Template:Donegal South-West (Dáil constituency)/TDs
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This is a navigation template (or "navbox") which is used to provide navigation between biographical articles on people who have been elected to Dáil Éireann as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the constituency of Donegal South-West. It includes all current and former TDs for the Donegal South-West constituency.
Scope
This navbox should be used only in the biographical articles to which it links. It is redundant on the article Donegal South-West (Dáil constituency), and should not be used there.
Usage
Near the bottom of the article's wikitext, above the categories and below any succession boxes, insert {{Donegal South-West (Dáil constituency)/TDs}}
Collapsed
This navbox is always loaded in collapsed state. To view its contents, click on the "show" button at the right of the header.
There is no option to load this navbox in its uncollapsed state. That is because of the size of the navboxes built with {{Constituency Teachtaí Dála navbox}}: even the smallest is bigger than than most navboxes, and the largest Constituency Teachtaí Dála navboxes are huge. Loading them uncollapsed would be intrusive.
Substitution
Do not substitute this template.
Check completeness of transclusions
This navbox should be applied to:
- all TDs for Donegal South-West
and - only TDs for Donegal South-West
It is helpful to check this periodically: List the articles which transclude this navbox
This relies on the table of TDs in the article being under a level 2 header "TDs": == TDs == or == TDs ==.
Note that no variation is allowed, however small. Any heading other than "TDs" will break this navbox, causing it to not display the table: the navbox will be empty. Please don't break it.
For constituencies with two or more periods of existence, the separate periods may be placed under level 3 sub-headings, e.g. === TDs 1981–2007 === or === TDs since 2016 ===. Those sub-headings will not be dispayed in this navbox.
Construction
This navbox is built using the
The resulting table in these navboxes is different to most navboxes for officeholders, which display one or more horizontal lists of officeholders. The different style here is because since the
Because of the way it is built, this navbox requires a precise pagename:
"Template:" + NameOfConstituencyArticle + "/TDs".
e.g. for Kildare South (Dáil constituency), create Template:Kildare South (Dáil constituency)/TDs.
If you move the template to a different name, it will probably break.
If the article is renamed, please move this template to match.
A difference in names may still work if suitable redirects are in place. But it may not work, so please do not rely on a redirect: keep this template's page name synchronised wth the article.
Updates
When the table at Donegal South-West (Dáil constituency)#TDs is updated (e.g. after an election, or to disambiguate a link), this navbox will automatically update itself to reflect those changes.
This avoids a
Under development
The
To centralise discussion (per
For the background to how this series of navboxes came to be created, see the discussion at WT:WikiProject Ireland#TD_and_MEP_articles_and_the_'s-par'_template ... and especially the sub-thread on the development of this template: WT:WikiProject Ireland#A neat solution for TD navboxes.
See also
- Category:Constituency Teachtaí Dála navigational boxes (123 pages} — similar navboxes
- {{Constituency Teachtaí Dála navbox}} — the metatemplate used to build this navbox
- {{Irish TD table begin}} — a series of templates used to build the table of TDs in all articles on Dáil Éireann constituencies, and in this series of navboxes.