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This template is used to make summary style explicit. It looks like this:

It is used in sections for which there is also a separate article on the subject.

Usage

{{details|article}}

{{details|article|topic}}

{{details|article|topic|selfref=yes|category=no}}

This template accepts the following parameters:

1 - the page to link to (required). Categories and files are automatically escaped with the colon trick, and links to sections are automatically formatted as page § section, rather than the MediaWiki default of page#section.
2 - the name of the topic. If this is not specified, the text "this topic" is used.
category - if set to "no", "n", "false", or "0", suppresses the error tracking category. This only has an effect if the first positional parameter (the page to link to) is omitted.

If no page name is supplied, the template will output the following message:

If you see this error message, it is for one of three reasons:

No parameters were specified (the template code was {{details}}). Please use {{details|page}} instead.
Some parameters were specified, but the page name wasn't included. For example, the template text {{details|selfref=yes}} will produce this error. Please use (for example) {{details|page|selfref=yes}} instead.
The page name was specified, but it contains an equals sign ("="). The equals sign has a special meaning in template code, and because of this it cannot be used in template parameters that do not specify a parameter name. For example, the template code {{details|2+2=4}} will produce this error. To work around this, you can specify the parameter name explictly by using 1= before the page name, like this: {{details|1=2+2=4}}.

The following templates are considered part of the Hatnote template family, used typically at the top of a page, but can be used as needed.

{{about}}: To differentiate this page from other similar topics or the disambiguation page of the same base page name.
{{details}}: A derivative of {{for}} that forces the opening sentence to be displayed as "For more details..."
{{for}}: Enables any description to be given for the reason to want to link to up to four other pages.
{{further}}: Mainly for linking to more detailed articles and pages typically places before the shortened description, but could be placed after if necessary.
{{hatnote}}: This is the core of the other templates. It simply places text on the page in italics with a paragraph indent.
{{See also}} (not yet copied from Wikipedia): It can be created manually with {{hatnote}}.