurricane season bar gap}} [optional]

When there are over 14 buttons in a season insert {{Hurricane season bar gap}} between two {{Hurricane season bar button}} to make the button list split over an additional line.

• Place them so the second line has as many buttons as the first one, or one less.

When there's over 28 buttons, use two {{Hurricane season bar gap}} templates.

• The first and second lines should have an equal number of buttons.
• The third line can have one or two less buttons than the first two lines.

When there's over 42 buttons, use three {{Hurricane season bar gap}} templates.

• The first, second and third lines should have an equal number of buttons.
• The fourth line can have one, two, or three less buttons than the first three lines.

And so on. This template has no parameters.

{{Hurricane season bar end}}

This works just like {{Hurricane season bar start}}, except there is only three parameters.

{{Hurricane season bar start
 |region=
 |year=
 |type=
}}

These are the same parameters as before, so use the same values.

If you did it right...

If you did it right, you should end up with something that looks a lot like this

Tropical cyclones of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
A B C D E F G H  I  10 J K L M N O P R 19 S Un T 22 V W Αα Ββ Γγ Δδ Εε Ζζ		Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale TD TS C1 C2 C3 C4 C5

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