Template:Nautical term
This template simplifies and speeds up creating links to the
Glossary of nautical terms
.
It has one required unnamed parameter, which is the term to be linked at one of the sub-glossaries of
Glossary of nautical terms
If the term does not exist in the sub-glossary it will still link to the sub-glossary where the term should be, alphabetically sorted.
The second unnamed parameter is an alias which will display at the link in the same way as a piped link.
Examples:
{{Nautical term|aftercastle|sterncastle}}uses an alias to produce sterncastle, linked to Glossary of nautical terms (A–L){{Nautical term|stern}}produces stern, linked to Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z)
This system can be expanded to work with more sub-glossaries quite easily by editing this template.