Template talk:Multi-section link

Development request

It would be exceedingly helpful for WP:POLICY documentation, and in-article cross-references in complex articles, to have a variant of this, whether it be {{Breadcrumbs link}} or {{Multi-section link|breadcrumbs=y}} that produced identical output to this, except that it:

1. Linked each individual section, not just the last one (and linked those names without linking the section symbols)
2. Linked the pagename also (when not suppresed), unless already on that page (we don't want to boldface by self-linking).

This should be used for pretty much every sub-sectional policy/guideline cross reference in hatnotes on such pages.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  18:52, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

PS: The function to do this should be reusable, e.g. by Module:Hatnote, etc.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  00:33, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Missing basic feature

Unlike Template:Section link, this one throws an error if you leave the first parameter blank. That's not desirable at all; it should just skip it.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  08:54, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

@SMcCandlish: By "skip it", do you mean just creating a link like [[#sectionname]] instead of [[pagename#sectionname]]? — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 09:32, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

@Mr. Stradivarius: Yeps. We use this all the time (with {{Section link}} for "See X section, below" in the same page. If this one and the above-proposed breadcrumbs version worked that way, that'd be hot. As in {{Breadcrumbs link| |Quotations|Attribution}} to produce § [[#Quotations|Quotations]] §§ [[#Attribution|Attribution]], and I think it'd be [[#Attribution|§ Quotations §§ Attribution]] for {{Multi-section link| |Quotations|Attribution}} itself.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  00:32, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

I support this proposal. — UnladenSwallow (talk) 15:38, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Bug causes linking to wrong section

The code

{{mslink|Alexei Navalny|Yves Rocher case and home arrest|Case}}

should yield the URL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny#Case_2

but instead yields

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny#Case

which is to an earlier section with the same title, i.e., Alexei Navalny § Kirovles case §§ Case.

Result: Alexei Navalny § Yves Rocher case and home arrest §§ Case

If this cannot be fixed, it could be explained as a technical limitation in the doc. Knr5 (talk) 20:19, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

I had the same problem when I needed to reference a subsection in the Planck constant article: it has the § History section with the anchor #History and the § Reduced Planck constant ℏ §§ History subsection with the anchor #History_2. It would certainly be nice for {{mslink}} to automatically use the correct anchor. However, implementing this would require creating a special breadcrumbs-to-anchor index for each page with section title conflicts, otherwise the referenced page would have to be parsed each time {{mslink}} is invoked. — UnladenSwallow (talk) 16:23, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Add |nopage= parameter

Please add |nopage= parameter with the same behavior as in {{slink}}: "If set to "yes", "y" or "true", hides the page name (only section names are displayed)." — UnladenSwallow (talk) 15:33, 2 June 2024 (UTC)